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

—Why does she not execrate me?—O the triumphant subduer!

From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Richardson, Samuel

Drake, Blake, Rodney, Jervis, Nelson, Collingwood; the subduer of Algiers beaten down for the French to occupy: and the defender of Acre, the first who defeated, discomfited, routed, broke, and threw into shameful flight, Bonaparte.

From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various

Al'colomb, "subduer of hearts," daughter of Abou Aibou of Damascus, and sister of Ganem.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Brewer, Ebenezer Cobham

All else i’ the world Time, the all subduer, merges in oblivion.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles