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

Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

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

I am not a subverter, nor a communist, nor a man of blood, nor a hater, nor intolerant, nor exclusive adorer of a system, or of a form imagined by my mind.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.