The crowd outside was increasing every instant, and you need not have looked at their faces twice, to perceive that they had regarded Mickey as an approver; and the same night that saw the MacNeills in custody, witnessed the burning of Sheehan's house and haggart, and he only escaped by a miracle over to Curryglass, where, once under my protection, with the imputation upon his character of having turned King's evidence, I had little trouble in persuading him that he might as well benefit by the report as enjoy the name without the gain.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
She consented still to remain her friend; but the fear of passing for an approver or an accomplice prevented her from remaining if there were any publicity.
"The Memoirs of Madame de Montespan, Volume VI. Being the Historic Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV."
Madame La Marquise De Montespan
Certainly, he said; that is what the approver of injustice says.
"Plato's Republic"
Plato