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1  Good yeoman," said Cedric, "my heart is oppressed with sadness.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII.
2  But I have never heard that thou didst love oppression or cruelty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
3  The sound of the trumpet wakes Judah no longer, and her despised children are now but the unresisting victims of hostile and military oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
4  Heaven in ire has driven him from his country, but industry has opened to him the only road to power and to influence, which oppression has left unbarred.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  No one, however, pitied the fate of the two Malvoisins, who only suffered the death which they had both well deserved, by many acts of falsehood, cruelty, and oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
6  Remain at home, then, ungrateful lady," answered Cedric; "thine is the hard heart, which can sacrifice the weal of an oppressed people to an idle and unauthorized attachment.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
7  , when his return from his long captivity had become an event rather wished than hoped for by his despairing subjects, who were in the meantime subjected to every species of subordinate oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
8  Even the very place of his captivity was uncertain, and his fate but very imperfectly known to the generality of his subjects, who were, in the meantime, a prey to every species of subaltern oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
9  The nobles themselves, each fortified within his own castle, and playing the petty sovereign over his own dominions, were the leaders of bands scarce less lawless and oppressive than those of the avowed depredators.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  I am, indeed," said Rebecca, "sprung from a race whose courage was distinguished in the defence of their own land, but who warred not, even while yet a nation, save at the command of the Deity, or in defending their country from oppression.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
11  The little ready money which was in the country was chiefly in possession of this persecuted people, and the nobility hesitated not to follow the example of their sovereign, in wringing it from them by every species of oppression, and even personal torture.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  The revenues of the monastery, of which a large part was at his disposal, while they gave him the means of supplying his own very considerable expenses, afforded also those largesses which he bestowed among the peasantry, and with which he frequently relieved the distresses of the oppressed.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  They grievously oppressed the poor people by building castles; and when they were built, they filled them with wicked men, or rather devils, who seized both men and women who they imagined had any money, threw them into prison, and put them to more cruel tortures than the martyrs ever endured.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country, and were about to plunge into its recesses, held dangerous at that time from the number of outlaws whom oppression and poverty had driven to despair, and who occupied the forests in such large bands as could easily bid defiance to the feeble police of the period.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
15  But whatever pretensions Athelstane had to be considered as head of the Saxon confederacy, many of that nation were disposed to prefer to the title of the Lady Rowena, who drew her descent from Alfred, and whose father having been a chief renowned for wisdom, courage, and generosity, his memory was highly honoured by his oppressed countrymen.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
16  To these causes of public distress and apprehension, must be added, the multitude of outlaws, who, driven to despair by the oppression of the feudal nobility, and the severe exercise of the forest laws, banded together in large gangs, and, keeping possession of the forests and the wastes, set at defiance the justice and magistracy of the country.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  That of the serf, or bondsman, was sad and sullen; his aspect was bent on the ground with an appearance of deep dejection, which might be almost construed into apathy, had not the fire which occasionally sparkled in his red eye manifested that there slumbered, under the appearance of sullen despondency, a sense of oppression, and a disposition to resistance.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
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