"Conquering" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... quit the glorious strife," 'Till, drest in all her charms, some blooming fair Herself shall yield, the prize of conquering love! ...
— The Olden Time Series, Vol. 6: Literary Curiosities - Gleanings Chiefly from Old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts • Henry M. Brooks
... before their secession from the Union." If, however, such offer is rejected, the authority of the United States denied, and the war against the Union continued, the President should partition all territory, whether farms, villages, or cities, among the officers and soldiers conquering ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... people who were more than shadows, and of the dynasties whose sequence could be established. The foreground was taken up by fabulous creatures like Ninus and Semiramis, compounded by the lively imagination of the Greeks of features taken from several of the building and conquering sovereigns of Babylon and Nineveh. So, in the case of Egypt, was forged the image of that great Sesostris who looms so large in the pages of the Greek historians and combines many Pharaohs of the chief ...
— A History of Art in Chaldaea & Assyria, v. 1 • Georges Perrot
... Countess and cordially from the child. And I whistled "Hail, the Conquering Hero" sotto voce, as Dalmar-Kalm, with a smile like a dose of asafoetida, counted out the amount ...
— My Friend the Chauffeur • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... upon his victorious standard and his coins, with the motto—"In hoc signo vinces!" This ring came from the Roman sepulchre of an early Christian, and the hand for which it was originally fashioned may have aided in the conquering war of the first Christian emperor; or may have been convulsed in an agonising death, "thrown to the beasts" of the circus, but reposing after death with the ...
— Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places • Frederick William Fairholt
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