tyrannises

I know he will never touch me with the law: I know his wife, over whom he tyrannises in trifles, guides him in matters of importance.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Cette pauvre auntie tyrannises over every one it's true, and then there's the governor's wife, and the rudeness of local society, and

The Possessed 2003

It oppresses us or stimulates us to action, it tyrannises over us or inspires us to higher things.

Rudolph Eucken : a philosophy of life 1913

The sun only gives a feeble light, the soil is completely barren, whatever is built there is soon destroyed again, conflict and strife perpetually rage there, whatever gets the upper hand tyrannises over those which were in power before it.

Mystics and Saints of Islam Claud Field 1902

There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike.

The Soul of Man under Socialism Oscar Wilde 1877

So the ready compliance of the worst part of my nature masks for me the tremendous force with which my evil tyrannises over me, and it is only when I face round and try to go the other way, that I find out what a power there is in its invisible grasp.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Psalms Alexander Maclaren 1868

His dominion is death to the human nature over which he tyrannises.

Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Alexander Maclaren 1868

Once seen it will never be forgotten: it tyrannises and dominates the imagination by its titanic power of drawing.

The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti John Addington Symonds 1866

Always ready to apologise for the male monster that tyrannises over you.

Post Haste 1859

As a big cowardly boy at school tyrannises over little boys and scoffs at fear until a bigger than he comes and causes his cheek to blanch, so Mr Stuart bullied and scorned the small troubles of life, and scoffed at the anxieties of religious folk until death came and shook his fist in his face; then he succumbed and trembled, and confessed himself, (to himself), to be a coward.

Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn 1859