How To Use Conqueror In A Sentence
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Recollecting the day he saw Napoleon on the street, the poet imagines what must be the tumult of thoughts behind Caesar's moveless mask-the cities, the factories, the armies rising in the conqueror's dream of power.
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That was built at about the time William the Conqueror was bonking Anglo-Saxons on the head.
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The conquerors advanced , killing and plundering as they went.
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Instead of an old country there is a continent made up of lands that were divvied up and named by European and Middle Eastern conquerors.
Walter Mosley Talks About 47
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William the Conqueror, ie King William I of England.
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You are the conqueror of my people, our subjugator.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
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Not impossibly there was a resistance movement in the Fens, as later under William the Conqueror, and ecclesiastics became involved.
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When Egypt became a Turkish pashalic, Selim, the conqueror, compelled the representative of the
Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature
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This, however, was no unwonted mood of passion with Darsie Latimer, upon whom Cupid was used to triumph only in the degree of a Mahratta conqueror, who overruns a province with the rapidity of lightning, but finds it impossible to retain it beyond a very brief space.
Redgauntlet
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Before the Macedonian conqueror passed away, he left detailed funeral instructions, including - among other things - that he be embalmed in honey through a process known as "mellification.
NPR Topics: News
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Jesus is coming this time not as a helpless baby in a manger, not as a man of sorrows, but as victor and conqueror to claim his own.
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But Napoleon was above all a dynast and conqueror: what he required from subject territories was men and money.
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Your liege William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, is ready to invade England.
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When one day, a Persian conqueror -- Cyrus -- entered the precincts of E-Sagila, his first step was to acknowledge Marduk and Nabu as the supreme powers in the world; and the successors of Alexander continue to glory in the title 'adorner of
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
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Close by was St Leonard's Priory, a Benedictine nunnery founded in the time of William the Conqueror, and mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the prologue to his Canterbury Tales.
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“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror.
The Return
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Jezreel: for there the battle was, -- at least, if that may be called a battle, where there was not one sword unsheathed by the conqueror.
From the Talmud and Hebraica
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In terms of Conan's history, ` The Hour of the Dragon '(which was later reprinted under the title Conan the Conqueror) is the final story in the sequence.
The Conan Chronicles
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On this date : In 1227 , the Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died.
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We shall never yield to a conqueror.
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Created in the 11th century by William the Conqueror for deer hunting, the New Forest is the largest area of original woodland, heath land and unenclosed pasture remaining in England, covering nearly 600 square kilometers.
Foraging in the New Forest
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Although the conqueror of all his enemies Charles still entertained mighty projects, and in 1469 he obtained the possession of the landgraviate of Alsace and the county of Ferrette
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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The conditions upon which was engrafted this compact were of great antiquity, had indeed been brought across the Rhine by the German conquerors; but the Northmen were the impelling cause of the swift development of feudalism in France.
A Short History of France
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Williams won the undisputed title in 1947 by kayoing his one-time conqueror, Bob Montgomery.
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Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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The French-speaking conquerors of 1066 found none of this intelligible: to their ears Anglo-Saxon was barbaric and uncouth.
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In point of fact, what I am conceding is my disappointment in discovering that Ayers does not appear to be familiar with even the most rudimentary theoretical perspectives found throughout Capitalists and Conquerors.
A Review of Capitalists and Conquerors, and an exchange
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Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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It was the aid of Russia which enabled her to overthrow the great Napoleon, and now she permits the little Napoleon to bully her into a war with Russia that he may bedizen his name with the glory of a conflict with the conqueror of his illustrious kinsman.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864
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On returning from Leoben, a conqueror and pacificator, he, without ceremony, took possession of Venice, changed the established government, and, master of all the Venetian territory, found himself, in the negotiations of Campo
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon
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In 1246 an inquisition jury attributed the foundation to the Conqueror and identified the recipients of hospitality as the poor, sick and infirm who had no homes but slept in the streets at night.
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Both men are time-servers who, at a single nod from the conqueror, will sink into primitive obscurity.
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Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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Eynsham meadows and forming a noble gate to the University town for those who approached it from the west by the packway, of which traces still remain, and over the bridges which the Conqueror had built.
The Historic Thames
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The conquerors advanced,killing and plundering wherever they went.
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And burning dawn now awakened beside me, and I got up on my elbow and acknowledged my conqueror, my subduer, and the room for taming me in.
Burning dawn
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Nature, like a proud conqueror, appeared to have put on a triumphal garb, in exultation of the devastation she had committed the night before.
The Scottish Chiefs
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And eighteen hours ago by the time Conqueror gets your answer.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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As the Plantagenets had their “planta genista,” the broom; so the Dymokes would seem to have had their “oak.” {209b} The descent of the early Dymokes may be briefly given thus: — Scrivelsby, forming part of the Soke of Horncastle, of which the Conqueror held the manor, was given by William to Robert Dispenser, his steward, whom we have several times named in connection with other neighbouring parishes.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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In the reign of the Conqueror the powerful Robert Despenser had in this parish eighty acres of meadow land, three hundred and fifty acres of wood, and two mills, with sokemen, velleins, and bordars; other land, with dependents, being owned by Gozelin, a vassal of Alured of Lincoln, named above in connection with Woodhall.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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Peoples will know that they cannot become conquerors without losing their own liberty; that permanent confederations are the sole means of maintaining their independence; that they must seek security, not power.
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When we deplore the conqueror's extreme brutality, we must remember that all great warriors of the times were brutal.
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Built by William the Conqueror, it and 17,270 Yorkshire acres hereabouts are owned (in a constitutionally convoluted fashion) by the Duchy of Lancaster (the Queen).
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After being narrowly beaten in the first race, the second day he was the first to congratulate his conqueror in the moment of victory.
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Most of the nobly born have at one time or another sought to find progenitors among the Companions of the Conqueror.
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Castruccio's character is also well described: his devoted attachment to Euthanasia from which nothing could turn him, till the passions of the conqueror and party faction are still stronger; and the irresistible force which impels him to make war and subdue the Guelphs, which by her is regarded as murder and rapine, disunites beings seemingly formed for each other.
Mrs Shelley
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Many a saintlier pope than Alexander VI would have made the fatal mistake of yielding to brute force and surrendering unconditionally to the conqueror of Italy; the most heroic of the popes could not have sustained the stability of the Holy See at this crucial moment with greater firmness.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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Canaanite borrowed from Egypt words like _tebah_ "ark," _hin_ "a measure," and _ebyôn_ "poor," while Canaan in return copiously enriched the vocabulary of its conquerors.
Patriarchal Palestine
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Thus, to return, in that little anecdote relative to the Conqueror and William Fitz-Osbern, mentioned above, not the crane, but _the flesh of the crane_ is said to have been under-roasted.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390
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They abandoned the city to the conqueror.
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He will make over to the ignominy of ignorant and barbaric ages, -- 'for we call a nettle but a nettle,' he will turn into a forgotten pageant of the rude, early, instinctive ages, the yet brutal ages of an undeveloped humanity, that triumphant reception at home, of the Conqueror of Foreign States.
The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
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The luxuries of a natch, and the peculiar Oriental beauty of the enchantresses who perfumed their voluptuous Eastern domes, for the pleasure of the haughty English conquerors, were no less attractive than the battles and sieges on which the Captain at other times expatiated.
The Surgeon's Daughter
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The tithe exacted from the Irish Catholic farmer was not merely a tribute exacted by the conqueror, but was also a brand of degradation on the faith and on the nationality of the Irish Celt who was called upon to meet the demand.
A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume IV (of 4)
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No one doubts that the Conqueror could be remorseless: not least in his wasting of parts of Yorkshire and the north-west in the desperate campaigning of 1069-70.
