Example Sentences

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Yet, with wings aflame, Love, Love more lovely, like a triumpher, Shall break his malefactor's sepulchre.

From The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence by Taylor, Rachel Annand

Now, mark me: this night Florian returns a triumpher from his campaign—two of my trusty blood-hounds watch the road to give me timely note of his approach.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1 by Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)

The time arrived; he appeared less like one accused than as a triumpher; he repelled with irony Louvet's reproaches, and entered into a long apology for himself.

From History of the French Revolution from 1789 to 1814 by Mignet, M. (François-Auguste-Marie-Alexis)

The distressed wrestler becomes a victorious triumpher; the beaten soldier becomes more than a conqueror.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

Before this master, this triumpher, this conqueror, this dictator, this Emperor, this all-powerful, there rises a solitary man, a wanderer, despoiled, ruined, prostrate, proscribed, and attacks him.

From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Hugo, Victor