The great barrator made no hypocritical pretence of desiring peace.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War] Reference

On the contrary, I was constantly hearing tales of silly fooleries, of overbearing behaviour, of deliberate rudeness, such as irresistibly recalled, in spirit if not in form, the conduct of the common barrator in the guise of a king, who, if.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War] Reference

And he answered: 'It was Friar Gomita, he of Gallura, vessel of every fraud, who had his master's enemies in hand, and did so to them that they all praise him for it: money took he for himself, and dismissed them smoothly, as he says; and in his other offices besides, he was no petty but a sovereign barrator.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920] Reference

The Norfolk barrator and paltener!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference