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
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 Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis)
Mighty subduer of cities, Discretion, O princess of nations, Goddess whom I adore, safely you've led me thus far.
From Erotica Romana by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
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
It is a refiner, a cultivator, a subduer of coarseness, barbarity, rudeness.
