prizer
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of prizer
Example Sentences
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A prizer of good company, In manners pleasant and severe; The good him loved, the bad did fear.
From Time Magazine Archive
Appeareth no man yet, to answer the prizer? no voice?—Music, give them their summons.
From Cynthia's Revels by Ben Jonson
But value dwells not in particular will: It holds his estimate and dignity As well wherein 'tis precious of itself As in the prizer.
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
He is an ill prizer of foreign commodity; worse of his own, for that he rates too high, this under value.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
"Varlet!" answered the Varangian, with an emphasis which made the prizer start,—"but—when that trumpet sounds, it is no time for a soldier to punish insolence as it deserves."
From Waverley Novels — Volume 12 by Sir Walter Scott
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