Subduing

Examples

• The Queen, his wife, knew this: it seemed to me, the reflection of her husband's grief lay, a subduing shadow, on her own benignant face. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Men pass through such superhuman loves and outlive them: they are the probation subduing the heart to human joys. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I looked in the glass, settled my headdress as becomingly as possible, and trusted to my charms and soft speeches for subduing his anger as usual. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Five harpoons and one hundred and fifty-one bullets were used in subduing the monster, and it took five days to finally kill it. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• And now, as I close my task, subduing my desire to linger yet, these faces fade away. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• The wind, prince of air, raged through his kingdom, lashing the sea into fury, and subduing the rebel earth into some sort of obedience. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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