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“I certainly never had any musical standard to tyrannise me,” he once said.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2016

He taught him to ride and to shoot, and to tyrannise over his six maiden aunts, who all took a hand in bringing him up.

From The Squire's Daughter Being the First Book in the Chronicles of the Clintons by Marshall, Archibald

Coming so abruptly after the terror, it looked only like an attempt to tyrannise, and an attempt that failed.

From What I Saw in America by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

It is the very passions about whose origin we deceive ourselves that tyrannise most strongly over us.

From Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man by Wilde, Oscar

How the squire can let that man tyrannise over the estate as he does, I cannot conceive.

From Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.