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Submitting to the inevitable, they have shown fortitude and dignity, and rarely has one been found base enough to take wages of shame from the oppressor and maligner of his brethren.

From Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War by Taylor, Richard

But all the assertions of this paid maligner sink into insignificance compared with what follows.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 by Various

Slowly they turned their heads to look at the fence, upon the other side of which stood the maligner of their eyes.

From Gentle Julia by Gilbert, C. Allan

His maligner and only slightly younger contemporary, Horace Walpole, in some of his letters, writes in a fashion which, putting mere slang aside, has hardly any difference from that of to-day.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

She proves her innocence by going before the king and swearing that her maligner has stolen one of her golden slippers.

From Filipino Popular Tales by Fansler, Dean Spruill