Conquests

Whilst the news of his conquests is spread far and near ❋ Unknown (2001)

Toulon, and the retention of any conquests from the Dutch. ❋ William Hunt (1886)

There the victorious Lord Ruthven had met him, having completed the recovery of the Highlands, by a range of conquests from the Spey to the Murray-frith and Inverness-shire. ❋ Unknown (1875)

OFFA the Terrible, of Mercia, made great conquests from the Welsh, in 757. ❋ Unknown (1871)

There is never any lady to be seen here, but he sometimes comes and tells me about his fine octavo, or his pretty little duodecimo, as he calls his conquests, according to their height and size. ' ❋ Alphonse Daudet (1868)

"World No. 1 is important, but I'll truly deserve to be number one only when I've beaten all the top players, or when I'm a World Champion," the 20-year-old shuttler said, reiterating her priorities: title conquests come first, rankings will reflect later. ❋ Shivani Naik (2010)

Sports Illustrated as fighter of the year, citing the champion's title conquests in both the super featherweight and lightweight divisions. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This writer took up the challenge and tried to place Pacquiao in those different eras as he attempted to duplicate his seven world title conquests in just a little over a decade ranged against the champions if not the top dogs of the different boxing eras in question. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Florante Condes lost his International VICTORIES in three different weight classes that included two title conquests and a dominant performance against one of boxing's all-time greats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Sassanian, Parthian, and Timurids 3 long-term conquests from India: Ashokan, Pala, and Mauryan. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The former of these conquests is disdained by their own writers, who were ignorant of the fame of Jupiter and Minos, but it has not been overlooked by the Byzantine historians, who now begin to cast ❋ Unknown (1206)

The slight foundations of the Armorican republic had been repeatedly shaken, or overthrown; but the same people still guarded their domestic freedom; asserted the dignity of the Roman name; and bravely resisted the predatory inroads, and regular attacks, of Clovis, who labored to extend his conquests from the Seine to the Loire. ❋ Unknown (1206)

Latin conquests, of the first four hundred years of the city, and the limits may be distinctly traced along the coast, from Civita ❋ Unknown (1206)

The essential feature of their 'conquests' - whether the territory was annexed or remained under 'princely rule' - was that the land remained under the ownership of the province or the state; it was the people who became the 'subjects of the crown'. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of her conquests is a professional football player who screws her in full training gear, another one is an, ahem, stiff upper lipped “typical” English Major. ❋ Unknown (2007)

How did the French gain Canada from the savage, and we from the French, and after which of the conquests was the right time to sing Te Deum? ❋ Unknown (2006)

In one sense it was not her fault if we were; for a girl more thoroughly free from every species of coquetry, and with less of that pitiful ambition of making conquests, which is the curse of half the sex, it was impossible to meet with. ❋ Various (N/A)