How To Use Vanquish In A Sentence

He did not flinch as the verdict was read to a hushed court - and his hopes of divine intervention were vanquished.
To the victors our sincere congratulations, to the vanquished our equally sincere commiserations.
Sometimes indeed their young warriors closed in with us, and were as often vanquished; but they never failed to repay us fourfold from a safe distance. Life in the Rocky Mountains
Because she vanquishes such devitalizing influences single-handedly, however, this heroine's 'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_
They felt government bureaucracy had vanquished the muses. A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945

The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
Every single one had to be vanquished, killed, destroyed, obliterated, and dead.
And because they doubted, that the Volscians would not easely be perswaded thereunto, beinge so oft vanquished and ill intreated, they excogitated some other newe occasion. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Both were possessed of massive majorities in Parliament and both believed the opposition to be a spent force, vanquished to the political shadowlands.
Not being able to vanquish what he called my obstinacy, Maisons begged me at the least to go and fix myself upon the Quai de la Megisserie, where so much old iron is sold, and examine from that spot the tower where the will was; he pointed it out to me; it looked out upon the Quai des Morforidus, but was behind the buildings on the quai. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
He did this by calling a special party conference where he vanquished his opponents. Times, Sunday Times
On March 31st there was a violent quarrel between the women of two settlements, and the “reguli” embarked with all their host, to fight it out; Rampano was the victor, and after the usual palaver the vanquished was compelled to pay a heavy fine. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
But it so chanced, that Bello's crafts, one by one meeting the foe, in most cases found the canoes of Vivenza much larger than their own; and manned by more men, with hearts bold as theirs; whence, in the ship - duels that ensued, they were worsted; and the canoes of Vivenza, locking their yard-arms into those of the vanquished, very courteously gallanted them into their coral harbors. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
Neuerthelesse, desirous to vanquishe his indurate affections, he continued abroade for a certaine time, during whiche space, vnable to quenche the fire, he led a more desolate and troublesome life, then he did before. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
The tamer and subduer of monsters and tyrants, Hercules (vanquished by the snares of loue), did not he handle the distaffe in stead of his mightie mace? The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Even if you plan to put out feelers for other jobs, dedicate yourself to vanquishing your abuser, not being a victim.
“Something that will convince me not to vanquish your butts or call the paddy wagon,” Paige said. The Queen’s Curse
He vanquished all demigods, and expelled them from heaven.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized.
Unfortunately, he wasn't quick enough to prevent the garrot from taking hold around his neck-but even then, he was far from vanquished. Addicts
The liter and its fractions have vanquished quarts, pints, and gallons, while the pound is still holding its own in things such as produce.
In the height of his prosperity, the victorious monarch, who had chastised the rashness of Gallus, and suppressed the revolt of Sylvanus, who had taken the diadem from the head of Vetranio, and vanquished in the field the legions of Magnentius, received from an invisible hand a wound, which he could neither heal nor revenge; and the son of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The V - 12 Vanquish is built around a central monocoque of bonded and riveted extruded aluminum sections attached to a large carbon fiber transmission tunnel.
Our new owners are coming in like the Cavalry with sabers drawn, ready to vanquish the enemy.
He's out of ammo and doomed for sure, and there's 15 guys on him, and he vanquishes them all with his will and might.
This seems to me to be the sense: the rod of the exactor shall not depart from Judah, until his Son shall come to whom belongs the subduing and breaking of the people; for he shall vanquish them all with the edge of his sword. From the Talmud and Hebraica
Distressed Duenna, on whose behalf I bear a message to your highness, which is that your magnificence will be pleased to grant her leave and permission to come and tell you her trouble, which is one of the strangest and most wonderful that the mind most familiar with trouble in the world could have imagined; but first she desires to know if the valiant and never vanquished knight, Don Don Quixote
The points are still there, and enemies are still vanquishable, but the goal now is to finish the games so that we can see and hear the narrative of the story.
Researchers may also better understand the forces that vanquished the Ice Age ecosystem.
BBC One is attempting to locate and vanquish the villain responsible.
Later patriotic estimates had 20,000 Scots vanquishing 100,000 English: the true figures were probably nearer 8,000 to 24,000-many of the latter being Welsh or Gascon.
It is a moral contest in which Satan is vanquished, and the liberation of his subjects is the consequence of his own subdual .
Evidence from researchers at Hull University suggests many people benefit from relaxation therapy, hypnotherapy and guided imagery in which patients are taught to visualise their bodies' defences vanquishing tumours.
There is nothing more demoralizing to the torturer, or more inspiring to the enemy he seeks to torture, than the sight of the tortured dying with a smile or even a blessing, physically broken but mentally unvanquished.
American history tends to be hagiographic in nature, building images of men like Washington and Lincoln as two dimensional ‘men in white hats’, sent by God himself to vanquish the forces of evil.
Neverthelesse I finding him once of a good humour and on the point of honnour encourages his son to break the kettle and take the hattchett and to be gon to the forraigne nations, and that was of courage and of great renowne to see the father of one parte and the son of another part, & that he should not mispraise if he should seperat from him, but that it was the quickest way to make the world tremble, & by that means have liberty everywhere by vanquishing the mortall enemy of his nation; uppon this I venture to aske him what I was. Voyages of Peter Esprit Radisson
After the guys vanquish the demon, the FBI agent realizes they were telling the truth and prepares to release them, but Ruby (guest star Katie Cassidy) shows up to a warn Sam and Dean that the jailhouse is surrounded by a band of demons with a powerful new leader who wants Sam dead. Supernatural: Jus in Bello Description : SF Universe - SF Universe is your Science Fiction central. From SciFi television to movies to books and more. All the latest news, reviews and insights from SciFi experts.
Are we blood-hungry Democrats eager to vanquish our enemies and hear the lamentations of their women, or are we a bunch of soft-middled hipster know-it-alls who listen to This American Life and sip herb tea? Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low
As time goes on, it's become clear that he sees his role less as making sure our soldiers vanquish the enemy than making sure he vanquishes the press and the straw men he puts so much rhetorical energy into creating.
CIUTTI: No he visto hombre I have never seen a man de corazón más audaz; with a more audacious heart ni halla riesgo que le espante who never finds a risk he fears ni encuentra dificultad nor finds a single problem que al empeñarse en vencer he'll not attempt to vanquish le haga un punto vacilar. or that makes him halt a moment. Don Juan Tenorio
[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso verò die tertiæ feriæ dum sic in superbia et elatione suæ multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
He bestrode the worlds of scientific research and education with a zeal that even death could not vanquish.
He said the Health Service Reform would be achieved in a way that would not result in victors or vanquished.
As Jane Austen tells it, it is a conflict of battleaxe versus rapier with the old battleaxe comprehensively vanquished.
As the possibility of critical engagement hangs in the balance, he sits at the bar, unvanquished, formulating the next, undoubtedly entertaining, undoubtedly confounding, postproduction for our consumption.
Such prattle demonstrates an inability and indeed an unwillingness to contemplate the affects of combat on the victor as well as the vanquished.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
Wielding his mighty blade, he is the redeemer of souls and the vanquisher of Satan.
The temptation is to wage war on stupidity as if it were a vanquishable object.
As the nation flexed its full military might overseas for the first time, he joined 4.7 million Americans in uniform and was among 2 million U.S. troops shipped to France to vanquish the German kaiser. Last U.S. World War I veteran Frank W. Buckles dies at 110
One might think of them as a trophies, as those of her vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
Medicine (1991) - Alan Kligerman, deviser of digestive deliverance, vanquisher of vapor, and inventor of Beano, for his pioneering work with anti-gas liquids that prevent bloat, gassiness, discomfort and embarrassment. Celebrating Silly Science Since 1991
As at least three art historians allege, St. George never vanquished a dragon, as legend asserts.
Whatever the outcome expect little more than a score or two to separate victors and vanquished at the end.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
One might think of them as a trophies, as those of her vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
It was an act of self-defense in the face of blood-curdling threats to vanquish the Jewish state, not to mention the maritime blockade of the Straits of Tiran, the abrupt withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces, and the redeployment of Egyptian and Syrian troops. David Harris: Why History Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Then came the Son of God in time when man was vanquished of ignorance and impuissance. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
He was born at Vulsinii, son to Sejus Strabo, a Roman knight; in his early youth, he was a follower of Caius Caesar (grandson of Augustus) and lay then under the contumely of having for hire exposed himself to the constupration of Apicius; a debauchee wealthy and profuse: next by various artifices he so enchanted Tiberius, that he who to all others was dark and unsearchable, became to Sejanus alone destitute of all restraint and caution: nor did he so much accomplish this by any superior efforts of policy (for at his own stratagems he was vanquished by others) as by the rage of the Gods against the Roman State, to which he proved alike destructive when he flourished and when he fell. The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola
This in turn led to the aesthetics of expressionism, and also to the emergence of gnostic theosophy, which similarly sought to controvert nihilism rather than allow the human will to be vanquished.
