I know your character, quoth he, You proud insulting vicar, Who only huff and domineer And quarrel in your liquor.
He took full use of his advantage, and was as arrogant and insolent as a man could be, quietly, who suddenly finds himself in a position to domineer over an older man who has employed and condescended to him.
They had rather domineer in a parish of atheists than rule over a Christian world.
It has a constitution, I admit, similar to the present tumultuous military tyranny of France, by which an handful of obscure ruffians domineer over a fertile country and a brave people.
To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity.
But this suggestion was by no means welcome to Lord Grey, and Lord Althorp at once declared that he could not undertake the leadership of the House of Commons if Brougham was to remain in it in any official position to domineer over him.
Mountjoy had attempted to domineer by his bad temper, and had failed; but Harry, without any attempt at domineering, always doubting of himself till he had been assured of success by her lips, had succeeded.
He was a little the elder, and had at first thought to domineer over his friend.
Let her go, and the sooner the better; she won't be trying to domineer over me again in a hurry.
By-and-by the blue-eyed, mystic-mild face in the upper window of the old gray tower began to domineer in a very remarkable manner upon Pierre.
The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.
Did God take upon him the form of a servant,[233] and must thou domineer and have the highest place?
A proud man is apt to domineer with insolency when he gets any advantage, and perceiveth himself on the higher ground.
Then will I get m' a clerk, A practis'd fellow, wiser than my worship, And domineer amongst my fearful neighbours.
He sits all his life at his work, likes it only because he can domineer over his clerks and get the better of his customers.
He's a churchwarden because he can domineer over the choristers and keep them under his thumb; he's the patron of a school because he likes to feel the teacher is his subordinate and enjoys lording it over him.
England would still be, as she had been under James the First, under Charles the First, and under Charles the Second, a power of the third rank; and France would domineer unchecked beyond the Alps and the Rhine.
In truth he did recognize it as a fact that he must either domineer over dukes, or else go to the wall.
He was learning to despise mere lords, and to feel that he might almost domineer over a duke.
In the kitchen he will domineer and rule the roast in spite of his master, and curses in the very dialect of his calling.
A justice of peace he is to domineer in his parish, and do his neighbour wrong with more right.
He forced the weaker to work for him, preferring to domineer over rather than to associate fraternally with his fellows.
Sblood, I am not afraid of you nor them neither, you must have your poets, and your cavaliers, and your fools follow you up and down the city, and here they must come to domineer and swagger?
