How To Use Tyrant In A Sentence
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“Never enough, sir, while one of the idolatrous tyrants is left unhanged,” said he, with a right bitter smile.
Westward Ho!
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I stood it until I became tortured day and night by the prod of reason, then I quietly left the church and bade farewell to the heathen Scapular and the ten thousand other trinkets of blind paganism, and resolved to break the chain of this "_slave of the soul_" and "_tyrant of reason_.
Thirty Years In Hell Or, From Darkness to Light
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What we do need is a sense of justice that doesn't succumb to moral purity or compromise with political power (and today, that means spinmeisters more than the tyrants).
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My sense of Tiberius is that he was a bad emperor for the Roman elites in the capital, to whom he was a capricious, paranoid tyrant.
Matthew Yglesias » What Would The Roman Empire Do?
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In reality, pathologically murderous tyrants are fairly irredeemable.
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Protagoras (337 C-D); it is only “nomos, which is a tyrant among men,” that has made the participants in the dialogue strangers to one another, since they come from different cities.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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He, by contrast, is a trimmer and temporizer who has stood up for tyrants far more than he has stood up to them.
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I found no joy in cleaning up some little tyrant's mess and I didn't have enough emotion in me to cry over a silly dog-eared card.
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On the other hand, Nero's love for lyrical poetry did not stop him from being a tyrant.
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She was domineering, cold, bitter and demanding, and was often called a ‘tyrant.’
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The bodies of Tyrant Swellfoot and his subjects schematize the play's oppositions between empowerment and disempowerment, or possession and lack, and the play's registration of political relationships at the site of the bodya recurring trope throughout Shelley's worksfinds form in the oppositional pair of erection/emaciation.
Shelley
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“So, if men would but stand stock still like your soldan, you would play the tyrant with them, Master Proudfute?”
The Fair Maid of Perth
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This is the beginning of Olympia I, which is written for a tyrant in Sicily by the name of Heron.
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Her grandfather was a tyrant who insisted on absolute silence at the dinner table.
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It enables people to grow their own food and develop local economies not beholden to either home-grown tyrants or multinational corporations.
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The vertiginous traumas of meat and marking often generate spectacular results, like the miasmatic language of Beatrice in The Cenci, or the prosopopeia of Swellfoot the Tyrant.
_Queen Mab_ as Topological Repertoire
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Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii).
Pernambuco interior forests
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If we keep this mighty nation one and inseparable, we shall have answered it forever; if not, why then those who revile man as vile and irreclaimably degraded may raise their pæans of triumph; the black spectres of antique tyrants may clap their hands gleefully in the land of accursed shadows, and hell hold high carnival, for, verily, it would seem as if they had triumphed, and that hope were a lie.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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The question that divided them is still a live one: Does a tyrant, who seizes power by force, who is obeyed from fear, have a right to rule?
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The trouble began in the 1992 campaign, when Clinton did precisely what Dole chose not to do: he played politics with the China issue, winning points with Democratic Party constituencies -- labor unions and human-rights groups -- by lambasting George Bush for maintaining normal trade relations (most-favored nation means normal) and "codd [ling] tyrants" in Beijing.
Chinese 'Face' Time
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The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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The ministers of the tyrant, by the orders, and in the presence, of their master, beat him on the neck with leather thongs armed at the extremities with lead; and when he fainted under the violence of the pain, he was removed in a close litter, to conceal his dying agonies from the eyes of the indignant city.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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I hope they care deeply about the fact that when we find suffering and torture and mass graves, we weep for the citizens that are being brutalized by tyrants.
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Build up world support using Ahmadinejad's oppressive and brutal response to the civilian protestors and dissidents, many of whom are remnants of a tyrant who preceded Ahmadinejad and the Ayatollahs there, the dreaded murderer, the Shah of Iran, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
Ray Hanania: Don't Give Ahmadinejad the Excuses He Wants
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Tradition condemned the demagogues as tyrants who manipulated public opinion for their own selfish ends.
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I can't stand your bossiness; you're a tyrant.
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If this brings increasing numbers of people closer to the European camp – sometimes only because they hate the US more than they hate the EU – then, as the trigger of the crisis that brought this about, maybe some Europhiles in the future will be considering whether to raise a statue to that other Middle-East tyrant, Saddam Hussein, "the federator of Europe".
Saddam "the federator of Europe"
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The tamer and subduer of monsters and tyrants, Hercules (vanquished by the snares of loue), did not he handle the distaffe in stead of his mightie mace?
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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Once fully launched upon the swelling bosom of the sea, the progress of the surfboat was more rapid, though every yard had to be won by the most arduous of labor, the men straining like galley slaves under the lash; but in this case it was a sense of duty rather than the whip of the tyrant that urged them on.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast
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Every tyrant and every oppressor deserve the full wrath of justice.
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Rauf praises the tyrants in Iran and is apparently ready to accept their money for the Islamic center at Ground Zero, but he fails to explain the term vilayet-i-faqih to
Infidel Bloggers Alliance
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To rule mankind as benevolent tyrant was now clearly seen by our Lord to be a rejection of the will of God who does not impose his sway upon unwilling peoples or force them into submission for their good.
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To date, they have been rather directionless in their rebellions: 150 opposed the Government and demanded in effect that a tyrant be allowed to continue to torture and murder.
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We are of the deeply held belief that many human beings have come to behave as materialistic tyrants.
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The angels minister to the tyrants; or the gentle, hen-pecked husband cowers before the superior partlet.
The Kickleburys on the Rhine
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We have seen again and again what absolute power does to the egos of these tyrants or tyrranical regimes.
Egypt: Dangerous games | Editorial
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Confronted now with the possibility of ridding the world of a tyrant, they opt for further enslavement of his subjects.
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Shortsighted tyrants, spineless power-mongers and heartless thugs vie egomaniacally, dangerously, for power.
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It may have been derived from an allegorization of the tyrant Diocletian or Dadianus, who is sometimes called a dragon (ho bythios drakon) in the older text, but despite the researches of Vetter (Reinbot von Durne, pp. lxxv-cix) the origin of the dragon story remains very obscure.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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He feels as much sympathy for these victims as he does for slaves who died centuries earlier turning some tyrant's grindstone.
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In Paris Cafe society we may be viewed as petty tyrants but, say what you will, at least we are not like them, the primitive Yiddish schnorrers in black robes and fur hats.
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There! don't let's think of it, or I shall turn tyrant after all, and plunge into 'shalls' and 'sha'n'ts'!
Sir George Tressady — Volume II
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_Tyrant_, &c., with which Prospero hunts his enemies "soundly," in the
Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850
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It was the tyrants ruling the Confederacy with an iron fist who kept her from her mother and me.
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To him the popular leaders were simply deceivers, brigands and tyrants, their followers the victims of self-serving malice and moral depravity.
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Sparta freed many cities, including Athens, from their tyrants, fought bravely for Greek freedom from the Persians, and then claimed to be freeing Greece from Athens at the beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
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The people suffered under foreign tyrants.
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What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
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You're a taxpayer-funded bludger, coward, tyrant-appeaser and liar.
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I ought to have made myself your steward, or, as that dear tyrant whom we cannot hate proposed to me, live there as cavaliere servente, only our passion was too fierce to allow of it.
Albert Savarus
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It appears yet again that our very existence is threatened by the determination of tyrants dissatisfied with anything less than the domination of others.
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Sin, too, is a very powerful and cruel tyrant, dominating and ruling over the whole world, capturing and enslaving all men.
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Within weeks, it became perfectly plain that we were in the grip of a tyrant.
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Your Lordships will find that he never is a rebel to one party without being a tyrant to some others; that _rebel_ and _tyrant_ are correlative terms, when applied to him, and that they constantly go together.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12)
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Nations have frequently tired of freedom and yielded themselves to tyrants, but not because of guileless trust in false professions.
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But girls who look like they have self-esteem can also be tyrants, like what you saw in that video, and it could be false self-esteem.
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Lightning fizzed majestically just on cue behind her spiked crown; briefly illuminating the symbolic relic of a world now lost to the seizing hand of bullying big businesses and tactless political tyrants.
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Within weeks, it became perfectly plain that we were in the grip of a tyrant.
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Even the Quarterly Review, no great lover of democracy and popular causes, considered that he was excessive in his appreciation of tyrants.
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But to outmaneuver tyrants, many need training in the strategies of nonviolent action as well as better information technology.
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He ran a sword through the tyrant.
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They, together with tyrants, also tend to be below general average educational achievements, while authoritarians and democrats exhibit the best performance in school.
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For they say not regicide, that is, killing of a king, but tyrannicide, that is, killing of a tyrant, is lawful.
Leviathan
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|| Urquhart has expressed regret for what he called a fumbled effort to make the point that tyrants tend to abuse the separation of church and state.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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A silly tyrant said, oderint modo timeant; a wise man would have said, modo ament nihil timendum est mihi.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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Beneath a perfunctory veil of fiction, Keneally shows us a real-life tyrant exercising a power so absolute and unfeeling that it appears amoral, rather than immoral.
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If you propose to become a tyrant over him, ... do your best to poison him with a theory of morals against nature; impose every kind of fetter on him; embarrass his movements with a thousand obstacles; place phantoms around him to frighten him ....
The Ancient Regime
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Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown.
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In Italy the employment of mercenary companies became endemic, as the tyrants like the Visconti needed to employ these mercenary armies to prop themselves up - and that in a way was the cradle of the Renaissance.
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I exclaim against the laws which throw the whole weight of the yoke on the weaker shoulders, and force women, when they claim protectorship as mothers, to sign a contract, which renders them dependent on the caprice of the tyrant, whom choice or necessity has appointed to reign over them.
Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman
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Her grandfather was a tyrant who insisted on absolute silence at the dinner table.
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The Utopians helped some of their neighbors get rid of their tyrants, and the neighbors, seeing what great ruling Utopia had, asked the Prince if they could have magistrates rule over their own countries.
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Tyrants rise and enslave the spirit of freedom.
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Yet another brain damaged troll who equates anyone not a fundie to being a tyrant/terrorist.
Think Progress » Netanyahu Adviser Ya’alon: ‘I Do Not Accept’ Any Withdrawal From Settlements
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In ‘Del Principe e delle Lettere’, he declared poets to be the heralds of freedom and human dignity and the natural enemies of tyrants.
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under the yoke of a tyrant
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Iraqis, specifically those unfortunate enough to live in Halabja, suffered in the most extreme way at the hands of the erstwhile tyrant, Saddam.
Think Progress » 20,000 Iraqis displaced in 10 days.
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We will not bend to the will of a tyrant.
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But an exhibition of saucy seaside postcards aims to take visitors back to an era when naughty was nice, fat women were funny, blondes were dumb and all mothers-in-law were double-chinned tyrants with nagging daughters.
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All over the country, and in fact all over the world, people are waking up to the horrors being perpetrated by the tyrants of power and authority.
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His stolid instinctive conservatism grovels before the tyrant rule of routine, despite that turbulent and licentious independence which ever suggests revolt against the ruler: his mental torpidity, founded upon physical indolence, renders immediate action and all manner of exertion distasteful: his conscious weakness shows itself in overweening arrogance and intolerance.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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So suddenly, Arab freedom has taken precedence over Israel and Palestine—or so says the much-maligned Arab Street, as it topples one tyrant and challenges the next.
The Great Myth of Palestinian Statehood
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He has stood up to petty tyrants, from dogmatic Communists, through McCarthyites to third-world dictators.
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To us of the Lombard League, it was grievous that she should remain so doggishly faithful to her tyrant; though it is to be granted that perhaps fear had as much to do with her devotion as favor.
Italian Journeys
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In which censure I think I am no tyrant, which the philosopher names the worst of wild beasts; I am sure I am no flatterer, which he calls justly, the worst of tame beasts, — Kai tauta men dē tauta.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost
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It makes little difference to the serf whether he's captive of a domestic tyrant or a foreign one, his enslavement is the same.
Bush: I'm Commander In Chief, Screw Your Rights
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After all, she and her husband were not tyrants.
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When that word is pronounced, I know greater and more horrid punishments are going to be inflicted than the gloomiest tyrant has ever invented to satiate his utmost revenge.
Chapter 7
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Just because one tyrant is being edged closer to retirement doesn't mean that other members of the club are easing up on their coercion.
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Prynne had his nose slit, and his ears cut off, for speaking and writing his mind; but it must not be forgotten, that he lived to see the _tyrant's head struck off_, and the _infamous judge_ who passed the _cruel sentence_ upon him, brought to
Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1
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Soon as I beheld thee, mazed and wildered grew my sad heart; How shall I my love disclose to thee who tyrant dread art?
Perfume Review: Montale Aoud Blossom
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The music was upbeat four-four time, marching tunes from times of battle against the tyrants.
Archive 2007-07-01
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The lower classes in Japan have also reason for this, for whatever influence the latest political changes may have had on the old kuge, daimio, and samurai families of Japan, the position of the cultivator of the soil is now much more secure than before, when he was harmed by hundreds of small tyrants.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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Honestly, does anyone think a miniskirt is a good outfit for battling an alien supertyrant?
Archive 2008-01-01
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The world owes a very large part of its sufferings to tyrants; but what tyrant was there amongst the ancients, whom the poets did not place _amongst the gods_?
Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject.
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Within weeks, it became perfectly plain that we were in the grip of a tyrant.
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Despite the inconsistency, they think that Thrasymachus is ultimately advocating an immoralism since justice is defined as ‘another's good,’ i.e., the advantage of the stronger tyrant.
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Guided by an inner-something that could only have been instinct, she was soon making silly noises and coaxing delighted squeals from the little tyrant.
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WIth the departure of Darth Cheney, America will again uphold the rule of law at home and not the petty rule of an oligarch-tyrant who believed “l’etat c’est moi” was the policy for both 300 million Americans as well as untold countless illegally-detained and - tortured overseas in his gulags. —
And the Winner Is … - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
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What the fans should singRule Britannia Stadium, especially with its insistence that "Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame", seems about right for a side that bows to no one.
Stoke City Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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The cynicism, or boredom or maybe numbing hope that it was all going to be over soon - that we'd see the tyrant of Iraq in a coffin.
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By turning these complex debates into a story of noble defenders of liberty versus power-grabbing tyrants (whether politicians or officials), the liberty lobby reinforces the lazy antipolitics of the age - a sort of UK Independence party for the chattering classes.
An Englishman's Castle
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Of course, I learnt how to cope with dangerous tyrants during my spell in military intelligence in the Falklands.
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He may have been a tyrant but the world still quarrels with the manner and mode in which he was ousted from power by the powerful nations who on paper believe in democracy and the rule of law.
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Your primary role should not be to veto design ideas, or to be the tyrant at specification reviews.
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Some of the prison officers were petty tyrants.
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And given CIA's recent past history of being "duped" by other Middle East dictators/tyrants, I hope that any excuse given based on Mubarak misleading them, or reneging on a promise is flatly rejected.
Kristen Breitweiser: Rooting for Egypt
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Those who have deceived the people or the representatives of the people, in order to lead them into undertakings contrary to the interests of liberty; Those who have sought to inspire discouragement, in order to favor the enterprises of the tyrants leagued against the Republic; those who have disseminated false news in order to divide or disturb the people;
Annotations
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He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
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The kings of Sparta would not serve under the tyrants of Syracuse.
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Thou art humble as thou art, it may be; hadst thou been preferred, thou wouldst have forgotten God and thyself, insulted over others, contemned thy friends, [3973] been a block, a tyrant, or a demigod, sequiturque superbia formam: [3974] Therefore, saith
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Other avifauna restricted to this ecoregion include Serra do Mar tyrant-manakin (Neopelma chrysolophum), Cipó canastero (EN) (Asthenes luizae), and Brasília tapaculo (VU) (Scytalopus novacapitalis).
Campos Rupestres montane savanna
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But would these crimes cease to be crimes if, instead of being committed by unscrupulous tyrants, they were legitimated by popular consensus?
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It held proof that bribed by the Tyrant of Citta di Castello you had undertaken to pose an arbalister to slay the Duke on the occasion of his coming visit to Cesena.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
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The other sense of the word is as a synonym for ‘tyrant’ or a person who abuses power and violates human rights.
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With 429 or so tyrannids, there are more species of Tyrant Flycatchers than in any other family of birds in the world, yet the Eastern Kingbird has earned the title of tyrant of tyrants.
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Antoninus, when the wisdom of thy rule, long unfelt in a world which has been guided by tyrants and voluptuaries, shall soon obliterate recollection of the manner in which thy power was acquired.
Count Robert of Paris
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Now the king had a brother, whom he had imprisoned in that pit of old time, and he had died there; but the folk of the realm deemed him still alive, and when his durance grew long, the courtiers of the king used to talk of this and of the tyranny of their liege Lord, and the bruit spread abroad that the sovran was a tyrant, so they fell upon him one day and slew him.
Arabian nights. English
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What will they have left when the art of all of the cultures of the earth has been pillaged by armies, looted by wealthy collectors, destroyed by insane fundamentalists, and prohibited by tyrants?
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As you know, tyrants comprise only a small subgroup within the vast "evildoer" big tent.
Archive 2005-01-01
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To be subject to such tyrants is, moreover, a peculiarly terrible fate, since one cannot escape servitude by running away.
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Her grandfather was a tyrant who insisted on absolute silence at the dinner table.
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For Livy this is how Romulus obtained “sole power” and how Rome was founded and named.91 Here too, fratricide succeeds parricide, since after their triumphant return Romulus and Remus had killed the tyrant, their granduncle, who had seized power from their grandfather more enemy brothers!
Bloodlust
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These tyrants were too small-time to rouse Americans to action and yet simultaneously too annoying or brutal to be ignored by a civilized superpower.
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He contended that, as a loyal servant of the crown, he had been honor-bound to rid the country of a detestable tyrant who had perverted French royal institutions.
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In most parts of tropical America we may always find some species of woodpecker tanager, bush shrike, chatterer, trogon, toucan, cuckoo, and tyrant-flycatcher; and a few days’ active search will produce more variety than can be here met with in as many months.
The Malay Archipelago
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Is the response to the extreme cruelty of tyrants the defining moment of the human condition?
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The little wizard, as Uncle Morris facetiously called her changeful impulses, was her tyrant.
Jessie Carlton The Story of a Girl who Fought with Little Impulse, the Wizard, and Conquered Him
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She's spent five years slaving away for her millionaire real estate tycoon tyrant of a boss - and she's sick of it!
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It is a hive mind of little tyrants who, despite their penchant for gobstoppers, can shred minds at will and have mankind on their list.
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There's this tyrant of a father - whom we've changed to a tyrant of a mother - who's saying marry this guy or die.
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Terracottas from the temple site at Sant'Omobono may belong to the reign of Superbus; in any event they confirm that the later Roman kings were flamboyant rulers who modelled themselves on contemporary Greek tyrants.
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There one sees what Shakespeare saw: the absolute power of the tyrant, the courtiers, the flatterers, the jesters, the cunningly ambitious intriguers.
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Republicans are used tyrants, just lying leftovers from the Bush tyranny.
Think Progress » Rep. Patrick McHenry proposes replacing Grant with Reagan on the $50 bill.
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How many thousands have become murderers and robbers, bigots and domestic tyrants, dissolute and abandoned adventurers, from the use of fermented liquors; who, had they slaked their thirst only with pure water, would have lived but to diffuse the happiness of their own unperverted feelings!
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
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There would never be a better chance to eliminate the tyrant.
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That's all they have done with this arrangement, removed the word 'segregation' while in actuality we remain segregated and subjected to literally the same policy that seeks to strip us of our faith, or dignity and our will to resist tyrants acting as public servants," said Roberto Chavez, one of the inmates who chose to return to segregation rather than comply with the program.
The Seattle Times
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Over the years, the self-described ‘former tyrant’ has learned that a company comes to life when it treats its staff as peers rather than as peons.
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He may have been controlled by a tyrant, but now he isn't.
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Perhaps Elena thought that if she was in sole charge she could make a proper tyrant out of him.
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He ruled and governed us like a tyrant with a rod of iron, pooking me.
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Pope John Paul II was widely beloved, and I think you’d find many who’d describe him as the epitome of wise moral leadership, but then you can’t really overlook that thin collective that considers him one of the 20th Century’s worst moral tyrants, canyou?
On Leadership « Snarkmarket
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Here Britain's ftatefmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign Tyrants, and of Nymphs at home;
The Beauties of English Poesy
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He has spent more than thirty years challenging homophobes, tyrants, and other human rights abusers.
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He made clear that the prince is the state's head, and that it ineluctably followed that the tyrant, or prince who misruled, must be killed so that the head is severed from the body.
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In terms of brutality, systematic repression, number of killings, relish for torture and sum total of human misery caused, he was a piker next to that tyrant.
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George Steiner put these words in the mouth of Adolf Hitler: You call me a tyrant, an enslaver.
G. Roger Denson: Holocaust and Redemption in the Photography of Susan Silas
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With all the gasconade common to Orientals generally, the chiefs of the countries I have mentioned, are cowards at heart, tyrants as they are when opportunity offers; and they dread the sight of a ship of war in their harbours.
Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.
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Have your arbalister posed, and may God strengthen his arm and render true his aim to the end that Italy may be rid of a tyrant.
The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro
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When these errors took place, they seem to have arisen from an over refined system of policy, which induced Louis to assume the appearance of undoubting confidence in those whom it was his object to overreach; for, in his general conduct, he was as jealous and suspicious as any tyrant who ever breathed.
Quentin Durward
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What the fans should singRule Britannia Stadium, especially with its insistence that "Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame", seems about right for a side that bows to no one.
Stoke City Premier League 2011-12 team guide
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He doesn't even play trictrac, only piquet, and he says 'tyrant' when he should say 'king.'
Tales of Passion, Tales of Woe
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6 They were by law of that proud tyranness law > command tyranness > female tyrant (Pride) 7 (Provoked with Wrath, and Envy's false surmise), surmise > accusation, accusations
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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(That so many promised family reunions have come to nought is indicative of how poorly, on the whole, both sets of leaders — not just the tyrants in the North — have served the Korean people.)
The illegitimate nephew of Napoleon
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Who shall avenge my wrongs on you,560 tyrant despotical
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Virginius, in killing his daughter, to preserve her from falling a victim to the lust of the decemvir Claudius, was guilty of the highest rashness; since he might certainly have gained the people, already irritated against the tyrant, without imbruing his hands in his own blood.
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World
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The people designated the King as a tyrant.
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Everyone was pleased at the prospect that someone had stood up against our tyrant of a principal, and whoopee, that person was me.
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Perhaps it was the bowdlerization that led to this usage, but even in the thirties some writers use the term "patriarchy" in a derogatory sense as the rule by male tyrants.
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest."
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Examples are buff-breasted tody-tyrant (Hemitriccus mirandae), white-winged cotinga (Xipholena atropurpurea), seven-colored tanager (Tangara fastuosa), and yellow-faced siskin (Carduelis yarrellii).
Pernambuco interior forests
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The story goes that William Tell killed the tyrant with an arrow.
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His father was overthrown by tyrants, so he was sent here to develop his powers then go back to throw down some furious anger at his oppressors.
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The other two brethren perceiving so great a murther, and neglecting their owne lives, like desperate persons dressed themselves against the tyrant, and threw a great number of stones at him, but the bloudy theefe exercised in such and like mischiefes, tooke a speare and thrust it cleane through the body: howbeit he fell not downe to the ground.
The Golden Asse
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They all despaired of obtaining it from the coalesced powers, whilst they had a gang of professed regicides at their head; and several of the least desperate republicans would have joined with better men to shake them wholly off, and to produce something more ostensible, if they had not been reiteratedly told that their sole hope of peace was the very contrary to what they naturally imagined: that they must leave off their cabals and insurrections, which could serve no purpose but to bring in that royalty which was wholly rejected by the coalesced kings; that, to satisfy them, they must tranquilly, if they could not cordially, submit themselves to the tyranny and the tyrants they despised and abhorred.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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This line of argument would seem to lead either to benign Stoic conclusions of mutual indifference, or to finding tyrants and reigns of terror no threat to individual freedom.
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Thee haughty tyrants ne'er shall tame, All their attempts to bend thee down Will but arouse thy generous flame; But work their woe, and thy renown.
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* Was it necessary that the active gloom of such a tyrant of a father, should commix with such a passive sweetness of a will-less mother, to produce a constancy, an equanimity, a steadiness, in the daughter, which never woman before could boast of?
Clarissa Harlowe
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La Gitana became all but presidentess of the Transatlantic republic; La Bayadère depolarized the tyrant of the Poles!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844
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We know that behind every tyrant stands a Jew, as a JesuIt'stands behind every Pope.
