In Greece they were called _tyrants_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them--they are born timid and tyrants and maltreat those who are humblest before them. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
By-and-by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
The consent of the governed is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
There is no need to suppose that he drew from life; or that his knowledge of tyrants is derived from a personal acquaintance with Dionysius. 柏拉图.理想国.
As they say, the persons who hate Irishmen most are Irishmen; so, assuredly, the greatest tyrants over women are women. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
All princes who are disposed to become tyrants must probably approve of this opinion, and be willing to establish it; but is it not a dangerous one? 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
Like other tyrants, I carried my point. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
So dunnot turn faint-heart, and go to th' tyrants a-seeking work. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔.南方与北方.
Tyrants were distinguished from kings, who claimed some sort of right, some family priority, for example, to rule. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Euripides exhibited the last phase of the tragic drama, and in him Plato saw the friend and apologist of tyrants, and the Sophist of tragedy. 柏拉图.理想国.
Madmen like Pitt, demons like Castlereagh, mischievous idiots like Perceval, were the tyrants, the curses of the country, the destroyers of her trade. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
When, later on, the Persians began to subjugate the Greek cities of Asia Minor, they set up pro-Persian tyrants. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man theory: the assassination of tyrants or the adoration of saviors. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
They were created mainly by tyrants; most of them by the unrequited toil of degraded and enslaved labourers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
For other crimes as tyrants and oppressors, I have this race a long time on my register, doomed to destruction and extermination. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.