To have hard measure, to have harsh treatment meted out to one; to be harshly or oppressivelydealt with.
Our walk to the Sphinx wasoppressively warm, for the sun shone with a brightness that was dazzling.
If other powers deal unjustly or oppressively with either Government, the other will exert their good offices, on being informed of the case, to bring about an amicable arrangement, thus showing their friendly feelings.
But so weak were the men that several were taken sick in coming down; the weather being oppressively hot.
But, if I were Light Jack, I should be very slow to interfere oppressively with Dark Jack, for, whenever I have had to do with him I have found him a simple and a gentle fellow.
The wild moon and clouds were as restless as an evil conscience in a tumbled bed, and the very shadow of the immensity of London seemed to lie oppressively upon the river.
On the Bogan the wind was oppressively hot during the night, and lulled only towards morning.
The day has been most oppressively hot, with scarcely a breath of wind.
The day again oppressively hot, with clouds from south and south-east.
The day again oppressively hot, with a few light clouds from the south.
On the 10th the disease appeared in a new quarter to the west, called Wynn's Fold; the 12th was again an oppressively hot day, followed by rain over-night.
The night of the 9th of August was mostoppressively hot.
They well knew how oppressively the power of undefined privileges had been exercised in Great Britain, and were determined no such authority should ever be exercised here.
He said nothing, only sat still a long time, and Barbara thought it was getting oppressively quiet.
The day was warm, without being oppressively hot, as it too often is during the summer months: and for a wonder the mosquitoes and black- flies were so civil as not to molest us.
Fancy our Prime Minister pouncing oppressively and illegally upon the very obscurest provincial paper going--say the "Land's End Farthing Illuminator!
Were such vaults used above the lofty naves of Amiens or Beauvais, they would doubtless appearoppressively heavy but the lowness and solidity of English construction entirely dispels such a feeling.
In such churches, where there is no direct light in the nave, the lantern adds much to the appearance of an otherwise oppressively dark interior.
It cooled my person, which was suffering from the intense heat of a summer's sun beating directly on a boundless expanse of water, and it varied a scene that otherwise possessed an oppressively wearisome sameness.
I was also oppressively struck with the melancholy forebodings that appeared in Chloe's manner, rather than in her words, and which made it apparent that she doubted of her young mistress's recovery.
The laws operate most oppressively upon free people of color[A].
The weather had again changed, and become oppressively hot, so that it behoved me to use every precaution, in thus abandoning the Darling river.
If I except the thunder-storm which had enabled me to undertake my late journey from the creek, no rain had fallen, the weather had suddenly become oppressively hot, with a sky as clear as ether.
On the 8th the weather was oppressively hot, but we managed to get on some fifteen miles before we halted.
By this time it is nearly five o'clock, and as yet oppressively warm.
September is usually a delightful month, although at times oppressively sultry.
SIENA EARLY AND LATE I Florence being oppressively hot and delivered over to the mosquitoes, the occasion seemed to favour that visit to Siena which I had more than once planned and missed.
The afternoon was oppressively hot--at least it always seems so when one is away from water.
The sandhills were oppressively steep, and the old wretch perspired to such a degree, and altogether became such an unmanageable nuisance, that I began to think camels could not be half the wonderful animals I had fondly imagined.
If the tariff adopted at the last session of Congress shall be found by experience to bear oppressively upon the interests of any one section of the Union, it ought to be, and I can not doubt will be, so modified as to alleviate its burden.
Of the lands sold, a considerable part were conveyed under extended credits, which in the vicissitudes and fluctuations in the value of lands and of their produce became oppressively burdensome to the purchasers.
We dined with our parents mostly, and were not oppressively treated in respect of good things, unless the youngest aunt was present.
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