profferer

Which they would have the profferer construe ‘ay.’

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 2004

She could not help herself to a potato without unconsciously conveying to the profferer that she was interested in his personality.

Flowering Wilderness 2004

It was, indeed, a sort of protecting clause, by which he guarded himself against all inconveniences attendant on the rash habit of offering service or civility of any kind, the which, when hastily snapped at by those to whom they are uttered, give the profferer sometimes room to repent his promptitude.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

"Don't any more of you try it on," he warned, as the thwarted profferer of the counterfeit sidled away, and there was, in his tone, a dominant ferocity.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

Neither the profferer nor the refuser could have regarded it in the light of a bribe.

A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885

A sudden thought flashed across her mind: might it not be possible that this tender guardian of her safety, this heroic profferer of service, was the noble Wallace?

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

"Maids, in modesty, say 'No' to that which they would have the profferer construe 'Ay.'"

The Proverbs of Scotland Alexander Hislop 1836

A sudden thought flashed across her mind; might it not be possible that this tender guardian of her safety, this heroic profferer of service, was the noble Wallace?

The Scottish Chiefs Jane Porter 1813

Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'

The Two Gentlemen of Verona 1594

Which they would have the profferer construe 'ay.'

Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590