demanders

Updated: June 16, 2025

This high price has cooled the claims of the bidders, and the plan of the supplementary indemnities is still suspended, and probably will continue so until our Minister lowers his terms. A combination is supposed to have been entered into by the chief demanders of indemnities, by which they have bound themselves to resist all farther extortions.

Lewis Goldsmith - Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete

These theories he clenched, as it were, by a reference to the existing politics of the day. Cheaters of the public, on false pretences, he was pleased to term "moderate Whigs;" bullying demanders of your purse were "high Tories;" and thieving in gangs was "the effect of the spirit of party."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Volume 02

This high price has cooled the claims of the bidders, and the plan of the supplementary indemnities is still suspended, and probably will continue so until our Minister lowers his terms. A combination is supposed to have been entered into by the chief demanders of indemnities, by which they have bound themselves to resist all farther extortions.

Lewis Goldsmith - Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Volume 2

Seizing his hat and coat, he fairly ran out of the office and down the stairs and across the bridge. "Which way did that young lady go?" he demanders of the sergeant. "Why uh, West Street, Mr. Ditmar." He remembered where Fillmore Street was; he had, indeed, sought it out one evening in the hope of meeting her.

Winston Churchill - Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill

He names twenty-three different sorts of vagabonds known by cant names, such as "ruffers," "uprightmen," "priggers," "fraters," "palliards," "Abrams," "dummerers "; and of women, "demanders for glimmer or fire," "mortes," "walking mortes," "doxes," "kinching coves." London was esteemed by its inhabitants and by many foreigners as the richest and most magnificent city in Christendom.

Charles Dudley Warner - Complete Essays

Are they to determine by the throw of a die, where they are to turn themselves, or which of these demanders of implicit faith they are to believe.”

George Bethune English - The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old

He names twenty-three different sorts of vagabonds known by cant names, such as "ruffers," "uprightmen," "priggers," "fraters," "palliards," "Abrams," "dummerers "; and of women, "demanders for glimmer or fire," "mortes," "walking mortes," "doxes," "kinching coves." London was esteemed by its inhabitants and by many foreigners as the richest and most magnificent city in Christendom.

Charles Dudley Warner - For Whom Shakespeare Wrote

And yet the supply does not come. Yes, and moreover, this great body of enthusiastic demanders are no mere poor and helpless people, ignorant fisher-peasants, half- mad monks, scatter-brained sansculottes none of those, in short, the expression of whose needs has shaken the world so often before, and will do yet again.

William Morris - Signs of Change

The directors of some of those banks sometimes took advantage of this optional clause, and sometimes threatened those who demanded gold and silver in exchange for a considerable number of their notes, that they would take advantage of it, unless such demanders would content themselves with a part of what they demanded.

Adam Smith - An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

These theories he clenched, as it were, by a reference to the existing politics of the day. Cheaters of the public, on false pretences, he was pleased to term "moderate Whigs;" bullying demanders of your purse were "high Tories;" and thieving in gangs was "the effect of the spirit of party."

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Paul Clifford — Complete