Example Sentences

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In private, she was tyrannously exacting with the servants, and spiteful, rather mean with her motherless nieces.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

Nothing that I present need be taken as typical, as tyrannously representative.

From On the Stairs by Fuller, Henry Blake

This was just what the monsters were after, and a dragon, who had once upon a time ruled tyrannously over one of the greatest countries of the world, immediately took possession of it.

From Old-Time Stories by Perrault, Charles

She is the strong woman still, conscious of immense power; and, if that shut mouth could speak, and if health were given back to her, ready no doubt still to use it tyrannously.

From The Coryston Family A Novel by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Comes back to the worship of Mammon, chosen ruler of this contemptible fin de siècle, and safe to be even more tyrannously the ruler of the coming century.

From The Far Horizon by Malet, Lucas