MATILDA. That may be. Yet I think I should be less severe. Although so inexperienced in such things, I fear I have learn'd that the heart cannot always repress Or account for the feelings which sway it. That is too true, indeed!" . the Duke sigh'd. And again For one moment in silence continued the twain. At length the Duke slowly, as though he had needed All this time to repress his emotions, proceeded: "And yet!英文原著 · 《Lucile》
To his mind the great point was, should their policy be one of repression or a policy of inspiration? They had inspired the Natives to a certain extent, but no sooner had they created an appetite than they had told the Natives they should go no further. Their policy was the policy of Tantalus. That Bill would create a feeling of insecurity in the minds of the Natives. There were those who said that if the Natives would not submit to dictation they should be wiped out. But that should not be their policy. They must cease the policy of repression and let it be one of wide inspiration.英文原著 · 《Native Life in South Africa》
{77} The Chancellor, Michel de l'Hopital, born in 1505, who joined to his great political services (which included the keeping of the Inquisition out of France, and long labour to repress civil war) great skill in verse. He died in 1573.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
It was poor Becky who crawled out, and her cap was knocked on one side, and her face was red with repressed crying.英文原著 · 《A Little Princess》
He stooped above the sobbing girl, and pulled away her hands from her face, tear-stained and broken with pain. The limit of her self-repression was reached at last; the tense nerves, strained too much, had broken; and the passion, so long checked, surged through her like fire. Ah, God! what had he done? He saw the truth at last. In an impulse of tenderness he lifted the girl to her feet and held her, sobbing uncontrollably, in his arms, with her head against his breast, and his cheek on her hair, soothing her as though she had been a child.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Europa》
The Yorkist kings, Edward IV. and Richard III., in spite of cruelty and murder, ruled well. They broke the power of the barons, and they made the people rich--by maintaining peace, by repressing piracy, by protecting the woollen industry of the towns.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》