So the next weeks passed in a constant alternation of oppressivefears and aspiring hopes, the nights in torturing terrors.
What it could take from him was easily lost; the relief it promised to afford no power, science, or art here on earth could procure for him--release from cruel suffering and oppressive cares.
And there was something oppressive about the stillness of this cavernous old house with its sound-proof partitions and its distances.
Then they went out, and strolled in rather oppressive quiet toward the lake.
He was very restless, and it was evident that even his sleeping brain labored with affrighting and oppressive images; but the mutterings, as before he slept, were confused and indistinct.
It was only a just and necessary protection of the weaker party to a contract against an oppressive exaction to which, like the apothecary in "Romeo and Juliet," his poverty might have consented, but not his will.
Here he utters his oppressive secrets; here he gives vent to his stifled sighs.
In that half-hour I saw a vast number of snakes, all of one kind, and a species new to me; but my anxiety to reach my destination before the oppressive heat of the afternoon made me hurry on.
I have written only the two first chapters of my novel besides the Proem, and I have an oppressive sense of the far-stretching task before me, health being feeble just now.
I hope you did not suffer so severely as we did from the arctic cold that rushed in after the oppressive heat.
The fog and rain have been the more oppressive because I have seen them through Mr. Lewes's almost constant discomfort.
The hush and gloom of our house would be more oppressive to a buoyant than to a subdued spirit.
The light became more and more oppressive to me; and, the heat wearying me as I walked, I sought a place where I could receive shade.
My sufferings were augmented also by the oppressive sense of the injustice and ingratitude of their infliction.
If they plant fruit-trees under the present laws they are planting curses which will entail the misery of inquisitorial visits and the most objectionable and oppressive form of an unjust taxation.
Since the government monopoly was abolished in 1827 the trade has received an impetus, and this extension due to freedom is an example to our present government in their relations to the oppressive system connected with the wine trade.
For the two succeeding days and nights the hapless Claud was the prey of conflicting emotions,--the more oppressive because he carefully kept them pent up in his own bosom.
The "French and Indian War," as it was commonly called, waged with so much energy and success, doubled the national debt of England and made taxation oppressive in that country.
There was a practical unanimity in engaging in fresh persecutions of Loyalists, not merely by the enactment of oppressive civil laws, but by even denying them the protection afforded by a just enforcement of the criminal laws.
Two of the six acts, directed against the possession of arms and military training for unlawful purposes, cannot be considered oppressive under the circumstances then prevailing.
They also advised a liberal change in the complicated and oppressive system of "parish settlement," whereby the free circulation of labour was constricted.
Nevertheless her feeling was one merely of chill, oppressive terror, while at the same moment there flashed through her brain the thought that, if she had loved him, no such feeling could now have been present.
Ulita left the room, and for a while oppressive silence reigned.
Days dragged on in the oppressive monotony peculiar to rural life when there are no comforts or there is no executive work to be done, and there is no material for mental occupation.
Everybody praised her and congratulated her and protested their sympathy, so that she, who at first was timid, restless, and haunted with a feeling ofoppressive melancholy, grew suddenly convinced that she had fulfilled her mission.
Previously she would never have dreamed of wondering why Porfiry Vladimirych, as soon as he met a man, instantly started to weave around him an oppressive net of words, sinister in their emptiness.
The growl of the distant thunder was heard afar off upon the dull, still air, and all nature seemed, as it were, hushed and cowering under the oppressive influence of the approaching tempest.
This practice had become sooppressive to visitors, in the early part of the reign of George III.
Many have been the expedients I have adopted, to relieve the oppressive tedium of my miserable days.
Again and again he succeeded in withstanding the temptation; but one sultry, oppressive afternoon in August proved too much for him, and he yielded, though could he only have foreseen the consequences he would surely have held firm.
This circumstance threw upon the Custode, a naturally tedious and oppressive old man, the responsibility of being doubly prolix and garrulous.
His integrity had, indeed, been so oppressive that I was glad to be swindled in the charge for our dinner at the Iron Crown, in Rovigo, and rode more cheerfully on to Ferrara.
But in time, the same oppressive cause continuing, the natural powers are overcome, being no longer able to throw off the unequal weight.
What should be substituted, I am unable to determine; but until something can be supplied, which would not be half so oppressive as our common wool hats, I should regard it as the lesser evil to omit them entirely.
Lasse and Pelle were quickly aware of the oppressive atmosphere, and began to see with the half-frightened eyes of the others, even before they themselves had heard very much.
The roar went on for a long time out upon the long swells, up and down, leaving behind it an oppressive silence, until it suddenly returned from the town above, in the shape of a confused babble that made people laugh.
