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Chandra Gokhale, Inspector-General of the Records and favorer of very young girls, chose that moment to groan.

Men would murder me, Because they think me favourer of this marriage.

Do not I know you for a favourer Of this new sect?

And yet though the hereditary favourer, and one of the chief props of French authority, he has always an eye upon the past.

After continuing in Rome about a year and a half, he found himself suspect in Rome as a favourer of Protestant doctrine.

Wylde was a particular friend of William Petty and is described as a "great fautor (favourer] of ingenious men for merit's sake".

Henry VIII believed that Beaton, a favourer of the Auld Alliance with France, was particularly responsible for the rejection of the marriage plan.

Archibald Adair, bishop of Killala and Achonry, a Puritan, was tried as a favourer of the Scottish covenant over his views on Corbet.

Lady Clonbrony, possessed by the idea that it was disadvantageous to appear as an Irishwoman, or as a favourer of Ireland, began to be embarrassed by Lady St. James's repeated thanks.

She must be allowed to be a favourer of matrimony, you know; and (since self will intrude) who can say that she may not have some flying visions of attending the next Lady Elliot, through Mrs Wallis's recommendation?"

Bromley died at the age of 74 and was described as a "lover and favourer of learning, religious in the course of his life, sweet in his conversations, with all sorts bountiful in hospitality, charitable and pitiful to the poor".

In later life, though she had a grant of abbey lands from the Dissolution of the Monasteries, she was suspect of being a Roman Catholic, a favourer of Mary Queen of Scots, and of hearing mass in her house.

Well, I will find him For being now a favourer to the Briton, No more a Briton, I have resumed again The part I came in: fight I will no more, But yield me to the veriest hind that shall Once touch my shoulder.