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His hands were clean, slender, and claw-like, and he wore the tricolour scarf of office round his waist which proclaimed him to be a member of one of the numerous Committees which tyrannised over the people. The papers appeared to be in order, and proclaimed the bearer to be Paul Mole, a native of Besancon, a carpenter by trade.
Louie represented to her a sort of bird of prey, who was for ever descending on her child and carrying it off to unknown lairs. For neither mother nor nurse had Louie the smallest consideration; she despised and tyrannised over them both. But her hungry fondness for the baby grew with gratification, and there was no mastering her in the matter.
There was a centre hall, with three rooms opening off it on one side and one on the other; while on two other sides were broad verandahs, serving as cool drawing-rooms, or sleeping-places, perhaps, in the hotter months. This island was at one time in possession of the Portuguese, who were said to have tyrannised over the natives.
Yet something must be done to check his presumption—I would not submit to be tyrannised over by those bright, laughing eyes.
He wants you to show yourself to these people and then come on to him. That is why he has sent. He is at the wind-vane offices directing. The people are marching." "In your name," shouted the younger man. "They have ruled, crushed, tyrannised. At last even " "In my name! My name! Master?"
For all this, however, I paid a heavy price in distant years, when the human face tyrannised over my dreams, and the perplexities of my steps in London came back and haunted my sleep, with the feeling of perplexities, moral and intellectual, that brought confusion to the reason, or anguish and remorse to the conscience.
Greece has been outraged, and feels itself openly tyrannised over, when it sees us using the funds which we extorted from it for the war against the Persians, for gilding and beautifying our city, as if it were a vain woman, and adorning it with precious marbles, and statues, and temples, worth a thousand talents."
'Were ever two men-at-arms so tyrannised over by a little dolly such as this! said I, laughing. 'Nay, little one, we shall compound with you by paying you this shilling, which will buy all your milk. We can stay here and drink it at our ease. 'Jinny, the cow, is just across the marsh, quoth she. 'It is nigh milking time, and I shall fetch her round if ye wish more.
We know that even now there are many who cry out against this as dangerous, and injurious to the service; as if education spoilt an officer, and the scion of an illustrious house would not be more careful to uphold an escutcheon without blemish for centuries than one who has little more than brute courage; but those who argue thus are the very people who are injurious to the service, for they can have no other reason, except that they wish that the juniors may be tyrannised over with impunity.
The thoughts which burned in him drove him into the wilderness. He who was possessed with them could not 'come eating and drinking, and might well seem to sense-bound wonderers as if some demonic force, other than ordinary motives, tyrannised over him. The last point in this brief résumé of John's work is the universal excitement which it produced.
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