Little or no previous injury had been done by the Calvinists, who appear to have been unable to gain any ascendency in this town or diocese, at the same time that they Lorded it over the rest of Normandy.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
They were a terrible power in the land, that family, at their greatest, when they Lorded it over Galloway and Annandale, and owned Touraine and Longueville in France, and used to ride out with a retinue of a thousand picked horsemen.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
The Palace, where Hradzka, surrounded by his sycophants and guards, had Lorded it over a solar system, was now an inferno.
"Flight From Tomorrow"
Henry Beam Piper