It will soon polish up into a soft-toned subdued gloss which is pleasing and imitates "rubbed work" in hardwood finishing.
By faith they subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, (or exercised justice) stopped the mouths of lions.
Now suppose, again, this ideal attained, suppose this dread evil subdued by complete knowledge, and again from our elevated intellectual position we look back over the ground.
He stood up in great excitement, as if calling on God to witness his oath; but, as if recalling something, he meekly sat down again, and continued in a subdued tone.
This Croesus, first of all the Barbarians of whom we have knowledge, subdued certain of the Hellenes and forced them to pay tribute, while others he gained over and made them his friends.
These offerings were dedicated by Amasis; and he was the first of men who conquered Cyprus and subdued it so that it paid him tribute.
Those whom he subdued were the Ionians, the Aiolians, and the Dorians who dwell in Asia; and those whom he made his friends were the Lacedemonians.
Thus born and bred Cyrus became king; and after this he subdued Croesus, who was the first to begin the quarrel, as I have before said; and having subdued him he then became ruler of all Asia.
When this nation also had been subdued by Cyrus, he had a desire to bring the Massagetai into subjection to himself.
So Dareios the son of Hystaspes had been declared king; and in Asia all except the Arabians were his subjects, having been subdued by Cyrus and again afterwards by Cambyses.
From that time, whenever they made trial of one another, the Lacedemonians had much the advantage in the war; and by now they had subdued to themselves the greater part of Peloponnesus besides.
Thus doing he traversed the continent, until at last he passed over to Europe from Asia and subdued the Scythians and also the Thracians.
Do thou therefore go by the quickest way back to Persia and take care that, when I thither after having subdued these regions, thou set thy son before me to be examined.
Afterwards however it repented them that they had done this, and they revolved from Dareios, and having revolted they were subdued again, being conquered in a battle.
Let him carry his gospel to that flourishing and vast empire; and when he had subdued it to Jesus Christ, then they would also think of turning Christians.
By this time he had shaped so many sentences and rejected them, felt so many impulses and subdued them, that he was a uniform scarlet.
For among all the impressions of the evening's talk one was of the nature of a revelation and subdued the rest to insignificance.
And the amorous Black Peter, subduedto the soles of his boots, vowed that he had never heard anything half so prettily witty in all his life.
But the color was wholly gone out of them, all being subdued to a ghastly pallor by the fierce brilliance of the zigzag flame.
After having subdued the factious omrahs, and the hereditary enemies of his family, and made tributary to his power most of the neighbouring kingdoms, there occurred a short period of profound peace.
Yet as his power had never met with any obstacle, which force or address had not subdued before him, the idea of bringing this vast multitude to agree in one system of belief and worship appeared to him not utterly hopeless.
Many an inlaid breastplate, many a Mameluke scimitar and Damascus blade, many a gemmed pistol and pearl-embroidered saddle, might there be seen, though viewed in a subdued and quiet light.
His courteous manners, his affable address, his gay humour, and the facility with which he adopted their tone and temper, joined with his rank and wealth, subdued the most rugged and the coldest hearts.
Now they met in the most unexpected and improbable manner: now they parted with a tenderness which subdued their souls even more than rapture.
This accomplished, he stationed himself in their country, built numerous fortresses upon the Elbe, and spent the summer of 780 in missionary work, gaining a multitude of converts among the seemingly subdued barbarians.
It was not again subdued until the legions of Napoleon trod over its mountain paths.
Then, roughly pushing Laura aside, she drew him to the light and again scrutinised him, while the others looked on in silence, subduedby the confidence in her own power of this old and withered savage.
The sea, visible only for a few yards, came with a heave out of the white bank and went by into mysterious obscurity with a subdued swish, while the ship went on wailing hoarsely.
To him there rose soft sounds, the lowing of cattle, the cry of wild animals, a song of natives, intermingled, and subdued by distance.
There was subduedpassion in her voice, and her hands were clenched.
Subdued and saddened by what they had seen, they returned to the Swift, and Webster made his report.
Never has Germany been subdued when it was united.
The Chancellor had begun in a quiet, subdued tone.
The power of Sir Thomas More's gentle nature was so great that it subduedthe bad at the same time that it inspired the good.
It is gradually cooled down by Time, no matter how glowing it has been, while it is trained andsubdued by experience.
It has been said that no man and no woman can be regarded as complete in their experience of life, until they have been subdued into union with the world through their affections.
Yes, mama, I will try," said Bunny in a subdued voice.
The ball-room was dazzling in the beauty of its decorations and the soft effulgence of the shaded electric light, in which the magnificent jewels of the titled and wealthy women seemed to glow with a subdued and chastened fire.
And the army subdued the land, and oft-times spoiled the Picts, and the Strathclyde Britons.
The Judge sings in a soft, subdued kind of a way that makes the walls of the firmament crack, and the heavens roll together like a scroll.
He noted these things with that particularity a man spends upon detail at those times ofsubdued and profound emotion when he seems incapable of noting anything, and took his seat carelessly at the table in his accustomed place.
He subdued himself, sitting with bowed head and closed eyes, his chin sunk upon his folded hands.
Pauer spoke sharply to him in the foreign tongue he had used before, and he subdued himself.
Although he tried to speak as cheerfully as usual, there was something strangely subdued and quiet about him in voice, look, and manner.
He was a young man, with a mild, grave face, and a quiet, subdued manner.
Subdued and oppressed by these and like reflections, Mrs. Tucker reached Uncle Zebedee's house, inside which the change wrought was in keeping with the external sadness.
Am I weak enough to allow myself to be subdued by the tears of that paltry creature?
This man of iron had subdued nature within him; as if aware of the rudeness of the shock he was about to receive, he had ordered his heart not to break--his muscles not to quiver.
Valentine said, in a subdued voice, to his companion; "here is a man with a good bearing, and with a rather intelligent air for an Indian.
Or must we, for a generation, hold the States we have subdued by military occupation?
In the store the glare of sun was subdued by partly drawn yellow curtains, which lent a soft, amber light to the deep interior, and enhanced the dazzling beauty of the merchandise there displayed.
Violet Page subdued her agitation and hastened to reply.
