In the battle with these I knew there would be excitement, danger, necessary expedients to tax the brain and heroic feats to tax the muscles, the ever constant incentive which the Subduing of one difficulty after another excites.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The dangers to come seemed less formidable now, and as we journeyed onward it was the mastering of these, as did our accomplishment in crossing the Big Lead, which gave us a daily incentive to continue our way and ever to apply brain and muscle to the Subduing of even greater difficulties with zest.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
The inhabitants are Subduing savage Nature; but, as time will surely show, their greatest achievement is the rearing of fearless men.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton