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For in the year 1651, by Cromwell's command, Captain Dennis, with a squadron of men of war, arrived there from the Caribbee islands, where they had been subduing Bardoes.

From The History of Virginia, in Four Parts by Beverley, Robert

A tremendous revulsion of feeling took possession of him; what he had been subduing for weeks gained supremacy in an instant.

From Nedra by McCutcheon, George Barr