Both Uses of
vanquish
in
Man And Superman
- And this, the chronicle concludes, shows the greatness and majesty of empires, and the littleness of the vanquished.†
Chpt 3 *
- When I married Ana's mother—or perhaps, to be strictly correct, I should rather say when I at last gave in and allowed Ana's mother to marry me—I knew that I was planting thorns in my pillow, and that marriage for me, a swaggering young officer thitherto unvanquished, meant defeat and capture.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(vanquish) to defeat completely