With savage cruelty he repressed rebellion, condemning hundreds of Jews to crucifixion.
In the provinces, the Spanish natives revolted, and were only repressed after severe fighting.
The count repressed with difficulty a gesture of impatience.
The Mexican repressed with difficulty a sign of disappointment.
I suspect--" The Mexican repressed a lively movement of annoyance.
He shuddered, repressed with difficulty a cry of terror, and started up so violently that he almost upset the canoe.
Love's Labor's--" he broke off and repressed his choler with some effort.
Dame Burton repressed a smile and continued with a slow shake of the head: "Ay, girl; a traitor to her blessed Majesty the Queen.
There are certain feelings in the human heart that must show themselves in some form or another, and if repressed in one point, will break out in another.
The enlightened statesmen, who surrounded him in the beginning of his government, and whose wise counsels repressed his ardour, no longer have any influence.
But still he gasped for breath, and she fancied that he repressed a shudder.
She made a little sound that was like a repressed sob, and put her hand sharply to her throat.
It was in vain that she repressed this feeling, as far subordinate and too selfish to be mingled with her sorrow for her sister's calamity.
Fargus, believing himself entrapped, looked with repressed rage at the money he had surrendered.
He repressed his first instinctive inquiry of "No scrape, I hope, Rod?
The meaning that is repressedfrom speech intensifies in all that is permitted.
Agatha had an ironical answer on the very tip of her tongue: but something in the clear, "good" eye of Nathanael repressed her little wickedness.
I repressed it, and only a groan escaped me--the wail of my lost happiness!
I repressed the cry that swelled from my heart, that rushed to my lips--"Pity me, for I love you!
He spoke with a kind of repressed bitterness, as though memory had stirred into fresh flame the embers of some burnt-out passion of regret, and Sara looked at him with suddenly aroused interest.
The repressed anxiety with which Elisabeth had been regarding her relaxed, and a curious look of content took birth in the hyacinth eyes.
If Louis the Fourteenth repressed the zeal of the academicians, the Convention publish, without scruple, addresses more hyperbolical than the praises that monarch refused.
Caesar repressed a mutiny of the veterans, which threatened much mischief; he subdued the Japidae, the Dalmatians, and Pannonians.
Lucius Licinius Lucullus, consul, defeated Mithridates in an action between their cavalry, and made several successful expeditions, and repressed a mutiny among his soldiers which originated from an eager desire of fighting.
He took up the two water-pails and waited, glancing from one to the other with that repressed smile which Billy Louise was beginning to look for in his face.
In the kitchen a very different Billy Louise measured spices, and asked a question now and then in a whisper, and breathed with a repressed unevenness which betrayed the strain she was under.
She spoke almost passionately, being more excited by Mac's repressed emotion than she had ever been by Charlie's most touching demonstration, though she did not know why.
There was an awkward silence when she concluded; but at length her companion observed, in a repressed tone: "Emelie, Phillip and I have already discussed this subject.
Read that, dear," she said, in a repressed tone, as she passed it to her pupil.
Sybilla Silver just repressed a scream of exultation--no more.
Lady Kingsland barely repressed a cry as she saw the paper, and by its side something wrapped in silver tissue.
Edwards barely repressed a cry at sight of his master.
I longed, in return, to have enlarged a little upon the adventures of the holy crows, but prudently repressed my inclination.
Several remarks arose to Diane's lips, but she repressed them, and they continued their walk in silence.
The repressed intensity of his bearing had on Diane the effect of making her more calmly mistress of herself.
The perception of this called an impulse to apologize to Derek's lips; but on reflection he repressed it.
Not only does repression bear such fruit as we have indicated, but it also bears heavily upon the repressedin other directions.
She parted her lips and the oaths of stern men were upon the eve of bursting forth, but she repressed them and was soon out of the hotel.
Eros felt an impulse of impatience, which he repressed so far as not to give it words; but he turned his face away.
As far as it was in human nature, I took his advice, repressed my curiosity, and turned my thoughts from that too interesting subject.
I saw that he attributed it to a general prejudice against his race and religion, and I perceived that this hurt his feelings much, though his pride or his philosophy quickly repressed his sensibility.
