Oppressed

Examples

• Some fearful hours went over me: indescribably was I torn, racked and oppressed in mind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A gloomy Fate had oppressed her there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then, as I looked up at it, while it dripped, it seemed to my oppressed conscience like a phantom devoting me to the Hulks. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She was coughing most dreadfully, and her breath was still more oppressed than my own. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Astonishment, apprehension, and even horror, oppressed her. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• It oppressed his mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These omissions oppressed and depressed her considerably; still, on the whole, we got on very well. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Everything was bowed down, dejected, oppressed, and broken. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The people of France, however, it is generally acknowledged, are much more oppressed by taxes than the people of Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Seeing him draw nigh, burying his broad wheels in the oppressed soil--I, the prostrate votary--felt beforehand the annihilating craunch. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The idea of a Supreme Being who watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is essentially the idea of the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So oppressed, too--as you say. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• After a busy pause of ten minutes, her mother asked, Do you think yourself oppressed now--a victim? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• She said I oppressed her by leaning over the bed, and again demanded water. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I often saw him hard-worked, yet seldom over-driven, and never irritated, confused, or oppressed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• To divide it was to ruin it, and to expose every part of it to be oppressed and swallowed up by the incursions of its neighbours. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• However, my own spirits were this morning so deeply oppressed, that I liked her the better for being of my humour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And in those tears they all shed together, the high and the lowly, melted away all the heart-burnings and anger of the oppressed. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The consciousness of what he habitually did, oppressed the girl heavily, and she slowly cast down her eyes. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If the tax had been considerable, it would have oppressed the small, and forced almost the whole retail trade into the hands of the great dealers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Elizabeth lifted up her eyes in amazement, but was too much oppressed to make any reply. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• On waking the next morning she felt oppressed with unwonted languor. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I now believe that it was only your innate sense of oppression--(yes; I, though a master, may be oppressed)--that made you act so nobly as you did. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• He wandered on again, irresolute and undecided, and oppressed with the fear of another solitary night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• I was still smarting from my own disappointment; yet this scene oppressed me even to terror, nor could I interrupt his access of passion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• If ever an oppressed race existed, it is this one we see fettered around us under the inhuman tyranny of the Ottoman Empire. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Deeper grief oppressed Perdita. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I mounted my horse and rode out to seek her, fancying that I heard her voice in every gust, oppressed by fever and aching pain. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Kitty