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imperiously

[im-peer-ee-uhs-lee] / ɪmˈpɪər i əs li /




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Imperiously, De Gaulle refused Debr�'s resignation and fired off orders to General Maurice Challe, French commander in chief in Algeria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Imperiously he announced: "Gentlemen, I control this company."

From Time Magazine Archive

Imperiously he ordered a young man to stand aside for the "Kingfish of Louisiana."

From Time Magazine Archive

Imperiously told the corrupting influence of the hundreds of millions of easy money.

From Yama: the pit by Guerney, Bernard Guilbert

Imperiously he leaps, he neighs, he bounds, And now his woven girts he breaks asunder, The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds, Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John




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