She called her a "tyrant" one day and then she said "Jimmy Murray was a very clever boy.
The formidable tyrant was at last to meet his equal, in force, in resolution, and in pugnacity.
A tyrant could not have taken offence at its tone, which seemed to pacify God while rendering the human audience still more contrite.
Kissing was not in the Tellwright blood, but she had a fleeting wish to hug the tyrant.
Poverty was fed and clothed, and sheltered, to bind it by obligation to "the Church;" orphanage was reared and educated that it might grow up in the fold of "the Church;" sickness was tended that it might die after the formula and in the ordinance of "the Church;" and men were overwrought, and women most murderously sacrificed, and all laid down a world God made pleasant for his creatures' good, and took up a cross, monstrous in its galling weight, that they might serve Rome, prove her sanctity,
And this tyrant I was to compel into bondage, and make it improvise a theme, on a school estrade, between a Mathilde and a Coralie, under the eye of a Madame Beck, for the pleasure, and to the inspiration of a bourgeois of Labassecour!
"You will set me down as a species of tyrant and Bluebeard, starving women in a garret; whereas, after all, I am no such thing.
Sometimes I wonder if she has a guilty memory which haunts her, and sometimes I suspect Barrymore of being a domestic tyrant.
He was a born tyrant.
Linton can play the little tyrant well.
"'Oh, I forgot you,' said the tyrant.
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.
"'You forget you have a master here,' says the tyrant.
"Katherine Parr had the best of it, because she outlived the old tyrant and so kept her head on," said Molly, winding the thread round her last button, as if bound to fasten it on so firmly that nothing should decapitate that.
But, sir, you air a Child of Freedom, and your proud answer to the Tyrant is, that your bright home is in the Settin' Sun.
At this high-handed proceeding, and the threat which accompanied it, Jack's patience gave out, and catching up Caesar, as he thought, sent him flying after the retreating tyrant with the defiant declaration,— "Keep them, then, and your old book, too!
" She was no more afraid of him than Cedric had been, and she looked at him just as Cedric would have looked, and he, having been an old tyrant all his life, was privately pleased by it.
I'm not going to be a tyrant.
That was a case in which you were roused by circumstances to such a degree of vitality that you were able to dominate your mind like a tyrant.
" "Is Tom such a tyrant as that?
