Sentence Examples

1. He was, in truth, their ruler and, so long as he could maintain his popularity, no monarch could be more despotic, especially while the tribe continued in a hostile country.
2. It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.
3. In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, while on the desk before him might be seen sundry contraband articles and prohibited weapons, detected upon the persons of idle urchins, such as half-munched apples, popguns, whirligigs, fly-cages, and whole legions of rampant little paper gamecocks.
4. The British Crown exercises a real and despotic dominion over the larger portion of this vast country, and has a governor-general stationed at Calcutta, governors at Madras, Bombay, and in Bengal, and a lieutenant-governor at Agra.