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Of course, if the music isn't right then nothing else matters, and here is where The Conquerors play their trump card.
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The conqueror tried to make the natives abjure their religion.
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The conquerors advanced , killing and plundering as they went.
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The scale and rapidity of the German advance into Russia, coming on top of earlier conquests, posed obvious administrative problems for the conquerors.
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Founded by William the Conqueror, the fine motte and bailey castle was popular with medieval monarchs, some of whom used it as a royal hunting lodge.
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The great conquerors of history had all been certain.
Somewhere East of Life
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The powerful right-hander from Cordoba comfortably beat Henman's Madrid conqueror Ivan Ljubicic 6-4 6-4.
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In the office they were conquerors; outside, they were under siege.
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They clung to it amid sufferings too shocking to dwell on; [9] they clung to it under such a serfhood as made the rapacity of their conquerors interested in retaining them on the soil.
Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry
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After numerous defeats in the boxing ring the conquered finally became the conqueror.
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With the assistance of such guides, nothing could remain impervious or inaccessible; resistance was fatal; flight was impracticable; and the patient submission of helpless innocence seldom found mercy from the Barbarian conqueror.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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After numerous defeats in the boxing ring the conquered finally became the conqueror.
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Some form of speech like Fula, Kiama (Tern), or Kposo of northern Togoland, or one of the languages of the lower Niger or Benue, may have been taken up by ancient Libyan, Hamite or Nilotic conquerors and cast into the type which we now know as Bantu, -- a division of sexless Negro speech, however, that shows no obvious traces of Hamitic (Caucasian) influence.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
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William the Conqueror granted London a charter, confirming its previous privileges, but also began building the White Tower, nucleus of the Tower of London, as a strong point.
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War of the Worlds. H. G. Wells. The classic alien invasion tale oftechnologically advanced Martian conquerors with an enormousAchilles' Heel.
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That means those of us who shell out 1 a week for our lotto ticket have something in common with the conquerors of Beijing.
The Sun
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Back in Conqueror they all heard the unforgettable impact of the strike and knew their torpedoes had hit something.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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To the northwest, the descendants of the Atlanteans, climbing unaided from apedom into primitive savagery, have not yet met the conquerors.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian
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At last the citizens were forced to render up their town to the conqueror.
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This reliance on the local lord of the manor was all part of the feudal system introduced by William the Conqueror.
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a magnanimous conqueror
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Early in life she became the second wife of Æthelred II Her first son, Edward, succeeded to the English throne in 1042: her great-nephew was William the Conqueror.
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Greeks have called Sardanapalus, burned himself in his palace rather than fall into the hands of the Median conqueror.
Ancient States and Empires
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Their attempt at grandeur is deeply ironic, however, since they fail to see what the comparison really implies: that the Americans, too, are conquerors and pillagers.
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Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph [140] and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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Tim played on his privileges as "littlest," and his mother's barely concealed partiality, and was as irritating to his elders as a small person can be, who is always present when he is not wanted, absent when he is, in peace adopts the airs of a conqueror, and in warfare promptly cries, and collapses into a curly-headed baby boy, whom the authorities declare it is "cr-uel" to bully!
A College Girl
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Jehovah turns the hearts of kings and peoples as the rivers of water, and He stirred up these hostile nations when His people were in need of chastisement; He could wield their power as the axe which assails a tree is wielded by the woodman; He could call the mightiest conqueror to serve His secret purposes, as a man calls a dog to his foot. [
The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891
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Eventually, the conqueror will reach a ‘culminating point of victory’ at which his successes provoke sufficient counteraction to defeat him.
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For it would be ridiculous to call Menelaus a conqueror when he shot Podes, a man at a great distance, before he thought of or could provide against his danger, and yet not allow him the reward of conquest over him whom he made fly and sneak into the embraces of his wife, and whom he spoiled of his arms whilst he was yet alive, and who had himself offered the challenge, by the articles of which Menelaus now appeared to be the conqueror.
