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

But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.

From Old English Chronicles 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

“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”

From The Secret of Divine Civilization by `Abdu'l-Bahá