oppressor

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And when they sought exemption From Death's unswerving law,As agent of redemption They laid a child in straw,The son of their Oppressor, To cherish and adore.

From The Guardian • Dec. 18, 2010

Indeed he had lately spoken of meditating a public tour, in order to familiarize the country with This Weary World and The Rod of the Oppressor and the newer work still unfinished.

From Under the Skylights by Fuller, Henry Blake

"As usual," he said, with an underhung sneer—"bowin' your heads before the Oppressor that comes to spend his leisure gloatin' over you."

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard

He was a most insatiable Exactor and Oppressor of the people who rented the lands of the Abbey, in consequence of which the Farmers complained of him to the Archbishop of the District.

From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Monk, Maria

"Now I ask you, I ask you without prejudice an' without favour,—what has Man the Oppressor ever done for you?—Are you not inalienably entitled to the free air o' heaven, blowin' acrost this boundless prairie?"

From The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Kipling, Rudyard