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Demander

Demander \De*mand"er\, n. One who demands.

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demander

n. One who demands

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demander

n. a person who makes demands

Usage examples of "demander".

Ourteau pour expliquer sa situation a son frere, et lui demander de le sauver en consentant une garantie hypothecaire pour une somme de cent cinquante mille francs.

FIN DE LA PREMIERE PARTIE DEUXIEME PARTIE I Fidele a sa promesse, Anie avait amene sa mere a demander elle-meme de ne pas vendre le chateau.

Je ne puis pas payer ma dette, et je ne veux plus rien demander a ton pere que je ruinerais.

Je suis le plus ignorant des hommes et je viens bien humblement vous demander ce que vous pensez du secret de Toth.

Incontinently came Thrasillus, the detestable demander of sodaine pleasure, and wearied the closed eares of Charites with talke of marriage, but she gently refused his communication, and coloring the matter, with passing craft in the middest of his earnest desires gan say, Thrasillus you shall understand that yet the face of your brother and my husband, is alwayes before mine eies, I smell yet the Cinamon sent of his pretious body, I yet feele Lepolemus alive in my heart : wherefore you shall do well if you grant to me miserable woman, necessarie time to bewaile his death, that after the residue of a few moneths, the whole yeare may be expired, which thing toucheth as well my shame as your wholsome profit, lest peradventure by your speed and quicke marriage we should justly raise and provoke the spirit of my husband to worke our destruction.

Et il venait me demander que je lui fisse la faveur de le presenter dans les salons les mieux frequentes de Paris.

Il fallait penser a madame de Barizel, qui, si elle ne dormait pas, devait se demander ce que signifiait un pareil tete-a-tete.

There they were, she thought, the men of the new age, the demanders and recipients of self-sacrifice.

Yes, ye, the Demanders of sacrifice, shall yourselves be sacrificed to That which is greater than ye are!

Yet there was no denying the existence of People who had no knowledge of themselves as such: taken from their dams too early, perhaps, too soon even to drink in with the first milk and their mother's tale-purring the truth of what they were or where in the worlds their own kind came from—People who were barely self-aware, merely receptacles for food and excreters of it, dull-brained demanders of strokes and treats, "pets" in the true sense of the word: slaves to their most basic instincts, but in service to nothing any higher at all.

Yet there was no denying the existence of People who had no knowledge of themselves as such: taken from their dams too early, perhaps, too soon even to drink in with the first milk and their mother’s tale-purring the truth of what they were or where in the worlds their own kind came from—People who were barely self-aware, merely receptacles for food and excreters of it, dull-brained demanders of strokes and treats, “pets” in the true sense of the word: slaves to their most basic instincts, but in service to nothing any higher at all.