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  • A word from her readings popped into her head: subjugation.†   (source)
  • Now that he did, it was a startling thing, a dark catalog of subjugation and struggle.†   (source)
  • M'Lord, there were Sardaukar with our forces in the subjugation of this Fremen nest.†   (source)
  • Women of the past were subjugated both as females and as tinking beings, which is sad because a great deal of very important experience was lost as a result.†   (source)
  • Finding more than Sue herself had suspected-love for Tommy, jealousy, selfishness, a need to subjugate him to her will on the matter of taking Carrie, disgust for Carrie herself, (she could take better care of herself she does look just like a GODDAM TOAD) hate for Miss Desjardin, hate for herself.†   (source)
  • Sorcery is not like other magics, Eragon; by it, you attempt to force incredibly powerful and hostile beings to obey your commands, beings who devote every moment of their captivity to finding a flaw in their bonds so that they can turn on you and subjugate you in revenge.†   (source)
  • Then I donned a white prayer chad or "When one kneels in Islamic prayer, bending forward in subjugation to the will of Allah, the head is not supposed to touch any manmade object.†   (source)
  • But when they are done fighting, Sounis, Eddis, and Attolia must be united to fight the winner or we will be subjugated as we never were before.†   (source)
  • But the moral issue of the subjugation of women isn't frivolous today any more than slavery was in the 1790s.†   (source)
  • Instead, Japan, like Nazi Germany, used a master-race mentality and a highly mechanized war machine to subjugate those it claimed to be freeing.†   (source)
  • Or even subjugation, like most rapes.†   (source)
  • But Fletcher was saying that the most powerful ideas had been subjugated… because they jeopardized the existence of the Orthodox Church.†   (source)
  • In their eyes, they had been subjugated by the old Crackers, and now they were subjugated again by people who were not even born there.†   (source)
  • They rejected marriage as subjugation.†   (source)
  • America,Adams warned, could face subjugation of the kind inflicted on Ireland.†   (source)
  • This was where the letter the vampire subjugate had handed him in Magnus's entryway had directed him to go.†   (source)
  • It is Diem's great desire to convert his country to Catholicism, and vital to that effort is the systematic subjugation of the nation's Buddhist majority.†   (source)
  • It was that submission to a larger will that I secretly loved about the Institute, the complete subjugation of the ego to the grand scheme and the utter majesty of moving in step with two thousand men.†   (source)
  • "Assuming that Rafi will be there," she said, subjugating the issue of assimilation to the question of survival.†   (source)
  • It is better to die than be subjugated, and I for one am ready and willing to fight to the bitter end.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw will thus avenge the blood of the slaughter at Tippy-Canoe, while we destroy the American army and subjugate the land from the Hio to Huron Lake.†   (source)
  • How has he subjugated her?†   (source)
  • The rich landowners subjugated the peasants working the land.
    subjugated = forced into submission
  • He reads to al-Lat, the sun whom he defied and subjugated.†   (source)
  • The elves controlled them and used them to subjugate humans.†   (source)
  • Subjugates worship their masters, and love serving them.†   (source)
  • The second subjugate pointed a long gray finger at Simon.†   (source)
  • They only lack the strength to subjugate others to their will.†   (source)
  • Simon looked from the woman to the two subjugates and back again.†   (source)
  • Both subjugates rubbed their hands together, like villains in a comic book.†   (source)
  • It's only the subjugates who worship their sires and can't disobey them.†   (source)
  • The human subjugates moved as if they were on wheels.†   (source)
  • They're human subjugates," Isabelle hissed.†   (source)
  • Camille flashed a brilliant smile toward her subjugates.†   (source)
  • Otherwise you'll get her subjugates, but you won't get her.†   (source)
  • Knights who claimed to be "searching for the chalice" were speaking in code as a way to protect themselves from a Church that had subjugated women, banished the Goddess, burned nonbelievers, and forbidden the pagan reverence for the sacred feminine."†   (source)
  • He was also preoccupied with equality of the sexes, maintaining that the subjugation of women to men was 'man-made.'†   (source)
  • I'm not sure if your grandfather ever mentioned it when you played Tarot with him, Sophie, but this game is a 'flashcard catechism' into the story of the Lost Bride and her subjugation by the evil Church.†   (source)
  • The extraordinary kidnapping and subjugation of more than four million Africans who were originally brought to America.†   (source)
  • Eragon and Arya seized upon the priest's weakness and quickly subjugated the man's thoughts to their will.†   (source)
  • Subjugated was the favorite word for the fate worse than death that would face southern whites if the Confederacy lost the war.†   (source)
  • And yet--I pray that history will be kind to me, and let it be known that but for me King Charles would have called himself Charlemagne Second and used Napoleon to subjugate Europe in a new French Empire.†   (source)
  • Over and over again in Confederate letters, one finds sentences like these: "It is better to spend our all in defending our country than to be subjugated and have it taken away from us."†   (source)
  • In the brief time he had, Eragon tried to capture the mind of at least one of the dragons battering at his consciousness, but there were too many, and his attempt left him scrambling to repel the horde of Eldunari before they completely subjugated his thoughts.†   (source)
  • Invoking his state's Revolutionary motto, Sic Semper Tyrannis, a young Virginia officer filled letters to his mother with comparisons of the North's "war of subjugation against the South" to "England's war upon the colonies."†   (source)
  • But if they hadn't drained you, if they'd given you more vampire blood instead, you would eventually have become a subjugate.†   (source)
  • Of course every once in a while the vampire will decide it wants more than a snack, it wants a subjugate—and then it will start feeding its bitten human small amounts of vampire blood, just to keep it docile, to keep it connected to its master.†   (source)
  • He snuck a glance sideways at the subjugates; they looked as if they agreed, though he might have been imagining it.†   (source)
  • The two subjugates were staring at him.†   (source)
  • Simon was startled enough to look at her in surprise, but she was staring down the two subjugates, her dark eyes flashing.†   (source)
  • That's close enough," Isabelle said, as the two subjugates paused beside the table, her fingers inches from the dagger.†   (source)
  • The subjugates bowed and withdrew.†   (source)
  • He turned back to the subjugates.†   (source)
  • Human subjugates don't eat food.†   (source)
  • Both subjugates stared at him.†   (source)
  • By the time the waiters noticed and hurried outside to rectify the problem, flooding the garden with pale light once again, Camille and her human subjugates had vanished.†   (source)
  • His growing helplessness kept her in subjugation; she tenderly nursed him.†   (source)
  • C. We are a mighty race and have a natural right to subjugate their puny one.†   (source)
  • D. They are a mighty race and are unnaturally trying to subjugate our inoffensive one.†   (source)
  • So general was this sentiment that when the aged John J. Crittenden of Kentucky introduced into Congress on the day after Bull Run a resolution declaring that the war was not being waged for conquest or subjugation nor to interfere with "the established institutions" of the seceded states, even Republicans of Jacobin leanings were afraid to vote against it.†   (source)
  • All subjugated to the will of all.†   (source)
  • We too, as we put on our hats and push open the door, stride not into chaos, but into a world that our own force can subjugate and make part of the illumined and everlasting road.†   (source)
  • There was a vast decency, an enormous clean vitality about Helen that subjugated good people and defeated bad ones.†   (source)
  • Kino stood in the door, filling it, and hatred raged and flamed in back of his eyes, and fear too, for the hundreds of years of subjugation were cut deep in him.†   (source)
  • Those which have not succeeded in this attempt have been subjugated.†   (source)
  • He subjugated her; she almost feared him.†   (source)
  • In what manner had Enjolras subjugated him?†   (source)
  • No city has had that domination which sometimes derides those whom it subjugates.†   (source)
  • A whole order of unexpected facts had cropped up and subjugated him.†   (source)
  • …try to discover in things, endeared to us on that account, the spiritual glamour which we ourselves have cast upon them; we are disillusioned, and learn that they are in themselves barren and devoid of the charm which they owed, in our minds, to the association of certain ideas; sometimes we mobilise all our spiritual forces in a glittering array so as to influence and subjugate other human beings who, as we very well know, are situated outside ourselves, where we can never reach them.†   (source)
  • She had an idea that the sight of her in a grey gown of devotional cut, with her famous lashes drooped above a prayer-book, would put the finishing touch to Mr. Gryce's subjugation, and render inevitable a certain incident which she had resolved should form a part of the walk they were to take together after luncheon.†   (source)
  • This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.†   (source)
  • In no other kind of life is the illusion more wide of reality—in no other is the beginning all illusion—the disenchantment more swift—the subjugation more complete.†   (source)
  • One need not be a genius, all one needed was a great deal more talent than the author of this little song about a linden tree to become an enchanter of souls, who would then give the song such vast dimensions that it would subjugate the world.†   (source)
  • The whole world will be intelligent, educated, and co-operating; things will move faster and faster towards the subjugation of Nature.†   (source)
  • Could he not see the lawyer was deliberately humiliating him and had no other purpose today than to show off his power to K., and perhaps even thereby subjugate K.?†   (source)
  • He saw the world of civilization then more plainly than ever he had seen it before; a world in which nothing counted but brutal might, an order devised by those who possessed it for the subjugation of those who did not.†   (source)
  • …over heels in love," as people say, and yet not in the happy sense of the idiom, but as one loves when it is forbidden and unreasonable, when there are no calm little songs from the flatlands to be sung, terribly in love, dependent, subjugated, suffering and serving— was nevertheless a man who remained shrewd enough amid his slavery to know exactly what his devotion was worth, and would continue to be worth, to the slinking patient with the enchanting "Tartar slits"; and she…†   (source)
  • But gradually the sense of complete subjugation came over her, and she wondered languidly what had made her feel so uneasy and excited.†   (source)
  • …suffering and serving— was nevertheless a man who remained shrewd enough amid his slavery to know exactly what his devotion was worth, and would continue to be worth, to the slinking patient with the enchanting "Tartar slits"; and she could be constantly reminded of its worth, or so he told himself despite his suffering subjugation, by the behavior of Herr Settembrini, who only too openly confirmed her own suspicions by attitudes as dismissive toward her as humanistic courtesy allowed.†   (source)
  • An army has suffered defeat, and at once a people loses its rights in proportion to the severity of the reverse, and if its army suffers a complete defeat the nation is quite subjugated.†   (source)
  • Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it does is to deprive him of the power to subjugate the labour of others by means of such appropriation.†   (source)
  • But I could not subjugate all of them; my friend was not at all like them either, he was, in fact, a rare exception.†   (source)
  • Such was the sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth—with the bliss of these two spirits!†   (source)
  • All the monarchs of the Norman race had shown the most marked predilection for their Norman subjects; the laws of the chase, and many others equally unknown to the milder and more free spirit of the Saxon constitution, had been fixed upon the necks of the subjugated inhabitants, to add weight, as it were, to the feudal chains with which they were loaded.†   (source)
  • Mamma was an abject slave to their caprices, but Papa was not so easily subjugated, and occasionally afflicted his tender spouse by an attempt at paternal discipline with his obstreperous son.†   (source)
  • _ This admirable duke, Valerius, With his disdain of fortune and of death, Captived himself, has captived me, And though my arm hath ta'en his body here, His soul hath subjugated Martius' soul.†   (source)
  • The five years' residence in the capital served him with opportunity to see and study the miseries of the subjugated world; and in full belief that the evils which afflicted it were political, and to be cured only by the sword, he was going forth to fit himself for a part in the day of resort to the heroic remedy.†   (source)
  • The bold and reckless young blood of ten-years back was subjugated and was turned into a torpid, submissive, middle-aged, stout gentleman.†   (source)
  • It was mournful, indeed, to witness the subjugation of that vigorous spirit to a corporeal infirmity.†   (source)
  • He set the picture of her up, beside the infamous image of last night; and thought, Could it be, that the whole earthly course of one so gentle, good, and self-denying, was subjugate to such a wretch as that!†   (source)
  • The celebrated communities of antiquity were all founded in the midst of hostile nations, which they were obliged to subjugate before they could flourish in their place.†   (source)
  • At times, however, Emma shuddered at the sudden thought of meeting Rodolphe, for it seemed to her that, although they were separated forever, she was not completely free from her subjugation to him.†   (source)
  • In describing a war or the subjugation of a people, a general historian looks for the cause of the event not in the power of one man, but in the interaction of many persons connected with the event.†   (source)
  • Who that sees the meanness of our politics, but inly congratulates Washington that he is long already wrapped in his shroud, and forever safe; that he was laid sweet in his grave, the hope of humanity not yet subjugated in him?†   (source)
  • He was a simple and devoted soul; but when he devoted himself to me entirely I began to hate him immediately and repulsed him--as though all I needed him for was to win a victory over him, to subjugate him and nothing else.†   (source)
  • But before she had come to such a resolution and determined to subjugate Major Dobbin by her endearments, it must be owned that Glorvina had practised them a good deal elsewhere.†   (source)
  • I began it always with hatred and ended it with moral subjugation, and afterwards I never knew what to do with the subjugated object.†   (source)
  • Strange as may be the historical account of how some king or emperor, having quarreled with another, collects an army, fights his enemy's army, gains a victory by killing three, five, or ten thousand men, and subjugates a kingdom and an entire nation of several millions, all the facts of history (as far as we know it) confirm the truth of the statement that the greater or lesser success of one army against another is the cause, or at least an essential indication, of an increase or…†   (source)
  • "Most certainly, Emily would ruin everything," Lady Southdown said; and this time agreed to forego her usual practice, which was, as we have said, before she bore down personally upon any individual whom she proposed to subjugate, to fire in a quantity of tracts upon the menaced party (as a charge of the French was always preceded by a furious cannonade).†   (source)
  • It profits a people but little to be affluent and free if it is perpetually exposed to be pillaged or subjugated; the number of its manufactures and the extent of its commerce are of small advantage if another nation has the empire of the seas and gives the law in all the markets of the globe.†   (source)
  • If I am not deseaved in my opinion, I think I may hope that your generous heart will melt at this statement and the desire will subjugate you to be propitious to me by daigning to lavish on me a slight favor.†   (source)
  • I began it always with hatred and ended it with moral subjugation, and afterwards I never knew what to do with the subjugated object.†   (source)
  • PART II A Propos of the Wet Snow When from dark error's subjugation My words of passionate exhortation Had wrenched thy fainting spirit free; And writhing prone in thine affliction Thou didst recall with malediction The vice that had encompassed thee: And when thy slumbering conscience, fretting By recollection's torturing flame, Thou didst reveal the hideous setting Of thy life's current ere I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted,…†   (source)
  • Soon the Father, subjugated by love and sleep, lay still.†   (source)
  • From then on until he had you completely subjugated he was always in or out of your room, ubiquitous and garrulous, though his manner gradually moved northward as his raiment improved, until at last when he had bled youuntil you began to learn better he was calling you Quentin or whatever, and when you saw him next he'd be wearinga cast-off Brooks suitand a hat witha Princeton club I forget which band that someone had given him and which he was pleasantly and unshakably convinced was a…†   (source)
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