22 collocations for monopolise

Young as they are, I find frequent reason to be jealous of them, but artifice alone can prevent them monopolising the time of an adorable being of whose society I cannot possibly have too much.

But though the sensation created by the murder of a judge of the High Court was destined to grow and to be fed by unexpected developments, the changing phases of which monopolised public attention throughout England on successive occasions, there was little in the evening papers to satisfy the appetite for sensation.

With the same pure and wholesome lessons, and with the same easy vivacity she appealed to youth through "The Flower of the Family," "The Percys," and "Nidworth," and it would be hard to say by readers of what age was monopolised the interest in "Aunt Jane's Hero," "Fred and Maria and Me," and those two little gems"The Story Lizzie Told," and "Gentleman Jim.

They seemed to think that it was the proper thing to sit round the table while she was making her pretence of a meal; but when it was finished, Mr. Joseph stretched himself out in what was erroneously called an easy-chair, and proceeded to monopolise the conversation.

Without thinking much about it, Clerambault had always monopolised his daughter, surrounding her from childhood with his absorbing affection.

and you, clergymen, who monopolise education!

"He has monopolised nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow she receives but a scanty remuneration.

He thoroughly wished that Caldigate should be liberated, but he wished himself to monopolise the glory of the work.

To an almost unknown degree, Oriel had at that time monopolised the active speculative intellect of Oxford.

Michelangelo had recourse to Clement VII., who, being anxious to monopolise his labour, undertook to arrange matters with the Duke.

And with that I resigned my chair to Bob, not sorry for the chance; he should not be able to say that I had monopolised Mrs. Lascelles without intermission from the first.

After four months of her acquaintance he found time at the end of a day's drill to write a few lines informing the young lady, nine years of whose life he had monopolised, of his intention to marry the new rival.

In the present case, the monks monopolised literature, such as it might be, and they exercised their intellect only in discussing words.

I have always recoiled when this rhetorical advantage is exploited by those who have the power to monopolise a medium.

Each individual is the outcome of a vast number of organic elements of the most various species, just as some nation might be the outcome of a vast number of castes of individuals, each caste monopolising a special pursuit.

As I slowly passed the telescope over the face of Europe, I pictured to myself the fat, plodding Hollanderthe patient, contemplative Germanthe ingenious, sensual Italianthe temperate Swissthe haughty, superstitious Spaniardthe sprightly, self-complacent Frenchmanthe sullen and reflecting Englishmanwho monopolise nearly all the science and literature of the earth, to which they bear so small a proportion.

She as good as monopolised the world's shipping and the world's trade.

In other parts of Castaneda, this officer is called the kutwalE. According to De Barros, the rajah of Cochin was offended by the conduct of the zamorin, on several accounts, and among the rest for monopolising the trade on the Malabar coast.

At first sight, I took it, as the historical leader of the future will certainly take it, as containing some allusion to the little daughter who so monopolised the affections of the Major at the end of "Vanity Fair."

But that's their lookout for monopolising every vehicle in the place.

"The man who monopolised Mrs. Benedek would soon make himself unpopular here.

The Parisian Hanse succeeded in monopolising all the commerce which was carried on by water on the Seine and the Yonne between Mantes and Auxerre.

22 collocations for  monopolise