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Definition
someone who believes and helps to spread the teachings of another
- It is doubtful if Leora herself had a chance to say anything, for he poured out his every confidence as a disciple of Gottlieb.Chapter 6 (37% in)
- He went away Silva's disciple; he went away to study furiously; and the brilliant insanity of Max Gottlieb's genius vanished from his faith.Chapter 10 (10% in)
- A courteous old gentleman was Dad Silva, a fit disciple of Osler, but this incredible letter killed his patience.Chapter 12 (52% in)
- The warrior who had been telling of feeding five thousand Tatars, of receiving a degree from a Chinese university and refusing a decoration from quite a good Balkan king, looked affectionately on his band of one disciple and demanded, "Was it all right—was it?Chapter 17 (76% in)
- But his work seemed to have been taken from him, his own self had been taken from him; he was no longer to be Martin, and Gottlieb's disciple, but a Man of Measured Merriment, Dr. Arrowsmith, Head of the Department of Microbic Pathology, who would wear severe collars and make addresses and never curse.Chapter 29 (25% in)
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