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
Under the old Roman system, as we have seen, the city was the important unit: Rome was a subduer and an upbuilder of cities.
From The Communes of Lombardy from the VI. to the X. Century An Investigation of the Causes Which Led to the Development Of Municipal Unity Among the Lombard Communes. by William Klapp Williams
Man is heaven-born—not the thrall of circumstances, of necessity, but the victorious subduer thereof.'
From Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell
As long as Assyria continued to play the rôle of the subduer of nations, Ashur—the god of war par excellence—necessarily retained his position at the head of the Assyrian pantheon.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
He was content to be surveyor, waggon-builder, blacksmith, subduer of beasts, man of infinite pluck, resource, and energy, for 30s. a week and rations!
From Peeps At Many Lands: Australia by Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton) Spence
