1 I don't like favors, they oppress and make me feel like a slave.
2 She was nervous and worn out with watching and worry, and in that unreasonable frame of mind which the best of mothers occasionally experience when domestic cares oppress them.
3 It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.
4 Reason discovered the struggle for existence, and the law that requires us to oppress all who hinder the satisfaction of our desires.
5 The silence began to oppress the princess and she tried to catch someone's eye.
6 Thus the desire to secure its own liberty prompted each faction to make itself strong enough to oppress the other.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVI. 7 You, for instance; you avoid society, you are oppressed by it, and you have invited two students to stay with you.
8 From their unconstrained behaviour,' Bazarov remarked to Arkady, 'and the playfulness of their retorts, you can guess that my father's peasants are not too much oppressed.
9 Today, for instance, I am particularly oppressed by one memory of a distant past.
10 No wonder; all the evening I had been oppressed by memories of my miserable days at school, and I could not shake them off.
11 Everything that was just, but oppressed and looked down upon, they laughed at heartlessly and shamefully.
12 Somewhere behind a screen a clock began wheezing, as though oppressed by something, as though someone were strangling it.
13 I was only insufferably oppressed by her being here.
14 Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe.
15 We are oppressed at being men--men with a real individual body and blood, we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalised man.