So ended the despotic rule of gentlemen adventurers in the far north.

Under the despotic rule of Louis Napoleon, the newspaper business has drooped.

After a brief period of despotic rule, the Revolution in England worked a change.

Such is the practice of all arbitrary and despotic rule.

Few monarchs have tried harder to justify their despotic rule.

It was a terrible example of Rao Khan's despotic rule.

With a stroke of the pen he threw aside the last prop to despotic rule.

His benevolently despotic rule has been described on a preceding page (p. 474).

He was thwarted by foreign Powers, and deceived by his own instruments of despotic rule.

In October, the constitutional party in Spain attempted to overturn the despotic rule of Ferdinand VII.

For the alternative before the Government then would be nothing but despotic rule pure and simple.

They are weary of the despotic rule of the Queen-mother and of the influence of these Florentines.

The king made these two men his principal advisers and through them carried on his despotic rule.

On the other hand, his tyrrany, the exigencies of despotic rule, compel him to incriminate his fatherland.

But what excited the most universal complaint was, the unlimited tyranny and despotic rule of the country committees.

In this manner Augustus, by the aid of his proconsuls, held a despotic rule over all his dominions.