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Bukowski is a reliable scatterer of the peace.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2018

Shiva-Sankarin is the destroyer or rather the scatterer; Shiva-Rakshaka is the preserver, the regenerator.

From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)

"Up to Joyce's," Billy Falstar, that indefatigable gatherer and scatterer of news, announced, "they are smashing a hole in the off side of the house."

From Joyce of the North Woods by Comstock, Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa)

If I were lord of as much as thou, I should support the sacred bard, thou scatterer of wealth, I should not abandon him to misery.

From Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology by Clarke, James Freeman

She had a very wide mouth—and was thought by us "an awfu' scatterer;" a qualification which we considered of the very highest merit.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde