Word: tyrants
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...Valeria but was meshed in intrigue from her dainty toes to her pearl-sewn caul. And no stalwart like lucky Bellarion but would have rejoiced as he to exchange a philosophical career for swordplay in her service. This swordplay, these daggers by night and poisoned wine-goblets; a Milanese tyrant blood-hounding men for sport; a hundred delicate situations saved by Macchiavelian wit or pretty compliments; and Bellarion, "half god, half beast," rising to power and at last claiming the lady-these are swiftest, richest Sabatini, than whom no sword-and-cloak man is more deservingly remembered, in the public...
...what the two-legged creatures of Earth call the year 258 A. D., a tyrant (Valerian) on the peninsula called Italy persecuted people who were conducting a religion of love and humility. One of Valerian's judges commanded Lawrence, deacon of Pope Sixtus II, to bring forth the treasures of his church. Lawrence produced the poor members of the congregation. The Judge had Lawrence burned alive on a gridiron. Why the Aug. 10 meteors should be named St. Lawrence's "tears," it is hard to say. For he was most brave in the midst of his torment...
Would-be-assassin Domingo Masachs Torrent, markedly neurasthenic, did not notice in the excitement of shouting, "Down with you, tyrant!" a secret service car which swooped upon him, ran him down, broke...
...with it. Highworth Ridden, youngest son of a hardbitten English squire, is followed through a color-splashed whirligig of adventure in the Republic of Santa Barbara (roughly, South America), where he chances to feel warmly toward the daughter of a great house politically hated by the slightly insane local tyrant, Dictator Lopez. There is bloodletting for the sake of seeing an ivory floor incarnadined. The palace is yellow; the guards wear scarlet; Santa Barbarian males are tall, red-golden of hue and often go nearly naked. There are some 400 pages of highly involved events, followed by much sacking...
...Washington looked bad. They came personally to Congress with petitions railing against the General. Two years ago President Coolidge told them it was useless, told them in effect that it was impossible for them to make any sober individual in Washington believe that Governor General Wood was a tyrant, knave or fool...