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
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 F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
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 The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Sidney Lanier
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 Morris Jastrow
The hero is "a hunter of demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodman of the faith."
From Short Stories for English Courses by Rosa Mary Redding Mikels
