Example Sentences

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O thou searcher after virtue and banisher of vice!

From Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) by Franklin, Benjamin

Walking became a torture, and the pain a banisher of sleep.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

Expeller of catarrhs, banisher of all agues, your guts' only salve for the green wounds of a non-plus.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 9 by Various

On the spot where this treaty was made, an altar was built to Jupiter, the causer and banisher of fear, for the plebeians had gone thither in fear and returned from it in safety.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 by Rudd, John

A weak solution of zinc chloride is also said to be an effectual banisher of these pests.

From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham