He is a great praiser of things, a lover of cities and cinema.

Are you aware that the praiser of this 'brave gymnasium' has not seen a canoe nor taken a long walk since '79?

Byng is a laudator temporis acti, or praiser of times past.

He fairly beamed at the praiser.

He called in an ap- praiser to develop as clear a picture of worth as possible, as well as an inventory.

And this also did I learn among them: the praiser doeth as if he gave back; in truth, however, he wanteth more to be given him!

The title translates as "The Man Praiser" in Manx.

Drummond noted he was "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others".

Very good; and suppose that you first criticize this praiser of Zeus and the laws of Crete.

Hamid, "praiser"

Jarrell was not only "wittier than anybody" in criticizing bad poetry, as he himself said; he was also a grand praiser of good poetry.

He was also the chief praiser of Beddoes' first play, and a great detester of Byron's versification when it was all the vogue.

But that man was a praiser of Rabelais and had been saying, 'O that we had a Rabelais!'

Some of his admirers were wont to call him "Der schwabische Frauenlob" (the Swabian praiser of women).

Mark impishly and anonymously--submitted 1601; and that same editor, a praiser of Rabelais, scathingly abused it and the sender.

But lest the great man should forget his greatness in the contemplation of the humble works of agriculture, there suddenly rushes in a poet, retained for the purpose, called a Praiser.

In February 1837 Reyes pronounced a praiser sermon to mark the restoration of Parochial Church of Tegucigalpa, were he opened his Mass called "El Tancredo".

In Hrachia Acharian's opinion the word was borrowed into Parthian from Armenian govasan "praiser", then borrowed back into Armenian as gusan.

It may explain, too, how the whole matter was treated by the King's official praiser, or imbongi, a kind of oral historian retained to sing the history of the royal family on special occasions.

Dismé's voice was already known to him, but Michael ... both their voices might have belonged to Praiser festival singers, especially here, among the trees, where Dismé let her full voice be heard.

If a poet has no particular current public importance it is because he has lost or given up his secondary or peripheral occupations - those of priest, buffoon, praiser of kings and governments and noble ladies.

Four hundred years ago, Ben Jonson's traveling companion William Drummond described the playwright as "a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemer and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest."

Cautious and monosyllabic, he is described by Waugh as "a praiser of the past and a lover of exact scholarship" and is characterized as representing the old-fashioned virtues of honesty, decency, sanity, and, ultimately, heroism.

The man recounts "a matter of personal belief and revelation," that at the end of his life, Prez is taken by Death to heaven, where Boss Smiley warmly claims him as a good servant and offers Prez a job as a praiser.

--A medical student, an oarsman, a tenor, an amateur actor, a shouting politician, a small landlord, a small investor, a drinker, a good fellow, a story-teller, somebody's secretary, something in a distillery, a tax-gatherer, a bankrupt and at present a praiser of his own past.