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Sentences ending with repressed

I was filled with a painful curiosity to know what had become of her, which I repressed. [9]
Mr. Washington's indignation was the stronger for being repressed. [9]
The transformation, indeed, was more remarkable than he could have believed possible, for respectability itself would seem to have been regained by a costume, and the abundance of her remarkable hair was now repressed. [9]
You see in society how nature revenges itself when its instincts are repressed. [4]
Her eyes, half closed, betrayed an amusement that was scarce repressed. [9]

Short sentences using repressed

Jane Withersteen repressed an exclamation. [13]

More example sentences with the word repressed in them

Her fervour, repressed yet palpable, was like a flame burning before their altars--a flattery to which the learned, being human, are quick to respond. [9]
The French colonel with difficulty repressed a yawn, but was polite and evidently understood Balashev's importance. [2]
All the old tricks of Bigot and his La Friponne, which, after the outbreak the night of my arrest at the Seigneur Duvarney's, had been somewhat repressed, were in full swing again, and robbery in the name of providing for defense was the only habit. [11]
The fountains of the deep had been broken up, and Sybil Eglington's repressed emotions, undeveloped passions, tortured by mortal sufferings, and refined and vitalised by the atmosphere blown in upon her last hours from the Hereafter, were set free, given voice and power at last. [11]
It was not sullenness, nor repressed rage; and his answers were brief, but he was not taciturn. [9]
The border States, so called, were not uniform in their action, some of them being almost for the Union, while in others--as Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas--the Union sentiment was nearly repressed and silenced. [7]
She had not repressed his talents from cool calculation, but it had been pleasant to her to see him grow up free from aspirations. [10]
The Vicomtesse sat quietly watching him, the wonted look of repressed laughter on her face, and by degrees his Excellency grew calm again. [9]
Yet he had punished only the chief of those who had been in actual rebellion, and had repressed the violent punishments of the earlier part of the conflict. [11]
As they walked on side by side in the twilight, a consciousness of repressed masculine force, of reserve power, which she had never before felt about Peter Erwin, invaded her; and she was seized with a strange uneasiness. [9]
But it would not have surprised her if she had known more of men, the necessity of the repressed and tortured soul for sympathy, and that it is more surely to be found in the heart of a pure woman than elsewhere. [4]
He could not mature such a project, one which he had been for some time contemplating, without consulting Mr. Byles Gridley, who, though he had not unfrequently repressed the young poet's too ardent ambition, had yet always been kind and helpful. [6]
Barbara's conduct had made the repressed fire of love blaze up anew in Wolf. [10]
Miller Gorse alone made no remarks, but in spite of his silence he emanated an animosity against reform and reformers that seemed to charge the very atmosphere, and would have repressed any man but Ralph.... [9]
A face of long vigils and the schooled calmness of repressed energy. [4]
Virginia laid the letter down, and tears started to her eyes as she repressed a retort. [9]
Of late I had seemed closer to my father, and his letters, though formal, had given evidence of his affection; in his repressed fashion he had made it clear that he looked forward to the time when I was to practise with him. [9]
But she repelled every thought of him as a sin, and even repressed the impulse to look out into the street to seek him. [10]
He repressed with difficulty the indignation which had overpowered him until her coughing ceased, then, in a tone of stern reproof, he declared that he could not and ought not to listen to such words. [10]
But repressed vexation at his son's poor-spirited behavior found expression in his treatment of his daughter. [2]
My curiosity was aroused to a high pitch, and questions were rising to my lips which I repressed with difficulty. [9]
Megabyzus at once applied to the king, representing that such hostile acts, if not repressed by fear, might soon be followed by open rebellion. [10]
Maria noticed it and turned away from her guest, but she repressed the harsh words that sprang to her lips, wished her good-night, and left the chamber. [10]
Her face was all repressed laughter, the expression I knew so well. [9]
There was something about the Reverend Mr. Fairweather which repressed all attempts at confidential intercourse. [6]

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