Usage examples for repression
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She was so happy in the pain this self- repression gave her she hardly thought how much happier she could have been had there been no need for it. – Secret Bread by F. Tennyson Jesse
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She coughed, and in her effort of repression, coughed again. – Every Soul Hath Its Song by Fannie Hurst
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The lines of strain and repression over which she had sighed more than once before now had surely deepened during the last weeks! – The Love Affairs of Pixie by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey