I know he will never touch me with the law: I know his wife, over whom he tyrannises in trifles, guides him in matters of importance. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Cette pauvre auntie tyrannises over every one it's true, and then there's the governor's wife, and the rudeness of local society, and ❋ Unknown (2003)
It oppresses us or stimulates us to action, it tyrannises over us or inspires us to higher things. ❋ Unknown (1913)
The sun only gives a feeble light, the soil is completely barren, whatever is built there is soon destroyed again, conflict and strife perpetually rage there, whatever gets the upper hand tyrannises over those which were in power before it. ❋ Claud Field (1902)
There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. ❋ Oscar Wilde (1877)
So the ready compliance of the worst part of my nature masks for me the tremendous force with which my evil tyrannises over me, and it is only when I face round and try to go the other way, that I find out what a power there is in its invisible grasp. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
His dominion is death to the human nature over which he tyrannises. ❋ Alexander Maclaren (1868)
Once seen it will never be forgotten: it tyrannises and dominates the imagination by its titanic power of drawing. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)
Always ready to apologise for the male monster that tyrannises over you. ❋ Unknown (1859)
As a big cowardly boy at school tyrannises over little boys and scoffs at fear until a bigger than he comes and causes his cheek to blanch, so Mr Stuart bullied and scorned the small troubles of life, and scoffed at the anxieties of religious folk until death came and shook his fist in his face; then he succumbed and trembled, and confessed himself, (to himself), to be a coward. ❋ Unknown (1859)
But, finally, that particular element in this whole combination which most impressed myself, and through which it is that to this hour Mr. Palmer's mail - coach system tyrannises over my dreams by terror and terrific beauty, lay in the awful _political_ mission which at that time it fulfilled. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
How they first came together I cannot imagine, but they have lived together for many years; and the abigail's temper being tart and encroaching, and her ladyship's easy and yielding, the former has got the complete upper hand, and tyrannises over the good lady in secret. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
Captain dies -- Crampley tyrannises over the surgeon, who falls a ❋ Tobias George Smollett (1746)
Though he shall one day be a close prisoner in chains, yet now he insults and tyrannises over the souls of men. ❋ Unknown (1692)
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is portrayed as a self-absorbed, thin-skinned, erratic character who tyrannises his ministers and staff but is also a brilliant political tactician, in US memos. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Crampley — the Captain dies — Crampley tyrannises over the surgeon, who falls a Victim for his Cruelty — I am also ill-used — the Ship strikes — the behaviour of Crampley and the Seamen on that occasion — - I get on shore, challenge the ❋ Unknown (2004)