Symposiacs
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Thrice happy those among us who as conquerors shall look upon this gladdest of all days.
Hellenica
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Last year's conqueror started the game with a century break and would have ended with another ton had he not run out of colours to pot.
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Would they have believed that we have become the rulers rather than the ruled, the conquerors rather than the vanquished, the deniers of independence to others rather than the denied?
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It was here that Marius, the conqueror of the Teutones, fixed his headquarters, and embellished the place with temples, aqueducts, and thermae, of which, however, nothing now remains.
Travels through France and Italy
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They remain; and no admixture of the Frisian pirates, or the Breton, or the Angevin and Norman conquerors, has very much affected their cunning eyes.
The Mowing of a Field
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The conquerors advanced,killing and plundering wherever they went.
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The Apulian and Ragusian vessels fled to the shore, several were cut from their cables, and dragged away by the conqueror; and a sally from the town carried slaughter and dismay to the tents of the Norman duke.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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English then cohabited not only with William the Conqueror, but also with tens of thousands of French-speakers who followed him into England.
The English Is Coming!
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There they were made to wait beneath the gaze of the carnifex and his assistants, trembling at the thought of their fate, while the distant roars from the direction of the Triumphal Gate signaled that at last their conqueror had entered the city.
CONSPIRATA
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The monk Ordericus Vitalis, in the eleventh century, notes what he calls the "lasciviousness" of the wives of the Norman conquerors of England who, when left alone at home, sent messages that if their husbands failed to return speedily they would take new ones.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society
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A flush overspread the face of De Warenne at this apostrophe; and forcing a smile, "This strict notion of right," said he, "is very well in declamation, but how would it crop the wings of conquerors, and shorten the warrior's arm, did they measure by this rule!
The Scottish Chiefs
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This downfal is accomplished by the invasion of his newly acquired realms by Alp Arslan, and by the treachery of the partisans of Jabaster; and his head falls afterwards by the scimetar of his conqueror.
A Review of 'Alroy'
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The people which first inhabited this land were called Canaries by the conquerors, they were clothed in goat skinnes made like vnto
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Let them awake from their dullness, sluggishness, and incogitancy, and raise up their endeavours, not to take any irregular courses for their own relief, contrary to the law of nations concerning captives, but to use all likely means to recommend themselves to the favour of the conqueror and make an interest with him.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Phoenicians greatly flourished there, and gave their colony the name of Hispalis, which it remained content with till the Romans came and called the town Julia Romula, and Julius Caesar fenced it with the strong walls which the Moorish conquerors, after the
Familiar Spanish Travels
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The conquerors believed in crushing the defeated people into submission , knowing that they could not win their loyalty by the victory.
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That conqueror of circumstances will, the dullest soul may begin predicting, return on his cockhorse to favour and authority.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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On the mainland, during the first years, conquerors ruled with the titles of adelantado, governor or captain-general.
B. Administration
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William the Conqueror at this time, the Saxon was permitted to shoot birds and small beasts in his fields and therefore was allowed to use a blunt arrow, headed with a lead tip or pilum, hence our term pile, or target point.
Hunting with the Bow and Arrow
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He was as splendid a brute — an adumbration of the splendid human conquerors and rulers, higher on the ladder of evolution, who have appeared in other times and places.
CHAPTER X
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North Light has been ante-post favourite for the race, although there has been considerable market for Grey Swallow, his conqueror in the Irish Derby.
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I had a school friend whose family traced their descent and their identity even further, back to William the Conqueror.
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They were very near to a village called Arbela; and on the fortieth day after, he came himself with his whole army: and as the enemy sallied out boldly upon him, the left wing of his army gave way; but he appearing with a body of men, put those to flight who were already conquerors, and recalled his men that ran away.
Antiquities of the Jews
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Greece was ceasing to be an unconnected crowd of little separate communities; unconsciously it was preparing itself for a larger destiny, that of conqueror and civiliser of East and West.
A Short History of Greek Philosophy
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How strange a contrast to the triumphal entry of ancient warriors and conquerors into the cities which they had taken!
Christianity Today
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Robert the Devil from the top of his tower falls in love with the laundrywoman bleaching linen on the green, and in natural course William the Conqueror sees the light of day. '
Border Ghost Stories
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In that dreary climate, instead of the animated picture of a Tartar camp, the smoke that issues from the earth, or rather from the snow, betrays the subterraneous dwellings of the Tongouses, and the Samoides: the want of horses and oxen is imperfectly supplied by the use of reindeer, and of large dogs; and the conquerors of the earth insensibly degenerate into a race of deformed and diminutive savages, who tremble at the sound of arms.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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On this occasion, the vague appellation of Thule is applied to England; and the new Varangians were a colony of English and Danes who fled from the yoke of the Norman conqueror.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Iberian gates excluded the horsemen of Scythia from the shortest and most practicable roads, and the whole front of the mountains was covered by the rampart of Gog and Magog, the long wall which has excited the curiosity of an Arabian caliph and a Russian conqueror.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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A short truce was obtained; but their mutual resentment again kindled; and the remembrance of their shame rendered the next encounter more desperate and bloody Forty thousand of the Barbarians perished in the decisive battle, which broke the power of the Gepidae, transferred the fears and wishes of Justinian, and first displayed the character of Alboin, the youthful prince of the Lombards, and the future conqueror of Italy.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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58 The humble title of emir was no longer suitable to the Ottoman greatness; and Bajazet condescended to accept a patent of sultan from the caliphs who served in Egypt under the yoke of the Mamalukes: 59 a last and frivolous homage that was yielded by force to opinion; by the Turkish conquerors to the house of Abbas and the successors of the Arabian prophet.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Being an honest man himself, he probably believes in the honesty of his friends, and supports them with a certain pertinacity which is a characteristic quality of his, better perhaps in the conqueror of the South than the President of the nation ....
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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The inhabitants of these villages, but particularly the Indians, hold in veneration the zamang del Guayre, which the first conquerors found almost in the same state in which it now remains.
Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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Alexander lived a life more soaringly worthy of his own propaganda than any other conqueror in history and did not even have to die before becoming a figure of myth.
The Greatest of Them All
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His early career brought him firmly within the English orbit: he was educated at Henry I's court and became earl of Huntingdon in 1113 through his marriage to Matilda, a great-niece of William the Conqueror.
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The alliance wrong-foots the opposition who are not expecting a power on the brink of elimination to switch sides to its conqueror.
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In Africa the last flood of Germanic invasions spent itself within hearing of the last gasp of Byzantium, and it was through Africa that Islam came to play its great rôle of conqueror and civilizer.
DARKWATER
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A slave girl from Dahomey now Benin, she is sent along on a mission to ransom the daughter of the last Islamic King of Granada from the Spanish conquerors.
The Enterprise of Death
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Difficulties that check others fall away from him; he is smiled upon for his kindred's sake before he makes friends for his own; the world is overkind to his virtues and blind to his faults; he enters manhood indeed as "of one our conquerors"; and it will cost him some trouble to throw away his advantages.
England's Effort: Letters to an American Friend
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Babur may have been descended from brutal conquerors, but he was not a barbarian bent on loot and plunder.
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Pakistani intelligence and agents for an American pipeline firm appear to be the puppet masters as the two men become caught up in a clash between the would-be conqueror and an ally who betrays him.
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We shall never yield to a conqueror.
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Then we started the drive through the bocage of Normandy, the maze of fields, hedges and ditches William the Conqueror shaped to slow down German tanks and Ford Cortinas.
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The conqueror tried to make the natives abjure their religion.
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The challenge of dislodging the conquerors would be extreme and casualties massive.
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For what is the very name Apollyon, but an occult prophecy concerning the great conqueror of Europe! nothing can be plainer!
Weighed and Wanting
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Egyptian "fellaheen" have submitted passively to a long series of conquerors, albeit this passivity has been occasionally broken by outbursts of volcanic fury presently dying away into passivity once more.
The New World of Islam
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All history is a lie," observed Sir Robert Walpole, the corruptionist, mindfull of what was likely to be written about himself; and "What is history," asked Napoleon, the conqueror, "but a fable agreed upon?
Marse Henry : an autobiography,
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Until 1773, at about the time the Spanish conquerors arrived, Antigua had been the capital of Guatemala.
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The Conqueror's bishops in Normandy included his half-brother, Odo of Bayeux, and several of high baronial rank.
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In the eleventh century, the prospect was again clouded by new enemies and new misfortunes: the relics of Italy were swept away by the Norman adventures; and almost all the Asiatic branches were dissevered from the Roman trunk by the Turkish conquerors.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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It had been there, in that city founded a millennium ago, that Islam fashioned a civilization, made its peace with the world, outwitted and outwaited conquerors.
Egypt's 'Heroes With No Names'
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His admission to the National Convention resulted from an electoral mix-up, when electors from the Oise nominated "Bourdon, substitute procureur at Paris and one of the conquerors of the Bastille.
Names
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He is addressed as a king possessed of all essential graces, as a conqueror exalted on the throne of a righteous and eternal government, and as a bridegroom arrayed in nuptial splendor.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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So, although the Hun was a great conqueror, he was riding a tiger.
Attila the Hun
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Nobody remains untransformed by this contact, not displaced Native Americans, not enslaved Africans, and not even the apparent conquerors, the European colonists.
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The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went.
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“Chechen,” most experts agreed, was a term chosen by Russian colonists after the name of a local village that, ironically, bore the name of thirteenth century Mongol conqueror.
The Return
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By way of a plot summary, News From Nowhere is also a story about a would-be conqueror who fails in his inchoate mission, specifically, an Argentine loner on the lam, arriving illegally by boat on Montauk's shores.
Michael Vazquez: Warhol Factory Auteur Paul Morrissey Premieres News From Nowhere In-Person at Lincoln Center Tonight
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As a mosque, its Christian symbols were plastered over or painted over, its outward appearance was transformed to better suit the culture of its conquerors (its cross removed, 4 minarets erected) and though it is said that the Ottoman pashas periodically lifted off the plaster to check on the covered mosaics, that is largely irrelevant.
Comment on: The English Bible has made us
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And I always found in others, as well as in myself, that a first passion thoroughly subdued, made the conqueror of it a rover; the conqueress a tyrant.
Clarissa Harlowe
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These were no doubt portraitures of both heaven and earth, over which he, as their conqueror, was given all power.
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Founded by William the Conqueror, the fine motte and bailey castle was popular with medieval monarchs, some of whom used it as a royal hunting lodge.
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Back in Conqueror they all heard the unforgettable impact of the strike and knew their torpedoes had hit something.
ONE HUNDRED DAYS
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At Goodwood, Dolores will doubtless start at short odds to open her winning account in the Conqueror Stakes.
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The conquerors depopulated the enemy's country by destruction and expulsion.
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I lead a parasitic life upon you, for my highest flight of ambitious ideality is to become your conqueror, and go down into history as such, you and I rolled in one another's arms and silent (or rather loquacious still) in one death-grapple of an embrace.
Familiar Letters of William James III
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Francisco de Orellana was born around 1511 to a prominent family in the hardscrabble region of Spain known as Extremadura, home to a flotilla of other explorers, including Hernán Cortés, Vasco Núñez de Balboa and Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of the Incas.
