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 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 Kuno Francke
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
The hero is "a hunter of demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodman of the faith."
From Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
Beethoven," says Old Fogy, is "dramatic, powerful, a maker of storms, a subduer of tempests; but his speech is the speech of a self-centred egotist.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
