oppressor

Example Sentences

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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

Rehoboam was no Idolater; but when the people thought him an Oppressor; that Civil pretence carried from him ten Tribes to Jeroboam an Idolater.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

"The laws of changeless justice bind Oppressor with oppressed; And, close as sin and suffering joined, We march to fate abreast."

From The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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

And for this reason I am called the Black Oppressor, that there is not a single man around me whom I have not oppressed, and justice have I done unto none.” 

From The Mabinogion Vol. 1 by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir