They, says Nehemiah, lorded it over the brethren, but so did not I.
The Moors lorded it over city and country; and such of the Christian population as remained, and were permitted to exercise their religion, did it in humble resignation to the Moslem sway.
Rome had been for more than two centuries strangely neglected by the rulers who in her name lorded it over the civilised world.
In Theodoric's boyhood it is possible that his own barbarian countrymen, occupying as they did the province of Pannonia, lorded it in the streets of Sirmium, which was properly a Pannonian city.
The little book begins with an account of the boy's first meeting, when he was nine years old, with a little maiden about a year younger, who so touched his heart that from that time forward Love lorded it over his soul.
Not so," she replied; "but it is only in domestic life that it can be agreeable to feel one's self lorded over by a single affection.
But Sir Brian MacPhelim O'Neill, chief of a clan which had long lorded it over the southern part of Antrim and the northern part of Down, took fright at once.
But the Queen blamed him roundly for staying lazily in Dublin, while Desmond lorded it in Munster and Essex struggled on unsupported in Ulster, and while Connaught scarcely preserved the semblance of the royal dominion.
For thirteen weary weeks, lordedover by the taskmaster, Israel toiled in his pit.
The vapor wore the semblance of a deep stream of water, imperfectly descried; the grove looked like some closely-clustering town on its banks, lorded over by spires of churches.
Once the gods lordedit over man as the gigantic dinosaur lorded it in his day over lesser animals.
After 1816 Gilet lorded it over the household; the handsome chap had won the heart of Mlle.
He laid aside, too, all the dominant dignity and absolute sway with which he lorded it in his little empire, the school, and became wonderfully gentle and ingratiating.
And with what noble mirth she lorded it in this her nursery!
The National Guard was disarmed, a fierce reaction raged, the Jesuits again lorded it, and Espivent paraded about, receiving ovations to the cries of "Vive Jesus!
To such humble circumstances was the man now reduced, who had so lately lorded it over the land with unlimited sway!
Such was the miserable end of the Conqueror of Peru,--of the man who but a few hours before had lorded it over the land with as absolute a sway as was possessed by its hereditary Incas.
There he lorded it for many years; and cruel and hard was his rule, as those know who experienced it.
It is rather a delicate matter to decide whether the western European was pushing out into the Atlantic or whether he was being pushed out into it by the Turk, who lorded it in the Mediterranean until the Battle of Lepanto (1571).
Such was the miserable end of the Conqueror of Peru, - of the man who but a few hours before had lorded it over the land with as absolute a sway as was possessed by its hereditary Incas.
And most Night loved to tell of Assarnees, whose ruins are scant memories on the desert's edge, but Morning told of the twin cities of Nardis and Timaut that lorded over the plain.
Rather than feed them, serve and shepherd them, ye have ruled them, lorded over God's heritage (1 Pet.
They have lorded it in the North for generations, and so long as they continue to do so the Canadian government will permit it.
Ever since the granting of its charter, close on two centuries ago, the Company has lorded it over the North, barring out the free trader, guarding jealously against competition.
Therewith the sickness abated so far that he was able to open the stable door; and, having brought them once into the presence of their terror, his will arose and lorded it over his shrinking quivering nerves, and like slaves they obeyed him.
Northumberland House is the only one remaining of all the great mansions which lorded it on the river side.
Buckingham lorded it over him like a petulant elder brother.
These two were the founders of this period of papal greatness during which the Popes lorded it over the Emperors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lorded" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
