Definitions
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- noun New World flycatchers; antbirds; oven birds; woodhewers
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Examples
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Armenians, Syrians, and Greeks, willingly or unwillingly, by daily orders of the tyranni-cal Turkish leaders, sped arrows against us.
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Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni.
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No torture of body like unto it, Siculi non invenere tyranni majus tormentum, no strappadoes, hot irons, Phalaris 'bulls,
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Pa samme måtten som Skandinavisk er en blandning, sa må vi håbe at hele verden vil en dag forstå at fred, og frihet fra nød, sygdom og tyranni, ma være en blandning av di fremodsskrittene som er symboliseret i Nobel's store idee.
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Janis was in the habit of enjoining other people to help her and then tyranni sing them with the display of some of the motives that had her using smack in the first place.
Buried Alive, The Biography of Janis Joplin Friedman, Myra 1973
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Obviously they can't build death camps before they take over, so you should not assume that any movement that hasn't imposed press censorship or started mass purges yet is not tyranni - cal.
The Genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer Hughes, Ted 1965
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= 'Opportunity'; compare _Met_ XI 278 '_copia_ ... facta est adeundi tecta tyranni', _EP_ III i 135-37 'cum domus Augusti ... laeta
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Ad Jacobus, Magnae Britanniae, etc. Regem Opt.Max. Omnia formidant, formicanturque tyranni:
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Peliden Thetis horruit cadentem. sic ripis ego murmurantis Hebri non mutum caput Orpheos sequebar sic et tu (rabidi nefas tyranni!) iussus praecipitem subire Lethen, dum pugnas canis arduaque voce das solatia grandibus sepulcris,
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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During the minority of Edward VI, no longer cowed by the "vultus instantis tyranni", he favoured first
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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