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Sayer  n.  One who says; an utterer. "Mr. Curran was something much better than a sayer of smart sayings."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sayer" Quotes from Famous Books



... public establishments at all intimately connected with his professional career—the Hall, the College, and the Cyder-cellars. There are but three individuals to whom he looks with feelings of deference—Mr. Sayer of Blackfriars, Mr. Belfour of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and Mr. Rhodes of Maiden-lane. These are the impersonation of the Fates—the arbitrators ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, Complete • Various

... effectually extinguished the habit of detraction that in a very short time it was remarked that no courtier ventured on an ill-natured word in her presence, and that even the Comte de Provence, who especially aimed at the reputation of a sayer of good things, and affected a character for cynical sharpness, learned at last to restrain his sarcastic tongue, and at least to pretend a disposition to look at people's characters and actions with as much ...
— The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France • Charles Duke Yonge

... and came to his own ship. His ship was hailed by a man who was flying from those who would slay him, and this man Telemachus took aboard. The stranger's name was Theoclymenus, and he was a sooth-sayer and a second-sighted man. ...
— The Adventures of Odysseus and The Tales of Troy • Padriac Colum



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