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desacreditador 1
He used the tarnished brass knocker, got no answer, and rapped again.
2
She managed to reach the front door and to lift the knocker.
3
Then we must fasten up the knocker and take off the bell.
4
This remark was a knocker; I could not say anything to that.
5
At the rat-tat-tat of the knocker her heart flew into her mouth.
1
Thou shalt not be a detractor nor a whisperer among the people.
2
Alone, of all the vegetables, stood spinach, with not a single detractor.
3
To the slight of the detractor or aspersion of the defamer:
4
Later on, however, he inquired concerning the identity of this detractor.
5
Detractors say the law has hurt smaller banks and hamstrung the economy.
1
Cato himself, who was certainly no disparager of his own merits, says that a great many were killed, but he specifies no number.
2
The two persons most active in "getting up" this testimonial were, nominally, Colonel Poyntz-intruth, his wife-andmy old disparager, Mr. Vigors!
3
The disparagers of culture make its motive curiosity; sometimes, indeed, they make its motive mere exclusiveness and vanity.
4
This may be one reason why Cooper has more admirers, or at least fewer disparagers, abroad than at home.
5
"Smart actin's better than smart lookin'," Drew answered the disparagers now.
1
He poses, to be sure, as a depreciator of woman.
2
Thirdly, two scraps from letters from Stevenson to Henley, to show that the latter was not always a depreciator of R. L. Stevenson's work:
3
The priest himself paid no attention either to his eulogists or his depreciators.
4
The mistake his depreciators make, however, is in thinking that his story ends here.
5
None of the depreciators of the Chinaman, however, have yet impeached him of a fondness for intoxicating liquors.