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

Such was the reputation which the vanquished magnates in general, and their followers, endeavored to fix upon the young subverter of their ascendency.

From Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches by Various

He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers.

From The Necessity of Atheism by Brooks, David Marshall

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 Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

At the moment when thy dearest hopes had budded afresh, when the clouds of insecurity and disquiet had retired from thy vision, wast thou assailed by the great subverter of human schemes.

From Ormond, Volume III (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden