informer

• The barrel of the rifle was sticking out of an unzipped portion of a bag, he explained, adding that the informer was actually a relative of a police constable. —  Top Stories - Google News
• He, however, declined the risk, declaring it was impossible to capture the schooner with boats, and as she was a remarkably fast sailer, she was sure to escape; should the enterprise not succeed, he would become known as the informer, and be no longer able to act as pilot in the Bahama Channel. —  How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
• Without having got them word for word, my informer was able to give me the substance of them. —  A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden
• The employment of the informer is a full acknowledgment of the weakness of this absolute government, and that the prefect had not the power to enforce his own decrees; and, when we compare this law with that of Alexander on his conquest of the country, we have no difficulty in seeing why Egypt rose under the Ptolemies and sunk under the selfish policy of Augustus Claudius was somewhat of a scholar and an author; he wrote several volumes both in Greek and in Latin. —  History of Egypt From 330 B.C. To the Present Time, Volume 11 (of 12)
• Scarcely anyone believed it, no matter by whom he was told: the informer might be a person of undoubted character, but the information was simply incredible. —  All He Knew A Story

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