Examples from literature

• All these several nations were sooner or later reduced into subjection by the Romans, but the conquerors themselves give us the most glorious testimony to their valor. 
• The German Emperor must stand either as a pacifist or as a conqueror. 
• The conquerors adopted one religion, while the conquered retained the other, and thus a new and most enduring barrier was raised between the two nations in Ireland, and a pernicious antagonism was established between law and religion. 
• The true foreign yoke was only felt when England saw its conqueror in William the Norman. 
• They were awed by the presence of the conqueror of Egypt and of Europe.