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Searcher

noun

Someone making a search or inquiry. Synonyms: quester, seeker.

A customs official whose job is to search baggage or goods or vehicles for contraband or dutiable items.

Large metallic blue-green beetle that preys on caterpillars; found in North America. Synonyms: Calosoma scrutator, searcher beetle.

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"Searcher" Quotes from Famous Books

... there is no one operation of man, by which human nature is so deeply and so distinctly penetrated and tested, as a true narrative of the career of men acting a prominent part in the world. History is comparatively feeble to this powerful searcher. Its heroes and heroines are placed so palpably on a stage; its dramatis personae are so distant and so disciplined; its positions are so openly arranged for effect, that the nearest approach is only conjecture, as the ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Vol. 56, No. 346, August, 1844 • Various

... was the first thing they did before the trial at Poitiers. They did it again now. An ecclesiastic was sent to Domremy. There and all about the neighborhood he made an exhaustive search into Joan's history and character, and came back with his verdict. It was very clear. The searcher reported that he found Joan's character to be in every way what he "would like his own sister's character to be." Just about the same report that was brought back to Poitiers, you see. Joan's was a character which could endure ...

— Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc Volume 2 • Mark Twain

... Placentine, a curious searcher into Antiquity, thinks this sort of Poetry first appear'd amongst the Lacedemonians, for when the Persians had wasted allmost all Greece, the Spartans say {12} that they for fear of the Barbarians ...

— De Carmine Pastorali (1684) • Rene Rapin

... name of the place as my brother gave out each letter. And then followed one of the most extraordinary scenes we had witnessed on our journey, for just at that moment some one in the rear made a witty remark which apparently was aimed at the searcher after knowledge, who was now on his feet, and which caused general laughter amongst those who heard it. The gentleman was evidently a man of some importance in the city, and his notebook was apparently known to the company ...

— From John O'Groats to Land's End • Robert Naylor and John Naylor

... to repeat the decision of the Searcher of hearts—the Judge of the quick and dead. His infallible Spirit has, in our text, divulged the tremendous fact, that the indifference, contempt, and disgust, which have now been described, are characteristics ...

— The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 • Aaron W. Leland and Elihu W. Baldwin

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