Some of Geoffrey's warmest admirers were persons who never attended his church or even counted themselves Christians.
Again, although these plays, or "conversations in verse" did not succeed with the public, Landor gained warm admirers, many of whom were his personal friends.
Lieutenant Commander Abbott, on the other hand, clearly wasn't one of the captain's warmer admirers.
The warmest admirers of John Vansittart Smith could hardly claim for him that he was a handsome man.
He must introduce him to Mrs. Rogers, he said, who was also his warm admirer.
But despite their lack of trendiness, his scores won warm admirers, who found in them an evocativeness and a religious intensity missing in much other 20th-century music.
He was also a warm admirer of Jane Lead.
Few of Golding's warmest admirers would call that his best book.
This romance has the distinction of having changed Tolstoi from an adverse critic into a warm admirer of the author.