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  • She senses it as a reprieve.†   (source)
  • "What a relief to hear of my reprieve," I said.†   (source)
  • The background noise suggested holiday merriment, and I didn't have the heart to tell her what I had called to say: that I loathed living with these strangers and that everything that had made my life to that point tolerable—the reprieve of her house, the company of my sister—had apparently vanished.†   (source)
  • I love to see children playing in my home, and to give their mothers a little reprieve.†   (source)
  • The wedding was a reprieve for the family.†   (source)
  • The strained, temporary peace between Orange Juice and the hyena, and my reprieve, were no doubt due to the same reason: in the face of such a superior predator, all of us were prey, and normal ways of preying were affected.†   (source)
  • The mug of potent Brazilian coffee in his hand had granted him a hazy reprieve from his mounting exhaustion, and yet he sensed the reprieve would be fleeting.†   (source)
  • A reprieve.†   (source)
  • For all the commotion over the reversal of Jim Williams's conviction, the Georgia Supreme Court's ruling appeared to be little more than a temporary reprieve.†   (source)
  • Her embarrassment amounted to a reprieve.†   (source)
  • Peace lay on Devon like a blessing, the summer's peace, the reprieve, New Hampshire's response to all the cogitation and deadness of winter.†   (source)
  • Well, I hope they enjoy their barracks and supplies and reprieves and all the things my brothers were never given.†   (source)
  • It did nothing to Snape, who for a split second seemed to think he had been reprieved: but then Voldemort's intention became clear.†   (source)
  • They took up their stations and Lindsey, having been given a reprieve, went upstairs to call Samuel.†   (source)
  • He jabbed with his left fist, hit under his attacker's chin, then used the moment of reprieve to slam his knife into the person's stomach.†   (source)
  • By the same magic, Mrs. Barbour's invitation seemed to extend beyond the summer and far into the horizon, as if the entire Atlantic Ocean lay between me and Grandpa Decker; the lift was dizzying, and all I could do was exult in my reprieve.†   (source)
  • The executioner; the blade; the last-minute reprieve; the gasping breath and the rolling sky above you and the thank you, thank you, thank you, God.†   (source)
  • Eragon was hot and thirsty, but refrained from asking for a reprieve-he would continue as long as they did.†   (source)
  • A lull in the action, a brief reprieve before old man winter takes up the reins again.†   (source)
  • There was no escape, no reprieve.†   (source)
  • The football boys gathered around their exalted coach, begging in vain for some reprieve.†   (source)
  • I should say that their years in Kabul were, ironically enough, a time of personal reprieve for me.†   (source)
  • I relaxed a bit, knowing his tone meant a temporary reprieve from the lecture.†   (source)
  • Finding out that face was Clary's brother was like being marched up in front of a firing squad and then being handed a reprieve at the last minute.†   (source)
  • Even if by some miracle she was pardoned at her retrial, there'd be no real reprieve.†   (source)
  • I felt giddy, as if I'd been granted a reprieve from my worse fears.†   (source)
  • Out of God's merciful bosom I had won reprieve.†   (source)
  • When she discovered that she had nine months to go before the baby came, she felt like a reprieved criminal.†   (source)
  • Will you give me a reprieve?†   (source)
  • Two bullfighters jumped in to distract Big Ugly Critter, offering a temporary reprieve that allowed Harris to reach the arena wall.†   (source)
  • I know why she gave you a reprieve.†   (source)
  • The Clutter slayers, granted a reprieve by a Federal judge, evaded their date.†   (source)
  • Every day he doesn't is a reprieve.†   (source)
  • And just like that my semi-reprieve from coughing ended.†   (source)
  • With the breath came a sense of reprieve, the sweet knowledge that she was not going to die after all, she was going to live. life, the act of being alive and able to draw breath, was suddenly unbearably beautiful, like music within her.†   (source)
  • Sister Edgar, seeing a radiant grace in the girl, a reprieve from the Wall's endless distress, even a source of personal hope, a goad to the old rugged faith.†   (source)
  • While both men laughed at the memory, Jeff reflected on how, for Adam, this had been only a temporary reprieve from the Garland County jail.†   (source)
  • New kinds of joy were forged, along with new kinds of sadness: The eternal disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying.†   (source)
