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But what scarcely admits of denial or discussion is that it is tyrannously too long.

From Parisians in the Country by Waring, James

Husband, He be thy wife in heauen: let not thy pure deceasing spirite despise me when we meete, because I am tyrannously polluted.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

He finds out, soon enough for his weal and his bane, that he is stronger than Nature; and right tyrannously and irreverently he lords it over her, clearing, delving, diking, building, without fear or shame.

From Hereward, the Last of the English by Kingsley, Charles

It seemed as if her gentleness, her patience, were converted into their opposites, which now ruled her tyrannously.

From Thyrza by Gissing, George

A fearful power, is it not, and fatal, if used tyrannously?

From Sword and Gown A Novel by Lawrence, George A. (George Alfred)