He was fuming under a
repressive law which he was forced to acknowledge: he was dangerously poised, and Rosamond's voice now brought the decisive vibration.
It gave me the impression of a disordered mechanism which had escaped the
repressive and regulating action of some controlling part--an effect such as might be expected if a pawl should be jostled from the teeth of a ratchet-wheel.
Her panting breathing comes and goes as if it would choke her; but with a
repressive hand upon her bosom, she remains.
He rubbed his eyes, doubting if he really saw before him Athos and Aramis; and forced at last to yield to evidence, he was on the point of breaking forth in exclamations when he encountered a glance from the eyes of Porthos, the
repressive force of which he was not inclined to dispute.
Eager,
repressive towards Miss Lavish, watchful of old Mr.
This demand was met by the ruling classes with sternly
repressive measures, and the socialistic Peasants' Revolt of John Ball and Wat Tyler in 1381 was violently crushed out in blood, but it expressed a great human cry for justice which could not permanently be denied.
The general leniency of the judicial procedure here, and the utter absence of all
repressive measures, are a scandal to Europe.
Capitalism, organized for
repressive purposes under pretext of governing the nation, would very soon stop the association if it understood our aim, but it thinks that we are engaged in gunpowder plots and conspiracies to assassinate crowned heads; and so, whilst the police are blundering in search of evidence of these, our real work goes on unmolested.
I had explained to Raffles that she was an orphan, who spent most of her time with an aristocratic aunt in the country, and the remainder under the
repressive roof of a pompous politician in Palace Gardens.
The attitude of authority is bound to be
repressive, and great concentration of the governing power is needed to neutralize the force of a popular movement.
de P , the President of the notorious
Repressive Commission of some years ago, the Minister of State invested with extraordinary powers.
The index also cited 'violence and murder, brutal repression of public protests, and
repressive laws.'