Conquered

Examples

• She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• 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.
• 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.
• And as the result of a quarrel with the King of Lombardy, his father-in-law, he conquered Lombardy and North Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In every victory he displayed humanity to the conquered, and decisively opposed any exhibition of cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The greater part of the Balkan peninsula was conquered by these people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He assembled an army, accumulated guns, and then laid claim to the Punjab, because Timur had conquered it a hundred and seven years before. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I dared, I conquered them all, till now! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Greeks were conquered by the Romans in 146 B.C,but before tha t time Roman life and institutions had been touched by Hellenic culture. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• When at length a real emperor reappears in Western Europe (962), he is not a Frank, but a Saxon; the conquered in Germany have become the masters. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Fanny has conquered any such little difficulties, and--hum--why not you? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As history goes on the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My Lady Dedlock, having conquered HER world, fell not into the melting, but rather into the freezing, mood. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• She is just to the conquered, but rigid. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• These Etruscan people conquered most of Italy north of the Tiber from the Aryan tribes who were scattered over that country. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Whatever considerations I may have thought of against this offer, I have conquered, and I make it with all my heart. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They are very weak who flatter themselves that, in the state to which things have come, our colonies will be easily conquered by force alone. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They converted what they could of the conquered people to Islam; the Christians they disarmed, and conferred upon them the monopoly of tax-paying. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Only conquest from the outside could unite the Greeks, and until Greece was conquered they had no political unity. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There she lay, conquered by love, and bound with a vow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The unvarying gentleness and patience which long misfortune had tried so cruelly and had never conquered yet, seemed now to have suddenly failed her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Beside which, his mien conquered me, and an affectionate sentiment towards him, again filled my heart--I bade him command me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The Mongols were in the twelfth century a tribe subject to those Kin who had conquered Northeast China. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• As far as noise went, he was conquered. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He had not conquered her yet. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• They are easily to be conquered. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They both tried to appear as usual; but the sorrow they had to struggle against was one that could not be entirely conquered or concealed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Armenia was overrun, all Mesopotamia was conquered and Persia beyond the rivers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I saw the fire slowly conquered. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He has conquered her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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