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

Beethoven," says Old Fogy, is "dramatic, powerful, a maker of storms, a subduer of tempests; but his speech is the speech of a self-centred egotist.

From A Book of Prefaces by Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)

This function properly belongs to Bel, both as the god of earth and as the subduer of Tiâmat.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

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

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

Even the bold retainers of the crumbling family lost heart, and if they prepared to show any resistance at all, it was owing to the presence of Sampei, the heroic subduer of Corea.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis