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Queen Victoria was "deeply shocked" by the high-level attention paid to this subverter of established order.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was the agitator, the destroyer of prescription, the internal improver, the liberal, the radical, the inventor of means, the opener of doors and markets, the subverter of monopoly and abuse.

From Representative Men by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

But if any of them showed any mildness, or seemed a favourer of truth, against him, as the subverter of Britain, were all their malice and their weapons bent.

From Old English Chronicles by Various

He was the arch-atheist, the materialist, the subverter of all that was held most dear by the reigning powers.

From The Necessity of Atheism by Brooks, David Marshall

Well, I call him something a great deal worse—an unworthy skulk, a lunatic, a subverter of rank, and a Radical!

From Erema — My Father's Sin by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)