They say the colonies were tried and tyrannised over; I say the home Government was tried and tyrannised over.
They are all tyrannised over by logic, and this is optimism--in its essence.
Alfieri stayed here several years without revisiting his home, tyrannised over by the valet who added to his grandeur, constantly subject to sickness, and kept in almost total ignorance by his incompetent preceptors.
Great civic corporations reigned in those days; churchwardens tyrannised and were rich; and many a goodly chime of bells they hung in our old church-steeples.
In revenge for this disability he tyrannised over her household.
Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile, who had for some time been the ally of England, had murdered his wife, tyrannised over his nobles, and contracted an alliance with the Mohammedans of Granada.
Not long after this, in the year 1791, these coloured people rose on the whites, who had long tyrannised over them, and having murdered vast numbers, declared their island an independent kingdom.
Captain Grindall was a very plausible man on shore, so he easily deceived the owners; but directly he got into blue water he took to his spirit bottle, and then cursed and swore, and brutally tyrannised over everybody under his orders.
Before a function is fully formed and matured, it is a danger to the organism: all the better if it be then thoroughly tyrannised over!
Consciousness is thus thoroughly tyrannised over--and not least by the pride in it!
Miss Foster, wondering--'when the priests tyrannisedover everybody?
And it is a most excellent thing, Miss Foster, to betyrannised over by priests.
The rulers of Brussels and Mechlin and Louvain were of a different stamp to the men who had tyrannised over Bruges and Ypres and Ghent.
He was determined to establish order and terrify all who had hithertotyrannised over quiet and well disposed people.
They were snobs, these Camorrists, and always paid their respects to persons of means, while they tyrannised only over the poor and needy.
Truly, Ozias was your brother, and had your self-conceit, and tyrannised over the priests of that day, just as you do.
Never could he have taken such a step had he been still a vassal of the Greek court, which had not only tyrannised itself, but left the Apostolic See defenceless to the Lombard aggression for many generations.
The more the Council tyrannised over and trampled upon the liberties of the people of Scotland, the more resolutely did the leal-hearted and brave among them resist the oppressors.
The greatest painters of the world have been at its feet, encouraged and cherished and tyrannised over.
In modern times, the most pious Catholics have often tyrannised over the Church.
She made him her servant and tyrannised over him, but at the same time followed and imitated him as if she had been a young spaniel he was training.
The sons are often actually tyrannised over by their mothers.
The allies are tyrannised over by the governor and tyrannised over by the ten commissioners set up by Lysander over every city.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannised" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
