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The early church bells began to ring, but the sound was hateful, for it seemed to add to that oppressive loneliness.

He was in a very sweet humor,—full of wit and pathos, without being overbearing or oppressive.

It is hard to believe that oppressive heat is felt in the valley just beneath him.

II, by way of purchase (as was before observed) for the feodal tenures and other oppressive parts of the hereditary re-310-venue.

And Victoria felt an oppressive sense of the man's power, wrapping round her and her sister like a heavy cloak.