- Look up
tyrant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
tyrant (from
Ancient Gr**** τύραννος (túrannos) 'absolute ruler'), in the
modern English usage of the...
- Earl
succeeded his father.
Opponents gave them the
nickname "the five
tyrannising lords".
Other figures prominent around the
edges of the
Junto include...
- Edwards, M.A., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing
headmaster who
tyrannised staff and
children at
Chiselbury public school (described in the opening...
-
created their own
sovereign independent kingdom in
South America and
tyrannised the
Native Americans, all in the
interest of an
insatiable ambition and...
-
begun to
abuse their power, take what
belonged to
others by
force and
tyrannise people. He
corrected the
cosmic equilibrium by
destroying these Kshatriyas...
- .. [T]he food was
wretched and
tasteless ... As for
thrashings which tyrannised rather than
disciplined our house, they were excessive.
Bullying was endemic...
- disease. Rush
wrote that the "disease,
instead of
inviting us [whites] to
tyrannise over them [blacks], it
should entitle them to a
double portion of our...
-
sister Jane, who
moves into the
house soon afterwards.
Between them, they
tyrannise David and his poor mother,
making their lives miserable. When
David falls...
- Saruman's use of "Ruffians" to
tyrannise the
Shire has been
compared to the ****s'
handling of dissent, here by
marching people off to an
internment camp...
- prejudice), can have no right, by
virtue of his colour, to
enslave and
tyrannise over a
black man." In 1781 the
Dublin based Universal Free
Debating Society...
