Ptolemy marched triumphantly into the heart of the Seleucid realm, as far as Babylonia, while his fleets in the Aegean made fresh conquests as far north as Thrace.

Once fresh Frankish conquests were no longer forthcoming, constant redivision of the "fisc" among heirs reduced Merovingian kingship to a cluster of competitive kinglets subsisting on inadequate resources.

Whereas early 1812 had seen the French armies winning fresh conquests, within eight months they had been expelled from as much as half the territory they had managed to occupy since 1808.

After returning from the east with fresh conquests to add to his laurels, Pompey had been unable to distribute to his veterans land in Italy because of opposition in the Senate.

Lilia and Freddy stepped into the house; the wind followed, eager for fresh conquest, roaring through the house and out again into the back garden, its sudden gusts so strong Cal was almost flung off his feet.

Having fought to achieve and to retain independence, the nation's leadership had also a desire for fresh conquests.

Each fresh conquest tends to increase his vigour and intelligence, until he becomes a new man, with faculties of mind which, but for his severe lessons in the school of adversity, might have lain for ever dormant.

News comes in daily of fresh conquests.

That was one reason fresh conquests were so popular with established fief-holders.

Molotov, acting for Stalin, lost no opportunity to praise and flatter the Germans on every occasion of a new act of aggression or a fresh conquest.