__ it over: ruled

Usage examples of lorded.

And even the minority who lorded it over that wide realm of subjugation and of restraint and forced labour were uneasy and unhappy in their souls.

Iss saw the ruthless determination of a man who had lorded Clan Bludd for thirty-five years and was loved as a king by his sworn men.

This man before him might be a chief from a lesser clan, but he had lorded that clan for fifty years, and for that alone he demanded respect.

But while the Dinosaurs lorded it over the hot selvas and marshy plains and the Pterodactyls filled the forests with their flutterings and possibly with shrieks and croakings as they pursued the humming insect life of the still flowerless shrubs and trees, some less conspicuous and less abundant forms upon the margins of this abounding life were acquiring certain powers and learning certain lessons of endurance, that were to be of the utmost value to their race when at last the smiling generosity of sun and earth began to fade.

These two were the founders of this period of papal greatness during which the Popes lorded it over the Emperors.

As he walked down the mountain, past huts of thatch and brushwood poles identical to his own, following a trail that wound through sun-browned thickets lorded over by banana trees, he was not thinking of Onofrio but of Encarnación.

Randolph Neil Paraden, a senior that year, lorded it over all with any social pretensions at all.

Voldar was plainly given pause because Mavrix had managed to reach her, and Mavrix in turn seemed thoughtful at facing the goddess who lorded it over the formidable foes he had already beaten.

But they were of a different class than the Greeks who wrote the books and the laws, and collected the taxes, and lorded it over their great estates.