It may be believed that this despotism did not gain its final ascendancy without being contested in the outset.

But all opposition was quelled with a high hand by this rural Antaeus.

By the ascendancy of his fortune, and his character among his neighbours, he always reduced his adversary to the necessity of encountering him at his own weapons, and did not dismiss him without making him feel his presumption through every joint in his frame.

The tyranny of Mr.Tyrrel would not have been so patiently endured, had not his colloquial accomplishments perpetually come in aid of that authority which his rank and prowess originally obtained.
The situation of our squire with the fair was still more enviable than that which he maintained among persons of his own sex.

Every mother taught her daughter to consider the hand of Mr.Tyrrel as the highest object of her ambition.