688 collocations for conquer

Caesar and Flamen both instinctively dreaded it, not because it aimed at riches or power, but because it strove to conquer that other world in the moral nature of mankind, where it could establish a throne against which wealth and force would be weak and contemptible.

Thou hast conquered many countries, but why am I unworthy in thy sight?

Philip of Macedon, whose talent lay in conquering his enemies by good intelligence, purchased at any price, had as many oracles at command as he pleased; and hence Demosthenes justly suspecting too good an understanding between Philip and the Delphian priestess, rallied her with so much acrimony upon her partiality to that prince.

It was not thought possible to derive much pleasure from any attempt which could be made to conquer the difficulties of so limited an instrument; because, in the extent of these octaves, there were a number of spaces which could not be filled up by the talent of the player; besides, the most simple modulation became impossible.

"The press was active and scurrilous;.. my namewhich had been a knightly or a noble one since my fathers helped to conquer the kingdom for William the Normanwas tainted.

They belong to Christ who conquered death, and they live by His everlasting life, and their life is hid with Christ in God, where death cannot reach it or find it; and therefore their life and their love, and the grace of it, will last as long as Christ's life and Christ's love, and Christ's grace last- -and that will be for ever and ever.

Philip Schuyler was a distinguished member of the family whose head had formulated the 'Glorious Enterprize' of conquering New France in 1689.

In the next hundred years his successors conquered many neighboring lands and added them to the empire.

[Footnote 1: Lo-han, Arhat, Arahat are all designations of the perfected Ârya, the disciple who has passed the different stages of the Noble Path, or eightfold excellent way, who has conquered all passions, and is not to be reborn again.

We are conquering territory every day, from the armies at Donelson to the forts at New Orleans.

"Towards the end of his book, Sombart solemnly assures the English that 'they need not fear us as a colonizing power; we (the Germans) have not the least ambition to conquer half-civilized and barbarian peoples in order to fill them with German spirit (Geist).

They have given me a handful of men and expect me to conquer whole nations.

Mithridates was a formidable enemy; but he aimed at establishing an Asiatic empire, not conquering the European provinces.

Perhaps too they hoped that, by their zeal and activity, they might recover the confidence of their sovereign, as their ancestors had formerly, by like means, gained the affections of Canute; and might conquer his inveterate prejudices in favour of his own countrymen.

He conquered England from his hills and lakes; but his spirit has never crossed the Straits which he thought too narrow.

Batu penetrated as far as Silesia, and won a great battle at Liegnitz in 1241, but in spite of his victory he had to desist from the task of conquering Europe.

But he could not conquer a feeling that the place would seem still more peculiar when they were put out.

Well, come along then," as the wily schemer drew down her pretty lips into the aggrieved curve which always conquered his big, soft heart.

If old age and the pinch of poverty had failed to conquer their valiant spirit, why should she listen to the croaking tale?

I ask you to learn how to "conquer nature by obeying her," as the great Lord Bacon said two hundred and fifty years ago.

She had not conquered her love; once given, it could not be taken back.

For a time a great deal of determination, and the exercise of a considerable amount of will power, are necessary to conquer the natural inclination to shrink from a possible repetition of the injury; and those who watched the dogged manner in which Thurston continued to defend his wicket, being themselves practical cricketers, rewarded him with loud shouts of encouragement and praise.

But yet, Erminia, guard thee from his Eyes, Where so much love, and so much Beauty lies; Those charms may conquer thee, which made me bow, And make thee love as well as break this Vow.

It was only since she had become a Winnebago and had once conquered her fear on that memorable night beside the Devil's Punch Bowl that she began to entertain the idea that some day she, too, might be at home in the water like the others.

She conquered the impulse with a desperate effort though it left her feeling slightly hysterical.

688 collocations for  conquer