Billions die, but the titular American heroes remain unvanquished.
His chief general staff , Ilker Basbug, has repeatedly said that firepower alone cannot vanquish the PKK.
Arguments are used constructively to clarify issues, not to vanquish opponents.
Having ordered silence, he said that the bough should be my prize, if I vanquished {537} the Egyptian -- but that if he conquered me, he should kill me with a sword. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
He will inspire us with his own story, the story of the World Bank, which represents the collective good will of the industrialized West, atoning for centuries of colonialism by working to vanquish poverty from the developing world.
Defeat at Trafalgar ended any hope of maritime supremacy for France, and thus any realistic hope of vanquishing the British, but Napoleon continued to steamroller his continental opponents.
This time the vanquished vessel was the French submarine _Mariotte_, which, on July 26, 1915, was sunk by a torpedo from a German submarine in the waters right near the entrance to the Dardanelles. The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 12) Neuve Chapelle, Battle of Ypres, Przemysl, Mazurian Lakes
Within the philosophy of mind, an eliminativist materialism is the most radical form of materialism as it further posits that mental states (e.g., desire, hope) are not real, do not truly exist, but rather are artifacts of a "folk psychology," artifacts that neuroscience and other purportedly pure scientific disciplines will some day, at some more enlightened point in the future, vanquish. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
Or even today, the new Aston Martin Vanquish has switchgear from the cheaper Ford lines.
He did this by calling a special party conference where he vanquished his opponents. Times, Sunday Times
His battle with cancer seemed to add death itself to his list of vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
Yet I was left wanting even more fly-on-the-wall detail of exactly how Boeing vanquished not only a redesigned Comet, but also Douglas's competing DC-8 jetliner. Shrinking the World
In 2001, when the Swedish Academy awarded Sir Vidia Naipaul the Nobel prize in literature, it described him as the heir to Joseph Conrad: "The annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings … the memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished. The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief by VS Naipaul
But with a little purple paint and a heavy dose of whimsy, the Paper Moon had vanquished the ptomaine ghosts of the previous regime. IN A STRANGE CITY
They forgot that the charge of "abolitionism," which was incessantly hurled at the Republican party, was thus by no means wanting in essential truth, and that when the slaveholders were vanquished in the election of Mr. Lincoln, their appeal from the ballot to the bullet was the logical result of their insane devotion to slavery, and their conviction that nothing could save it but the dismemberment of the Republic. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands. The Times Literary Supplement
It's all very well to speak of patriotism, of duty and of vanquishing the forces of evil when you're safe in a bunker thousands of miles away from the possibility of action.
How soothing it is, forsooth, to desire coolth and vanquish inadequate Brit warmth.
Barbara is gone; Moll is vanquished; I suppose I am now maîtresse en titre, but no one refers to me as such. Exit the Actress
Taking place on a cylindrical space station orbiting the Earth, Vanquish puts you in experimental body armour that lets you jet around the environment at high speed and upgrade the various weapons you pick up. This week's new games
His battle with cancer seemed to add death itself to his list of vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
If I stayed on a lonely island, I absolutely couldn't vanquish dangers.
One of those two points, the narrow yet yawning gap that separated the teams at the end, was scored by centre-forward Brian O'Meara, and he too paid fulsome tribute to the valiant vanquished.
On another occasion, 'to the great joy' of the narrator, an oppidan vanquished a colleger, though the colleger fought so furiously that he put his fingers out of joint, and went back to the classic studies that soften manners, with a face broken and quite black. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
A dinosaur roars over its vanquished foe. The Sun
In the weeks and months to come, we will hear the voices of well-meaning people beseeching the victor to compromise with the vanquished.
Hatred of the Count, mortified self - love, and the resolution to vanquish what he termed the whim of a peevish beauty, would inevitably have precipitated her into difficulties most disastrous, if happily the inconstancy of his nature had not in the end relieved her from his persecution. Rosamund, Countess of Clarenstein ...
The company has wasted no time setting up a redirect from the vanquished Petstore.com to its own site.
Imaginary rashes disappeared, ear infections dissolved, and all manner of fictitious itches, maladies and debilitating viruses were vanquished.
