"And he's a good practiser, which is far better," said his wife. ❋ Unknown (1859)
And the religious fanaticism that Morier tweaked also echoes down the years: A character named Nadan who wants to become Tehran's religious leader, Morier writes, has no peer "either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies." ❋ Unknown (2007)
Nor less in matters of war, in the use of the bow and the javelin, was he held by men in general to be at once the aptest of learners and the most eager practiser. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Mr. Squinny is of exactly the opposite school, as delicate as milk-and-water, harmless in his habits, fond of the flute when the state of his chest will allow him, a great practiser of waltzing and dancing in general, and in his journal mildly malicious. ❋ Unknown (2006)
It is absolutely requisite that the complete person he contemplator of things which have a being, and the practiser of those thing which are decent; and this easily appears by the following instances. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Saturn was a man, fabled to have escaped by flight from his son to avoid being thrust from his kingdom; Jupiter also, the lewdest practiser of all debaucheries and of unnatural vice, the abuser of the women of his own family, who could not even abstain from intercourse with his own sister, as she herself admitted in the words “sister and spouse of Jove.” ❋ Robert Brentano (1964)
First of all, young Shrâdik departed for a concert-tour, through Austria and Germany; and, though he and Gregoriev parted most cordially, it was with a feeling of new freedom that Ivan looked about him, when the persistent practiser of trills and runs was gone to show the great world the results of meritorious study. ❋ Margaret Horton Potter (N/A)
He bade them examine Ogilvie: if he proved to be but a priest who had said mass, he was to go into banishment; but if he was a practiser of sedition, let him die. ❋ Robert S. Rait (N/A)
Not because he was the "father of the faithful," forsook home and country for the truth's sake, was the most eminent preacher and practiser of righteousness in his day; nay, verily, for all this he gets faint praise; but then he had "SERVANTS BOUGHT WITH MONEY!!!" ❋ American Anti-Slavery Society (N/A)
With passions under complete control, intelligent, possessing a retentive memory, the practiser of all virtues, the conqueror of his six passions of powerful mind, surpassing all, and fully acquainted with the science of morality and political science, the father had ruled over these subjects for sixty years. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
To that he turned all his thoughts, and left nothing untried which might bring him into notice, either as a zealous practiser of the ordinances of his religion, or a persecutor of those who might be its enemies. ❋ James Morier (N/A)
And to this end God prescribed in the law that the king should still have a copy of the law of God by him, therein to read continually, Deut.xvii. 18-20; because he was to be not only a practiser, but also a protector thereof, a keeper of both tables. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A caution was offered to the practiser of this art. ❋ James Grant (N/A)
The principal practiser of these tactics, the _summum bonum_, or "good thing," of the "West Pointers" was General ❋ Henry Llewellyn Williams (N/A)
O thou of wicked soul, thou too art a practiser of such feline behaviour. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
By acting in this way, one becomes a practiser of the religion of the Munis. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)
He seemed to be not so much a professor as a practiser of learning. ❋ Maisie Ward (1932)
For George, now restored to health, had ceased to be a mere student of "Elementary Rules for the Preservation of the Body" and had become an active, though unwilling, practiser of its precepts. ❋ Unknown (1928)
