It was the supreme effort of a proud, but generous-minded woman, and there was a kind of heroism in that subjugation of a stricken and loving heart.
She looked at Lady Eversleigh with flashing eyes, as she remembered that by the subjugation of this empty-headed young nobleman she might attain a higher position and greater wealth than that enjoyed by Sir Oswald's envied wife.
It was obvious enough that the conquest and subjugation of such feeble warriors by the Portuguese and Spaniards were hardly to be considered brilliant national trophies.
The recusant chiefs made their submission; and before the close of 1832 all the objects of the campaign had been accomplished, and the subjugation of Khorassan was complete.
Though the subjugation of the land by Assyria had not been without effect upon the civilization of Chaldaea, the general character of Babylonian art remained much the same through all these political changes.
That the private buildings were so unimportant in comparison with the religious architecture of Egypt is explained by the excessive subjugation of the people to a monastic ritual, and by the favorable character of the Egyptian climate.
The fruits of his factious manœuvres will be seen in the subsequent dekadarchies, or oligarchies of Ten, after the complete subjugation of Athens.
The democratical Samians must have been now humbled and intimidated, seeing their subjugation approaching; and only determined to hold out by finding themselves already so deeply compromised though the former revolution.
War with Antiochus, subjugation of the Aetolians; xvi.
However this may have been, Mahomet saw that unless he leagued himself with those whose subjugation had hitherto been his constant object--the princes of his faith--his and their destruction was inevitable.
After various futile efforts during his later years to unify his empire, Charles died from an illness which seized him in 877, on his return to France from a fruitless campaign of subjugation and pillage in Italy.
Yussef had just completed the subjugation of Fez when Abu-Bekr returned from the desert and encamped in the vicinity of Agmat.
Three hundred and sixty mosques once reared their proud heads, and eighty thousand inhabitants poured into the field, an army which accomplished the subjugation of El Yemen.
Prior to the conquest of that province, which was followed by the gradual subjugation of Shoa and its present dependencies, this prince occupied a lofty fortress in the Yedjow country, where some of his descendants still remain.
This surrender was instigated for revenge growing out of the subjugation of Oham, by the Zulu king in a strife for the rulership of the Zulu people.
In the last year of Cambyses he had enticed Polycrates of Samos to Magnesia into his power, and had caused him to be executed there, in order to bring about the subjugation of Samos.
Twenty years after the subjugation it could once more equip and man 60 triremes.
The fall of Babylon had avenged the fall of Jerusalem, and the subjugation of Syria to the armies of Babylon opened the way for their return.
The general expression in Herodotus (3, 34) cannot outweigh all these proofs; it only says with the exaggerated tone of flattery that Cambyses first placed a fleet on the sea, and claims the subjugation of Cyprus for him.
In any case the conquest of Sais completed the subjugation of the Egyptian land.
After the subjugation of the Ionians, Harpagus turned to the North, reduced the cities of the Aeolians, and bade their military forces join his army.
With the subjugation of the Paeonians and the crossing of the Strymon, Megabyzus reached the border of an empire, the Macedonian kingdom, the central district of which lay between the Axius and the Haliaemon.
He adds that in his own opinion this was merely a pretext; the real object was the subjugation of the Libyans, of whom a few only were the subjects of Darius.
The fall of Babylon was followed directly by the subjugation of Syria, the conquest of Gaza (p.
This subjugation would begin in the autumn and pass over into the next spring.
Indians and the expedition to Samos, after the subjugation of the strait, but before the campaigns against Scythia and Barca.
Strabo tells us that Cyrus and the Persians saw that, after the subjugation of the Medes, their land lay at the remote edge, while Susiana was more in the centre, and nearer the Babylonians and the other nations.
Their subjugation by the latter was caused by their own pride and insolence.
In many instances the son possesses more intelligence than the father; and yet, if parental subjugation were allowed, the wise must be held in subjection by the opinion of the ignorant.
The old or New England colonies, which had so largely contributed to thesubjugation of Canada, were already largely engaged in trade.
The greatest achievement of the reign was the subjugation of Bulgaria.
It is true that, as our Traveller says, Kúblái had not yet attempted the subjugation of Java, but he did make the attempt almost immediately after the departure of the Venetians.
Heathen kings were stirred up against them, and their subjugation was the consequence.
The crowd that signed the contract is still in control of the neighboring province of Kwangsei and they are relied upon by the north to effect the military subjugation of the seceded province.
It was mobilizing its army, and making every effort to make a speedy subjugationof Servia.
As the "bone of contention" was this subjugation of Servia, this belated and ostensibly conciliatory proposal of Austria amounted to an absurdity.
This suggestion was fatally objectionable in that it required Russia to suspend its preparations to defend its interests while permitting Austria to proceed with the subjugation of Servia.
The ruler who sent a sympathetic message to Kruger as an insult to England is he who shortly thereafter gratuitously submitted to Queen Victoria military plans for the subjugation of the Boers.
The work of subjugation is done by two men below pulling at his head with ropes.
Of the truth, that "bad rulers too often make a mean people," the ministerial subjugationof nations has afforded innumerable evidences.
He remanded many troops who were on their march for Spain, and by doing so virtually adjourned, and, as it proved, for ever, the subjugation of that country.
Murat, whose views of personal ambition were interested in the complete accomplishment of the subjugation of Spain, seems to have seen no objection remaining when military resistance was placed out of the question.
But the French general had apprehensions from another quarter, which obliged him to concentrate a considerable part of his army, that might otherwise have been disposable for the total subjugation of Portugal.
There are the tyranny of sin and the subjugation of the nobler nature to base and low and transient needs.
And so our Christianity is a feeble and an uncomfortable thing; and there are little joy, and little subjugation of the will, and little leaping up of the heart in glad obedience in it.
It will lead to the subjugation of the will; and that is the thing that is most of all needed to make a man righteous and pure.
The creditors, for their private gain, induced the Nabob to attempt the subjugationof other native princes, among whom was Hyder Ali.
The Alpuxarras is a mountainous region in the old province of Granada, where the Moors were allowed to remain some time after their subjugation by Ferdinand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subjugation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
