When the oppressoris strong the weak must be subtle.
But whether the oppressor were overawed by the Gray Champion's look, or perceived his peril in the threatening attitude of the people, it is certain that he gave back, and ordered his soldiers to commence a slow and guarded retreat.
We will strive against the oppressor with prayer and fasting, as our forefathers would have done.
We should differ who theoppressor is," Harry replied coldly.
The good work has begun, and the sword will not be sheathed until the oppressor is laid low.
The Boers in hot haste began to issue further Proclamations, and President Steyn continued to call on his Burghers to "stand up as one man against the oppressor and violator of rights.
The fight of the oppressor is always a pillow-fight; commonly a war with cushions--always a war for cushions.
The usurper, the bloodstained oppressor of our race is at hand; he rests this night at Warwick, with a force far exceeding any that we can gather to meet him; their lances might uphold the skies, their arrows darken the heavens.
Thus addressed by this friend of graceful hips, that oppressor of foes, endued with immeasurable prowess, went into the prince's presence.
The wicked Kichaka, however, had been an oppressor of men and a dishonourer of other people's wives.
John of Gischala," he repeated in his feline voice, "the oppressor John.
It was largely the presence of a foreign oppressor which gave to the national voice that tone of intense entreaty toward a divine friend and deliverer which runs its pathos through psalm and history and prophecy.
I tell you, the fat heart of the oppressor is proof against all other, and they that govern with the headsman's axe must look to be wounded by the patriot's sword.
Nay; no enemy to any persons or any institutions, but to the oppressor every where, and to oppression every where, by whatever titles or names they may be disguised.
The person of Dred Scott and the soil of Mexico are holy ground--heaven-appointed sanctuaries that no oppressor or invader may ever venture to profane.
The oppressor seemed to have forgotten his eternal obligation to be kind and fair.
In the minds of these Western chiefs, then, William was the oppressorand James the deliverer.
He was no capricious and unlicensed oppressor of a God-fearing and inoffensive peasantry, but a soldier waging war against a turbulent population carrying arms and willing to use them.
Let the oppressor hold Canopied seats of gold; She sits enthroned of old O'er our hearts Queen.
The wise and generous policy of England would have consisted in establishing the independence of Greece, and in maintaining it both against Russia and the Turk;--but when was the oppressor generous or just?
If on his own high will, a willing slave, He has enthroned the oppression and the oppressor 245 What if earth can clothe and feed Amplest millions at their need, And power in thought be as the tree within the seed?
The oppressor holds His body bound; but knows not what a range His spirit takes, unconscious of a chain; And that to bind him is a vain attempt, Whom God delights in, and in whom he dwells.
We come with joy from our eternal rest To see the oppressor in his turn oppress'd.
But you are aware how long you have been the terror and the oppressor of a peaceful neighbourhood, and by what acts of violence you have maintained and extended your usurped authority.
The needy man and the oppressormeet together; the Lord lighteneth the eyes of them both.
I have also--Alan, I have hopes, arising out of the family of the oppressor himself.
It is true, that his friendly anxiety whispered that the very cause which rendered this oppressor less formidable, might make him more desperate.
How serious a consideration for the prince himself, to commence his political career, with an office which must make him the scourge of his people, and the oppressor of the territories which he was hereafter to rule.
If Frankfort hesitated to submit to the Swedes, it was solely from fear of the Emperor; their own inclinations did not allow them a moment to doubt between the oppressor of Germany and its protector.
And are you sunk so low, Edward L'Estrange, as to be the oppressor of her you once said you loved?
But I am resolved not to go until I have forced my merciless oppressor to withdraw his unjust sentence.
A word from the Emperor of France to His Holiness will do here what your armies have done in China: force the unjust and merciless oppressor of the French of Illinois to do them justice.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oppressor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
