Possibly that idea or fancy of a story to tell, a human tragedy, came to me only because of another singular experience I had that day when the afternoon sun had grown oppressively hot-another mystery of a desolate but not in this case uninhabited house.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
The mysterious desperate silence, however, that on deck weighed oppressively on every sense, as something false, menacing, and malignant in these seas, was qualified below by the peculiar straining noises in the schooner's hold caused by the swinging of the ice upon the swell.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
I remember thinking the night oppressively hot, and was thankful that Mr Ringer was good enough to drive me from the barracks into the town.
"Paddy Finn"
W. H. G. Kingston