Escaping The Rainforest
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In the twelfth century, the great Kurdish conqueror Saladin built the Citadel, a fortress on a hill above Cairo, using the labor of captured Crusaders.
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His conqueror's mask, all hard planes and ironclad determination, warned her she would win no concessions on that front.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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By this also a man may understand when it is that men may be said to be conquered; and in what the nature of conquest, and the right of a conqueror consisteth: for this submission is it implieth them all.
Leviathan
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But the daughter of Theodosius submitted, without reluctance, to the desires of the conqueror, a young and valiant prince, who yielded to Alaric in loftiness of stature, but who excelled in the more attractive qualities of grace and beauty.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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With musical accompaniment from the Conqueror Wyrms and the Plasma Miasma.
Boing Boing: March 6, 2005 - March 12, 2005 Archives
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William the Conqueror and Queen Elizabeth gave huge grants of land in England and Ireland to their freebooting military commanders.
In the Realm of Peers
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The conqueror shall take a pride in exalting him that is low and abasing him that is high, preferring some and degrading others, at his pleasure, without any regard either to right or merit.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Now the heavy hand of war dealt equal woe and counterchange of death; in even balance conquerors and conquered slew and fell; nor one nor other knows of retreat.
The Aeneid of Virgil
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When William the Conqueror (William I) and his Norman army conquered England in 1066, the three English earldoms of Chester, Shrewsbury, and Hereford were established on the border with Wales.
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As a trance medium he is unparalleled, able to ‘Spout’ at will the messages beamed into his head from vast numbers of discorporate spirits, demons, dear departed, crazed saints, mystics and conquerors of ancient history including Cerinthus the Mad Gnostic, actual author of the Book of Revelation!
The Book of the SubGenius
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The invasion was led by William the Conqueror.
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How monotonously alike all the great tyrantsand conquerors have been : how gloriously different are the saints.
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Filmed on location in castles and churches, at the sites of coronations, battles and murders, the series brings to life the colourful characters of Edward the Confessor and William the Conqueror among others.
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They were declared vassals of the empire; but the emperor, Henry III., discontented with these feudatory conquerors, engaged Leo IX. to launch the excommunication at the head of an army of Germans.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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William the Conqueror was the first Norman King of England.
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They were smaller stature than their Celtic conquerors and were probably driven from all the best areas to live before finally being wiped out.
The Sun
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One of the pupils, Count zur Lippe, whose name was Hermann, was called "Arminius," in memory of the conqueror of Varus.
The Story of My Life
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Egypt, and, to make them conquerors, he did not suffer them to have their breakfasts until they had run a hundred and eighty stadia, which is about eight of our long leagues.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Kim Huybrechts also caused a shock to put out the giant-killer James Richardson, the conqueror of five-times winner Raymond van Barneveld in the first round.
Phil Taylor slumps to shock defeat in World Darts Championship
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_feud_, _i. e._ a stipendiary estate; the other _allodium_, the phrase applied to that species of property which had become vested by allotment in the conquerors of the country.
Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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In previous centuries, conquerors were known to pillage, loot, rape and burn.
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In the latest salvo, the country's Foreign Ministry said it "rejected the British attempt to militarise the conflict" and expressed regret that an heir to the throne would arrive wearing "the uniform of a conqueror".
Prince William arrives in the Falkland Islands
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The conquered had to render tribute to the conqueror.
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Before dusk they had come, galloping boldly up to the hall in the manner befitting conquerors, to demand the surrender of the town.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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I suppose all conquerors have to be of that rather hard grain.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Tacitus (a historian in Roman) tells us that in the time of Agricola, the Britons who were unfriendly toward the language of their conquerors, now became eager to speak it.
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On some level, I think HH is the conqueror, and Lolita is his new land … he ravages and pillages her in fine European tradition, and yet he fails to understand either what he is trying to get from her, or what she is actually giving him.
Reading Lolita « Tales from the Reading Room
