Example Sentences
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Why should all men envy the despotic monarch?
From Hiero by Dakyns, Henry Graham
The single motive which in all probability hindered the head man from acceding at once to their demands was the dread of Oko Sam's displeasure in case that despotic monarch were rescued in the morning.
From Guy in the Jungle A Boy's Adventure in the Wilds of Africa by Graydon, William Murray
A despotic monarch may be all full of tenderness at this moment, and all full of wrath and sternness the next.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms by Maclaren, Alexander
He had not even reflected how a despotic monarch or a federal republic might affect himself, and possibly did not comprehend the meaning of those terms.
From The Way We Live Now by Trollope, Anthony
There should seem to be no doubt, that a sovereign thus liable to be controuled, and punished for an abuse of power, cannot be called a despotic monarch.
