Example Sentences

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This could be readily reasoned out at a glance; but, where could Teddy be, the striker of the match, the inceptor of all the mischief?

From Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)

He was profoundly uneasy about Mary, but at the same time immeasurably angered by the trick played upon him—angered not so much against Jeekes as against the sallow-faced man whom he recognized as its inceptor.

From The Yellow Streak by Williams, Valentine

Committer of every infamy and inceptor of nameless crimes," began Ming-shu, moistening his brush, "in the past, by the variety of discreditable subterfuges, you have parried the stroke of a just retribution.

From Kai Lung's Golden Hours by Bramah, Ernest

On this the Proctors come up, and the assailant is put in Bocardo, while Stoke goes off to a "pass-supper" given by an inceptor, who has just taken his degree.

From Oxford by Lang, Andrew

He has been the inceptor often, and always a worker, in every public event in the town.

From Historic Fredericksburg The Story of an Old Town by Goolrick, John T.