- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant (from
Ancient Gr**** τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the
modern English usage of the...
- Earl
succeeded his father.
Opponents gave them the
nickname "the five
tyrannising lords".
Other figures prominent around the
edges of the
Junto include...
-
created their own
sovereign independent kingdom in
South America and
tyrannised the
Native Americans, all in the
interest of an
insatiable ambition and...
- too long this
horde of slaves,
bought in the
Caucasus and Georgia, have
tyrannised the most
beautiful part of the world; but God, on whom all depends, has...
-
begun to
abuse their power, take what
belonged to
others by
force and
tyrannise people. He
corrected the
cosmic equilibrium by
destroying these Kshatriyas...
- Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing
headmaster who
tyrannised staff and
children at
Chiselbury public school (described in the opening...
-
connected to a
literary tradition of
heroes slaying a
dragon that has
tyrannised a country. Likewise, in
Biblical and
apocalyptic tradition, the dragon...
-
sister Jane, who
moves into the
house soon afterwards.
Between them they
tyrannise David and his poor mother,
making their lives miserable. When
David falls...
- .. [T]he food was
wretched and
tasteless ... As for
thrashings which tyrannised rather than
disciplined our house, they were excessive.
Bullying was endemic...
- Saruman's use of "Ruffians" to
tyrannise the
Shire has been
compared to the ****s'
handling of dissent, here by
marching people off to an
internment camp...
