For only that taxation is tyrannous which is diverted to objects which are not useful to the contributors. From Wordnik.com. [The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage] Reference
Hesper, moveth in heaven a light more tyrannous ever?. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Priests were glad to be acquitted from the tyrannous power. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference
By purging Humanity's spirit, and snapping Hate's tyrannous fetter. From Wordnik.com. [Punch Among the Planets] Reference
A deeper love had grown out of the old tempestuous, tyrannous thing. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
I was among the tyrannous and wilde Lapithes, Thebans, and Centaures. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Asse] Reference
Henry never lacked a plausible theory to justify his most tyrannous actions. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Colonel Gundry, you are the most tyrannous man; in your own dominions an autocrat. From Wordnik.com. [Erema] Reference
Some influences are tyrannous; they impose themselves, they dominate, they enslave. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
The tyrannous decrees of Napoleon have taken his noblest and best servants from him. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Each must refrain from arbitrary or tyrannous interference with the rights of others. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
We are too passive in the face of a more and more intrusive and tyrannous government. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 11, 2001] Reference
Let me give you one or two instances of the course pursued by this tyrannous newspaper. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870] Reference
To be always in the right is a feeling which absorbs every other in these tyrannous souls. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
The sole victim of tyrannous treatment in this sense throughout the reign was the unhappy Warwick. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
We brought in tyrannous regimes, like Egypt's and Pakistan's, to act as bulwarks against communism. From Wordnik.com. [Anis Shivani: The Speech Obama Didn't Give to the Muslim World] Reference
Zimbabwean government members, South Africa would be painted in the same tyrannous colours, he said. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
House is full of insurgents now, lining up into a tyrannized and tyrannous group organizing as a party. From Wordnik.com. [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference
"Yes, we know your tyrannous munificence; but this," said the duke with a smile, "shall be pure barter.". From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845.] Reference
But, of course, in Iraq, there is nothing like the impact of seeing these tyrannous, brutal figures dead. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2003] Reference
Social institutions would not be tyrannous but helpful, and human happiness would be materially increased. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
They are felt to be tyrannous, and are obeyed, if at all, unwillingly, and because of pressure from without. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The largest slice of this huge provision is, as a matter of course, given to the tyrannous demands of fiction. From Wordnik.com. [Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works] Reference
We're there, and certainly Saddam Hussein was a horrible, tyrannous dictator, but that's not why we went there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2003] Reference
England, the liberty of the people, the avoiding of tyrannous impositions either upon men as men, or Christians as. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Arbitrary and tyrannous rules, cruel or needlessly prohibitive customs, engender restlessness, and are not stable. From Wordnik.com. [Problems of Conduct] Reference
Mrs. Bute never knew, or at least never acknowledged, how far her own tyrannous behaviour had tended to ruin her husband. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
So she continued to wage war within her household, more constantly vexatious to her husband, more tyrannous to her servants. From Wordnik.com. [Hubert's Wife A Story for You] Reference
Fewer ministers would ruffle it out in the fashion in hair and habit, if it were not for the command of this tyrannous vice. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
The majority glory in their giant power, but they ought to understand that it is tyrannous to exercise that power like a giant. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States] Reference
Miss Bray married him, and for forty years endured martyrdom, for he was of a tyrannous disposition and disagreeably eccentric. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees] Reference
It is not difficult to distinguish between a true emotional storm and the tyrannous cry of a wilful child who demands his own way. From Wordnik.com. [The Nervous Child] Reference
Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
He inherits and maintains the tyrannous and oppressive feudal system, that prevents the common people from acquiring ownership of land. From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
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