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

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 Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

This new feat was ascribed to Attila himself, already too well known as the scourge of Europe and the subduer of so many German tribes.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry

He had little sympathy with the national uprising against Napoleon, whom he looked on as the invincible subduer of the hated Revolution.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno

In the Odyssey special mention is made of the surpassing expertness of the Egyptian female leech, Polydamna, whose name signifies the subduer of many diseases.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine