subverter
Example Sentences
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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.
From Time Magazine Archive
Iolas fell, whom not the Grecian pow'rs, Nor great subverter of the Trojan tow'rs, Were doom'd to kill, while Heav'n prolong'd his date; But who can pass the bounds, prefix'd by fate?
From The Aeneid English by Virgil
I am not a subverter, nor a communist, nor a man of blood, nor a hater, nor intolerant, nor exclusive adorer of a system, or of a form imagined by my mind.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!
From Erema — My Father's Sin by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore
He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse....
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
