A Detester of all machine politicians, he was a statesman worthy to be called the William Pitt of the United States.
"54-40 or Fight"
Emerson Hough
As a man he was a bit of poseur-the little whisker grown on one side of his face, the side which he turned to his audience, is a note of foppery-but was ever a Detester of the sham-artistic.
"Chopin: The Man and His Music"
James Huneker
In a short time a jealous feud sprang up between the loving friends Rinaldo and Orlando; and Angelica, torn with conflicting emotions, from her dread on her father's account as well as her own, and her aversion to every knight but her Detester, was at one time compelled to apply to Orlando for assistance, and at another, being afraid that he would have the better of Rinaldo in combat, to send him away on a perilous adventure elsewhere, with a promise of accepting his love should he succeed.
"Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Vol. 2"
Leigh Hunt