He is about to utter the fear that oppresses him, but Gladys points to his mother, still heavily sleeping.
Distract her mind as much as possible from the trouble, whatever it is, that oppresses it.
And as I gaze, a sense of something shoddy oppresses me, of tinsel and glitter and flamboyance: a feeling that here is no true greatness, no sphinx-like sublimity.
Usury not only enslaves the borrower andoppresses the poor who are innocent of all debt, but it also affects the rich by gathering the wealth of the wealthy into fewer and fewer hands.
Usury oppresses the poor by raising the price of all that he consumes.
Malice oppresses honesty, a true man in old language is an honest man.
Of the present reading, which is probably right, the meaning may be, I am so enfeebled, that ignorance itself weighs me down and oppresses me.
This oppresses the heart, and certainly does no honor to our times.
I feel as if I had something to tell her that oppresses my heart.
Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.
When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets; and you shall be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you shall be saved from your enemies.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
A needy man who oppresses the poor is like a driving rain which leaves no crops.
She will be my Tsaritsa, and in the peace that reigns in my forest will forget all that now oppresses her.
For a year now I have been hiding myself from my Grandmother, which oppresses me, and her still more.
I tell you plainly that it oppresses me; it is slavery; I feel like a prisoner.
Or is it to him we are to prove the arrogance of the power who, under the name of friend, oppresses him, and the poor remains of his subjects, with all the ferocity of the most cruel enemy?
Is it madness when he persecutes others, but villainy when he oppresses thee?
And where shall a general cause of sufficient vastness be found, if not in the two or three words we breathe to ourselves when silence oppresses us: words like fatality, divinity, Providence, or obscure and nameless justice?
Here might oppresses you: you may present Yourself before this self-created court With all the fortitude of innocence.
The government, which oppresses us, sees it as clearly as we do ourselves.
Miserable as we are, we recognise no other sensation than that which we observe in animals and plants, slow and half extinguished, and buried under a weight that oppresses it.
If he oppresses them, no course of years will make his title lawful, or bind them in conscience to obey, length of possession being only length of injury.
The reality oppresses us--we are sore and sick in the very breath of the contagion, even if we escape untainted by it.
What oppresses the historian is the prodigious number of details with which he is encumbered.
No man oppresses thee, can bid thee fetch or carry, come or go, without reason shewn.
No man oppresses thee, O free and independent Franchiser: but does not this stupid Porter-pot oppress thee?
For in certain countries which profess to enjoy the privileges of freedom, every individual agent of the government may violate the laws with impunity, since those whom he oppresses cannot prosecute him before the courts of justice.
But it is certain that democracy annoys one part of the community, and that aristocracy oppresses another part.
It is your pale, melancholy face that oppresses me and makes me sad.
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