tyrannising

Israel, was facing his first scandal in office and a call for his resignation tonight after his former maid filed an embarrassing lawsuit accusing his wife of "tyrannising" her during six years of service.

The Guardian World News 2010

He that erst marched like Xerxes with innumerable armies, as rich as Croesus, now shifts for himself in a poor cock-boat, is bound in iron chains, with Bajazet the Turk, and a footstool with Aurelian, for a tyrannising conqueror to trample on.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

France, the son of Dagobert, lost his wits for uncovering the body of St. Denis: and how a [1107] sacrilegious Frenchman, that would have stolen a silver image of St. John, at Birgburge, became frantic on a sudden, raging, and tyrannising over his own flesh: of

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

To these tortures of fear and sorrow, may well be annexed curiosity, that irksome, that tyrannising care, nimia solicitudo, [2362] superfluous industry about unprofitable things, and their qualities, as Thomas defines it: an itching humour or a kind of longing to see that which is not to be seen, to do that which ought not to be done, to know that

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Europe for many ages, and still doth to some, holding them as yet in slavish subjection, as never tyrannising Spaniards did by their poor Negroes, or Turks by their galley-slaves.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

And he spoke in terms of the strongest indignation of the faithless conduct of the allies towards this dethroned monarch, who, after giving himself generously up to their mercy, was consigned to an ignoble and cruel banishment, while a bigoted Popish rabble was tyrannising over

Vanity Fair 2006

I cannot get on without domineering and tyrannising over someone, but ... there is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.

Notes from Underground 2003

In the first place, by then I was incapable of love, for I repeat, with me loving meant tyrannising and showing my moral superiority.

Notes from Underground 2003

England was like an ill-brought-up elder brother, who persists in tyrannising over the younger ones from mere habit, till one of them, by a spirited resistance, though with unequal strength, gives him notice to desist.

Representative Government 2002

Oh you tyrannising landlords - I will no longer stay

Slieve Gallen Braes 1997