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Definition of Cherishers
1. cherisher [n] - See also: cherisher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cherishers
Literary usage of Cherishers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dramas of Sophocles Rendered in English Verse, Dramatic and Lyric by Sophocles (1888)
"Had I not Fathered these girls, to be my cherishers, I had been dead, for aught you
... these my cherishers, These men, not women, for their ministering; ..."
2. The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East: With Historical Surveys by Charles Francis Horne (1917)
"Wise men are skill-cherishers; But body-cherishers are feeble in skill. Eating and
sleeping is the way of beasts alone; To be in this way is the habit of ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"Good-nature is generally born health, prosperity, and kind treatment from the
world are great cherishers of it where they fine! i; he i? involuntarily ..."
4. Representative American Plays by Arthur Hobson Quinn (1917)
"And, thus united, long might they have continued the cherishers of arts and
sciences, the protectors of the oppressed, the scourge of tyrants, ..."
5. Representative Plays by American Dramatists by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"And, thus united, long might they have continued the cherishers of arts and
sciences, the protectors of the oppressed, the scourge of tyrants, ..."
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