Though so candid and straight, he could be grandly silent; he told his womankind all that he considered it good for them to know, and the rest he kept to himself; he had that quality of rulership without which manhood always seems deficient.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
Stas knew that strife for rulership raged among the negroes and power lured them the same as the white people; so he pondered for a while and said: "No, Kali.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
All the others, with few exceptions, have shown a desire to become more closely united with man, and yet during the thousands of years of man's rulership over the beasts, he has been able to make allies of only about sixty.
"The Human Side of Animals"
Royal Dixon