The other man was but a tricky politician of the creeping sort, a caterer to all prejudices, and a flatterer and Favorer.
"A Man and a Woman"
Stanley Waterloo
He fomented dissensions in the company over the details, and Middlesex, the patron of the measure, being a great Favorer of the Spanish match, changed sides upon his own proposition.
"England in America, 1580-1652"
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
And so Pericles, having secured his power and interest with the populace, directed the exertions of his party against this council with such success, that most of those causes and matters which had been used to be tried there, were, by the agency of Ephialtes, removed from its cognizance, Cimon, also, was banished by ostracism as a Favorer of the Lacedaemonians and a hater of the people, though in wealth and noble birth he was among the first, and had won several most glorious victories over the barbarians, and had filled the city with money and spoils of war; as is recorded in the history of his life.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh