Word: displayer
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...word combat between witty and intelligent men would certainly be amusing; and the habit of a weekly or a fortnightly glance at the political world might enable the students of to-day to make, when they fairly enter that sphere, a more practically useful, if not a more striking, display of their patriotic enthusiasm than have their immediate predecessors...
...game of chess - the Royal Game, as it is sometimes called - is a purely scientific pastime, calling forth a greater display of mental power and demanding more hard-earned skill than any other game of a similar kind...
...wealth and display they...
...bowling and fielding of the Bostons was of a first-class order, and the batting of Pettitt and Clark was a fine display of skill...
...gentleman if this is so. He looks fixedly at me and replies, "Do you mean the pilot?" I do not understand what he is talking about, and walk away. He is probably very deaf and thought I said something else. The captain comes down from the bridge. Wishing to display my knowledge of English railroads, I ask him if we shall reach Liverpool in time to catch the three o'clock train for London.* He looks at his watch critically, and replies, "I am afraid we shall miss it by just twelve minutes." He smiles for some reason or other...