Sentence Examples

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. It has always been against the policy of despotic governments to suffer the victims of their persecutions to reappear.