And, above all, no animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Animal Farm]

See but with what rigour those jealous husbands tyrannise over their poor wives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

It is one thing to tyrannise your people; quite another to presume to do so on British territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [The window is closing] Reference

But the rich, if the community gives them rank, very often endeavour to insult and tyrannise over others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Politics: A Treatise on Government] Reference

'Sire,' replied the fair slave, 'whatever the slave is, there is no king on earth who can tyrannise over her will.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fairy Tales from the Arabian Nights] Reference

He loves to tyrannise over women and show his familiarity by a certain brutality of address, and the line comes not slowly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference

They, O Dhritarashtra, who tyrannise over Brahmanas, women, relatives, and kine, soon fall off their stalks, like fruits that are ripe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

When we were once more reassured that said grandmother would probably continue to lovingly tyrannise the family for a little while yet?.    From Wordnik.com.  [between the rock and the cold, cold sea -- Day] Reference

But it was no part of Mackenzie's plan to tyrannise over men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pioneers] Reference

The thing that really is trying to tyrannise through government is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eugenics and Other Evils] Reference

Do you imagine I should want to dictate to you -- or tyrannise over you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Delia Blanchflower] Reference

The minister of truth does not tyrannise over my reason, he enlightens it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emile] Reference

How the squire can let that man tyrannise over the estate as he does, I cannot conceive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

People should not tyrannise over their friends; and the Jesuits have really gained enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pascal] Reference

"Why, it's to show Aunt Thérèse that she must not tyrannise over us like that," she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbara in Brittany] Reference

You are proposing that I shall stand in with you while you tyrannise over the neighbourhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference

Don't let any interested parties lead you to believe that we either do or wish to tyrannise.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Winifred's, or The World of School] Reference

Its delights tyrannise over a wretched heart, which my passion has condemned to the keenest pain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Psyche] Reference

It is the lesser light that desires to dazzle and bewilder his company, to tyrannise, to show off.    From Wordnik.com.  [At Large] Reference

No nation could tyrannise over another nation unless it were tyrannised over itself by some illusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Agony of the Church (1917)] Reference

But there are other ways in which men tyrannise over men and in which Christ's redemption sets us free.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

Raith to run off with any bone he might have been gnawing, and to tyrannise over him in a variety of ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories of Animal Sagacity] Reference

Little wonder if she becomes hurt and angry, and attempts to tyrannise and to grasp her old power back again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lay Morals] Reference

Coming so abruptly after the terror, it looked only like an attempt to tyrannise, and an attempt that failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in America] Reference

He proved himself again and again to be an arrant coward; and, coward-like, he tried to tyrannise over the weaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers] Reference

I had not long to wait, for the fact was that the black had snatched at the opportunity to tyrannise over something.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunyip Land A Story of Adventure in New Guinea] Reference

There is hope for the world that its oppressors shall not always tyrannise; there is hope for each soul that, if we take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference

It is the instinct of fallen man to hate equality, to desire ascendancy, to crush, to oppress, to tyrannise, to enslave.    From Wordnik.com.  [He Knew He Was Right] Reference

Gringrimeau tyrannise over this young sister-in-law, who was still a mere gentle child, and was absolutely cowed by the woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stray Pearls] Reference

A man who is an egotist and a bully finds rich pasturage among boys who are bound to listen to him, and over whom he can tyrannise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Upton Letters] Reference

Thus in the atmosphere of this slowly dying sectarianism anybody who chooses to prophesy and prohibit can tyrannise over the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [What I Saw in America] Reference

You have a perfect right to forbid them to enter your school except on certain conditions, but not to tyrannise over them when there.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carbonels] Reference

"Well, well, do as you like," he replied, closing his eyes, "you all tyrannise over the sick man, but perhaps I am a bit tired," and then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Luttrell's First Patient] Reference

Francesco had in the meantime settled down in the fortress, and, to be more free to tyrannise over Lucrezia and Beatrice, sent back to Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cenci Celebrated Crimes] Reference