Miracle Monger

It is this which gives the miracle-monger his chance. ❋ Various (N/A)

He was far more than a healer; he studied to rid the people of the idea that he was a mere miracle-monger. ❋ Rush Rhees (N/A)

Called to attend his father to the Confessor's court, the youth, who had little respect for one so unwarlike as "the miracle-monger," uttered his contempt for saintly king, Norman prelate, and studious monks too loudly, and thereby shocked the weakly devout Edward, who thought piety the whole duty of man. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Solomon is therefore represented as a thaumaturgist, and while not a single example is given of the proverbs ascribed to him, his exploits as a miracle-monger are extolled. ❋ Norman Bentwich (1927)

That set me thinking, and as I saw your name in the paper, connected with the Blue Disease, I knew you were a miracle-monger. ❋ Maurice Nicoll (1918)

She disapproved completely of Doctor Tarrant's little speech, and she had less and less disposition to be associated with a miracle-monger. ❋ Henry James (1879)

He was thinking, no doubt, of the miracle-monger of Tyana, ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

Suka-Devi, a well-known miracle-monger of the second century B.C. says: ❋ Unknown (1861)

Windsor, on its crowned steep, was to them but a new hunting palace of the old miracle-monger Edward, who had just ruined England. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

It did not fare much better with another miracle-monger of the same species. ❋ Henry Rogers (1841)

Mr Root was a miracle-monger, and gloried in being able to make himself the hero of his own miracles. ❋ Edward Howard (1820)

"Perhaps he will let himself be baptized, for water can hurt no one, and he cannot, like the great Diocletian, exterminate the masses who run after the crucified miracle-monger, without depopulating the country. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)