"Abettor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hardly have even a provisional usefulness. For how can you attack an erroneous way of thinking except in detail, that is to say through the sides of this or that single wrong opinion? Each of these wrong opinions is an illustration and type, as it is a standing support and abettor, of some kind of wrong reasoning, though they are not all on the same scale nor all of them equally instructive. It is precisely by this method of gradual displacement of error step by step, that the few stages of progress which the race has yet traversed, ...
— On Compromise • John Morley
... believe hungered for their possession from the very moment he learned from my foolish lips of their existence. He forced me at the end of the few days' honeymoon to return to the Court, and then from that time forth I saw him only surreptitiously with the aid of d'Altenstein, who was the aider and abettor of it all, yet loving me, and working only, as she thought, poor soul, ...
— A Queen's Error • Henry Curties
... abbreviator abductor abettor (law) abominator abrogator accelerator acceptor accommodator accumulator actor adjudicator adjutor administrator admonitor adulator adulterator aggregator aggressor agitator amalgamator animator annotator antecessor apparitor appreciator arbitrator assassinator ...
— Division of Words • Frederick W. Hamilton
... not yet seen her, he had been ready enough to entertain the idea of her equal guilt and her cooeperation. He had figured to himself some passionate hysterique, merciless as a tiger in her hate and her love, a zealous abettor, perhaps even the ruling spirit ...
— The Woman in Black • Edmund Clerihew Bentley
... that he had killed four slaves, had been a member of the Senate of Georgia and a clergyman. The slaveholder who whipped a female slave to death in St. Louis, in 1837, as stated by Mr. Cole, p. 69, was a Major in the United States Army. One of the physicians who was an abettor of the tragedy on the Brassos, in which a slave was tortured to death, and another so that he barely lived, (see Rev. Mr. Smith's testimony, p. 102.) was Dr. Anson Jones, a native of Connecticut, who was soon after appointed minister plenipotentiary ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society
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