41 Metaphors for conquest

These conquests were the most brilliant that Paul had yet made,not among enervated Asiatics, but bright, elegant, and intelligent Europeans, where women were less degraded than in the Orient.

The chief conquest of Simon was the capture of Gazara, the ancient Gezer.

" The conquest of Egypt was indeed the aim of his life.

They spoke with joyful irony, as though the conquest of Trieste had been a slaves' task, imposed upon unwilling Italy by foreign imperialists.

The conquest of Gaul was the accomplishment of that idea, and the decisive step towards the transformation of the Roman republic into a Roman empire.

And coexistent with the vices which prepared the way for the conquests of the barbarians was the wealth of the Christian clergy, who vied with the expiring Paganism in the splendor of their churches, in the ornaments of their altars, and in the imposing ceremonial of their worship.

His brilliant conquests are a familiar chapter in the world's history.

After the survey of universal history which we have now taken, however, I am fully prepared to show that the conquest of the North American continent by men of English race was unquestionably the most prodigious event in the political annals of man kind.

Tepeyacan was the name of a mountain on which before the Conquest was a temple dedicated to the "Mother of our Life," Tonantzin.

The conquests of Rameses, of David, of Nebuchadnezzar, of Cyrus, of Alexander, of Hannibal, of Caesar, and other heroes are still the subjects of contemplation among statesmen and schoolboys.

The conquest is great, the trial more than I can calmly support; yet the consciousness of duty affords consolation-a duty I conceive it to be which I owe to myself and to the people of my charge, who are interested in my future connection.

The so-called Spanish conquest of St. Joseph was not a conquest at all, but an unimportant plundering raid.

Moreover, the conquest of Constantinople is the hereditary leading idea of Russian policy.

There we have French prose and French poesy in their simple and lusty youth; the Conquest of Constantinople by Geoffrey de Villehardouin, and the Song of Roland by the unknown poet who collected and put together in the form of an epopee the most heroic amongst the legends of the reign of Charlemagne, are the first great and beautiful monuments of French literature in the middle ages.

The strong arm conquest is the only reason.

Her first conquest was Chester Pierce, our excellent hardware merchant, whom she commissioned to make a needed repair to her range.

The Atheist desires personal perfection not only for his joy in it as beautiful in itself, but because science has taught him the unity of the race, and he knows that each fresh conquest of his over the baser parts of his nature, and each strengthening of the higher, is a gain for all, and not for himself alone.

The conquest of all Flanders might have been the work of a single campaign, for no city offered a stubborn resistance; but the war was prolonged for another year, that Louis might more easily take possession of Franche-Comté,a poor province, but fertile in soil, well peopled, one hundred and twenty miles in length and sixty in breadth.

All the fame And garlands I have woone throughe Chrystendome, The conquests I have made of Fraunce, of Spayne, Of Ittalie, Hungarie, Germanie, Even to the uttmost east poynt, placd with thee Are toys of worthlesse valewe.

Quoth he: "Self-conquest is true victory.

From 1475, with the conquest of the Crimea, the Black Sea had become a Turkish lake, and under Solyman the Magnificent the Turks had become masters of Aden and the Red Sea, with a strong influence along the Arabian and Persian coasts.

The Saxon conquest was that barrier.

The wives of many of the officers accompanied them, for not a man doubted that the speedy conquest of Louisiana would be the result of the expedition.

This conquest of Gaul, during which he drove the Germans back to their forests, and inaugurated a policy of conciliation and moderation which made the Gauls the faithful allies of Rome, and their country its most fertile and important province, furnishing able men both for the Senate and the Army, was not only a great feat of genius, but a great servicea transcendent serviceto the State, which entitled Caesar to a magnificent reward.

So, too, the conquest of the air remained a dream for centuries until, to use Professor Henry's words, "science" was "ripe for its application.

41 Metaphors for  conquest