subduer

Example Sentences

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Once again the goal derived from a Barton corner which was eventually headed on for Mike Williamson – the earlier subduer of Carew – to nudge down into Carroll's path.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2010

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,—this hunger of the heart,—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert

This new feat was ascribed to Attila himself, already too well known as the scourge of Europe and the subduer of so many German tribes.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,–this hunger of the heart,–as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

From The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George

Indra help thee in thy battles, proud subduer of mankind, Yama in the mightier duty, in the conquest of thy mind!

From Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse by Dutt, Romesh