tyrannously

I still prefer Russell's approach to that of, say, Richard Dawkins, because Russell seems to me to have a better grip of the problem: he quite rightly attacks dogmatic beliefs, be they Christian or Communist, held tyrannously by anyone, and advocates free thinking and debate; and one of his arguments against religion, in particular Christianity, is that it usually fosters and leads to this sort of tyranny.

July Books 2) Collected Short Stories by E.M. Forster ninebelow 2008

“Nay;” and quoth the other, “He who owned this skull was a King of the Kings of the world, who dealt tyrannously with his subjects, specially wronging the weak and wasting his time in heaping up the rubbish of this world, till Allah took his sprite and made the fire his abiding-site; and this is his head.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Olema and men of valiancy and that whereinto thou hast cast thyself of calamity so that there is neither power nor strength left in thee to repel whoso shall assail thee, more by token that thou transgressest and orderest thyself tyrannously and profligately

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

His deed was reacting upon him — was already governing him tyrannously and forcing him into a course that jarred with his habitual feelings.

Adam Bede 2004

“Who, then?” she said at last, her voice scarcely more than a murmur; yet there was reproach in the tone, as if she had made a long speech and I had tyrannously driven her to it.

Green Mansions 2004

Learn and know, King Quimus, that I am here to end the crimes of your insolent daughter who has tyrannously done to death many kings and kings sons, and has hung their heads on your citadel.

The Brown Fairy Book 2003

It had tyrannously demanded his teeth, one by one, suspended his small eyes in dark-bluish sacks, tweeked out his hairs, changed him from gray to white in some places, from pink to yellow in others — callously transposing his colors like a child trying over a paintbox.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

I regret to say that the little Greek girl -- who was tyrannously pretty by the way -- was as thorough-paced a little flirt as ever yet the psychic philosopher dissected.

An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) David Christie Murray