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Example sentences for "tyrannous"

Lexicographically close words:
tyrannises; tyrannising; tyrannize; tyrannized; tyrannizing; tyrannum; tyrannus; tyranny; tyrans; tyrant
  1. And without these chastening factors to temper, soften and anneal, the sex-relation is a fierce and tyrannous concern.

  2. In the male, it was impulse as tyrannous and selfish as was the instinct to kill.

  3. For it had always been his fear that the supreme passion of his life would be for some woman who, by her passivity, would provoke him to develop those tyrannous and brutish qualities which he had inherited from his father.

  4. Who gave me succour Against the Titans in their tyrannous might?

  5. He was the first who recognised that the moral edifice based upon monastic theories must follow them; and he had in his own life already questioned the right of the so-called morality to its supreme if not tyrannous authority over man.

  6. You are assisted in your damaging work by the tyrannous ways of a village-- villagers watch each other and so make cowards of each other.

  7. Nothing but persistent resistance will ever make tyrannous religion give way to justice; and he, who was habitually accused of gratuitously defying religion, had simply not defied it enough.

  8. He challenged an investigation of the conduct of the police, and wound up with an earnest appeal to "those who were elected as Liberals" to resist the tyrannous policy of the Government.

  9. The will of an unknown God will be in their thoughts a dark and tyrannous necessity, a mysterious, inscrutable force, which rules by virtue of being stronger, and demands only obedience.

  10. Some one single tyrannous desire sits solitary in your heart.

  11. He that they put their trust in to deliver them from the tyrannous hands of their enemies, he, I say, could supply their want of necessaries.

  12. Of our ships none escaped save the Minion and the Judith, and all such of our men as were not in them were enforced to abide the tyrannous cruelty of the Spaniards.

  13. Many species seem to have been destroyed in full evolution by the contradictory exigencies of a tyrannous and capricious nervous system.

  14. The scary rabbit is an impetuous, tyrannous and jealous lover.

  15. Scindiah came to the rescue of the sightless Shah Allum, and though he destroyed his oppressor, only increased his slavery; holding him in as painful a bondage as he had suffered under the tyrannous Afghan.

  16. No, I will be tyrannous and a most deep revenger.

  17. I will be most tyrannous--bloodily tyrannous in my revenge, and most terrible in my curses!

  18. It seemed as though a gap in the ranks of plastic artists had purposely been made for the entrance of a predominant and tyrannous personality.

  19. The forest is the world, and the bodies of the lovers are things natural and unashamed, and Venus is the tyrannous instinct that controls the blood in spring.

  20. It finds a cruel prejudice, as dark and false as sin can make it, reigning with a most tyrannous sway against both.

  21. Relax your tyrannous grasp gradually from the throat of your neighbor, and steal not quite so much from him this year as you did the last!

  22. He was not the man to bow down before the fool's-cap of tyrannous and blatant ignorance.

  23. But the patriots had not suffered for generations from Spanish misrule without having learned to mistrust the wiles of their oppressors, and they viewed with more or less cynicism any surface indications of a less tyrannous rule.

  24. A slave’s children are more ready to be tyrannous than the children of one who never has been a slave.

  25. It is appalling to hear a Negro say to a horse struggling with a heavy load: “I’ll take a stick and beat you to death,” and to realize that the voice of the tyrannous master is being repeated as by a human phonograph.

  26. There is no danger we could fear-- No hardship or privation-- To free the land we hold so dear, From tyrannous dictation.

  27. It was at sea that he could give fullest scope to his hatred of the tyrannous prosperity of Spain.

  28. Let us never overlook that the master-passion of his whole career was hatred of this tyrannous prosperity of England's most formidable rival.

  29. The machinery of the state and the interpretation of its laws were, in days like these, completely at the mercy of a tyrannous king and an unscrupulous minister.

  30. All this is the work of the despised aesthetes; but this generation will probably see no meaning in the great drama of "Patience," and has no conception of the tyrannous ugliness from which Bunthorne and his friends delivered us.

  31. He devotes a whole page to the murder of Margaret Lachlan and Margaret Wilson by "brutal and tyrannous bigots" at Wigton in 1677.

  32. Farrar, it is a "symbolic way of expressing the truth that God breaks up into separate nationalities the tyrannous organisation of cruel despotisms.

  33. Come," said the tyrannous soul, "and look into the street.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tyrannous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.