Conqueror

Examples

• But sometimes a conqueror was afraid of the god he had conquered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The English crown has been gradually built up from the plain circlet with four trefoil heads worn by William the Conqueror. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• So it was that the priests of Egypt conquered their conqueror, and an Aryan monarch first became a god. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• One is forced to believe that this was the real atmosphere of the young conqueror's life. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I went, a willing old victim, following the car of the conqueror. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The expression of his face was that of a conqueror. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Emanuel actually laughed in his face, and with the ruthless triumph of the assured conqueror, he drew his ward nearer to him. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Adrian, I am about to return to Greece, to become again a soldier, perhaps a conqueror. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The ringing of the curfew originated in England by William the Conqueror, who directed that at the ringing of the bell at eight o’clock all fires and lights should be extinguished. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The few English that could be brought to resist him would perish at their posts, and the conqueror would pass over their bodies into the city. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• William, Duke of Normandy, became the William the Conqueror (1066) of English history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fabre, fighting for a particular female who sits by, an apparently unconcerned beholder of the struggle, and then retires with the conqueror. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Victory, or the conditions imposed by the conqueror--must be the result. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• De Bracy himself arose from the ground, and cast a sorrowful glance after his conqueror. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• They seem to have been overrun and the population absorbed by the conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Next as to the slain; ought the conquerors, I said, to take anything but their armour? Plato. The Republic.
• Dr. Wallis Budge writes of them as conquerors from the East. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Arab conquerors, however, s howed themselves singularly hospitable to the culture of the n ations over which they had gained control. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Conquerors have gone forth with the blessing of popes; a nation invokes its God before beginning a campaign of murder, rape and pillage. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In such a country as Gaul it was already well in progress in the days of insecurity _before_ the barbarian tribes broke into the empire as conquerors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Latin and Greek Churches were declared to be reunited, and Latin emperors ruled as conquerors in Constantinople from 1204 to 1261. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the autumn evenings (when Rebecca was flaunting at Paris, the gayest among the gay conquerors there, and our Amelia, our dear wounded Amelia, ah! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Sudras are represented as a previous wave of northern conquerors, and the Pariahs are the original Dravidian inhabitants of India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The early Franks and the Anglo-Saxon conquerors of South Britain had much the same feeling towards townsmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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