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Meanings of cruel tyranny in English

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Usage of cruel tyranny in English
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In truth, I am very unfortunate, and a cruel tyranny is exercised over me.
Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry / With Minute Details of Her En...
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Sir James Brooke found the Dyaks oppressed and ground down by the most cruel tyranny.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 1 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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His cruel tyranny led to a revolt in which he was murdered by his own soldiers
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2
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Yet the whole Bahá'u'lláh's life was spent in the midst of great trial and cruel tyranny.
`Abdu'l-Bahá in London
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Our freedom under law mocks their cruel tyranny.
The Guardian
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Within its walls was the miserable victim of cruel tyranny whom they had come to release.
In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince
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The answer here was, Omitting to instruct the people and then inflicting capital punishment on them-whichmeans cruel tyranny.
Chinese Literature / Comprising the Analects of Confucius, the S...
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One may see how the race of mankind may never abide before the face of the cruel tyranny of the world.
Barlaam and Ioasaph
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Vespasian wanted to wipe away a symbol of Nero's cruel tyranny and build a place of entertainment specifically for the people.
News.com.au
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All the favours, all the attentions, in the world cannot compensate for the loss of that happiness which a cruel tyranny has destroyed.
The Sorrows of Young Werther
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He had quite mastered me by his cruel tyranny, and I was accustomed to obey him like a slave in terror of the lash.
Baron Trigault's Vengeance
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The people whom he had come to deliver were an undisciplined mob of cowardly slaves, whose spirit had been crushed by years of cruel tyranny.
Darkest India / A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest Engl...
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This noble man, so brave and courageous, menaced by the forces of a cruel tyranny, might he not need the protection of a good sword?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 / A Maga...
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Cruel tyranny and the designs of despots laid the Captain low, as they would lay low all who strike for Justice!'
Voice of the Fire
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