Citations:benevolent overlord
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English citations of benevolent overlord
- 1912, Raymond Wilson Chambers, Widsith, a study in Old English heroic legend, page 45:
- whilst in the South German Etzel we can trace quite clearly the benevolent overlord of Ostrogothic tradition.
- 1926, John Maurice Clark, Social control of business, page 16:
- This means that it must be exercised in the interests of the governed as they see their interests (not as some benevolent overlord might see them).
- 1988, Julia Fitzgerald, Taboo, page 76:
- Drew, acting the benevolent overlord, tipped them handsomely, and then he and Mishaal retired behind their portable haven and prepared to sleep.
- 1990, Hisao Kimura with Scott Berry, Japanese agent in Tibet: my ten years of travel in disguise, page 103:
- Ever since our benevolent overlords, the Japanese, began to panic everything has been all turned around.