In this visit to Scotland Defoe protested to the world at the time that he had gone as a diplomatist on his own account, purely in the interests of peace.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
The measure was, indeed, one he had before contemplated, and which he was anxious to bring about, though he was too good a diplomatist to acknowledge his intentions, or to commit himself by making any definite promise to perform what he might afterwards have reason to wish left undone; he therefore gave Antonio a vague answer to his petition.
"The Prime Minister"
W.H.G. Kingston
What a diplomatist it is!
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever