All 7 Uses of

subdue
in
Tess of the d'Urbervilles

The kiss had obviously done harm by awakening feelings they were trying to subdue.†
Chpt 4 *

subdue = control or put down by force or intimidation

He was pale, even tremulous; but, as before, she was appalled by the determination revealed in the depths of this gentle being she had married—the will to subdue the grosser to the subtler emotion, the substance to the conception, the flesh to the spirit.†
Chpt 5

Far behind the corner of the house—which rose like a geranium bloom against the subdued colours around—stretched the soft azure landscape of The Chase—a truly venerable tract of forest land, one of the few remaining woodlands in England of undoubted primaeval date, wherein Druidical mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew-trees, not planted by the hand of man grew as they had grown when they were pollarded for bows.†
Chpt 1

There was something subdued in Jonathan Kail's tone which had not been there in the day, and lines of concern were ploughed upon his forehead in addition to the lines of years.†
Chpt 4

The inferior man was quiet in him now; but it was surely not extracted, nor even entirely subdued.†
Chpt 6

On the sheltered side was a turnip-slicing machine, whose bright blue hue of new paint seemed almost vocal in the otherwise subdued scene.†
Chpt 6 *

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