Thenceforth they began to connive at his diplomatic irregularities, and even to urge on his expeditions into wealthy districts, provided that the spoils went to Paris; while the conqueror, on his part, was able tacitly to assume that tone of authority with which the briber treats the bribed.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
He had no very delicate feeling of the relation of man and woman, neither any revulsion from the loverly custom in low plays of making a friend of the lady's maid, and bribing her to chaunt the praises of the briber in the ears of her mistress.
"Warlock o' Glenwarlock"
George MacDonald
A briber, a suborner of perjury, a liar.
"A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties"
Charles Major