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Definition of Adorers
1. adorer [n] - See also: adorer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Adorers
Literary usage of Adorers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... and held my hand so unnecessarily long, that she became actually sick with anger.
Now I'm resolved that the old lord shall be one of my adorers. ..."
2. Alice-for-short: A Dichronism by William Frend De Morgan (1907)
"OF MISS PEGGY'S adorers WHEN Dr. Johnson arrived at No. 40 at ten o'clock next
morning, excitement was already turbulent in the ground floor and basement. ..."
3. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... through th' innumerous light, That flows from thy adorers, seems as bright,
As when the sun darts through his golden hair, His beams' diameter into the ..."
4. Old Paris: Its Court and Literary Salons by Catherine Charlotte Jackson (1880)
"The New Star and her adorers.—The Chateau de Chantilly.—Its Gardens and
Grounds.— Amusements of the Guests.—The Letter-Bag.—A Letter from Voiture. ..."
5. Memoirs of Marmontel, Written by Himself: Containing His Literary and by Jean François Marmontel (1807)
"The husband, without inquietude, beheld his wife surrounded by adorers ; and the
wife, by her correct and modest conduct, honoured in the eyes of the public ..."
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