That stately form, combining the leader and the saint, so gray, so dimly seen, in such an ancient garb, could only belong to some old champion of the righteous cause, whom the
oppressor's drum had summoned from his grave.
The poor people began by fearing them, but when they found that the men in Lincoln green who answered Robin Hood's horn meant them no harm, but despoiled the
oppressor to relieve the oppressed, they 'gan to have great liking for them.
Earnshaw's death, which happened in less than two years after, the young master had learned to regard his father as an
oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with brooding over these injuries.
since it has fallen to thy lot to hold subject and submissive to thy full will and pleasure a knight so renowned as is and will be Don Quixote of La Mancha, who, as all the world knows, yesterday received the order of knighthood, and hath to-day righted the greatest wrong and grievance that ever injustice conceived and cruelty perpetrated: who hath to-day plucked the rod from the hand of yonder ruthless
oppressor so wantonly lashing that tender child."
I give it you if you really wished to avenge the weak and oppressed against the
oppressor."
"But," said the Spectator, "you said in your famous speech before the Society for the Prevention of the Protrusion of Nail Heads from Plank Sidewalks that Kings were blood-smeared
oppressors and hell- bound loafers."
The barons, or nobles, equally the enemies of the sovereign and the
oppressors of the common people, were dreaded and detested by both; till mutual danger and mutual interest effected a union between them fatal to the power of the aristocracy.
The massacre of men who were fellow Christians, and of the same Slavonic race, excited sympathy for the sufferers and indignation against the
oppressors. And the heroism of the Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed.
We march to conquer the Emerald City -- to dethrone the Scarecrow King -- to acquire thousands of gorgeous gems -- to rifle the royal treasury -- and to obtain power over our former
oppressors!"
And they could do nothing, they were tied hand and foot--the law was against them, the whole machinery of society was at their
oppressors' command!
To wit, that this dreadful matter brought from these downtrodden people no outburst of rage against these
oppressors. They had been heritors and subjects of cruelty and outrage so long that nothing could have startled them but a kindness.
"I see Barsad, and Cly, Defarge, The Vengeance, the Juryman, the Judge, long ranks of the new
oppressors who have risen on the destruction of the old, perishing by this retributive instrument, before it shall cease out of its present use.