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  • Elena's mysterious evil is vanquished.†   (source)
  • When he finally stood in front of me, he held my hand tight and said, "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him."†   (source)
  • And then God's majesty had vanquished the darkness.†   (source)
  • The enemy were all vanquished or vanished.†   (source)
  • Let the end come, however cruel; at least then we'll know whether we are to be the victors or the vanquished.†   (source)
  • In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For, even though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around.†   (source)
  • ALBUS: The one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord approaches …†   (source)
  • When he rides in to vanquish the untouched tribes, don't you think they fall down with desire before those sky-colored eyes?†   (source)
  • The climax of the show was the "Attack on a Settler's Cabin," during which Indians who once had slaughtered soldiers and civilians alike staged a mock attack on a cabin full of white settlers, only to be vanquished yet again by Buffalo Bill and a company of cowboys firing blanks.†   (source)
  • How did storytellers get the idea that I vanquished Python so quickly?†   (source)
  • In the dim light he could see Leslie's face freeze into its most queenly pose—the kind of expression she usually reserved for vanquished enemies.†   (source)
  • I caught brief glimpses of world history in the making (high tea with vanquished Iraqi soldiers in the first Gulf War, ninety-proof vodka with Muscovites celebrating the fall of Communism, diving for cover in a Bosnian graveyard as a funeral procession came under attack) and I chased news across the United States (the eruption of Mount St. Helens in Washington state, the parade of presidential candidates through Iowa and New Hampshire, the trials of assassins and thieves ranging from a…†   (source)
  • Momma had battled the Black Man and had vanquished him.†   (source)
  • Hitler had conquered Poland and Norway, vanquished Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, and was making mincemeat of the French.†   (source)
  • To be honest, I think it might be the only hope we have of vanquishing him in battle.†   (source)
  • Early one morning, vanquished by the unbearable pain of repressed virility, hewent to Catarino's.†   (source)
  • Did he actually mean to give me the keys to an Aston Martin Vanquish, or was that an accident?†   (source)
  • Mostly, the city would produce men to return that fire and vanquish the enemy shooters.†   (source)
  • Then Sauron was vanquished and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years, until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood.†   (source)
  • "Master Charles an' his faithful squire, Tummeler, vanquishing foes and, uh, closin' boxes!"†   (source)
  • He himself was a firm believer in the value of a good thrashing to vanquish the weaknesses of the soul and was famous for his unrestrained oratory.†   (source)
  • Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still.†   (source)
  • Slowly the second wave forced the first one backward, rolled slowly over it, and then as a victor drags the vanquished, moved in toward the island.†   (source)
  • How to Vanquish a Rogue Cataclyst?†   (source)
  • He challenges Cedric with elaborate intellectual riddles, withholding praise and daring the pupil to vanquish his theatricd doubting with a real display of intellectual muscle.†   (source)
  • Like I said, it was ridiculous, but the fear couldn't be vanquished.†   (source)
  • "To begin, Omega will vanquish an obsolete but somewhat successful human-avian hybrid," said the Director.†   (source)
  • What greeted his eyes vanquished all thoughts of Bangkok and his success with Merton Gains.†   (source)
  • Privately he was not at all sure it would be possible to vanquish the Americans, and he worried about the cost.†   (source)
  • He got a pure silver cigarette lighter, a gold-plated ink pen and a five-dollar camera, so that he could take all his experiences back to Alabama after they vanquished the communist horde and defended democracy, or whatever it was they were supposed to do.†   (source)
  • The Shaper talked of how God had vanquished their enemies and filled up their houses with precious treasure, how they were the richest, most powerful people on earth, how here and here alone in all the world men were free and heroes were brave and virgins were virgins.†   (source)
  • Bed-bug who wages war on the mat and receives the thanks of the vanquished!†   (source)
  • Their spirits are not vanquished easily.†   (source)
  • "We've only to vanquish ancient evil and earn great wealth, and the rest is but details."†   (source)
  • AT FIRST Lia thought she had vanquished Alessandro, as if action were vindication, as if the declaration of war were proof of her argument, or, rather, her brother's argument, that a war was necessary.†   (source)
  • Returning Crusaders brought back to their womenfolk not only their vanquished enemy's gold, but also beauty tips from the ladies of the Orient, including pubic shaving (not heard of in most parts of Europe since the age of the early Roman Empire).†   (source)
  • And each time, both the victor and the vanquished have accepted the result peacefully and in the spirit of reconciliation.†   (source)
  • Cleomenes was vanquished to Egypt.†   (source)
  • He hopes this will be the crushing blow, the one that will vanquish Lee and his army once and for all.†   (source)
  • The drow had two weaknesses; foremost was the thrill of battle, but a close second the tingle of uncovering the booty of his vanquished foes.†   (source)
  • Rather than let the pink bully her, she had fought back, splashing the room with complementary hues of orange and green and red—a bright carnation bookcase here, an apricot bedspread there—and thus had vanquished the omnipresent and puerile stain.†   (source)
  • It was a symbolic combat he danced; a combat in which he was both victor and vanquished; a combat between life and death.†   (source)
  • He wilts, vanquished, and turns away.†   (source)
  • IV When the gods and the demons, both offspring of Prajapati, did battle with one another, the gods seized upon the life-principle of the Udgitha, thinking that with this would they vanquish the demons.†   (source)
  • "The trial of the vanquished by the victors," he told an attentive if somewhat astonished audience, "cannot be impartial no matter how it is hedged about with the forms of justice."†   (source)
  • Not a soul had inquired of that poor vanquished man what he did, if he had wife and children living-he might have only had an auntie.†   (source)
  • He salutes the great victors and the great vanquished.†   (source)
  • Their conquerors reigned briefly as champions, until they were vanquished in turn.†   (source)
  • Jessica had died at his hands, but there had been no sense of vanquishment, no victorious conquest.†   (source)
  • She was only his hostage, a prize to show the north that he could vanquish the ironborn.†   (source)
  • It was he who felt that the land should be peopled after the giants were vanquished.†   (source)
  • Accept this sacrifice, and show us the way to Winterfell, that we might vanquish the unbelievers.†   (source)
  • When he vanquished the last of the attacking soldiers, Roran burst out laughing, exhilarated.†   (source)
  • Squires dashed onto the field to help the vanquished knight to his feet.†   (source)
  • You want something or believe in something, want to protect or block or vanquish.†   (source)
  • At the moment, the only victory he wanted was to vanquish an ice-cold drink and maybe some nachos.†   (source)
  • Do you see the warriors you have vanquished staring back at you, as real as you are before me?†   (source)
  • And Chella told him only cowards kill the vanquished.†   (source)
  • A vanquishing, a light spell, a fire spell.†   (source)
  • I mean, a banishing, a drawing, a vanquishing spell?†   (source)
  • Like a phoenix rising, the victor sprang from the vanquished's body.†   (source)
  • Hermione put the vanquished Horcrux into the beaded bag, then climbed back into her bed and settled down without another word.†   (source)
  • Voldemort had been vanquished hours before, but his supporters — and many of them are almost as terrible as he — were still at large, angry, desperate and violent.†   (source)
  • Vanquisher.†   (source)
  • 'But you said — Neville was born at the end of July, too — and his mum and dad = 'You are forgetting the next part of the prophecy, the final identifying feature of the boy who could vanquish Voldemort … Voldemort himself would mark him as his equal.†   (source)
  • But when Sybill Trelawney spoke, it was not in her usual ethereal, mystic voice, but in the harsh, hoarse tones Harry had heard her use once before: 'The one with the power to vanquish th'e— Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies … and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will havc power the Dark Lord knows not … and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives … the one with…†   (source)
  • But Harry's imagination was racing ahead, far beyond Ron and Hermione's… Three objects, or Hallows, which, if united, will make the possessor master of Death…Master…Conqueror…Vanquisher…The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death… And he saw himself, possessor of the Hallows, facing Voldemort, whose Horcruxes were no match…Neither can live while the other survives…Was this the answer?†   (source)
  • …but in the harsh, hoarse tones Harry had heard her use once before: 'The one with the power to vanquish th'e— Dark Lord approaches… born to those who have thrice defied him, born as the seventh month dies … and the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will havc power the Dark Lord knows not … and either must die at the hand of the other for neither can live while the other survives … the one with the power to vanquish the Dark Lord will be born as the seventh month dies …'†   (source)
  • I will never cease fighting until the Urgals are vanquished, Galbatorix is dead, and Alagaesia is free once more!†   (source)
  • He fared better than his twin, vanquishing an elderly knight whose mount was bedecked with silver griffins against a striped blue-and-white field.†   (source)
  • Notice I Didn't Say Gone I'm not stupid enough to believe one magical afternoon can vanquish my monsters forever.†   (source)
  • On the morning after the battle, the crows had feasted on victors and vanquished alike, as once they had feasted on Rhaegar Targaryen after the Trident.†   (source)
  • 'Then let us lay him in a boat with his weapons, and the weapons of his vanquished foes,' said Aragorn.†   (source)
  • I vanquished you just fine.†   (source)
  • Generous as the inhabitants of Surda were, and rich as the vanquished cities were, the regular deliveries of goods were not enough to sustain the Varden for much longer.†   (source)
  • As soon as Alessandro saw this, he realized that a complex ritual would follow in which, by voice, wit, movement, and control of fear, either he and Arturo, or the six boys would be vanquished, but he wanted no part of the game.†   (source)
  • Then Mortenson talked of the tribal traditions that attended conflict in the region—the way warring parties held a jirga before doing battle, to discuss how many losses they were willing to accept, since victors were expected to care for the widows and orphans of the rivals they have vanquished.†   (source)
  • He cursed himself for his gullibility and wished in panic for something like a mask or a pair of dark glasses and a false mustache to disguise him, or for a forceful, deep voice like Colonel Cathcart's and broad, muscular shoulders and biceps to enable him to step outside fearlessly and vanquish his malevolent persecutors with an overbearing authority and self-confidence that would make them all quail and slink away cravenly in repentance.†   (source)
  • And now at last the grim laughter came pouring out, as uncontrollable as the dragon's laugh, and I wanted to say, "Lo, God has vanquished mine enemies!†   (source)
  • "Men will always underestimate you," he said, "and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely."†   (source)
  • I mean, the Vantage's body styling is gorgeous, too, but there's just something about the Vanquish…… " Nice girl who knew cars.†   (source)
  • All of the names contained a few constants: the fact that he was a Rider; his affection for Saphira and Arya; his desire to vanquish Galbatorix; his relationships with Roran, Garrow, and Brom; and the blood he shared with Murtagh.†   (source)
  • The victors are jubilant, but the vanquished are furious, more than capable of venting their rage on the man they hold responsible for their defeat.†   (source)
  • His was the only perfectly clear image she retained from her whole childhood, and in order to describe him she did not need to consult the daguerreotype in the drawing room that showed him dressed as an explorer leaning on an old-fashioned double-barreled rifle with his right foot on the neck of a Malaysian tiger, the same triumphant position in which she had seen the Virgin standing between plaster clouds and pallid angels at the main altar, one foot on the vanquished devil.†   (source)
  • Men will always underestimate you, he said, and their pride will make them want to vanquish you quickly, lest it be said that a woman tried them sorely.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I should just call myself Snail Vanquisher," he muttered as he rolled a section of a pillar across the courtyard.†   (source)
  • Then he and she merged their identities to a greater degree than ever before, vanquishing all differences between them to become a single entity.†   (source)
  • It might accomplish nothing, but on the other hand, we might learn something that could help us vanquish Murtagh and Galbatorix once and for all.†   (source)
  • Eragon Shadeslayer, Vanquisher of Snails…… I would strike fear into the hearts of men wherever I went.†   (source)
  • We vanquished them!†   (source)
  • It was the foundation of the American system of law and justice and he was repelled by the picture of his country discarding those Constitutional precepts in order to punish a vanquished enemy.†   (source)
  • Here they found a fantastic battleground of tree and creeper, parasite and vine; with the bodies of the vanquished decomposing in the humid soil.†   (source)
  • He squinted again for a single second and saw the open doorway filling with people, as the survivors of the battle came out onto the front steps to face their vanquishers and see the truth of Harry's death for themselves.†   (source)
  • It is only to vanquish another knight I know of, who is distressing some damsels.†   (source)
  • She had made the brave protest: I will not be vanquished.†   (source)
  • Looking down at the unconscious face, it seems to Byron as though the whole man were fleeing away from the nose which holds invincibly to something yet of pride and courage above the sluttishness of vanquishment like a forgotten flag above a ruined fortress.†   (source)
  • So SHE vanquished them, horse and foot, just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell.†   (source)
  • She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteenyear-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate.†   (source)
  • Does he challenge me in public because I have (unknown to myself) vanquished him somewhere in the course of my career?†   (source)
  • Sargon, king of Akkad, battled with the man of Ur and vanquished him; his city he smote and its wall he destroyed.†   (source)
  • The sun came early, causing him to turn over in protest, but in going to sleep he had learned to vanquish light, and now the light could not rewake him.†   (source)
  • …the attic of his own house, hidden (some said, walled up) there from Confederate provost marshals' men and fed secretly at night by this same daughter who at the very time was accumulating her first folio in which the lost cause's unregenerate vanquished were name by name embalmed; and the nephew who served for four years in the same company with his sister's fiance and then shot the fiance to death before the gates to the house where the sister waited in her wedding gown on the eve of…†   (source)
  • Pa and Gillespie and Mack are some distance away, watching the barn, pink against the darkness where for the time the moonlight has been vanquished.†   (source)
  • In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished.†   (source)
  • Immediately, the monster, vanquished, came like a lamb to the side of the saint, who passed her belt around its neck and conducted it to the neighboring village.†   (source)
  • …the ten plump defenceless sutlers' wagons, the scarecrows tumbling out box after beautiful box after beautiful box stencilled each with that U. and that S. which for four years now has been to us the symbol of the spoils which belong to the vanquished, of the loaves and the fishes as was once the incandescent Brow, the shining nimbus of the Thorny Crown; and the scarecrows clawing at the boxes with stones and bayonets and even with bare hands and opening them at last and finding—What?†   (source)
  • He wandered round the base of the enormous fluted column, at the top of which Big Brother's statue gazed southward towards the skies where he had vanquished the Eurasian airplanes (the Eastasian airplanes, it had been, a few years ago) in the Battle of Airstrip One.†   (source)
  • …grim and castlelike magnificence at which Sutpen obviously aimed, since the place as Sutpen planned it would have been almost as large as Jefferson itself at the time; that the little grim harried foreigner had singlehanded given battle to and vanquished Sutpen's fierce and overweening vanity or desire for magnificence or for vindication or whatever it was (even General Compson did not know yet) and so created of Sutpen's very defeat the victory which, in conquering, Sutpen himself…†   (source)
  • I have got to vanquish them with their own weapons—they force it upon me, because they live by force —and then the real work will begin.†   (source)
  • …of that justice which presides over human events which, incept in the individual, runs smooth, less claw than velvet but which, by man or woman flouted, drives on like fiery steel and overrides both weakly just and unjust strong, both vanquisher and innocent victimised, ruthless for appointed right and truth) brute who was not only to preside upon the various shapes and avatars of Thomas Sutpen's devil's fate but was to provide at the last the female flesh in which his name and…†   (source)
  • …not there to stop it, but that Bon would marry Judith and then he (Henry) would have to live for the rest of his life with the knowledge that he was glad that he had been so betrayed, with the coward's joy of surrendering without having been vanquished; the other for that same reason too, who could not have wanted Judith without Henry since he must never have doubted but what he could marry Judith when he wished, in spite of brother and father both, because as I said before, it was not…†   (source)
  • The King was dressed in a robe of velvet which had belonged to Uther the Conqueror, his father, trimmed with the beards of fourteen kings who had been vanquished in the olden days.†   (source)
  • …was just the blank shape, the empty vessel in which each of them strove to preserve, not the illusion of himself nor his illusion of the other but what each conceived the other to believe him to be—the man and the youth, seducer and seduced, who had known one another, seduced and been seduced, victimised in turn each by the other, conquerer vanquished by his own strength, vanquished conquering by his own weakness, before Judith came into their joint lives even by so much as girlname.†   (source)
  • It was a battle to death or complete vanquishment.†   (source)
  • But one must fight; vanquish; have faith in God.†   (source)
  • The red, formidable difficulties of war had been vanquished.†   (source)
  • Dale, at length, was vanquished, and he ceased to rail at himself, or restrain his fancies.†   (source)
  • Forgotten already were the vanquished rivals and the love-tale red-written on the snow.†   (source)
  • But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.†   (source)
  • Wellington, three-quarters vanquished, admired heroically.†   (source)
  • If he were vanquished, I should be a free man.†   (source)
  • This man and this whale again came together, and the one vanquished the other.†   (source)
  • The knife and the lance cut short the retreat of the larger portion of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • Curiosity had vanquished the desire of preserving his incognito, and he was recognized.†   (source)
  • He will never be vanquished by argument.†   (source)
  • Isabel looked a moment at the vanquished Gladiator.†   (source)
  • Take it, or I proclaim you recreant knights and vanquished, every one!†   (source)
  • Isabel read the meaning of it; she saw the poor girl had been vanquished.†   (source)
  • "Well, perhaps so," Kostya agreed, entirely vanquished.†   (source)
  • He will be vanquished only by the accomplished fact.†   (source)
  • Up to that day, Jean Valjean had not been vanquished by trial.†   (source)
  • Rostov reined in his horse, and his eyes sought his foe to see whom he had vanquished.†   (source)
  • The vanquished, of whom very few remained, scattered and escaped into the neighbouring wood.†   (source)
  • The Black Knight whispered something into the ear of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • I met him with that the other day, but he was not at all vanquished.†   (source)
  • The Lord vanquished the devil in my heart.†   (source)
  • Defeat had rendered the vanquished greater.†   (source)
  • But my clemency is always ready to descend upon the vanquished.†   (source)
  • Le Cabuc, vanquished, no longer tried to struggle, and trembled in every limb.†   (source)
  • It certainly is necessary that some one should take the part of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • The victory was completed by the assassination of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.†   (source)
  • …to the limbo of 'bores'—and to the utter despair of M. Verdurin, who had always made out that he was just as easily amused as his wife, but who, since his laughter was the 'real thing,' was out of breath in a moment, and so was overtaken and vanquished by her device of a feigned but continuous hilarity—she would utter a shrill cry, shut tight her little bird-like eyes, which were beginning to be clouded over by a cataract, and quickly, as though she had only just time to avoid some…†   (source)
  • …the death chill touch the extremities and creep onward towards the heart, the film of death veiling the eyes, the bright centres of the brain extinguished one by one like lamps, the last sweat oozing upon the skin, the powerlessness of the dying limbs, the speech thickening and wandering and failing, the heart throbbing faintly and more faintly, all but vanquished, the breath, the poor breath, the poor helpless human spirit, sobbing and sighing, gurgling and rattling in the throat.†   (source)
  • Hans Castorp's humiliating depression had been vanquished by the greetings he had exchanged with Clavdia Chauchat, and strictly speaking, the real basis of his present satisfaction was his awareness that it had been overcome.†   (source)
  • Finally the cavalcade was ready; Jesse Smith gazed around upon the scene with the air of a general overlooking a vanquished enemy.†   (source)
  • And this, the chronicle concludes, shows the greatness and majesty of empires, and the littleness of the vanquished.†   (source)
  • He gave her no opportunity of self-satisfaction, and she had to go on unaided, which she did in a vanquished tone, verging on tears: "I—I think I must be equally honest with you as you have been with me.†   (source)
  • He felt better after having eaten than he had felt before, less weary of his life, less vanquished in spirit.†   (source)
  • Whenever Hayward said something which was illogical, Weeks in a few words would show the falseness of his reasoning, pause for a moment to enjoy his triumph, and then hurry on to another subject as though Christian charity impelled him to spare the vanquished foe.†   (source)
  • —So it might be with some monarch of the forest that has vanquished his foes in fair fight, and then falls into some cowardly trap in the night-time.†   (source)
  • At the end of five minutes Lucy departed in search of Mr. Beebe and Mr. Eager, vanquished by the mackintosh square.†   (source)
  • He shuddered; then waved his nerveless hand with a vanquished gesture and said, "Tell 'em, Joe, tell 'em—it ain't any use any more."†   (source)
  • Besides Prince S. and Evgenie Pavlovitch, we must name the eminent and fascinating Prince N.—once the vanquisher of female hearts all over Europe.†   (source)
  • Only Herr Sung remained unaffected; he was no less smiling, affable, and polite than he had been before: one could not tell whether his manner was a triumph of civilisation or an expression of contempt on the part of the Oriental for the vanquished West.†   (source)
  • That was the real, factual side of the matter—a set of facts that stood all to itself, that had nothing whatever to do with the idealism of the heart, and that was triumphantly vanquished by the spirit of beauty and music.†   (source)
  • The children left for school, and the old lady to call on Mrs. Harper and vanquish her realism with Tom's marvellous dream.†   (source)
  • He had battled pneumonia to the end, had battled long and obstinately, even though, to all appearances, he had accommodated himself only in part to contemporary life; but now here he lay in state—one could not be sure whether triumphant or vanquished, but in any case, with a stern, satisfied look on his face, though it was greatly changed, his nose looking pinched after his struggles; his lower body shrouded under a coverlet, on which lay a palm frond; his head propped up on the silk…†   (source)
  • All these wonders afforded Peggotty as much pleasure as she was able to enjoy, under existing circumstances: except, I think, St. Paul's, which, from her long attachment to her work-box, became a rival of the picture on the lid, and was, in some particulars, vanquished, she considered, by that work of art.†   (source)
  • Passepartout seemed to be vanquished by Fix's coolness, for he quietly followed him, and they sat down aside from the rest of the passengers.†   (source)
  • I must not only regard myself as being in a very ridiculous position, but as being vanquished at all points.†   (source)
  • It is a hard thing to live haunted by the ghost of an untrue dream; to see the wide vision of empire fade into real ashes and dirt; to feel the pang of the conquered, and yet know that with all the Bad that fell on one black day, something was vanquished that deserved to live, something killed that in justice had not dared to die; to know that with the Right that triumphed, triumphed something of Wrong, something sordid and mean, something less than the broadest and best.†   (source)
  • Before he could satisfy his curiosity, Fritz unhooded his eagle, and though vainly he flapped and struggled, his legs and wings were gently but firmly bound, and he had to own himself vanquished, and submit to the inspection of his delighted captors.†   (source)
  • Is it credible that the democracy which has annihilated the feudal system and vanquished kings will respect the citizen and the capitalist?†   (source)
  • The best fun was with Madame Joubert: Miss Wilson was a poor sickly thing, lachrymose and low-spirited, not worth the trouble of vanquishing, in short; and Mrs. Grey was coarse and insensible; no blow took effect on her.†   (source)
  • "Consider yourself, Grigory Vassilyevitch," Smerdyakov went on, staid and unruffled, conscious of his triumph, but, as it were, generous to the vanquished foe.†   (source)
  • So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion.†   (source)
  • I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.†   (source)
  • Let these shows be to you pacific arenas, where the victor in leaving it will hold forth a hand to the vanquished, and will fraternise with him in the hope of better success.†   (source)
  • His successes were so repeated that no wonder the envious and the vanquished spoke sometimes with bitterness regarding them.†   (source)
  • "You are a brave youth, d'Artagnan," interrupted the cardinal, tapping him familiarly on the shoulder, charmed at having vanquished this rebellious nature.†   (source)
  • This De Grantmesnil declined, avowing himself vanquished as much by the courtesy as by the address of his opponent.†   (source)
  • In fact, he rather prided himself on his narrow escapes, and liked to thrill the girls with graphic accounts of his triumphs over wrathful tutors, dignified professors, and vanquished enemies.†   (source)
  • Commanded by the Emperor himself they could not fail to vanquish anyone, be it whom it might: so thought Rostov and most of the officers after the review.†   (source)
  • As long as the demon sent to attack me only vague shadows of women who passed occasionally before my eyes in church, in the streets, in the fields, and who hardly recurred to my dreams, I easily vanquished him.†   (source)
  • He felt himself vanquished on all sides, but he felt at the same time that what he wanted to say was unintelligible to his brother.†   (source)
  • Her turning to that worthy lady was an artifice to bring her into the discussion, quarrel with her, and vanquish her.†   (source)
  • To combine the qualities I require seems to be difficult, but when the difficulty is vanquished it deserves a reward.†   (source)
  • On the way home an argument usually sprang up, and Arkady was usually vanquished in it, though he said more than his companion.†   (source)
  • An honest Delaware now, being fairly vanquished, would have lain still, and been knocked on the head, but these knavish Maquas cling to life like so many cats-o'-the-mountain.†   (source)
  • Once was the strife shapen Hard 'gainst the Hugs, sithence Hygelac came Faring with float-host to Frisian land, Whereas him the Hetware vanquish'd in war, With might gat the gain, with o'er-mickle main; The warrior bebyrny'd he needs must bow down: He fell in the host, and no fretted war-gear Gave that lord to the doughty, but to us was aye sithence The mercy ungranted that was of the Merwing.†   (source)
  • Miss Ophelia seated herself resolutely on the lately vanquished trunk, and marshalling all her goods and chattels in fine military order, seemed resolved to defend them to the last.†   (source)
  • It had been gradually yielding to the better hopes which her looks, or words, or actions occasionally encouraged; it had been vanquished at last by those sentiments and those tones which had reached him while she talked with Captain Harville; and under the irresistible governance of which he had seized a sheet of paper, and poured out his feelings.†   (source)
  • Giovanni knew not what to dread; still less did he know what to hope; yet hope and dread kept a continual warfare in his breast, alternately vanquishing one another and starting up afresh to renew the contest.†   (source)
  • By Romulus,[316] he is all soul, I think; He hath no flesh, and spirit cannot be gyved; Then we have vanquished nothing; he is free, And Martius walks now in captivity.†   (source)
  • Biddy's first triumph in her new office, was to solve a difficulty that had completely vanquished me.†   (source)
  • He ought never to have made the concession, he said, but the very genteel lady had so passionately prayed him for the accommodation of that room to dine in, only for a little half-hour, that he had been vanquished.†   (source)
  • "Or kill yourself!" said Eugenie (in a tone which a Vestal in the amphitheatre would have used, when urging the victorious gladiator to finish his vanquished adversary).†   (source)
  • She said: "La, but do list to thine handmaid! as if one gifted with powers like to mine might say the thing which I have said unto one who has vanquished Merlin, and not be jesting.†   (source)
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