he called despotically, and the teamster obeyed mechanically. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 500599] Reference
French events in his small, despotically governed South. From Wordnik.com. [REVOLUTION] Reference
An idea by which your will is swayed still more despotically. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
These priests reigned despotically about eight hundred years. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Netherlands after 1559 A.D., but governed them despotically through. From Wordnik.com. [Early European History] Reference
The Crown rules-actually the governor rules despotically for the Crown. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Royal Society and that he exercised his authority somewhat despotically. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
At that hour illusion reigns despotically; perhaps it wakes at nightfall!. From Wordnik.com. [The Purse] Reference
The Crown rules — actually the governor rules despotically for the Crown. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
A lot uv boards are ruled despotically by a cupple of peeps, but ICHC wuz diffrunt. From Wordnik.com. [Impressionable Cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
Dear Dr ManderFor many years, I have presided despotically over a regime famed for its cruelty. From Wordnik.com. [Dr Gerry Mander: the therapist the stars trust] Reference
The royal and imperial roads of France are as despotically straight as those of the Roman Empire. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
She ruled despotically in the house, and everything in it was submitted to this feminine espionage. From Wordnik.com. [Gobseck] Reference
"If you stop a day longer than a fortnight I shall come and fetch you back," he informed her despotically. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
But no one would assert that in a despotically governed state the idea of constitutionalism has any place. From Wordnik.com. [CONSTITUTIONALISM] Reference
The slaves of free peoples have generally fared worse than the slaves of men themselves despotically governed. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
He ruled his unruly followers despotically, and it was obvious that while they loved him they feared him equally. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Such a standpoint might exist in a despotically governed state, but in a democratic Republic it is incomprehensible. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915] Reference
Hitherto the human face had mixed often in my dreams, but not despotically nor with any special power of tormenting. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of an English Opium-Eater] Reference
He who can clothe, support, and amuse a number of women, shuts them up in a menagerie, and commands them despotically. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
The elections would be only the second that DRC, ruled despotically from 1965 to 1997 by the staggeringly corrupt Mobutu. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Whenever the Empire behaved despotically there was always a lively critique of that behaviour from inside British society itself. From Wordnik.com. [Who's the World's Sheriff - the UN or the U.S.?] Reference
Not that women like to be ruled, but that they like that power in men which can rule if need be, generously, but never despotically. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.] Reference
Babylonia, Assyria, and Persia, the monarch ruled despotically and by divine right with the assistance of his officers and advisers. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
So that the one class cannot obey, and can only rule despotically; the other knows not how to command and must be ruled like slaves. From Wordnik.com. [Politics] Reference
Only a society deeply divided and despotically ruled could tolerate so glaring a contradiction between its war aims and its war effort. From Wordnik.com. [Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 23] Reference
Once able to devote herself entirely to composition and to live for her work, she found her calling begin to assert itself despotically. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
He ruled the island despotically, but with complete success. From Wordnik.com. [The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands] Reference
Their supreme ambition was to rule, and to rule despotically. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.] Reference
The portly charlady who rules despotically in my chambers is an example. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways of Men] Reference
In countries governed despotically, life is not so much valued as it is in others. From Wordnik.com. [Olla Podrida] Reference
Sandy treated him as she did her own brothers, frankly, despotically, delightfully. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure] Reference
In this respect he reigned over himself no less despotically than he did over others. From Wordnik.com. [The Two Great Retreats of History] Reference
Although Napoleon had governed Italy despotically he had introduced a great many important reforms. From Wordnik.com. [An Introduction to the History of Western Europe] Reference
I was his prisoner -- he was despotically kind -- he regulated my hours of sleep, my meals, my exercise. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators] Reference
But a great nation cannot with impunity permit itself to be despotically governed for thirty years by lunatics. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Finally, in a condition of obsession (absolute monoideism) the fixed idea defies all rivalry and rules despotically. From Wordnik.com. [Essai sur l'imagination créatrice. English] Reference
Denewdney style of dress, and did I choose it I could sit and rule those two factions as despotically as Buonaparte his Frenchmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
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