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Liberty called in vain upon her votaries to read her praises, and reward her encomiast: her praises were condemned to harbour spiders, and to gather dust: none of Thomson's performances were so little regarded.— Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2
Friendship, that theme of the encomiast, is neither more nor less, you will find, than the beginning of sponging.— Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03
"Though I doubt if this drivelling encomiast of War— The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry
Abul Fazl, the historian and friend of the magnanimous Akbar, and the encomiast and advocate of the Hindu race.— The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India - Volume IV of IV Kumhar-Yemkala
What this encomiast says in a rhetorical tone was literally true.— The Caesars

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