11 Metaphors for informants

My informant was a gentlemana member of the Presbyterian church in Massachusettswho the winter before boarded where I did.

My informant was Professor Tholuck, of Halle University, the most eminent living theologian in Germany, and the principal ecclesiarch of the Prussian Church.

How do you know?" "My informant was Mr. Fink-Nottle himself, sir.

His informant was a new passenger, taken aboard at the fort.

My informant was a man whose word regarding an incident of this character I would take as readily as that of any man I know.

His informant regarding the condition of the market was Robert Johnson, who had been separated from his mother in his childhood and reared by his mistress as a favorite slave.

" No doubt the phrase "the first and best hands," was intended to convey the fact that his informant was his friend and neighbour, James Craggs the younger, the Secretary of State who was so deeply involved in the affairs of the South Sea Company that when the "bubble" burst he only escaped prosecution by conveniently dying of small-pox.

""I do not know how that may be," replied he: "you are a notorious liar, but my informant was a person of credit.

Informant was a slave, and has always performed common labor.

My informant was an Italian colonel under Omar, who was an eye-witness of the event.

But if the informant were by chance a conservative Roman of old family, he might proceed to qualify this definition.

11 Metaphors for  informants