  • I wander into the cool, empty reprieve of the English building and remember how to breathe.†   (source)
  • That Claudia was gone beyond reprieve.†   (source)
  • The girl had to awaken early like everybody else, take a cold bath, and do her chores, which included teaching in the schoolhouse, sewing in the workshop, and seeing to all the work of the infirmary, from giving enemas to suturing wounds with a needle and thread from the sewing basket, with no reprieve when she fainted at the sight of blood or broke out in a cold sweat when she had to wipe up someone's vomit.†   (source)
  • What a reprieve it was to lie down.†   (source)
  • No reprieve from the governor.†   (source)
  • She said it beseechingly, trying to win a short reprieve, but did not push for it.†   (source)
  • If there was a God, he had just given us a huge reprieve.†   (source)
  • In the sound of my footsteps slapping against the pavement, I can almost hear the word, reprieve, reprieve, echo through the city streets.†   (source)
  • Those red phones are direct hookups to the governor's office and the attorney general—the commissioner will call to make sure there's been no stay of execution, no last minute reprieve.†   (source)
  • Chelise walked over to him, glad for the reprieve.†   (source)
  • The skeletal, trembling wreck of a man who was about to go under was given a reprieve.†   (source)
  • AND THUS WE PASSED the wondrous days of our reprieve, and I busied myself in preparation for a winter that was hard to conceive of on those heavy afternoons, when the bees buzzed into hives that brimmed with the heather-scented honey.†   (source)
  • Some few however found a final brief reprieve on the white gauze netting of a cradle which, since the weather had grown mild, stood daily in the dappled shade.†   (source)
  • Basil knew he would win his reprieve this way.†   (source)
  • He closed the door of his bedroom like a fugitive winning a moment's reprieve.†   (source)
  • She'd been happy before her reprieve, but now she wasn't so sure.†   (source)
  • It seemed good to be reprieved, to walk in a land that had only been for a few years under the dominion of the Dark Lord and was not yet fallen wholly into decay.†   (source)
  • The reprieve gave me three more years to consider myself in light of Asia, North America, duty to my country,duty to myself, and war.†   (source)
  • She served her master for eons without reprieve.†   (source)
  • The consideration surprises me, and as she heads to the Java Hut I think we must both be glad for the momentary reprieve.†   (source)
  • No reprieve.†   (source)
  • Bran pushed himself onto his side, grateful for the reprieve.†   (source)
  • Number 74: Commander-in-Chief, Reprieves, Pardons†   (source)
  • This reprieve with his lawyers.†   (source)
  • Neither did any of us, but if His Highness is entertaining any notions of going back to his dreamy reprieve, then I suggest you forget them now, Prince.†   (source)
  • I enjoyed the reprieve, however brief.†   (source)
  • There was one last-minute reprieve of a bodyguard when a witness shouted testimony just as the vise was pinching blood.†   (source)
  • GUIL (broken): We've travelled too far, and our momentum has taken over; we move idly towards eternity, without possibility of reprieve or hope of explanation.†   (source)
  • Tremaine the Swastika Salesman's reprieve from holocaust was either an injustice, or the absence of a wind; the bones of the GI's at the bottom of Lake Inverarity were there either for a reason that mattered to the world, or for skin divers and cigarette smokers.†   (source)
  • But for the male there was no reprieve.†   (source)
  • His father, the terrorist Dementii Dudorov, condemned to death by hanging but reprieved by the Tsar, was now doing forced labor.†   (source)
  • Very soon, perhaps in a month's time, there would be no one here, no living creatures but the cats and dogs that had been granted a short reprieve.†   (source)
  • The miraculous reprieve was not going to be granted.†   (source)
  • She could have stood there forever with him, but the reprieve was short-lived.†   (source)
  • But McDermott didn't get his reprieve," says Simon.†   (source)
  • When Baba jan was away, Adel and his mother tried to be each other's reprieve.†   (source)
  • When he finally arrived, he collapsed in his desk chair, his old bones grateful for the reprieve.†   (source)
  • I drift off, reprieved, relieved, and with the number eleven still flashing behind my eyelids.†   (source)
  • But he knew that the reprieve could only be temporary.†   (source)
  • Even when it grew warm and stifling and filled with smoke, there was no reprieve.†   (source)
  • It occurred to him that the brief reprieve had worked against him.†   (source)
  • Wincing, he disengaged, seeking a temporary reprieve.†   (source)
  • They had a slight reprieve, but one look showed that more people were coming their way.†   (source)
  • He found himself grinning with joy at his reprieve.†   (source)
  • You've studied me so you know there's no reprieve.†   (source)
  • Cairo, while a reprieve from the constant threat of violence, was no paradise.†   (source)
  • "It looks as though I've been granted another reprieve."†   (source)
  • There can be no reprieve following an escape attempt.†   (source)
  • Their brief reprieve was over, however; people were coming at them from all directions.†   (source)
  • In an hour, we should know the verdict— death or a reprieve.†   (source)
  • There was a final question, his brief reprieve from darkness two nights ago at the Sorbonne.†   (source)
  • I think they will be sentenced to be shot and be reprieved.†   (source)
  • It's as if he's been reprieved.†   (source)
  • With luck, the incoming text message might be information that would grant Trish a reprieve from this distasteful task.†   (source)
  • Being forced to live such lives, with no respite, no reprieve, and no escape, would make servants of anyone.†   (source)
  • "When your life has been given a reprieve, it's impossible not to feel some warmth for the one to whom you owe that reprieve.†   (source)
  • Some days, we would have a bit of reprieve, a few hours of quiet, and then sudden bursts of fire would break it, rounds cracking off from every direction, people on the street screaming.†   (source)
  • And so her laughter still rang in my ears as I went about my work that day, and later, when the other workers came over for tea, I grinned and muted their cackles with the sweet tinkle of her laughter, and I prided myself on knowing that my clever story had given her a bit of reprieve from the discontent of her marriage.†   (source)
  • A short reprieve.†   (source)
  • My brother knows that if he were to raise his he would see a runway, shimmering with heat, and beyond that a dun landscape alien as the moon, with a blinding sea in the background; and some oblong brown buildings with flat roofs, from which reprieve will come, or not.†   (source)
  • He had the distinct feeling that he knew what it was to have been given a reprieve from hanging and he wanted to share that rare experience.†   (source)
  • She looked like someone who had been half-expecting a guilty sentence in a trial and half-hoping for a reprieve, and this was the moment after the guilty sentence had fallen.†   (source)
  • The Goober nodded, accepting the assignment like a sentence of doom, the way all the others did, knowing there was no way out, no reprieve, no appeal.†   (source)
  • This should have been good news—these were the words we'd been hoping for, the reprieve we'd never really thought possible.†   (source)
  • And then when he turned out to be your brother, it seemed like a last-minute reprieve—and I was glad.†   (source)
  • And yet I had no other, further plan; there was no good recourse from her required duties to the camp, there was no actual reprieve I was offering her.†   (source)
  • "It's only a matter of weathering this crisis," said Mouch, "of giving people a reprieve, a chance to catch up."†   (source)
  • Rosina's return was a great reprieve, but my greatest relief that night came when my head touched Shiva's, a sense of safety and completion, a home at the end of the world.†   (source)
  • It meant reprieve for the west, for House Lannister, and yet … Tyrion had only the vaguest memory of Theon Greyjoy from his time with the Starks.†   (source)
  • You got your reprieve, now shut up!†   (source)
  • He is authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment."†   (source)
  • But he had succeeded, and after a five-minute reprieve to collect his senses, he'd wound the chain around his wrist so that it appeared he was still bound by it, and he'd called the guard.†   (source)
  • A reprieve?†   (source)
  • His worries returned in force and assailed him without reprieve, gnawing at his mind like a host of rats, each bite of which seemed to infect him with a creeping poison.†   (source)
  • Still, he could not help being pleased by his heightened prowess, as well as by his long-awaited reprieve from the torment of his back.†   (source)
  • Reprieves, Pardons†   (source)
  • The visit left Roran in a more serious mood, for it reminded him that, as fortunate as they were to have won a reprieve from the soldiers' blades, there was much that still needed doing, and any of the tasks that lay before them might cost them the siege if handled badly.†   (source)
