admonisher

Example Sentences

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P: Remind them, for thou art but an admonisher, S: Therefore do remind, for you are only a reminder.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

Admiral Bluewater, my memory needed no admonisher to tell me that.

From The Two Admirals by Cooper, James Fenimore

With which exclamations, followed by idle threats against his admonisher, this condign victim to justice hobbled away, as disdaining to hold further argument with such a rabble.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

I took an opportunity to give him a taste of the end of the main-clew-garnet, as an admonisher; and there the matter ended, so long as I remained in the ship.

From Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast by Cooper, James Fenimore

Blessed Heaven! deny not to my prayers, my friend, my admonisher, my adviser, at a time so critical to myself.

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel