Aristotle was as great a subverter as Alexander; but the quasi-prophetical. From Wordnik.com. [The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi] Reference
Or he can forgive him, and fold under his wing an inveterate subverter of civilian command. From Wordnik.com. [David Bromwich: McChrystal, Obama, and Authority] Reference
Well, I call him something a great deal worse — an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
I haven't seen a show compete this hard for the coveted "best subverter of tropes" slot in my consciousness in years. From Wordnik.com. [LEVERAGE: The 13th Step is "Shut Up About It Already."] Reference
The great subverter of Pyrrhonism or the excessive principles of scepticism is action, and employment, and the occupations of common life. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Many will say turn away—away from this man, for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter and an enemy of the black man—and we will smile. From Wordnik.com. [HW Bio: Malcolm X «] Reference
Many will say turn away—away from this man; for he is not a man but a demon, a monster, a subverter and an enemy of the black man—and we will smile. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Before I had won the respect and command of the class, I allowed myself to be drawn into a graceless power struggle with the attention-seeking subverter. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Brown: The First Day of "The Great Expectations School"] Reference
Any who planned beforehand in order that no such measures should be necessary was a “subverter of the party” and was accused of being intimidated by the opposition. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Free Gaza” Activists’ Version of the Ship Incident] Reference
Lady Gaga: The outré songstress/fashion subverter pushed dress code boundaries this week at her sister's high school graduation (see-through lace pants) and at a New York Mets game (studded leather bikini). From Wordnik.com. [Tony Awards go Hollywood; January Jones's car trouble] Reference
Amyntas, king of Macedonia, father of Philip the subverter of Greek freedom. From Wordnik.com. [A Short History of Greek Philosophy] Reference
Well, I call him something a great deal worse -- an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!. From Wordnik.com. [Erema — My Father's Sin] Reference
As a subverter of public morals, however, the palm belongs, not to Yoshimitsu, but to his immediate successor, Yoshimochi. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era] Reference
I am not a subverter, nor a communist, nor a man of blood, nor a hater, nor intolerant, nor exclusive adorer of a system, or of. From Wordnik.com. [At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe] Reference
“I see a thousand builders unequal to one subverter; what then of the one builder who is followed by a thousand subverters?”. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of Divine Civilization] Reference
B.C., the subverter of the Chow dynasty, Shi Hwang-ti, promulgated the decree that all Confucian books, excepting the "Y-king", should be destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference
Morphed into a crusader who slays mythical beasts, he may have originally been a subverter of the empire represented by a dragon in the biblical book of Revelation. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
But, though the enchanter wove his spells to rouse the demon of fear, their one effect was to bring up once more, over against him, the defiant form of his arch-subverter. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain] Reference
The first minister of the Prussian crown was closeted once -- people say more than once, but that does not matter -- with the ablest subverter of the modern fabric of society. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
Blustery president, challenger of US influence in Latin America, and subverter of democratic norms, Mr. Chávez seeks counsel from Fidel Castro and mocks US presidents in public. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
The founder of a strange sect who declares that nothing is necessary but faith in a particular deity and that all ceremonies and caste observances are superfluous is not in the popular esteem a subverter of Hinduism. From Wordnik.com. [Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2] Reference
“Why couldn’t you build another subverter—or whatever it is you call it!”. From Wordnik.com. [The Best and The Brightest] Reference
"He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Nikky, subverter of all discipline. From Wordnik.com. [Long Live the King!] Reference
Government and its possible subverter. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Gordon, Volume I] Reference
Oh, vile subverter of the Gallic reign. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes] Reference
Nor great subverter of the Trojan tow'rs. From Wordnik.com. [The Aeneid English] Reference
Nor great subverter of the Trojan towrs. From Wordnik.com. [The Twelfth Book of the Aeneis] Reference
You vicious subverter of every decent thought!. From Wordnik.com. [Let That Be Your Last Battlefield] Reference
The great subverter of. From Wordnik.com. [An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding] Reference
Nor great subverter of the Trojan tow’rs. From Wordnik.com. [The AEneid] Reference
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