subduer
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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
Tiglath-Pileser, the powerful King; the subduer of hostile races; the conqueror of the whole circle of kings.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous
Al'colomb, "subduer of hearts," daughter of Abou Aibou of Damascus, and sister of Ganem.
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
All lesser luminaries shone faint before the sun of Pompey, the subduer of the pirates, the conqueror of Asia, the glory of the Roman name.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
"The voice of Marius," says Scott, "could not sound more deep and solemn among the ruins of Carthage, than the strains of the pilgrim among the broken shrines and fallen statues of her subduer."
From Byron by John Nichol
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