Ferámurz had, in fact, secretly retired with the Zábul army to a convenient distance, for the purpose of acting as necessity might require, and when he heard that Zál was placed in confinement, he immediately marched against the invader and oppressor of his country.

Like so many other bands of persecuted men who had fled from their oppressors in search of liberty, the early Mormons soon adopted the tactics of which they had complained so bitterly.

The infuriated Germans slaughtered their oppressors with deliberate ferocity, and those prisoners who were not hewn to pieces on the spot were only preserved to perish by a more cruel death in cold blood.

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.

Two small aisles on each side of this chapel present a touching instance of the equality of the grave; which brings down the oppressor to a level with the opprest, and mingles the dust of the bitterest enemies together.

He knew not how to solve the arduous problem of transforming himself from the oppressor into the champion of Greece.

But would Italy be permitted to settle her quarrel with her old oppressor without foreign intervention?

His ears are not strongly enough tuned to drink in the execrations of the spoiler and the oppressor as the sweetest music.

Who would have thought that this poor varlet, thus trembling before the brief authority of a country Squire, and the sport of rustic boors, was soon to become the delight of princes; the theme of all tongues and ages; the dictator to the human mind; and was to confer immortality on his oppressor by a caricature and a lampoon!

To his view was not unrolled the rich newer world-history, to show that a working class is most dangerous when restricted,that oppression is more dangerous to the oppressor than to the oppressed,that, if man will hew out paths to liberty, God will hew out paths to prosperity.

This so incensed the governor that he bound him to carry off to his castle; but as they crossed the lake a storm arose, and Tell had to be unbound to save them, when he leapt upon a rock and made off, to lie in ambush, whence he shot the oppressor through the heart as he passed him; a rising followed, which ended only with the emancipation of Switzerland from the yoke of Austria.

Then shall Túrán unite beneath my hand, And drive this proud oppressor from the land!

The towns could just as little be combined for steady and united action, obstinately as in each case they bade defiance to the oppressor behind their walls.

For the senate confronted him and prevented his going in, while at that moment he was surrounded by the knights and would have been torn limb from limb, had he not raised an outcry, calling upon the people for aid; whereupon many ran to the scene bringing fire and threatening to burn his oppressors along with the senate-house, if they should do him any harm.