A book can be a collection of linked stories, or it can be an episodic novel whose chapters have sufficient unity to have been first published separately such as Faulkner's "The Unvanquished", and both are just dandy, but the form I call a congeries hovers somewhere in between. And the Term is . . . Congeries
Hours before Spectrum and its local partner, Vanquish wine merchants, were due to accept bids at a sale room in the Mandarin Oriental hotel, they released a statement saying they were withdrawing 13 lots from the auction, including a number of bottles with the Domaine de la Romanée-Conti label, due to "apparent label discrepancies. How to Be Sure the Wine Matches the Label
Finally, Christ will return, vanquishing the Anti-Christ and ushering in the thousand-year reign of Christ on Earth.
Medical technology has enabled scientific medicine to vanquish its rivals in the medical marketplace in the quest for patient patronage and health insurance funds.
Essentially, the whole country goes nuts for a week or two, until, as usual, we are vanquished with all the flummery of a re-enactment of 1066.
Grant me melody, O my God, to hymn and recite and honour the exploits of Thy passion -- endurer and martyr, that I may harmoniously laud the great in suffering (mentioned by name), who ever was the vanquisher of passions, great in piety and is now shining forth in the midst of the choir of martyrs, with whom and a multitude of angels, he doth incessantly hymn The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints
After the enemies were vanquished, however, the victors quarreled and their fundamental disagreements emerged.
Military heroes and the leaders of vanquished tribes often had this status conferred upon them by the ruling Inca.
The presence of these armaments in the hands of civilian officers has disabled any last thought that the fabled Posse Comitatus Act might save the populace from the deadly force designed to vanquish foreign armies.
One reason imperialism is so discredited in postimperial times is that, contrary to the old saw, history has often been written not by the victors but by the vanquished—or at least by those who tell the story from the vantage of their aggrieved, often enslaved forebears. The Great Experiment
One might think of them as a trophies, as those of her vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
And, therefore, the present filling the imagination more, reason is commonly vanquished; but after that force of eloquence and persuasion hath made things future and remote appear as present, then upon the revolt of the imagination reason prevaileth. The Advancement of Learning
From Women's Liberation to Gay Liberation, these groups pressed an unvanquished claim to a share of the good life.
It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
It was used, by armies led by aristocrats against longbows, rifled muskets, and even by a King of Sparta, who, when shown the huge dart from then new catapult weapons exclaimed “woe to the virtuous, ... all valor is now vanquished, and cowards shall rule better men”. The Volokh Conspiracy » Drone Warfare, the CIA, and Charlie Savage’s NYT Article
All my precautions were rendered fruitless, if I allowed her the time, the opportunity to betray me as often as she might choose, and if in the end she did return to me, I should never again be able to forget the time when she had been alone, and even if I won in the end, nevertheless in the past, that is to say irreparably, I should be the vanquished party. The Sweet Cheat Gone
Vanquished, he described the waves that day as 'the unridden realm', a term that has stuck. Times, Sunday Times
Its report, in the spring, is likely to demand radical change in relations between the rich and poor world if abject poverty is to be vanquished.
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?
War is… a destroyer and annihilator, in short, as an evil that strikes all, victor as well as vanquished.
The verdict of open and informed debate may leave more than one claimant to this title unvanquished by its rivals. The Times Literary Supplement
Frontinus, who vanquished and brought to the Romane subiection by force of armes the people called Silures, striuing not onelie against the stout resistance of the men, but also with the hardnesse & combersome troubles of the places. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
But while vanquishing the enemy on the field of battle is necessary, it is not sufficient.
Concrete pillboxes stand as if abandoned only hours before, huge guns still point to sea covering narrow deepwater channels, and everywhere is the detritus of a vanquished army.
In the left foreground, we see the vanquished deer hanging from a branch, its head lolling sideways on the ground. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education
It could have been an act of hostility to a vanquished foe, but more likely it was an act of respect to a departed relative. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
While the Chechen resistance remains unvanquished, its political position is weak.
For as long as anyone can remember, Indonesian supporters have been infamous, rabid in their encouragement of winners and cruel in their criticism of the vanquished.
A dinosaur roars over its vanquished foe. The Sun
[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Gaining the prize requires vanquishing your opponents, and your strength is inversely proportional to theirs.
They discussed the neuroscientific and the behavioural, the syntactical and the imaginative, declared illiteracy to be utterly vanquishable, and showed why some teaching methodology works best.
Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease. Chasing an Iron Horse Or, A Boy's Adventures in the Civil War
He did this by calling a special party conference where he vanquished his opponents. Times, Sunday Times
In ancient Rome, emperors would divine truth by reading the entrails of animals or vanquished foes.
The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
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His battle with cancer seemed to add death itself to his list of vanquished foes. Times, Sunday Times
There is no way to "vanquish" them except by means of temporary abatement. The Hurting
Both had given heart and soul and a lot more besides to win the match and yet one was the victor and the other vanquished.
Little evidence suggests that Jesse James robbed from the rich and gave to the poor, or that he espoused lofty social ideals, but his folklore image as an unvanquished hero of the defeated South endured.
A happy ending is only possible because the hero has first vanquished the dragons.
The vanquished, if they are lucky, escape abroad or putter away their remaining years in dacha gardens. Challenge Match
'Frederick,' an attempt (still in the way of youth - 16 rather than 60!) to vanquish by sheer force the immense masses of incondite or semi-condite rubbish which had accumulated on 'Frederick,' that is, to let the Printer straightway drive me through it! Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
“So farre as I vnderstand, all ye do mutine and grudge, because I (being vanquished with Loue) cannot be deuided nor yet content my selfe day nor night, from the presence of this Greeke. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
As the night falls, darkness vanquishes his faculties and he yearns for some safe haven to hide therein.
The English still had to reckon with the determined Abenaki tribes in the north, and the yet unvanquished, perennial French enemy in Canada.
Bankrolled by Texan billionaire Allen Stanford, the tournament came in for heavy criticism, with former England and Wales Cricket Board chief Lord McLaurin calling the megabucks final, in which the Superstars walked off with one million US dollars a man and a vanquished England nothing, "obscene" and a "pantomime". TrinidadExpress Today's News
The guest panel judges the menus to determine who is victorious and who is vanquished.
Our new owners are coming in like the Cavalry with sabers drawn, ready to vanquish the enemy.
Silence prevailed, but then the enormity of his achievement hit the unvanquished soul.
Because Arab invaders did not vanquish the Basques, the Spanish Crown considered them hidalgos, or noblemen.
'Yes, Sir,' cried Eugenia, 'your kind task is now completed with your vanquished Eugenia! her thoughts, her occupations, her happiness, shall henceforth all be centred in filial gratitude and contentment.' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
He tagged on the extras, but it proved little more than consolation for the vanquished outfit.
It's hard to get too excited for the England boys when they've just vanquished a team that can barely bowl overarm.
In this way, peace settlements have become increasingly interventionist into the social and political forms of the vanquished.
Your eyes do not deceive you: Those are leather shin guards, and she is obviously the lead in a local burlesque show entitled "Buffy The Vampire Player," about a ragtag ream of rebels that vanquishes the undead through intense field-hockey games. GoFugYourself
Lemonade so gentle and fresh-tasting, so unvanquished by overloads of sugar, that you can smell the faint perfume of citrus rind as you bend over your straw.
On March 31st there was a violent quarrel between the women of two settlements, and the "reguli" embarked with all their host, to fight it out; Rampano was the victor, and after the usual palaver the vanquished was compelled to pay a heavy fine. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1
A dinosaur roars over its vanquished foe. The Sun
Audiences in Bombay's derelict Art-Deco cinema halls often hoot and whistle when their hero vanquishes a villain.
Frontinus, who vanquished and brought to the Romane subiection by force of armes the people called Silures, striuing not onelie against the stout resistance of the men, but also with the hardnesse & combersome troubles of the places. Chronicles (1 of 6): The Historie of England (4 of 8) The Fovrth Booke Of The Historie Of England
Both had given heart and soul and a lot more besides to win the match and yet one was the victor and the other vanquished.
Life appears to vanquish the hope and ideals of all men, dragging in its train even the greatest, like Plato, Alexander, or Napoleon.
But behind those walls the human spirit is unvanquished.
To such Republicans unity is the togetherness of the master and the servant, the victor and the vanquished.
He started his career at a time when many of the vanquished diseases and illnesses of today were still killers.
In fact chivalry has been defined as the interpenetration of Christianity into the practice of arms: the chivalrous knight of the Middle Ages was not only a brave and skilful fighter, ready whenever occasion arose to reveal his prowess on the field of battle, but also he stood for utter chastity, for a high standard of honor, for the protection of the defenseless and the weak, and for mercy and humanity to a vanquished foe. Chivalry in the British Empire
You will storm that great fortress which men call impregnable -- you will storm it and you will vanquish it; and you will come home crowned with glory and honour! French and English A Story of the Struggle in America
Uncertainty vanquishes notions of exclusivity and superiority.
