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

Man is heaven-born—not the thrall of circumstances, of necessity, but the victorious subduer thereof.'

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

All else i’ the world Time, the all subduer, merges in oblivion.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

The son of Ashur-ris-ili, the powerful King, the subduer of foreign countries, he who has reduced all the lands of the Magian world.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Literature by Anonymous

Pompey, great general and great statesman, conqueror in Spain, subduer of Spartacus and the Gladiators, destroyer of pirates and final victor over Mithridates, comes back and lives as a simple citizen.

From Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)