1 His chest heaved once, as if his large heart, weary of despotic constriction, had expanded, despite the will, and made a vigorous bound for the attainment of liberty.
2 Now I never had, as the reader knows, either given any formal promise or entered into any engagement; and this language was all much too hard and much too despotic for the occasion.
3 He was, in truth, their ruler; and, so long as he could maintain his popularity, no monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued in a hostile country.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 27 4 He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him.
5 In the eyes of despotic governments, who are always interested in having liberty calumniate itself, the Revolution of July committed the fault of being formidable and of remaining gentle.
6 It was upon the cardinal that all the responsibility fell, for one is not a despotic minister without responsibility.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 43 THE SIGN OF THE RED DOVECOT 7 It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 14. The Two Prisoners. 8 Go to Lucas Beaumanoir, and say thou hast renounced thy vow of obedience, and see how long the despotic old man will leave thee in personal freedom.
9 The plantation organization replaced the clan and tribe, and the white master replaced the chief with far greater and more despotic powers.
10 I admit that Russia has its beauties, among others, a stout despotism; but I pity the despots.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV—THE BACK ROOM OF THE CAFE MUSAIN 11 Paris without a king has as result the world without despots.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N... 12 Chion and Leonidas of Heraclea, disciples of Plato, conspired against the despots Clearchus and Satirus.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 13 And forfeiture gives the third despotical power to lords for their own benefit, over those who are stripped of all property.
14 Paternal power is only where minority makes the child incapable to manage his property; political, where men have property in their own disposal; and despotical, over such as have no property at all.
15 Moreover, he was not much alarmed by the citadels erected against the human mind in every direction, by superstition, despotism, and prejudice.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—A GROUP WHICH BARELY MISSED BECOMING HISTORIC