On a grimmer note, a previously unsuspected enemy - the Soviet Union, now bent on spreading communism worldwide - replaced the foes that had just been vanquished on the battlefield.
There is not one single facet of your personality or perception of yourself that is left unvanquished.
And she answered: Son, attemper thy wrath and tarry a little, I have a true servant and a noble fighter against the vices, which shall run over all and vanquish the world, and subdue them under thy signory, and I shall give to them another servant into his help that shall fight as he doth. The Golden Legend, vol. 4
The mantes are terrible fighters, too, and if there is a meeting between two of them, there is very apt to be a battle in which one is vanquished and devoured by the other. The Insect Folk
But while vanquishing the enemy on the field of battle is necessary, it is not sufficient.
The forces of good and evil in the world have strengths and weaknesses such that neither side can vanquish the other.
Q : Aston Martin call it the Vanquish, we call it the Vanish.
If I stayed on a lonely island, I absolutely couldn't vanquish dangers.
But with a little purple paint and a heavy dose of whimsy, the Paper Moon had vanquished the ptomaine ghosts of the previous regime. IN A STRANGE CITY
It shows the national hero traumatized and self-doubting, and vanquished by forces he never quite understands.
The Mughals had vanquished the Hindu rulers who had flourished since the time of the Yadavas.
Roger vanquished his enemies and claimed his dukedom.
It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
The annual festival, marking the day when Goddess Parvati presented a weapon to Murugan to vanquish a demon army, celebrates the victory of good over evil. Asia in Pictures
If one recalls the admonishments of the book that is adhered to by this fellow, one must recall that there are indications that the believer! should not attack another territory with the purpose of vanquishing them as enemies without first allowing them the opportunity to convert to Islam. WARNING - New Osama Bin Laden video
Clearly our current spirit of neopatriotism cannot vanquish the old bogyman of racism in America.
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
The object of these Sovfilm productions was to celebrate an unvanquished popular spirit emerging from ruined buildings and lives.
Appreciation of successful opponents and consideration for the vanquished can be made effectually to supplant the cheap, blatant spirit which seeks to attribute one's defeat to trickery and chance and uses one's victory as an occasion for bemeaning the vanquished. The Minister and the Boy A Handbook for Churchmen Engaged in Boys' Work
They on the other part make as stout resistance; and perceiuing that it stood them vpon, either to vanquish or to fall into vtter ruine, they raise a mightie strong host, and make Edgar Etheling their capteine, a comelie gentleman and Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6) England (1 of 12) William the Conqueror
Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is below even defeat, and is born vanquished.
A gracious olive branch from the victor to the vanquished: this will be a family that heals rifts. Times, Sunday Times
Rain had been falling for hours, never relenting from its seemingly unending source that refused to vanquish.
I'm optimistic that we can vanquish polio forever if other countries choose to learn from India's success. Bill Gates: India Marks a Milestone for Child Health
It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove.
Can't we replace the vanquished with the courageous, the Chamberlains with the Churchills, the failed squatter with the successful farmer?
Napoleon was vanquished at the battle of Waterloo in 1815.
It is a perceptive account of life in an occupied city, in which victors and vanquished alike are corrupted and demoralized.
It certainly adds to the enjoyment, making the Vanquish an easier car to get to know.
The demand for quarters, seldom refused to a vanquished foe was at once found to be in vain. Red Coats and Rebels - the war for America 1770-1781
The sooner the world understands it, the sooner we will be able to vanquish these forces of evil.
For if one examine it carefully, against the king that trophy was set up, and the victress was vanquished, and the beheaded was crowned, and proclaimed victor, even after his death shaking more vehemently the hearts of the offenders. NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians
[Chronicon Hierosolymitanum, eodem libro 9.cap. l2.] continueth this historie of these two hundreth saile of ships, and sheweth how by their prowesse chiefly, the multitude of the Sarazens were in short space vanquished and ouerthrowen: The words are these; Ab ipso ver� die terti� feri� dum sic in superbia et elatione su� multitudinis immobiles Saraceni persisterent, et multis armorum terroribus Christianum populum vexarent, sexta feria appropinquante. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
A prophet assures the patient that the Holy Spirit has the capacity to vanquish whatever it is that is causing the disorder.
It could have been an act of hostility to a vanquished foe, but more likely it was an act of respect to a departed relative. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
In fact, word has it that the unbelieving William III even referred petitioners he turned away to his vanquished rivals.
In the left foreground, we see the vanquished deer hanging from a branch, its head lolling sideways on the ground. Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Higher Education

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