Vanquished

Examples

• Thus vanquished and restricted, she pined, like any other chained denizen of deserts. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Victor and vanquished rolled limp and lifeless upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If he were vanquished, I should be a free man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• At his back was a quiver of arrows slung from a leathern shoulder belt, another piece of loot from some vanquished black. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Mrs Dengelton, having thus vanquished the enemy, disappeared with her daughter and shut the window, upon which poor Crispin walked away in a rage. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• He was born victor, as some are born vanquished. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The Countess had the advantage of position; so I was vanquished, though I would not yield. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He looked up at her with reproachful, saturnine eyes, vanquished in his extreme agedness of being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The schoolmaster went his way, brooding and brooding, and a sense of being vanquished in a struggle might have been pieced out of his worried face. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So with him we have played that game which has vanquished so many guides for us --imbecility and idiotic questions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• One by one the tribe swung down from their arboreal retreats and formed a circle about Tarzan and his vanquished foe. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• So, after vanquishing Betteredge and Mr. Bruff, Ezra Jennings vanquished Mrs. Merridew herself. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I stand before its vanquished walls, and dare not call myself a conqueror. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The vanquished, of whom very few remained, scattered and escaped into the neighbouring wood. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The Black Knight whispered something into the ear of the vanquished. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• This De Grantmesnil declined, avowing himself vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of his opponent. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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