Significados de oriental despot em inglês

Ordinarily, Faulkner ran the countess' household like an oriental despot, but he was no longer in control while Aristide was on the premises.

She is like an oriental despot, and the men sit like Indian deities, straight upright against the walls and scarcely dare to breathe.

Often there is attributed to him the quality of a jealous Oriental despot.

The anger of the Oriental despot manifested itself by a continual discharge of cannon.

Asia had hitherto usually afforded a sufficient field for the ambition of Oriental despots.

Strange in an Oriental despot if you think of it!

But, in practice, he, like most Oriental despots, was wont to summon and take the advice of counsellors.

This is one of the earliest recorded instances of a practice common enough on the accession of Oriental despots.

Could any Sultan, or even the " Oriental Despot" of a radical penny-a-liner, be implored in more abject terms?

Oriental despots are perhaps the worst class of human beings; and this unhappy boy was one of the worst specimens of his class.

A great builder, a wise administrator and governor, Solomon takes his place as a typical Oriental despot, the most powerful monarch of the age.

This, at any rate, is better than cutting off their heads, which, from time immemorial, has been the invariable practice of African and Oriental despots.

"Good Lord, he does begin to think himself a proper Oriental despot, doesn't he," Granby said, hearing this news.

Alexander had come to merge the characters of Macedonian king and Hellenic Captain-general, with which he had set out, in that of Oriental despot (Spieker.