1802, (Author unknown), Edinburgh Magazine: or Literary Miscellany Chapter Character of Suvarrof, If Paul, in diſmiſſing, had conſidered only his natural cruelty, or his folly, real or affected, perhaps the meaſure would have been applauded but he appeared to aim at puniſing the man devoted to his mother, and the thwarter of his military innovations, which were too abrupt and too ill-directed
1852, William Hepworth Dixon, John Howard, and the Prison-world of Europe, By his strong remonstrances he saved many a poor fellow from the rebel's crime and doom ; but not without imminent peril to himself. Governments did not like the thwarter of their purposes.
1927, Edward Alsworth Ross, Standing Room Only?, As an orthodox clergyman Malthus was therefore hard put to it to account for our being launched into existence with a sex thirst that is a snare and a thwarter of human happiness.
2006, Ximena Gallardo-C. and C. Jason Smith, Alien Woman: The Making of Lt. Ellen Ripley, Similarly, Ripley, as the thwarter of the wishes of the godlike Company, proclaims herself as the adversary of this narrative.
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