2 Metaphors for distributor

" "Cabinet-generals," says Duclos, "greedy of money, inexperienced and presumptuous; ignorant, jealous, or ill-disposed ministers; subalterns lavish of their blood on the battle-field and crawling at court before the distributors of favorssuch are the instruments we employed.

The distributors are chiefly young women belonging the schools.

2 Metaphors for  distributor