Because he is a detective-defender, but not a detective-castigator. From Wordnik.com. [On Why Weren't The "Good Guys" Celebrated?] Reference
Al Gore, newly-minted media castigator, gnashing his teeth, throwing coiled fists against a boiling sky, appalled -- appalled!. From Wordnik.com. [Ron Mwangaguhunga: "HiltonGate"? And the Winner is Barbara Walters] Reference
His self image as a tough castigator, bully-in-chief, supreme forajido in a land of plenty will shatter along with his psyche. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Wills, the Taming of ... Bush, (or is it Congress?)] Reference
Minute after minute the castigator laboured away in his vocation, until finally the victim collapsed, and rolling over, lay like a log in a pool of blood, and was then carried off. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Dragon Flag My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War] Reference
He not only acted the reformer, or rather the castigator, in the fashionable world, but also exercised his talents among the inferior class of people, who chanced to incur his displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle] Reference
Amiable humourist! laughing castigator of morals!. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Swift] Reference
The cause of the exasperation of the castigator is unknown. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
"Yes, you can," replied his castigator; "nothing's more easy; come, be merry.". From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
When setting up the JDS 'website he registered the address as www. castigator.org. From Wordnik.com. [The most recent articles from Accountancy Age] Reference
Here one may pause and suspect the reverend castigator of confusing several dislikes in one argument. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Good-for-Nothing] Reference
Resedinta: Odense, Danemarca A castigat 9,1 milioane de dolari la WSOP 2008 Cel mai tanar castigator al evenimentului. From Wordnik.com. [RO.RSS] Reference
Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy castigator. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
The true castigator of morals has never striven to make his subjects appear disgraceful, but to make them appear ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Hilaire Belloc The Man and His Work] Reference
"Hut! get out wid you, you poor Jamaica-headed castigator, you; sure you never had more nor a thimbleful o 'sinse on any subject.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three] Reference
"You will be the death of me, I know you will, Master Chissel," he groaned out one day, when his castigator was even severer than usual. From Wordnik.com. [Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman] Reference
The corrected quantity, to those who knew him well, will seem to have played its part; he was the man always to reflect over a correction and to admire the castigator. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin] Reference
Gower Woodseer's whip for the comfortable numbness he felt at Carinthia's behaviour, while detesting her for causing him to desire it and endure it, and exonerate his prosy castigator. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
She was a high moralist, and a merciless castigator of all females who manifested, or who were supposed to manifest, even a tendency to walk out of the line of her own peculiar theory on female conduct. From Wordnik.com. [Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One] Reference
Once the resolute, almost inspired, castigator of the separatist aims of that organisation, he was now in close and sympathetic association with the leaders of Afrikander nationalism in the Republics and the Cape Colony. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902] Reference
Pancake, mark me, obedience is your cue, or, if not, the castigator here is your alternative; there it is, freshly cut -- ripe and ready -- and you are not to be told, at this time o 'day, what portion of your corpus will catch it. From Wordnik.com. [The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two] Reference
An individual almost wholly distinct from his fellow-men; a castigator of human weakness and yet a hero-worshiper -- not the hero of burning powder and fluttering flags, but any human being whose brain had blazed and lighted the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Colossus A Novel] Reference
Becoming a severe castigator of public morals and of private character. From Wordnik.com. [Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete] Reference
A declarat Casey Stoner, de trei ori consecutiv castigator in Qatar (2007, 2008, 2009). From Wordnik.com. [Hotnews.ro] Reference
"And if you are to be my castigator for each offence, you will find yourself pretty well employed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Wilberforce, he carried with him from the affray no bitterness, but was always afterwards most courteous to his castigator. ". From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Authors, British and American] Reference
Builder and in Ghosts the lover of Nature in Ibsen was predominant; here, as in Brand and The Wild Duck, the castigator is in the ascendant.”. From Wordnik.com. [Little Eyolf] Reference
Practical Organizer of the Initial Association of Free Disciples, and once as the self-appointed castigator of unfortunate temperance missionaries. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
Amiable humourist! laughing castigator of morals!. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
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