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Informer Battus revealed theft by Mercury; turned to touchstone. [Gk. and Rom. Myth.: Walsh Classical, 47]
old libertine ravishes his daughter Beatrice. [Br. Lit.: Shelley The Cenci; Magill I, 131] (1901–1961) chief witness in perjury trial of Alger Hiss (1949). [Am. Hist.: NCE, 501] (1938— ) chief witness and informer against Nixon in the Watergate hearings. [Am. Hist.: NCE, 2939] led armed band to Gethsemane and showed them which one was Jesus. [N.T.: Matthew 26:46–50; Mark 14:42–45; Luke 22:47–48; John 18:1–8] reveals Lancelot and Guinevere’s affair to Arthur. [Arthurian Legend: Harvey, 559] betrays friend to police for subsistence money. [Irish Lit.: The Informer] informer and fence for stolen goods. [Br. Lit.: The Beggar’s Opera] wrote a book in which he revealed inner workings of the Mafia. [Am. Lit.: My Life in the Mafia] (1903–1971) New York gangster who revealed the inner operations of the Mafia. [Am. Hist.: Facts (1971), 436] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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An opportunity which the informer improved by smearing himself all over the head and neck and face with his drowned cap, and not at all improving his own appearance. Edward Rose, the interpreter, whose sinister looks we have already mentioned, was denounced by this secret informer as a designing, treacherous scoundrel, who was tampering with the fidelity of certain of the men, and instigating them to a flagrant piece of treason. And now cheat and play the informer if you can; I ask no quarter at your hands. |
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