tyrannic

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Tyrannic act, incendiary speech, Recklessly rend the subtly woven tissue That binds Society's organs each to each.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 19, 1890 by Various

From "Tyrannic Love" Ah, how sweet it is to love!

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

And thou, O filial piety, that rul'st My woman's breast, turn to vindictive rage; Assume the port of justice; show mankind Tyrannic guilt hath never dar'd in Syracuse, Beyond the reach of virtue.

From The Grecian Daughter by Murphy, Arthur

A striking example would be the Song of the Spirits in Dryden's Tyrannic Love, Act iv.

From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III by Summers, Montague

Tyrannic Love smiled yesterday, And lost the terrors of his sway, But is a god again to-day.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various