Her unknown friend-her noble defender-could have been no other than General Lingard himself, on his way to stay with the Paches.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
You see, Stas; we now shall have a defender.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Nor was Froben's circle one whit more surprised than its royal author when its immediate reward was that formal style and title-defender of the Faith,-to which a few years more were to lend so different a significance.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue