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Jr.'s help, Jack Kennedy can hardly outdo Hubert Humphrey as a convincing promiser of New Deal benefits.

From Time Magazine Archive

The oratorical type Is the emotional type, expansive, a quick promiser who can diagnose evils and cannot prescribe for them, and of course rarely cures them.

From Time Magazine Archive

But even after acceptance a promise is not a contract, for the promiser may not choose to bind himself in justice, but only in good faith, while the promisee is under no obligation whatever.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

HAM, second officer and engineer of the Ark. HAMED, Abdul, a retired professor of diplomacy, champion promiser, and a sick man.

From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie

This I will say, I am no vain promiser, but I am assured that I can accomplish all that I contemplate.

From The Mystery of Francis Bacon by Smedley, William T.