Adister

Adister to find if the girl cannot be pleaded over to reconsider her refusal of his brother Philip.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

There's an Arabian tale, Miss Adister, of a peaceful traveller who ate a date in the desert and flung away the stone, which hit an invisible son of a genie in the eye, and the poor traveller suffered for it.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

The captain was permitted to discourse as he pleased: his wife was wholly given to the recent visitor to Earlsfont, whom she informed that Caroline was the youngest daughter of General Adister, her second brother, and an excellent maiden, her dear Edward's mainstay in his grief.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Miss Adister, if she hadn't feared he'd be talked of as Captain Con has been -- about the neighbourhood, I mean, because he, 'Patrick added hurriedly,' he married an heiress and sank his ambition for distinction like a man who has finished his dinner.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Mr. Camminy had seen another Miss Adister duetting with a young Irishman and an O'Donnell, with lamentable results to that union of voices, and he permitted himself to be a little astonished at his respected client's defective memory or indifference to the admonition of identical circumstances.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

His wife's diplomacy in giving the heiress to Colonel Adister for the evening had received his cordial support while he manoeuvred cleverly to place Philip on the other side of her; and now not a step did the senseless fellow take, though she offered him his chance, dead sick of her man on the right; not a word did he have in ordinary civility; he was a burning disgrace to the chivalry of Erin.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

The Adister family were not gifted to read into the heart of a young man of a fanciful turn.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

Mrs. Adister O'Donnell stepped over to them, with the object of installing Colonel Adister in Patrick's place.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

No wonder Miss Adister deemed him wilder and stranger than ever.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

A lacquey, receiving orders from his master, mentioned Miss Adister.

Celt and Saxon — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868