tyrannous

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"It is," said the Tyrannous Man, with a faint touch of surprise.

From The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

Tyrannous counsels prevailed; the prudent plans of Iturrigaray were rejected, and Mexico fell back into the same political bondage under which she had groaned since the conquest of Cortez.

From The Tiger Hunter by Reid, Mayne

"Tyrannous" and "needlessly oppressive," are terms frequently applied by outsiders to the rules that hedge in cadets, but there is a good reason behind every regulation.

From Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point Finding the Glory of the Soldier's Life by Hancock, H. Irving (Harrie Irving)

Tyrannous trees of over-topping growth, which at first hesitatingly accepted its hospitality, crowd and shove, compelling the hardy and courageous plant to further efforts to win dominion from the ocean.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

Tyrannous exaction brings on servile concealment; and that again calls forth tyrannous coercion.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund