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  • It is true, British troops and forces der General Wolfe achieved a victory on those Plains, it is also important to ask what were the terms the queror imposed on the conquered, and I think you anyone else within sound of my voice would say those terms were so generous and so magnanimous, as to challenge the admiration of all the peoples of the world.

    Canada 1942

  • In an account of the principal chieftains that accompanied the Con - queror, which is preserved in the Harleyan Collection, l the list

    Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812

  • _ In dreams thro'* camp* and* court* he* bore* | the trophies of a CON queror.

    The Canadian Elocutionist Anna Kelsey Howard

  • III v 9-10 '_quae quamquam_ lingua mihi sunt properante per horas/lecta satis multas, pauca fuisse queror' and _EP_ III viii 23-24 '_quae quamquam_ misisse pudet ... tu tamen haec quaeso consule missa boni'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • For a similar exhortation at the end of a poem of reproach, see _Tr_ I viii 49-50 'effice peccati ne sim memor huius, et illo/officium laudem quo queror ore tuum'; even in the _Ibis_ there is

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Transitive use; as, -- queror fātum, _I lament my fate; _ doleō ejus mortem, _I grieve at his death; _ rīdeō tuam stultitiam, _I laugh at your folly.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Neque edepol te accuso neque id me facere fas existimo. verum ego meas queror fortunas, cum illo quem amo prohibeor.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • Nascere praeque diem ueniens age, Lucifer, almum, coniugis indigno Nysae deceptus amore dum queror et diuos, quamquam nil testibus illis profeci, extrema moriens tamen adloquor hora.

    Pharmaceutria Vergil 1912

  • Nec de lege queror; sed doleo cur meruerimus hanc legem.

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 2 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • O sir, you haue ouerthrowne Alisander the con-queror:

    Love's Labour Lost (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

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