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harsh and unjust rule
- Propensities, tendencies, habits, were as dead leaves upon the tyrannous wind of his imaginative ascendency.5 — The Woman Pays (24% in)
- She could read character sufficiently well to know by this time that she had nothing to fear from her employer's gallantry; it was rather the tyranny induced by his mortification at Clare's treatment of him.5 — The Woman Pays (83% in)
There are no more uses of "tyranny" in Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
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