The change in him, from talkativeness to utter silence, had grown horribly oppressive to the Colonel.

He admitted that the dominion of the English was less oppressive than that of their native princes; but said, that there was this great difference between foreign and domestic despotism,that the former completely extinguished all national pride, which is as much the cause as the effect of national greatness.

It was hot and oppressive in the dense woods, where the breeze could not penetrate.

In its most definite form it was a moral and philanthropic movement,the reaction against Brahmanism, which had no humanity, and which was as repulsive and oppressive as Roman Catholicism was when loaded down with ritualism and sacerdotal rites, when Europe was governed by priests, when churches were damp, gloomy crypts, before the tall cathedrals arose in their artistic beauty.

There was a silence, oppressive on the Major's part, ecstatic as far as Patsy was concerned.

Enfolded in the very heart of Mayfair, its brief length bounded on the north by Curzon Street (its name alone sufficient voucher for its character), on the south by Piccadilly (hereabouts somewhat oppressive with its hedge of stately clubs, membership in any one of which is equivalent to two years' unchallenged credit)

Although in the former case rebellion cannot be justified until every constitutional measure has been resorted to for redress,then, if redress be not given, the voice of the people in all representative governments may legally change oppressive for just laws, and oppressors for rulers who shall regard the popular will.

Turning now to the fact that he goes about with such a tragic air, and has but this moment said in the course of his remarks that Antony rendered the sight of the master of the horse most oppressive by using everywhere and under all circumstances the sword, the purple, the lictors, and the soldiers at once, let him tell me clearly how and in what respect we have been wronged by this.

He still detained the king in effect a prisoner, and made use of that prince's authority to purposes the most prejudicial to his interests, and the most oppressive of his people

The darkness was oppressive at first; but a happy thought occurred to me.

The odor of the flowers, mingling with that of the burning wax, seemed rather oppressive amid the deep and tragic stillness.

Nor was the prestige of his style so oppressive through the mass of pictures painted by his hand as to check individuality or to prevent the pupil from working out such portions of the master's vein as suited his own talent.