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
This function properly belongs to Bel, both as the god of earth and as the subduer of Tiâmat.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow
Drake, Blake, Rodney, Jervis, Nelson, Collingwood; the subduer of Algiers beaten down for the French to occupy: and the defender of Acre, the first who defeated, discomfited, routed, broke, and threw into shameful flight, Bonaparte.
From International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850 by Various
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
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
