conquest

How To Use conquest In A Sentence

• Esai is immediately attracted to the lithesome young lady, but Abigail rebuffs his attempts to initiate a simple conquest. Drink One to Me, Christian Bennett by Vicki Allen
• King Darius I is noteworthy for his administrative reforms, military conquests, and religious toleration.
• Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
• It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
• Their family can trace its origins back to the Norman Conquest.
• In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest. Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)
• Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
• Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
• After the Spanish conquest, a system known as the encomienda was established in Mexico, with the objective of repartitioning the indigenous land and its inhabitants. A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
• In the colonial context, translation acted as a mediating agency between conquest and conversion.