Most of the village priests were peasants, and suffered, like them, from overbearing superiors.
For in the meantime Russia had resumed her southward march, setting to work with the doggedness that she usually displays in the task of avenging slights and overbearing opposition.
The language of one of the letters addressed to Mr. Paris, the request on the subject of the Halifax grievances and the overbearing military rule of Governor Lawrence, bespeak much excitement to have existed in the town on the subject.
The whole life of Alkibiadês attests how faintly the sentiment of obligation, public or private, ever got footing in his mind; how much the ends which he pursued were dictated by overbearing vanity and love of aggrandizement.
He was the loud-mouthed andoverbearing kind of waddy--a gunman first and a cowman afterward.
He was overbearing and loud of speech, and his menacing, insolent stare seemed to have every one cowed.
They were subsequently at daggers drawn with each other, but this haughty overbearing lord conducted himself at first with the most abject servility.
Burr asked Marshall: "Do you recollect whether the conduct of the judge at this trial was tyrannical, overbearing and oppressive?
He said that the conduct of Chase exhibited that species of oppression which puts accused citizens "at the mercy of arbitrary and overbearing judges.
Through an exaggerated reputation for magic, they are greatly feared throughout the group, and have for this reason developed a most independent and overbearing demeanour.
The Proverbs are often shrewd, often edifying, sometimes almost evangelical in their sharp ethical insight; but we shall constantly be reminded that they do not come with the overbearing authority of the prophetic "Thus saith the Lord.
You are an impertinent, overbearing puppy, and if your name were not the same as my own, I would tell the grooms to horsewhip you off the place.
I don't know or care when he lives or when he dies; but, by heaven, he is the most overbearing fellow I ever had in the house with me.
A very coward at heart was this overbearing ogre of Cesena, who for years had been the terror and scourge of the countryside.
But he was so overbearing that his relations would not visit him in Newgate, and his friends, if he had any, would not stir a finger to help him.
In its way this is a most remarkable trial, on account of the overbearing conduct of the Bench towards the prisoners.
It’s just an envious, suspicious village, with overbearing and suspicious white neighbors.
They were already successful in the Mediterranean; already the overbearing conduct of the English, in laying a nominal blockade on all the ports of France, had excited the general indignation of the Continent.
Muy bien," said the overbearing Grande, "and where is your padron?
She was brought in white and fainting, thinking that she would now have to wed the harsh and overbearing king.
But my mother hated this harsh and overbearing king, and she would not wed with him.
Then that harsh and overbearing king shouted at me.
A man himself may starve, while his industry makes others fat: and a liberal landlord all the winter through may keep his labourers in work, while a crafty, overbearing bailiff mulcts them in their wages.
The warnings and insinuations of the agent had prepared me to meet a choleric and overbearing person--one whose manner was an insupportable provocation to those who worked under him.
Then I gave him employment here, as you have seen, though by his rough and overbearingmanners he made my own life miserable, and that of his fellow-masters unbearable.
The same fate befalls also young Duchess Hergart, one of Gudrun's attendants, who for gifts had bestowed her love upon Hartmut and had been faithless and overbearing to Gudrun.
The fiery Mai complained in the Pope's presence of the scant courtesy which the Ministers of the Emperor were meeting with, while the insolent and overbearing were regaled like the Prodigal Son.
Her overbearing manner had left her without a friend save her own immediate connections and personal allies.
