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Once again the goal derived from a Barton corner which was eventually headed on for Mike Williamson – the earlier subduer of Carew – to nudge down into Carroll's path.

From The Guardian • Aug. 22, 2010

It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love—this hunger of the heart—as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world.

From The English Novel And the Principle of its Development by Lanier, Sidney

It is a refiner, a cultivator, a subduer of coarseness, barbarity, rudeness.

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by Weaver, George Sumner

This new feat was ascribed to Attila himself, already too well known as the scourge of Europe and the subduer of so many German tribes.

From The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original by Needler, George Henry

The hero is "a hunter of demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodman of the faith."

From Short Stories for English Courses by Mikels, Rosa Mary Redding