She had dressed with more thanusual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of allthat remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more thanmight be won in the course of the evening.
(Jane Austen - Pride and prejudice ) He concluded withrepresenting to her the strength of that attachment which, in spiteof all his endeavours, he had found impossible to conquer; and withexpressing his hope that it would now be rewarded by her acceptance ofhis hand.
To knowthat she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonishJane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her ownvanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptationto openness as nothing could have conquered but the state of indecisionin which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate;and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurriedinto repeating something of Bingley which might only grieve her sisterfurther.
Let me congratulate you on a very important conquest.
Poetic fame was dear to the heart of his friendSnodgrass; the fame of conquest was equally dear to his friend Tupman;and the desire of earning fame in the sports of the field, the air,and the water was uppermost in the breast of his friend Winkle.
'Many conquests, sir?' inquired Mr. Tupman.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) Mr. Blotton was ejected but not conquered.
Pott was so overcome at the bare idea ofhaving ever been suspected, that she was half a dozen times on the veryverge of a relapse, and most unquestionably would have gone off, hadit not been for the indefatigable efforts of the assiduous Goodwin, andrepeated entreaties for pardon from the conquered Pott; and finally,when that unhappy individual had been frightened and snubbed down to hisproper level, Mrs.