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Since Innocent eventually won that rivalry and was recognized as the legitimate pope, Roger came to be painted as a usurper and a tyrant.
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Hospitals may have a certain erotic frisson, but romance novelists just love an exotic location, preferably some desert land ruled by a dusky tyrant who can give the virginal heroine a rough ride on his camel.
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Look at 'Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!' and all the pieces of poetry about war and tyrants and slaughtered saints – and the one you made yourself about the black beetle, Noël.
The Wouldbegoods
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He died as a tyrant should, surrounded by people professing their love and loyalty and all wishing him dead.
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The porter's speech disappears, for example; and Malcolm is at least as ugly and graceless as the tyrant he replaces.
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They must believe that their country will soon be returned to them and that they have not traded a tyrant for an occupier.
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Any innocent product that becomes suddenly genocidal in the hands of a tyrant has been designed by a dangerous naif.
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It's addressed to his supporters both inside and outside Iraq and it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants.
CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006
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The women of the family were deposited in a sanctuary, respected by tyrants: the men, mounted on horseback, sallied from the city, and erected the standard of civil war.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Sword of Damocles , originated from the Greek legend of Damocles is the tyrant Dionysius Ist of Syracuse (formerly 430-367) of the minions.
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Guided by an inner-something that could only have been instinct, she was soon making silly noises and coaxing delighted squeals from the little tyrant.
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A nephew of the poet Desportes, Regnier was loyal to his uncle's fame and to the memory of the Pléiade; if Malherbe spoke slightingly of Desportes, and cast aside the tradition of the school of Ronsard, the retort was speedy and telling against the arrogant reformer, tyrant of words and syllables, all whose achievement amounted to no more than _proser de la rime et rimer de la prose_.
A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
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Most of the tyrants, despots, and dictators are sincerely convinced that their rule is beneficial for the people, that theirs is government for the people.
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Tyrants have trembled, surrounded by whole armies of their janizaries.
Fifteen Years in Hell
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Every tyrant and every oppressor deserve the full wrath of justice.
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Shall I paint the leisure hours of a boarding-school, where every one is taught to become the tyrant, by being treated as the slave? our time will be better employed in enquiring how far such an education is consonant with the prudence supposed to recommend it.
Letter 177
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Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters.
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All parties agreed that he was a brutal, merciless tyrant whose removal was desirable.
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I wonder to myself if the delusions of world leaders, tyrants, despots and even elected officials work the same way.
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Not merely do the scrunching squeaks of the break, the blasty trumpet whistle, the slamming of doors, and the squalling of children bewilder his brain and bedeafen his ears, but the iron tyrant enchains and confuses his eyes.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada
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The local kaid is always a tyrant, but he is above all things a man, keen-witted, adventurous, prompt to strike, and determined to bleed his subjects white.
Morocco
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At the same fatal period, the Persian kingdom was again usurped by the dynasty of the Bowides, by the sword of three brothers, who, under various names, were styled the support and columns of the state, and who, from the Caspian Sea to the ocean, would suffer no tyrants but themselves.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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According to one episode, Jamshid, the Iranian equivalent of King Solomon, after reigning for 700 years was overthrown by the tyrant Zahhak.
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Liberating the oppressed and deposing tyrants are moral choices; appeasing dictators and fomenting hatred of those who would overcome them are immoral choices
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When any person puts himself both above and against the law, then the people are entitled lawfully to rise up - violently if necessary - to overthrow the tyrant, the self-proclaimed dictator.
Bush's Conspiracy to Create an American Police State: Part I, Police States Begin With False Flag Attacks
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Am I such a tyrant?" counter-questioned the signorino.
Tales from Many Sources Vol. V
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The central development of Cromwell from a timid toady to a towering tyrant is well depicted.
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Suboscines are particularly well represented, with vocalizations of more than 350 (!) species of ovenbirds, antbirds, tyrant flycatchers, and the like.
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And the Julius Caesar quote might suggest that a tyrant is about to be overthrown...' `Hang on,' said Pascoe.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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For a time he was also the brother-in-law of the Athenian tyrant, Peisistratus, who seized power three times before finally establishing a stable and apparently benevolent dictatorship.