No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself. From LearnThat.org. [Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887).]
They yield the obedience which the conqueror is entitled to exact from the conquered. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign and Colonial News] Reference
David, a great warrior and conqueror, is not permitted to build the Temple; it is his son. From Wordnik.com. [Elie Wiesel - Nobel Lecture] Reference
A conqueror is a determined player who takes a million men for chips and the whole world for baize. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
Perhaps a conqueror is riding home from battle – and they are hanging them out to do honour to him. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Valley] Reference
It is for this that he is called the conqueror of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
Uzziah as the king, who was known as the conqueror of Eloth. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
On his march towards Bagdad, the conqueror was arrested by a fever. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Norman the conqueror was a French Viking type from Normandy of course. From Wordnik.com. [Old Bitter Balls] Reference
I have heard some fine verses, I can assure you, monseigneur, in which you are called the conqueror of Turenne. From Wordnik.com. [English Satires] Reference
The only prize given to the conqueror was a garland of wild olive; but this was valued as one of the dearest distinctions in life. From Wordnik.com. [A Smaller history of Greece From the earliest times to the Roman conquest] Reference
Great, it became one of Will's standing maxims that the only difference between a robber and a conqueror was the value of the prize. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
All the aristocracies of the Middle Ages were founded by military conquest: the conqueror was the noble, the vanquished became the serf. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series Two] Reference
A worm of the dust can be called a conqueror in death!. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Rev. Dandridge F. Davis, of the African M. E. Church. With a Brief Account of His Conversion and Ministerial Labors, from August 1834, till March 1847. Also, a Brief Sketch of the Life of the Rev. David Conyou, of the A. M. E. C. and His Ministerial Labors. To Which Is Annexed the Funeral Discourse Delivered at the Ohio Conference, in Zanesville, on the Decease of the Rev. D. F. Davis, by the Author.] Reference
Superpower messiah syndrome is a very dangerous thing for both "conqueror" and "conquered"!. From Wordnik.com. ["Unconquerable Afghans": What the Globe and Mail] Reference
Superpower messiah syndrome is a very dangerous thing for both "conqueror" and "conquered"!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Soviets and NATO in Afghanistan] Reference
The distribution of prizes is thus recorded, Dr. Norbury being apparently the "conqueror:". From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849] Reference
Slowly but surely he was being lured by that all mighty conqueror which is commonly known as sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Forgotten Children...] Reference
He sacrificed thousands of lives in furtherance of his own ambition; but, he is a "conqueror," bless you!. From Wordnik.com. [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference
What kind of conqueror takes such care to draft contracts to keep up the appearance that no conquest is taking place?. From Wordnik.com. [How the Indians Lost Their Land] Reference
The conqueror is the occupying power. From Wordnik.com. [Taiwan: Search for a Non-Chinese Identity] Reference
Rufus the conqueror is the king of New York. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 15, 2006] Reference
"conqueror" in Farsi and Arabic, is equipped with a high accuracy guidance control system. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
Kublai Khan was a conqueror of boundless appetite. From Wordnik.com. [ARCHEOLOGY: 'THE BAY WAS PACKED WITH SHIPS'] Reference
A man never should kneel unless sure of rising a conqueror. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A man never should kneel unless sure of rising a conqueror. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The conqueror asks where he could spread out his prayer rug. From Wordnik.com. [Islam's Encounters With America] Reference
P. Scipio is the elder Scipio Africanus, the conqueror of Hannibal. From Wordnik.com. [C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino] Reference
Yet Mongolmatur fears a foe as deadly as the 13th-century conqueror. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Tippling] Reference
Victory, or the conditions imposed by the conqueror -- must be the result. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
An entirely different type of conqueror also profoundly affected these Mediterranean lands. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Wagler: Ancient Empires and Conquerors: Reflections on my recent trip to Turkey, Greece and Italy] Reference
East of the Tanais (an ancient name for the Don), in the lost city of Asgard, lived a great conqueror named Odin. From Wordnik.com. [In Search Of The Gods] Reference
More lastingly, the airlift transformed the United States from Germany's conqueror to the protector of its people. From Wordnik.com. ['Like Music To Our Ears'] Reference
The Mezquita is a record of frequent invasions, as each conqueror wants to leave his own mark on the architecture. From Wordnik.com. [Alla Kazovsky: A Mosque From "Live-by-Design" Prospective] Reference
Nov. 5: 'Alexander': Colin Farrell reveals his blond ambition (and silky gams) as the conqueror in Oliver Stone's epic. From Wordnik.com. [UP NEXT] Reference
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