That's what they meant by their silly my-Lording.
"A Poached Peerage"
William Magnay
The end of the fourth century sees Seleucus of Babylonia Lording it over the most part of West Asia which was best worth having, except the southern half of Syria and the coasts of Asia Minor and certain isles in sight of them, which, if not subject to Ptolemy of Egypt, were free of both kings or dominated by a third, resident in Europe and soon to disappear.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Think of sixteen proud monarchs of the campus making brick in striped suits, with a cross foreman who used to haul ashes from the college campus Lording it over them and tracing their ancestry back through thirty generations of undesirable citizens!
"At Good Old Siwash"
George Fitch