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dominion
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  • There's a sense of sovereignty that comes from life on a mountain, a perception of privacy and isolation, even of dominion.  (source)
    dominion = dominance and power
  • The soldiers of the common man may toss the banners of the old regime on the victory pyre, but soon enough trumpets will blare and pomp will take its place at the side of the throne, having once again secured its dominion over history and kings.  (source)
    dominion = dominance or authority
  • The brotherhood's dominion seemed limitless.  (source)
    dominion = area of influence
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  • That must not happen in the dominion of our queen, the most powerful ruler in the world.  (source)
    dominion = region where one rules
  • I hear that excitement is the master of the hour, that you fling yourself through these dominions like a comet across the firmament.†  (source)
  • As Dickens wrote, "Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command, for this is thy dominion!"  (source)
    dominion = area where one rules
  • However, on the matter of taking fish along the coast of Newfoundland and "all other of his Britannic Majesty's Dominions in America," the people of the United States were to have the "liberty," which, insisted the British negotiators, amounted to the same thing.†  (source)
  • Your royal Highness, if you had given that challenge a week ago, I'll answer for it--there was no one in King Edmund's dominion, from the High King down to the smallest Talking Mouse, who would have refused it.  (source)
    dominion = kingdom (the area he ruled)
  • We have also over here Dominions armies.†  (source)
  • It was quite deserted; not even wild animals seemed to have used it in all the days of Smaug's dominion.  (source)
    dominion = dominance and power
  • You had fled from England, not exiled Or threatened, mind you; but in the hope Of stirring up trouble in the French dominions.†  (source)
  • As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater.  (source)
  • We shall enter it with a clear conscience, with the support of the Dominions and the British Empire, and the moral approval of the greater part of the world.†  (source)
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  • She was also active in the Granite Club, the Heliconian Club, the Junior League, and the Dominion Drama Festival.  (source)
    Dominion = part of a name
  • A little later there's the Dominion Observatory Official Tune Signal: first a series of outer space beeps, then silence, then a long dash.  (source)
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