9 uses
- But you feel solitude an oppression?Chapter 31 (38% in)
- — unjust!" said my reason, forced by the agonising stimulus into precocious though transitory power: and Resolve, equally wrought up, instigated some strange expedient to achieve escape from insupportable oppression — as running away, or, if that could not be effected, never eating or drinking more, and letting myself die.Chapter 2 (55% in)
- ...overshadowed walls — occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaning mirror — I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode — whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed — and rise before me in this chamber.Chapter 2 (78% in)
- My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort.Chapter 2 (86% in)
- As yet I had spoken to no one, nor did anybody seem to take notice of me; I stood lonely enough: but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed; it did not oppress me much.Chapter 5 (72% in)
- I still felt as a wanderer on the face of the earth; but I experienced firmer trust in myself and my own powers, and less withering dread of oppression.Chapter 21 (35% in)
- She said I oppressed her by leaning over the bed, and again demanded water.Chapter 21 (96% in)
- "Give me your confidence, Jane," he said: "relieve your mind of any weight that oppresses it, by imparting it to me.Chapter 25 (43% in)
- It would please and benefit me to have five thousand pounds; it would torment and oppress me to have twenty thousand; which, moreover, could never be mine in justice, though it might in law.Chapter 33 (83% in)
There are no more uses of "oppress" in Jane Eyre.
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