censurer

Example Sentences

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When they laid out his body "it was found that this ironist, this witty censurer, had worn a hair shirt."

From Time Magazine Archive

I rather think the author wishes to be taken by Gray's admirers for a ridiculer of Johnson, and by the tatter's for a censurer of Gray.'

From Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by Boswell, James

But we'll examine circumstances fairly, and then we shall see which is most ridiculous; the phrase, or our sagacious censurer.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume V. by Cibber, Theophilus

It is easy to find a censurer of the sins of the land, but hard to find a true mourner for the sins of the land.

From The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation by Kerr, James

"Why, Charles," said Sir John, "I am glad to find you the enthusiastic eulogist of the passage of which I suspected you were about to be the saucy censurer."

From Coelebs In Search of a Wife by More, Hannah