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Witnesses were examined at its bar: the forms of a trial were gone through; and as Wilkes persisted in his charge, he was expelled as a libeller.

From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard

Thus did the villanous libeller Aristophanes occasion the death of a man whom all succeeding generations have concurred in pronouncing the wisest and best of mankind, in the seventieth year of his age.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

He is called a lunatic, a libeller, an abettor of murder and of assassination, a coward, an incendiary, a Jacobin, a plebeian and a foe to virtue.

From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette

The first is yet unpunished, the second escaped condign punishment only by writing himself down libeller, and praying pardon for the slanderous coinage of his brain.

From Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification by Bradlaugh, Charles

What hast thou to say against that, infamous libeller?

From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Sastrow, Bartholomew