Therefore I am retreating, and bidding the other Argives gather in this place, for I know that Mars is now lording it in the field.
Neither as lording it over the charge allotted to you, but making yourselves ensamples to the flock.
Their furniture figured in Eliza's talk as often as her own,--their humble horsehair abased by her proud plush, her stout mahogany lording it over their painted deal.
It was only for her that there would be no lording it,--and open sight.
She could picture him lording it over the gentler-natured Will, and even coming in time to dominate the farm.
Thus came up lording loiterers; Thus crept in unprechinge prelates, and so have they long continued.
And no marvel; For if the ploughmen that now be, were made lordes, they would clean give over ploughing, they would leave of theyr labour and fall to lording outright and let the plough stand.
But this much I dare say, that since lording and loitering hath come up, preaching hath come down, contrary to the Apostles' times.
How then hath it happened that we have had so many hundred years so many unpreaching prelates, lording loiterers, and idle ministers?
The pride fostered by lording it over serfs, in the country, and by lording it over men who did not own serfs, in the capital, aroused bravery of this sort and plenty of it.
His lording presence and the smile that was like a waving feather on it compelled her so strongly to submit to hear, as to put her in danger of appearing to embrace this man's rapid advances.
She tried to be revolted by his lording tone, and found it strangely inoffensive.
My lording dear, let us go home, Our mourning to augment.
O lording dear, and brother mine, I joy your state to see; Surmising much what is the cause, You absent thus from me.
He will crush the Revolution, he will made himself all-powerful in that palace of the Tuileries where the riot is lording it at this moment!
Therefore do I now give ground myself and have bidden all the Argives likewise to gather here together; for I discern Ares lording it in the fray.
How many kings are there at this moment lording it as gods, who shall wallow here, as he does, like swine in the mud, and be thought no better of by the world!
The goddess then winged her way to the gates of Ulysses' 96 house, disguised as an old family friend, and found the suitors playing draughts in front of the house and lording it in great style.
The word "conquest" is usually employed in a political sense, and calls up visions of embattled armies subduing foreign lands and lording it over distant peoples.
Working upon the Turks' traditional devotion to their dynasty and pride in themselves as a ruling race lording it over many subject peoples both Christian and Moslem, the Turkish nationalist movement made rapid progress.
Thus came up lording loiterers: thus crept in unpreaching prelates; and so have they long continued.
Take this lording by the hand and lead him through the city to the Tower;--do not leave him till he is entered there.
In my essay the evil shape was a vision of "Science" in the form of abstraction, priggishness and sawdust, lording it over all.
Loud rang the sharp weapons in the heroes' hands, as those of Netherland followed their lording through the sturdy host.
Two mighty princes, as we are told, walked by the lady and bore her train, when King Etzel went to meet her, where she greeted the noble lording with a kiss in gracious wise.
When the mighty Liudeger espied Siegfried and saw that he bore high in hand the good sword Balmung and did slay so many a man, then waxed the lording wroth and fierce enow.
This happed because he daily saw Kriemhild, the fair; for the sake of her unmeasured beauty the lording stayed.
Yet while finely lording it over outsiders, the bishops were brought curiously to their bearings within their own walls.
Let us lions become sculptors, and then we will show you lions lordingit over prostrate men.
Oh, it was good in that black-scuttled lot To see the Frye come lording on her way Like some old queen that we had half forgot Come to her own.
Man lording it over man, man kneeling to man, is a spectacle that Gabriel might well travel hitherward to behold; for never did he behold it in heaven.
I'll not be frightened into theirlording it over me!
Ay, and come home in the holidays, lording it as if he were master and more, like the son and heir.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lording" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
