All republics that acquire supremacy over other nations rule them selfishly and oppressively.

The trees were fresh and green, birds warbled on every spray, transparent rivulets murmured through the meadows, the air was neither oppressively hot in summer, nor cold in winter, so that the temperature, and the attractive objects which presented themselves at every glance, seemed to realize the imagined charms and fascinations of Paradise.

" "And she was grateful?" "Not oppressively.

They were taxed oppressively, while they were not allowed a representation.

Moreover, the Dutch were inclined to act oppressively toward the Belgians, and this disposition was made the more irksome by the fact that King William was a dull, stupid, narrow and very obstinate sovereign, who thought that to have a request made of him was reason sufficient for resisting it.

He oppressively drilled his soldiers, without knowledge of tactics and still less of strategy.

While this question was still pending, it chanced that a plot against the protector's life, of which the [Footnote 1: Among others, Harry Cromwell, the protector's nephew, said he was ready to name some among the majors-general who had acted oppressively.

Unfortunately, the space allotted to spectators was so narrowed by the great number of European ladies who were present, that we could only find indifferent standing room, where, in addition to this inconvenience, the glare of the sun was very oppressively felt; but the drama which began to be acted in our sight in the deep space below, was such that every discomfort was forgotten in beholding it.

A rather stiff-growing shrub of about 5 feet in height, with leaves resembling those of our common Alder, and bearing towards the end of July spikes of almost oppressively fragrant dull-white flowers at the tips of the branches.

The air was oppressively still and hot.

It was oppressively small.

The performance not having began, Keats was near to and watched a young aspirant, who had brought a younger under his wing to witness the solemnity, and whom he oppressively patronized, instructing him in the names and qualities of all the magnates present.

Everything was oppressively still.

There are, unhappily, but too many instances of free nations that have behaved oppressively.

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].

In the next verse God says: "I will rid you"not only from the burdens and abuses, as you would say, of bondage,but "out of their (the Egyptians) bondage" itselfout of the relation in which the Egyptians oppressively and wickedly hold you.

All the characters in the book, which is roughly in the form of a novel, speak in this way, sometimes in sentences long drawn out which are oppressively monotonous and tedious, and sometimes shortly with a certain approach to epigram.

Her husband was polite; but Marian, comparing him with the English gentlemen of her acquaintance, thought him rather oppressively respectful, and too much given to conversing in little speeches.

The weather would have been oppressively sultry but for the gentle breeze which constantly drifted landward with coolness in its wings.

There were no mosquitoes, the weather was not oppressively hot, and we slept well.

They toiled, but not oppressively; they had food and clothing sufficient for their needs; they had days and seasons of rest; they made much of music and singing, and there was love among them, and little children.

LVII To-day was oppressively hot, brooding, airless; or rather, not so much without air, as that the air was thick and viscous like honey, without the thin, fine quality.

coat-of-arms was being taken down from the City Hall, and everything began to appear as oppressively desolate as though we were waiting for an eclipse of the sun.

The day was oppressively hot and the King came near fainting in the saddle.