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Free Advertisement Whatever one may think of Henry Ford's other activities, at least the palm must be accorded him as a manufacturer and as an obtainer of free advertisement.

From Time Magazine Archive

He thought but of what he had lost, not of what he had gained; and saw in Robin only the destroyer of his vessel, not the obtainer of his long sought-for pardon.

From The Buccaneer A Tale by Hall, S. C., Mrs.

It may suit your purpose, as to which I am so faintly enlightened, to appear to the prisoner what you are—the obtainer of this grace.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron