You may have to deal with trouble makers or very domineering people who will cause your emotional calmness to fluctuate. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
What right has he to domineer over me in that way?. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
Shall tyrannize in Trinity, and domineer in 'John's.'. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittulae, Random Verses] Reference
If they domineer to the point of suffocating you, stay away. From Wordnik.com. [Deepak Chopra: How to Deal With Difficult (Even Impossible) People] Reference
He hated the domination of others, but was prone to domineer himself. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
The proclivity of the natural man is to domineer or to be subservient. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
And this, whether the vassals over whom they domineer, be few or many. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
As he was used to practice at the assizes of course he was able to domineer. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
Similarly, 'to domineer' is a verb, and the word domineering comes from that. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-11-01] Reference
Mr. Conkling was hostility to President Hayes and his inborn desire to domineer. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
He was learning to despise mere lords, and to feel that he might almost domineer over a duke. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
I do not permit a woman to be a teacher, nor must woman domineer over man; she should be quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany] Reference
So it is foolish, indeed, for the president of a herd to domineer over weaker herds in the jungle. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonders of the Jungle, Book Two] Reference
Mrs. Morton showed her inclination to domineer even in the way in which she helped herself to salt. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
The truth is, little Madam Esmond never came near man or woman, but she tried to domineer over them. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
In truth he did recognize it as a fact that he must either domineer over dukes, or else go to the wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Way We Live Now] Reference
It might happen that were a weak man to get the ability, he would rise and domineer over his weak brethren. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
And are you not to know any contest against the patricians, except how you may suffer them to domineer over you?. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08] Reference
When our pride, our avarice, our interest, our desire to domineer, are worked upon, are we not for ever pestering. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Nor, in profile, does this wondrous brow diminish; though that way viewed its grandeur does not domineer upon you so. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
This is precisely the age at which males begin to domineer females of their species and challenge more established males. From Wordnik.com. [Frans de Waal: Another Chimp Bites the Dust] Reference
In the kitchen he will domineer and rule the roast in spight of his master, and curses in the very dialect of his calling. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
She had an unshaped theory that an old maid was a match for a small boy, but that a man would cheat and domineer over her. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
The fairies also have their enchanted castles, and certain gigantic ghosts, that domineer over the regions round about them. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
They were always on hand, trying to help and to pretend that girls were weaker than they were in order to domineer over them. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid] Reference
The same human nature which is always ready to domineer over the subservient, bids us defend ourselves against the aggressor. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Peloponnesian War] Reference
Pearl Pennington was the leading lady at times, and was rather disposed to domineer over our girls, as was her chum, Laura Dixon. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm] Reference
This antagonistic faculty would domineer and crush. From Wordnik.com. [Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11] Reference
He breaks the power of past evil to domineer over us. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
'Tis a race which seeks to domineer wheresoever it comes. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Whare the trouble is, er hector and domineer with Fate. From Wordnik.com. [Riley Farm-Rhymes] Reference
Parkerverse unclear on who exactly is allowed to domineer over whom. From Wordnik.com. [The Comics Curmudgeon] Reference
But she had become imperious, and inclined to domineer, if not in action, yet in spirit. From Wordnik.com. [Cousin Henry] Reference
"Well," Constance interrupted her despairingly, "I wish you wouldn't try to domineer over me!". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Wives' Tale] Reference
"This day died Joseph Bellamy and went to Heaven, where he can dictate and domineer no longer.". From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
"I wonder," she thought to herself, "if he would expect to domineer over his wife in that style?". From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Dinsmore] Reference
If you think in your dotage you can domineer any longer -- well, you'll find two can play at that game. From Wordnik.com. [Five Tales] Reference
The Fairies also have their enchanted Castles, and certain Gigantique Ghosts, that domineer over the Regions round about them. From Wordnik.com. [Leviathan] Reference
With all reverence for German music, it has been too much inclined of late to domineer the rest of the world, especially America. From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions] Reference
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