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Usage examples of tyranni.

His death--and once imprisoned by the Tyranni, his execution becomes a probability you must face--will be resented even by the cowed slave race the Tyranni are trying to breed.

An assignment, perhaps, for the failure of which the Tyranni are ready to kill you.

And since then it has become more imperative than ever to become once again the man my grandfather had been before the Tyranni came.

Over fifty years had passed since the Tyranni had come and put a sudden end to the separate lives of two dozen sprawling, brawling political units in the depths beyond the Nebula.

He said, ‘The matter is death for the Tyranni, and death for us as well.

Instead, the Tyranni, abandoning power alone, stressed speed and co-operation, so that the opposed Kingdoms toppled one after the other, singly.

The Rancher of Widemos was responsible for the collection and delivery of these funds on behalf of the planet Nephelos and, perfunctorily, the Tyranni would check his books.

The “Great King” was the Khan of the Tyranni, who still lived in the legendary stone palace on the Tyrannian’s home planet.

The Tyranni are not interested and do not concern themselves with local politics.

It was perhaps well on the road to establishing finally a universal Trans-Nebular Empire in a stolid century or two, when the Tyranni came and did the job in ten years.

The Tyranni did not care who got the cheers as long as they themselves received the taxes.

If the Tyranni are displeased, they will remove me, imprison me, maybe even exec--” He gagged on the word.

And then he would have been killed by one of his own, and the Tyranni would merely be disdainful onlookers.

The old feudal customs had been losing their force with the generations even before the Tyranni came.

Obviously, I had to get away from the Tyranni, and that without giving them my real name.