"Examiner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... confined his writing to the novels, in which he could speak his mind in his own way, while doing his duty by his country in the East India House, where he obtained a post in 1818. From 1836 to 1856, when he retired on a pension, he was Examiner of India Correspondence. Peacock ...
— Crotchet Castle • Thomas Love Peacock
... experiment of that gentleman. The present portico, towards Brydges-street, was afterwards erected under the lesseeship of Elliston, whose portrait in the Exhibition was thus noticed in the Examiner "Portrait of the great Lessee, in his ...
— Rejected Addresses: or, The New Theatrum Poetarum • James and Horace Smith
... question at issue; bone of contention &c. (discord) 713; plain question, fair question, open question; enigma &c. (secret) 533; knotty point &c. (difficulty) 704; quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry. [person who questions] inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist[obs3], examiner, catechist; scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer[obs3]; analyst; quidnunc &c. (curiosity) 455[Lat]. V. make inquiry &c. n.; inquire, ask, seek, search. look for, look about for, look out for; scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... you for the half-hour before the moon rose?" asked the man who seemed examiner. "That is really the time most interesting to ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... says a technical paper advertisement. Now if they had only wanted a Duke examiner we have the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
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