Intellect may subdue women--make slaves of them; and they worship beauty perhaps as much as you do.
The selfishness of the stronger sex, supported by the force of habit and social usage, was hard to subdue in the Greek Christian Churches.
But the father must not be exasperating, must not needlessly thwart the child's inclinations and excite in order to subdue its anger, as some will do even of set purpose, thinking that in this way obedience is learnt.
He who had overcome the demon Sarvig, who had laughed at the spirits of the north, could not subdue the men of iron, whose strength surpassed that of the gods.
The human race, on the other hand, is intended to cover the entire earth, and to subdue it; to spread itself from the burning tropics to the frigid poles.
While some conquerors were struggling in Central America, Mexico, and Peru, others were trying to subdue the vast northern region called Florida.
In nearly every case missionaries were sent with the settlers to help to subdue and teach the Indians.
Inspired by the "boom" at Zacatecas, the Audiencia of Nueva Galicia planned to subdue the districts of Sinaloa and Durango.
It was designed to establish garrisons at San Diego and Monterey, and to plant missions, under their protection, to convert and subduethe natives.
Orozco was sent, therefore, to subdue Oaxaca, which he reported to be rich in gold.
Florida had been "running with the blood of Indians," but Fray Luis Cancer, a disciple of Las Casas, offered to try to subdue it by peaceful methods.
Difficulties arose with the Natchez Indians; in 1716 Bienville was sent tosubdue them, and Fort Rosalie was erected on the site of Natchez.
The Council of State responded by sending out a fleet to subdue both Barbados and Virginia.
In the words of Lecky, "The conduct of England in hiring German mercenaries to subdue the essentially English population beyond the Atlantic, made reconciliation hopeless, and the Declaration of Independence inevitable.
If we subdue them for the present, they will universally revolt in the next war, and resign us, without pity, to subjection and destruction.
When he is told, through what extent of territory we must travel to subdue them, he recollects how far, a few years ago, we travelled in their defence.
Since the Americans have made it necessary to subdue them, may they be subdued with the least injury possible to their persons and their possessions!
The Spaniards who first went to subdue Paraguay, after travelling for the space of full five hundred leagues, either on the stream itself, or on its banks, are said never to have been able to arrive at its source.
In succeeding years the Spaniards have wished to subdue and instruct that island, which lies near to the Maloine islands, in south lat.
If a man can for the space of one day subdue his selfishness and revert to natural laws, the whole world will call him good.
Avaris, the city of their forefathers, would first open its gates to them and give freely whatever they needed, and whenever necessary he would fight at their head and easily subdue the land for them.
As an antidote to injustice, he applies his educational discipline as well as his penal and remuneratory treatment, to the emotions, with a view to subdue some and develop others.
Christ did penance forty days in the wilderness, not to subdue his own flesh--for that which was already perfect did not need subduing--but to give to penance a cleansing virtue to serve for our daily or our hourly ablution.
You see Luther throwing himself into the cloister, that he might subdue his will to the will of God; prostrate in prayer, in nights of agony, and distracting his easy-going confessor with the exaggerated scruples of his conscience.
That was one of his greatest sayings, and by it he meant, that you can only subdue a thing and make it useful to you, by finding out the rules by which God made that thing, and by obeying them.
Vespasian was proclaimed emperor, and the next year went to Rome, leaving Titus to carry on the war and subdue Jerusalem.
After a while, as if to subdue the sense of personal observation, he took a pen and oblong notepaper and began to write on his knees.
Two passions are now engaged against the man, and I will not shrink from any course that seems necessary to subdue either him or you, or both.
He had tried to subdue all men to his will, and there was one man he had subdued above all others--himself.
He had still a little work to do before he could consider the West of the island entirely pacified, but that so soon as this was accomplished he would set out for Eastern Cuba and subdue that.
Months ago General Weyler said that Eastern Cuba was all but pacified, and that he was just about to finish his work there, and proceed to subdue Western Cuba.
I acknowledge the hardness of my heart and confess that it is hard for me to subdue my flesh and blood and to banish all anger and revenge.
Information, persuasion and reflection will not subdue national animosities and jealousies; Peoples of Europe are racially homogeneous along lines of climatic latitude, 88.
The plan counts on information, persuasion and reflection to subdue national animosities and jealousies, at least in such measure as would make them amenable to reason.
A small Egyptian force was sent to subdue the rebel slaver who not only disgraced humanity but refused to pay tribute.
The company which had been detached to subdue the Dervish riflemen were themselves pinned behind their scanty cover.
Two expeditions were forthwith sent up the White and Blue Niles to establish garrisons, and as far as possible to subdue the country.
It may not subdue tongues, but it will soften whispers.
He finds, however, that a few smooth words will not subdue him.
Nor is he of the modernly pious-that is, as piety professes itself in our democratic world, where men use it more as a necessary appliance to subdue the mind than a means to improve civilization.
If, therefore, an army of the church were now to come to the Holy Land, it were easy to subdue all these countries, or to pass through them.
When vanquished they ask no quarter, and in victory they shew no compassion; and though many millions in number, they all persist as one man, in resolving to subdue the whole world under their dominion.
At length the emperor wrote to the king of the Tagazgaz in Turkestan, with whom he was in some degree allied by marriage, imploring his assistance to subdue the rebellion.
But Fixlein's stomach was as strong as his heart; and with him no species of movement could subdue the peristaltic.
It is a world very good to them, and they shallsubdue it to My purposes.
In the first place, he had striven with the whole force of a powerful will to subdue a useless passion, and had striven in vain.
There he could daily meet other veterans of the regular service; and in listening to their talk, one might imagine that McClellan had only to attend their sittings to learn how to subdue the rebellion within a few months.
To deprive of the courage and fortitude of a man; to break or subdue the manly spirit in; to cause to despond; to dishearten; to make womanish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subdue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
