disputer

Example Sentences

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But Miss Seeds, no mean disputer herself, also had the powerful backing of the University of California at Los Angeles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sauf l'Antino�s, les produits de cette sculpture d'imitation bien que datant d'une �poque encore brillante de l'art romain, ne sauraient le disputer � leurs mod�les.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Why then does not the disputer, thus recollecting, taste in the mouth of his musing the sweetness of joy, or the bitterness of sorrow?

From The Confessions of St. Augustine by Pusey, E. B. (Edward Bouverie)

Doth not man know that we have created him of seed? yet behold, he is an open disputer against the resurrection; and he propoundeth unto us a comparison, and forgetteth his creation.

From The Koran (Al-Qur'an) by Sale, George

His flock scampered off in a fright, leaving him doggedly eyeing the disputer of his progress.

From An Arkansas Planter by Read, Opie Percival