"Repress" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Tavia before she could repress the exclamation. But the next instant she realized her mistake in mentioning ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose
... society as a whole somewhat at the cost of individual members of the body, and it causes wages to rise by adding continually to the wealth-creating power of the men who earn them. We shall see that when consolidations repress competition their effect is far from being thus wholly beneficial, and that not only are particular persons injured by them, but the community as a whole has a serious bill of charges to bring against them. The securing of the gains that ...
— Essentials of Economic Theory - As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy • John Bates Clark
... with a mighty swing, and caught at Rainey's in mid-air, gripping it till Rainey bit his lips to repress ...
— A Man to His Mate • J. Allan Dunn
... of going down into sin, I wish to make little mention. I would that my record of such degradation be brief. We wish to come to an understanding with our friends and the Society before we move, but it does not seem that we can repress the upheavings of Truth in our hearts. ...
— The Record of a Quaker Conscience, Cyrus Pringle's Diary - With an Introduction by Rufus M. Jones • Cyrus Pringle
... not repress her agitation when, after waiting alone for a little time, her kind hostess came to summon her to the trial. She was conducted up the staircase before mentioned, and through a corridor of some length. The lamp grew pale and sickly in the cold wind ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby
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