Conquering

Examples

• She ultimately prevailed; and all-conquering Fife was expected with rapture. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• In Britain Latin was practically wiped out by the conquering Anglo-Saxons, from among whose various dialects the root stock of English presently grew. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But the struggle changed continually, as that of a man who begins with a movement towards striking and ends with conquering his desire to strike. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• They wanted to know if the country was rich enough to be worth the conquering. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The difficulty of conquering them. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• By the information which they received, they judged whether it was worth while to make a settlement there, or if the country was worth the conquering. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Again, is not the passionate element wholly set on ruling and conquering and getting fame? Plato. The Republic.
• Hellas will never be a modern Roman empire—she never was an all-conquering power, and her strength lay in the brains, not in the hands of her sons. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They talked of taking London, conquering England--calling to mind the long detail of injuries which had for many years been forgotten. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Of all the deities worshipped in the temple, the moon-god alone escaped the rapacity of the conquering Mohammedans. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• They swept the country like a conquering army, burning--laying waste-- murdering. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Supported only by a sense that she was bent on conquering in her life-long fight, she went on. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Only the Basque resisted the conquering Aryan speech. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I believe I could have picked out the conquering de Hamal even undirected. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

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