with a high hand

Still he sought to carry it with a high hand.

Your father, I have heard, on his side, carried matters with a high hand.

This last, having no alternative, was trying to carry off things with a high hand.

Will you do this, and carry your conviction with a high hand?

"Once in office Malone ran things with a high hand.

He writes "no way is left to control them but with a high hand and an outstretched arm."

Trouble enough at Lyons; and the dominant party carrying it with a high hand!

"What I mean," went on the captain, "is that these people may carry the proceedings off with a high hand.

The servants frequently had to go to him for orders, and he carried things, as a rule, with a high hand."

"The woman carried matters with a high hand.

Around this period, the Hanbalis, supported by popular sentiment, carried things with a high hand.

Mentally clutching the tattered edges of my imaginary queen's robe about me, I tried to carry it off with a high hand.

Surrounded by every luxury, and in receipt for the first time in his life of a steady income, Bonaparte carried things with a high hand.

Radnor was deadly pale, but he still endeavoured to carry off matters with a high hand.

This rule creates a tactical opportunity for victory by trying to be caught with a high hand while another player calls "Yaniv".

Helen with a High Hand is a short, comedic novel by Arnold Bennett, published in 1910.

He had intended to carry things off with a high hand, but in the face of his father's gathering frowns, he found himself stammering and hesitating.

Daggs an' his Hash Knife Gang have begun to hold forth with a high hand.

But NO answer was sufficient for Georgie; he had to be humored in his desires, or he would carry them with a high hand.

However, they carried it with a high hand, and a prayer-book was agreed upon, in which the extremest opinions of Archbishop Laud were not forgotten.

Furthermore the law provides no sacrifice for sin "with a high hand", i.e. wilful and deliberate sin (Numbers 15:27-31).

With a high hand he had negotiated with various local chiefs and dignitaries of dubious title and authority, pledging recognition and good British gold.

Selina Goobie is a sort of High Priestess of the Cult, and she put down all opposition with a high hand.

Without seeming to do so, Merriweather was apparently directing things at the plant with a high hand, using the guise of humble loyalty as an excuse for actions."

Although he had determined to carry things off with a high hand, he had known quite well that the arrival of Nofret would rovoke a storm-t least in the women's part of the house.