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Alexander Hamilton was the deviser and establisher of the government of the United States.
From The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution by Stark, James H.
The wonderful Bank, of which he was the chief projector, establisher, and manager, was the latest of the many Merdle wonders.
From Little Dorrit by Dickens, Charles
Lafayette, the establisher of order, is their idol.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Francke, Kuno
In numerous instances, the father of the individual named in the following list, having been the establisher of a family in these parts and its first breadwinner here, was the true pioneer.
From Toronto of Old by Scadding, Henry
In this capacity he is naturally chosen to preside over canals, the great fertilizers of Babylonia; and we find among his titles "the lord of canals," and "the establisher of works of irrigation."
