oppress

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Behold yon mountain's hoary height Made higher with new mounts of snow:Again behold the winter's weight Oppress the labouring woods below'And streams with icy fetters boundBenumbed and cramped to solid ground.

From The Guardian • Jul. 30, 2012

Oh, when its agèd branches throw Thin shadows on the ground below, Shall fraud and force and iron will Oppress the weak and helpless still?

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth

Unconquered Fate and stern necessity Oppress the feeble slaves of Death: Unable to avert their injuries, The common herd endure them patiently.

From The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi by Townsend, Frederick

Oppress not the widow nor the fatherless, the stranger nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in his heart.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

I must confess that these majestic ruins Oppress me with their gloom.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth