Such trickery as that used by the jackal in trapping the tiger is the common thing to find in folk tales where oppressed weakness is matched against ruthless and tyrannic power.
Love, with what strange tyrannic laws must they Comply, which are subjected to thy sway!
What tyrannic mistress dare To one beauty Love confine?
Some think that a tyrannicgovernment over those near us is the greatest injustice; but that a political one is not unjust: but that still is a restraint on the pleasures and tranquillity of life.
Juliet now stood in scarcely less dismay than she had been witnessing all around her; panic-struck to find herself in the power of a person whose character was so wantonly tyrannic and irascible.
Yet those commands, however arbitrary and unfeeling, were more supportable than those with which, after every other source of tyrannic authority had been drained, the day was ordinarily concluded.
The meek intelligence of those dear eyes (Blessed be the art that can immortalize, The art that baffles Time's tyrannic claim To quench it) here shines on me still the same.
This was a continuation of those tyrannic Acts which were passed in this infamous reign, some of which, as the Corporation and Test Acts, even survived the revolution of 1688.
But equal to their wild tyrannic will) To rob us of the sun's all-cheering ray, 340 Were less severe.
Virtue such as thine, From the fierce trial of tyrannic pow'r, Shines forth with added lustre.
Husbands, in whose hands barbarism had placed a tyrannic sceptre, are required by the religion of Jesus to renounce their unjust domination, and to descend to the regulated and affectionate intercourse of the domestic hearth.
What Lord Bacon has called "the wild justice of revenge," and what America recognizes in the unseen but omnipotent incarnation of Judge Lynch, was necessarily the rule of action when injured Right took arms against tyrannic Might.
But even Nell's performance in this comedy was nothing compared to one part of her performance afterwards in the tragedy of Tyrannic Love.
The first fruits of the bargain were a prose-comedy called The Mock Astrologer and two heroic tragedies entitled Tyrannic Love and The Conquest of Granada, the latter being in two parts.
Yet it may be doubted if in any of these plays Dryden achieved a degree of immediate success equal to that which had attended his Tyrannic Love and his Conquest of Granada, written before his laureateship.
Thus were the tyrannic Six Articles restored, and all but the Papal supremacy.
On the contrary, so intense was the hatred of him and of England, which his tyrannic and detestable conduct had created in every rank and class of the Scottish people, that these objects were now farther off than ever.
The subserviency of the clergy was not one of the least evils which a tyrannic court fostered.
What tyrannic mistress dare To one beauty love confine, Who, unbounded as the air, All may court but none decline?
The thanks and prayers of the elder daughter would have affected with pity and commiseration the most tyrannic heart.
I dare say these poor starving creatures would willingly have sought protection under the shadow of our mercy, rather than return to be the slaves of a tyrannic government.
While mighty Lewis finds the Pope too great, And dreads the yoke of his imposing seat, Our sects a more tyrannic power assume, And would for scorpions change the rods of Rome.
Tyrannic force is that which least you fear; The sound is frightful in a Christian's ear: Avert it, heaven!
She could not see his face, but she knew that he was looking at her with his expression at once tyrannic and benevolent.
While she was busily cutting out the news from the Telegraph to be ready for Arthur Dayson, there was a very timid knock at the door, and Florrie entered, as into some formidable cabinet oftyrannic rulers.
She shook hands with the tyrannic father, who was, however, despite his reputation, apparently just as nervous as the son.
On the other hand the heroic drama, of which Dryden's Conquest of Granada and Tyrannic Love may be taken as fair samples, has obvious affinities with the more questionable side of the Elizabethan stage.
A delegation was sent to the king with a strong remonstrance against his tyrannic course.
Two years later Mr. Davidson met the king, and, refusing to submit conscience to his tyrannic will, was cast into prison.
He had impoverished, imprisoned, exiled, and even slaughtered his subjects in great numbers, without other fault than their refusal to submit conscience to his tyrannic will.
The elect of the Jessean line To this firm law their sceptre did resign; And shall this base tyrannic brood invade Eternal laws, by God for mankind made?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
