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Specializing in damage suits, he proved to be a skillful picker and swayer of juries, became the state's top lawyer in his field, with an income estimated at $100,000 a year.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was "the glass of fashion ... the observ'd of all observers," the swayer of sentiment, the master and creator of popular emotion.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

He came in a right line from the divine Hivohitee I.: the original grantee of the empire of men's souls and the first swayer of a crosier.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

While poets persist in thinking and writing thus, it is in vain for them to talk loud about the poet’s divine mission, as the prophet of mankind, the swayer of the universe, and so forth. 

From Literary and General Lectures and Essays by Kingsley, Charles