Sanakirja.org

Esimerkit

• A plague vpon the Tyrant that I serue
• ...a reconciliation between our no longer parent state, but tyrant state, and these colonies.
• Thus must I from the smoake into the smother, From tyrant Duke, vnto a tyrant Brother.
• He was most tirant & cruell of all emperours.
• Milce nas þer mid him [King William] non...Ac as a tirant tormentor in speche & ek in dede.
• Tyrant or Tyrant-bird, Catesby applied it solely to...the King-bird..., but apparently as much in reference to its bright crown...as to its tyrannical behaviour to other birds.
• The lesser tyrants are spread over the whole of America, where they represent the true flycatcher... The tyrants are bold and quarrelsome birds, particularly during the season of incubation.
• The Tyrant... The courage of this little Bird is singular.
• Public opinion, the greatest tyrant of these times.
• O dissembling Curtesie! How fine this Tyrant Can tickle where she wounds?
• A pike (called the tyranne of fishes).
• I was a blasphemar, and a persecuter, and a tyraunt.
• That strang vnmercifull tyrand [Death].
• Attache þo tyrauntz...And fettereth fast falsenesse...And gurdeth of gyles hed.
• [...] a sad tyrant, as my friends the Democrats sometimes are.
• A bastard no kyngdom suld hald Bot if þat he it wan... Of tirant or of Sarazin.
• Ore louerd helpe nouþe seint thomas : for oþur frend nath he non, / A-mong so manie tyraunz for-to come: þat weren alle is fon!
• They [viz., the Framers of the American Constitution] held England to be the freest and best-governed country in the world, but were resolved to avoid the weak points which had enabled King George III. to play the tyrant, and which rendered English liberty, as they thought, far inferior to that which the constitutions of their own States secured.
• I am the Sonne of Marcus Cato, hoe. A Foe to Tyrants, and my Countries Friend.
• Tyrannes...be but Gods scourges which he will cast into the fyre when he hath done with them.
• Whan a Kyng rulith his Realme onely to his own profytt, and not to the good of his Subgetts, he ys a Tyraunte.
• To hom þat wolde is wille do debonere he was & milde & to hom þat wiþsede strong tirant & wilde.
• Cassius... set tyrants over all Syria.
• The sonys of Yrael, and of the kyngus bloode, and the children of tyrauntis.
• Princes, þat is,... tirauntis of þis warld.
• Ancient Greek tyrannies appeared once more in great numbers with the breakdown of the polis in the period from the fourth to the second centuries [BC]. These later tyrannies tended to rely on a more narrow class base and to use a brutal military rule, and thus writers could use the words tyrant and tyranny, with their modern connotations of evil and cruelty, to describe them accurately.
• The reappearance of tyranny [in the 4th century BC] had many reasons... one of the main causes was the development of antagonism between rich and poor; tyrants came to power exploiting a social and political imbalance within the state.
• To proue him Tyrant, this reason may suffice, That Henry liueth still.
• A tyraunt þat was kyng of sysile.