Months pass, years maybe--and then you come again; and again I am here to plead with you, to know if want and misery have yet done their work with you, if injustice and
oppression have yet opened your eyes
A sense of sinking at her heart, a weight of hysterical
oppression on her bosom, warned her not to leave herself unoccupied, a prey to morbid self-investigation and imaginary alarms.
What I felt the next day was, I suppose, nothing that could be fairly called a reaction from the cheer of my arrival; it was probably at the most only a slight
oppression produced by a fuller measure of the scale, as I walked round them, gazed up at them, took them in, of my new circumstances.
Now I say that with cruelty and
oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it; you did right, my boy.
My pipe was ready and would have been lit, if I had not been lost in thinking about how to banish
oppression from this land and restore to all its people their stolen rights and manhood without disobliging anybody.
when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate
oppression.
Perjury,
oppression, subornation, fraud, pandarism, and the like infirmities, were among the most excusable arts they had to mention; and for these I gave, as it was reasonable, great allowance.
Thus he freed his country from this terrible
oppression.
Either the existence of the same passion or interest in a majority at the same time must be prevented, or the majority, having such coexistent passion or interest, must be rendered, by their number and local situation, unable to concert and carry into effect schemes of
oppression.
There was a sense of
oppression in my head, and I noticed that I was breathing very fast.
Moreover," the Sheikh added, "in the days of the
Oppression the Emirs and their creatures dispossessed many people of their lands.
And if those few who have large fortunes should acquire still greater power, the oligarchy will then alter into one of the third sort; for they will get all the offices of the state into their own hands by a law which directs the son to succeed upon the death of his father; and, after that, when, by means of their increasing wealth and powerful connections, they extend still further their
oppression, a monarchical dynasty will directly succeed wherein men will be supreme, and not the law; and this is the fourth species of an oligarchy correspondent to the last-mentioned class of democracies.
