It's a sort of offshoot from that very tyrannical law of noblesse oblige.

Boys are very tyrannical and very generous by fits.

The Tudors committed very tyrannical acts.

But I am equally aware that habit is apt to become very tyrannical indeed, if it is acquired.

You will find me very tyrannical.

They have both been very tyrannical.

Yea, the very tyrannical rule that sin and Satan exercise over carnal men, is styled power, Acts xxvi.

Nevertheless he stands out, with all his faults, as a very tyrannical King yet a very kingly tyrant.

On these occasions the house-dogs are very tyrannical, and the least of them will attack and pursue the stranger.

One might think you quite meek, to look at you, whereas, on the contrary, you are very harsh, very tyrannical.

Miss Fuller's cow hooks the other cows, and has made herself ruler of the herd, and behaves in a very tyrannical manner.

She discovered at a glance, not his hypocrisy, but that his religious enthusiasm was not of a sort to become very tyrannical.

It is only a very tyrannical spouse who will insist that her litter or sedan-chair shall have the curtains drawn when in the streets.

Now, brother, to prescribe rules of happiness to others hath always appeared to me very absurd, and to insist on doing this, very tyrannical.