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
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
And Elgiva, the enchantress, the worker of wonders, was hailed as Rowena, the mother of Wynde, the subduer of princes; yea, even of Chylde Wynde, the beloved, and the lord of Agitha the Beautiful.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
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
Sinopean, to begin with, I was a king; king of all Caria, ruler of many Lydians, subduer of islands, conqueror of well-nigh the whole of Ionia, even to the borders of Miletus.
From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01 by F. G. (Francis George) Fowler
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