These monsters ruled France for a time with the most despotic sway.

What peace can he have with those over whom he exercises his despotic sway?

You will start in with the P. R. R., Mr. Anthony, under my despotic sway.

Like an Oriental prince, God is conceived to have despotic sway over man, his creature.

Is he not then the subject of despotic sway?

The fashions, the vanities and the pleasures of life, held no despotic sway in their breasts.

With a despotic sway all giant minds.

He was a nasty little man to hold despotic sway over such a Paradise: a goblin in Fairyland.

As we have already seen, the Papacy had for centuries held despotic sway over the minds and the consciences of men.

The Bible calls him the prince and the god of this world; and everywhere we are surrounded with evidences of his despotic sway.

Until the time of Bacon in England, for nearly two thousand years, Aristotle ruled over the realm of mind with a despotic sway.

A strict disciplinarian, he suffered nothing to interfere with his religious duties, and exercised a despotic sway in the church and in his family.

The immense capital and peculiar privileges bestowed upon it enabled it to exercise despotic sway over the other banks in every part of the country.

He was to be the Augustus of this greater Roman Empire; over virtually all the earth the House of Hohenzollern was to exercise despotic sway.