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Meanings of tyrannise over in English

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Usage of tyrannise over in English
1
And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.
Animal Farm
2
But it was no part of Mackenzie's plan to tyrannise over men.
The Pioneers
3
The minister of truth does not tyrannise over my reason, he enlightens it.
Emile
4
She liked those best whom she could most easily tyrannise over.
Tracks of a Rolling Stone
5
None should tyrannise over, nor should suffer tyranny from, the other.
The Education of the Child
6
I could throw it in his teeth when he attempts to tyrannise over me.
Paul Gerrard, the Cabin Boy
7
No nation could tyrannise over another nation unless it were tyrannised over itself by some illusions.
The Agony of the Church (1917)
8
All which do give them an occasion to tyrannise over their Fellow-Creatures, which they call their Inferiors.
The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth / As Reveale...
9
But the rich, if the community gives them rank, very often endeavour to insult and tyrannise over others.
Politics: A Treatise on Government
10
But they had no right to tyrannise over others, and tie them down to their own procrustean bed.
Mary Barton
11
We need not be 'anvils but hammers.' We need not let outward circumstances dominate and tyrannise over us.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinth...
12
It was forbidden to pillage the villages, or to tyrannise over the inhabitants who were not of Punic race.
Salammbo
13
I think it horrible, cruel; it offends my taste. What if our instincts lead us to tyrannise over our fellow-men?
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
14
Then we might close the service by solemnly objuring every system which gave power to tyrannise over the rights of conscience.
Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01
15
Again he stood silent for awhile, looking at her, and then he answered: "I should not tyrannise over you, Clara."
The Belton Estate
16
He loves to tyrannise over women and show his familiarity by a certain brutality of address, and the line comes not slowly.
"The Ladies": A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
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