Both Uses of
respite
in
Nicholas Nickleby
- She hailed the arrival of Saturday night, as a prisoner would a few delicious hours' respite from slow and wearing torture, and felt that the poor pittance for her first week's labour would have been dearly and hardly earned, had its amount been trebled.†
Chpt 19
- Kate would have entreated a few minutes' respite, but reflecting that her uncle might consider the payment of the hackney-coach fare a sort of bargain for her punctuality, she suffered him to draw her arm through his, and to lead her away.†
Chpt 19 *
Definition:
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(respite) a temporary relief from harm or discomfort