The Colonel felt the dismal and bleak oppressiveness of a picture blotted from visual record by the reeking blackness of a winter dawn.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
She was conscious of a strange oppressiveness.
"Jane Cable"
George Barr McCutcheon
Some slight oppressiveness was felt immediately before the rains, but speedily disappeared on their occurrence.
"The Overland Expedition of The Messrs. Jardine"
Frank Jardine and Alexander Jardine