laudator
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He was, indeed, as you say, "a great laudator temporis acti;" but the number of those like him at all times in England and its distant possessions is fearful.
From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman
Not infrequently he felt that this mysterious something was lifting up the voice of the laudator temporis acti.
From December Love by Robert Smythe Hichens
When I recall my own undergraduate life of thirty years and upwards agone, I feel, notwithstanding modern vaunt, the laudator temporis acti earnest within me yet, and strong.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
And this frank admission ought to show that I am not your mere twaddling laudator temporis acti—your old fogy who can see no good except in his own time.
From Roundabout Papers by William Makepeace Thackeray
When or where this laudator temporis acti closed his wanderings, the author never heard with certainty; but most probably, as Burns says— "——he died a cadger-powny's death At some dike side."
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 397, November 7, 1829 by Various
But what was that in the general chorus of delighted praise that went up all over the country?—and there were persons of discrimination among the laudators of Robert Cortes Holliday.
From When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant Martin Overton
He lived apart from the world, aloof from the clamour made around his name, shunning both laudators and detractors, impassive alike to invective and acclamation.
From The Devourers by Annie Vivanti Chartres
The laudators of Young have found evidence of great executive ability in his management of the migration from Nauvoo to Utah.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
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