All 4 Uses of
tyranny
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.†
Chpt 2
- Father Conmee thought of that tyrannous incontinence, needed however for man's race on earth, and of the ways of God which were not our ways.†
Chpt 10 *
- And says Joe, sticking his thumb in his pocket: —It's the Russians wish to tyrannise.†
Chpt 12
- Beneficent Disseminator of blessings to all Thy creatures, how great and universal must be that sweetest of Thy tyrannies which can hold in thrall the free and the bond, the simple swain and the polished coxcomb, the lover in the heyday of reckless passion and the husband of maturer years.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(tyranny) harsh and unjust rule