monopolies

Example Sentences

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For the last week he has been leading a double life; dissembling his happy mornings from the monopoliser of his weary afternoons.

From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda

He is regarded here as a monopoliser of the general interest, and his laurels, talk he never so well, overshadow the rest of the company.'

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by Paston, George