Example Sentences

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I began to think her innocent, and lost some of the gloom which had been oppressing me.

From The Old Stone House and Other Stories by Green, Anna Katharine

It was as though a weight, which had been oppressing him for years, had suddenly been lifted from his shoulders.

From The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana by Cullum, Ridgwell

She saw him suddenly straighten himself up, throwing back his powerful shoulders as though to rid himself of the burden which had been oppressing him so long.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell

Then, having come to this resolve, he strove might and main to banish from his mind those disagreeable reminiscences that had been oppressing him, to turn his attention to subjects of a different complexion.

From Varney the Vampire Or the Feast of Blood by Prest, Thomas Preskett

Edward was contending with his own people his officers had been oppressing the Scots.

From A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII by Gardiner, Samuel Rawson