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The unfortunate profferer of that understanding is in for a draining and intense ride.

From Slate • Mar. 5, 2015

He holds the present up to her As with a smile she nears And answers to the profferer, "'Twill last all my sewing years!"

From Satires of Circumstance, lyrics and reveries with miscellaneous pieces by Hardy, Thomas

A sudden thought flashed across her mind; might it not be possible that this tender guardian of her safety, this heroic profferer of service, was the noble Wallace?

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Neither the profferer nor the refuser could have regarded it in the light of a bribe.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

"Don't any more of you try it on," he warned, as the thwarted profferer of the counterfeit sidled away, and there was, in his tone, a dominant ferocity.

From The Clarion by Stevens, William Dodge