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to control; or to be most influential, powerful, abundant, important, or conspicuous
- I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself.Chapter 23 (29% in)
- ...with fresh flowers, had looked grim and gruesome enough, but now, some days afterwards, when the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to browns, when the spider and the beetle had resumed their accustomed dominance, when the time-discoloured stone, and dust-encrusted mortar, and rusty, dank iron, and tarnished brass, and clouded silver-plating gave back the feeble glimmer of a candle, the effect was more miserable and sordid than could have been...Chapter 15 (21% in)
- As he went on, however, he grew more angry and more forceful, till in the end we could not but see wherein was at least some of that personal dominance which made him so long a master amongst men.Chapter 24 (32% in)
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