There was something inexpressibly absurd in the mood which my mind was getting into, and I resolved to throw off the incubus which oppressed me, and be like other people.
None of these can be opened, and only a few of the lower ones, in consequence of which, a thorough air is rare in their houses; yet the people of rank do not seem oppressed by the heat, which is frequently almost insupportable to a European.
But listen, and tell me if in the state of anxiety which oppressed me I had not good reason for alarm and for fearing some fatal misfortune.
Their oppressed subjects soon found that they must escape at any cost from oppressors whom they could neither appease nor satisfy.
This old house, for example, which sometimes has positively oppressed my breath with its smell of decaying timber!
One of the most common charges against Burke was that he allowed his imagination and pity to be touched only by the sorrows of kings and queens, and forgot the thousands of oppressed and famine-stricken toilers of the land.
The richer members of the gild gained the upper hand in the administration of its affairs and oppressed the poorer.
The Turk has oppressed and robbed and tortured and murdered us in time past, and now the Russian who has come to deliver us is, it seems to me, completing our ruin.
No--nothing worth mentioning," replied the scout, but as he spoke a feeling of giddiness oppressed him.
MY DEAR SIR, I find myself very comfortable here, neither oppressedby ceremony nor mortified by neglect.
The fear of the enemy oppressed them, but it began to be mingled with confidence; these troops belonging to the foe were not so fearful as they had imagined.
The working of his features showed the mighty struggle of the labouring thoughts that oppressed him.
My heart yearned towards her now with a longing more tender than before; I felt oppressed by the necessity of foregoing the shallow little love which, as the handsomest man about town, I had begun to consider far beneath my deserts.
Since yesterday my son is oppressed with very extreme fever.
But yet John was full of comfort and kindness to those that were tempted or oppressed with any weighty matter, for he had the gracious power of consoling all, whatever might be the cause for which they came to him.
He could strike fiercely on behalf of the weak and the oppressed without darkening the sunshine by any worship of "sorrow.
One is never oppressedby too heavy a weight of natural beauty.
And the lines end--his last--with that stoical resignation in the presence of a soldier's fate which gives to the close of his adventurous enterprise on behalf of an oppressed Hellenic world such a gallant dignity.
Thou hast a dead friend to avenge and I, the guiltless oppressed to justify.
She was oppressedand sorrowful, almost ready to be directed by this man of many sorrows.
Others came to stand beside him, the order of worship proceeded, and the singing Levites ranged themselves on the steps before Nicanor, but he was plunged in his spiritual difficulty and oppressed by the care for himself and his own.
The pastor was not less confident, but more withdrawn within himself: the elders became more grave, the people, oppressed and prayerful.
I have also ordered that satisfaction should be made for their estates, to those who have been injured and oppressed by them.
Mrs. Mowbray read the troubled brow, the ingenuous mouth, the oppressed manner; and her soul went forth in sympathy to her little perplexed human sister.
Here there was an aggregation of infirmity, which oppressed her young heart and revolted her fastidious sense.
So then, oppressed with discontent, Upon the stool he sighing went; And then, his precious life to check, Did place the rope about his neck.
And by the time Taylor reached his vantagepoint, Carrington was crouching at the thicket's edge, near the rock where he had been concealed, oppressed with a conviction that Taylor was working his way toward him through the thicket.
She sat down again, aware of the startling unconventionality of this visit and of the conversation that had resulted from it, but oppressed with no sense of shame.
A sensation of stifling, as if her throat were closing together, oppressed her suddenly, and picking up her hand-bag, she ran downstairs and out of the house.
As the time for our leaving her drew near, she was visibly oppressed with grief.
I heard one longer and more deep-drawn sigh fall slowly from her lips, as though her bosom, oppressed by some secret weight, had at one breath exhaled the aspirations of a long life.
God is us; and henceforward the feelings which oppressed us will no longer be love, but a holy and rapturous adoration!
That, as to gaming and running in debt, they were so essential to a man of fashion, that nobody who was not born in the city, and oppressed by city prejudices, would think of making the least objection to them.
When the Roman people, oppressed by their enemies, were looking out for a leader able to defend them, and change the fortune of the war, where did they seek for this extraordinary man?
The splendour of her beauty oppressed him with a sense of shame; and with an involuntary exclamation, which sounded something like a groan, he let the paper slip from his hand, and drooped still lower in his chair.
She could not help thinking of him even when her mind was oppressed with anxiety on her father's account.
But even that was illogical, for it was night, and I could only expect to see the stars, which might have reminded me of Old Glory; but that was not the sign that oppressed me.
We used to lecture the Russians for oppressing the Jews, before we heard the word Bolshevist and began to lecture them for being oppressed by the Jews.
It was a dreary morning; Colston was soon driven out, and the others were oppressed by a feeling of constraint and tension.
A heavy melancholy oppressed him, though bright sunlight streamed into the room and an invigorating breeze swept in through the open window, outside which tall wheat and blue flax rolled away.
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