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

The hero is "a hunter of demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodman of the faith."

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding

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 Spence, Percy F. S. (Percy Frederick Seaton)

As long as Assyria continued to play the rôle of the subduer of nations, Ashur—the god of war par excellence—necessarily retained his position at the head of the Assyrian pantheon.

From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love,—this hunger of the heart,—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

From Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7 by Sylvester, Charles Herbert