"Subjugate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the foundations of Petersburg, or, rather, of his empire, no one foresaw his success. Anyone who then imagined that a Russian sovereign would be able to send victorious fleets to the Dardanelles, to subjugate the Crimea, to clear the Turks out of four great provinces, to dominate the Black Sea, to set up the most brilliant court in Europe, and to make all the arts flourish in the midst of war—anyone expressing such an idea would have passed for a mere dreamer. Peter the Great built ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol XII. - Modern History • Arthur Mee
... Valley, would convene at the Espinosa and pick up Tonia. With their Easter hats and frocks carefully wrapped and bundled against the dust, the fair aggregation would then merrily jog the ten miles to Cactus, where on the morrow they would array themselves, subjugate man, do homage to Easter, and cause jealous agitation among the lilies of ...
— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry
... snowy draperies, with her solemn, mysterious eyes fixed upon that sullen, lowering face. Beautiful and mysterious as some vestal priestess defending the secrets of her Order. But that beauty, for once, seemed less to subjugate than to inflame the evil desires of that lower nature ...
— The Mystery of a Turkish Bath • E.M. Gollan (AKA Rita)
... true that our armies have avenged Venezuela. The largest army which has tried to subjugate us lies destroyed on the field. But we cannot rest. Other obligations await us. And when our native is entirely free, we shall go to fight the Spaniards in any part of America where they are in control, and we shall throw them into the sea. Freedom shall live protected ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell
... Yankee, and is doing all he can to subjugate the free South. He has no rights which we are bound to ...
— Within The Enemy's Lines - SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat • Oliver Optic
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