subduer

Example Sentences

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“Perhaps you, the toilers, the subduers of the wilderness, are to serve as an anchor for the supercivilized generations to hold on by.”

From The Long Portage by Bindloss, Harold

You see before you the greatest band of subduers and breakers of wild horses that ever rode the cattle ranges.

From Trailin'! by Brand, Max

As captive Greece captured her fierce conqueror, so the subdued Assyrians began at once to corrupt their subduers.

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 3. (of 7): Media The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

Our part of the hemisphere has never made such startling chapters of conquest as were carved in the grimmer wildernesses to our south by Cortez, Pizarro, Valdivia, and Quesada, the greatest subduers of wild America.

From The Spanish Pioneers by Lummis, Charles F.

We see the victors of many nations, and the subduers of vast kingdoms, who little care to overcome themselves.

From True Christianity by Arndt, Johann