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More "Vanquisher" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of all things upon the earth, he hated Your person most: that he would pawn his fortunes To hopeless restitution, so he might Be called your vanquisher. ...
— The Rivals of Acadia - An Old Story of the New World • Harriet Vaughan Cheney
... Tom gravely; 'he was nearly beat afore he got to the brook. Indeed, I thought Vanquisher would have had him in it; but, however, he got through, and the scent failed on the fallow, which gave him a chance; but I held them on to the hedgerow beyond, where they hit it off like wildfire, and they never stopped again till they ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees
... two of the principal, called Arrephorae, were superintendents. On it was embroidered the battle of the gods and giants; amongst the gods was Jupiter hurling his thunderbolts against the rebellious crew, and Minerva, seated in her chariot, appeared as the vanquisher of Typhon or Enceladus. In the Hecuba of Euripides, the chorus of captive Trojan females are lamenting, in anticipation, the evils which they will suffer in the land of the Greeks. 'In the city of Pallas, of Athena, on the beautiful seat in the woven peplus I shall yoke colts to a chariot, painting ...
— How to See the British Museum in Four Visits • W. Blanchard Jerrold
... worldly differences, or the rancour of sectarian feeling, blind you to the great good you may achieve. Join early in the glorious work—come even singly to combat with darkness and disgrace. Every man may be the vanquisher of one illiterate spirit, and bear him from ignorance and evil to knowledge and the brightness of everlasting good. It is your duty especially, preachers of the word of truth, to disseminate these principles from your high places; for by opening the minds ...
— Suggestions to the Jews - for improvement in reference to their charities, education, - and general government • Unknown
... had triumphed over feudality and municipal resistance as completely as the House of Bourbon; but the successes of monarchical power had been as sterile on one side of the Pyrenees as they had been profitable to it on the other, for in Spain the impotence of the vanquisher had still surpassed that ...
— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies
... twenty-fourth successor of Mena (Menes) in the papyri, and the twenty-sixth according to Manetho the priest. He conquered the "Mafka-land," as the Sinaitic Peninsula was then called; and Wady Magharah still shows his statue, habited in warrior garb, with the proud inscription, "Vanquisher of Stranger Races." This campaign lends some colour to my suspicion that Sinafir Island, at the mouth of the Gulf el-'Akabah, may ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... the maddened Ares raged, Reaper of men and vanquisher of rocks, With my soul's eyes, I followed on the trail Of the Lyre-God, who passed that way, returning From the Hyperboreans' land. He passed Aloft, crowned with a golden diadem, Upon a chariot drawn by snow-white swans, Towards ...
— Life Immovable - First Part • Kostes Palamas
... this who dare call the vanquisher of Bosambo to a palaver? for am I not the great buffalo of the forest? and do not all men bow down to me ...
— Bones - Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country • Edgar Wallace
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