  • The President is to be the "commander-in-chief of the army and navy of the United States, and of the militia of the several States, when called into the actual service of the United States; "He is to have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment; "to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; "he may, on extraordinary occasions, convene both houses of the…†   (source)
  • Then I told them that when I found out that school was a place of time clocks and rules, of teachers more concerned with attendance reports than with students, and students praying for the day of graduation when their reprieve from the stale grip of public education would be granted, I tried to make my classes a stimulating experience for my students …. life experiences, creative experiences.†   (source)
  • Rhett had sent her home alone in the carriage when the party was over and she had thanked God for the reprieve.†   (source)
  • 'Since I am supposed,' said Neville, 'to be too delicate to go with them, since I get so easily tired and then am sick, I will use this hour of solitude, this reprieve from conversation, to coast round the purlieus of the house and recover, if I can, by standing on the same stair half-way up the landing, what I felt when I heard about the dead man through the swing-door last night when cook was shoving in and out the dampers.†   (source)
  • He knew the reprieved feeling he had felt when the Ingles had told him he was to go with the message.†   (source)
  • She had a reprieve.†   (source)
  • The World had been expected to end in the year one thousand, and, in the reaction which followed its reprieve, there had been a burst of lawlessness and brutality which had sickened Europe for centuries.†   (source)
  • The new nurse was his reprieve his one tiny opportunity in all the hours and weeks and years of his life.†   (source)
  • He had looked forward to that moment all the year when he was a boy; but the feeling when the Ingles gave the order about the message was the same as when you woke to hear the reprieve of the rain falling on the slate roof, against the stone wall and into the puddles on the dirt Street of the village.†   (source)
  • But for all his noble thinking a little while before there was in him that reprieved feeling that had always come with the sound of rain in the village on the morning of the fiesta.†   (source)
  • He was reprieved, you say; in other words, they did restore to him that 'eternity of days.'†   (source)
  • It may be, on the other hand, that the destruction of the Martians is only a reprieve.†   (source)
  • He has begged for a reprieve, then, if you like that better!†   (source)
  • No; there was no news come—no pardon—no reprieve.†   (source)
  • A reprieve, to one abject and wretched as Abiram, temporarily produced the same effects as a pardon.†   (source)
  • And whom will you employ to carry the reprieve to the officer directing the execution?†   (source)
  • Driving at that hour, on a lovely day, through a country to which the summer sweetness seemed to offer me a friendly welcome, my fortitude mounted afresh and, as we turned into the avenue, encountered a reprieve that was probably but a proof of the point to which it had sunk.†   (source)
  • She thought she was reprieved when from the steps she saw Abe and McKisco drive away—but after a moment the hotel car came around the corner.†   (source)
  • Doubtless there may be men who have been sentenced, who have suffered this mental anguish for a while and then have been reprieved; perhaps such men may have been able to relate their feelings afterwards.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die.†   (source)
  • From early in the evening until nearly midnight, little groups of two and three presented themselves at the lodge-gate, and inquired, with anxious faces, whether any reprieve had been received.†   (source)
  • The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices, and he shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.†   (source)
  • Take what precautions you please, if it is any satisfaction to you to do so; but rely upon my obtaining the reprieve I seek.†   (source)
  • Tom never disobeyed his father, for Mr. Tulliver was a peremptory man, and, as he said, would never let anybody get hold of his whip-hand; but he went out rather sullenly, carrying his piece of plumcake, and not intending to reprieve Maggie's punishment, which was no more than she deserved.†   (source)
  • There was a respite at any rate, which made the timid little Amelia almost as happy as a full reprieve would have done, and which even Dobbin owned in his heart was very welcome.†   (source)
  • That he did not regard it as a desperate case, that he did not say a few hours must end it, was at first felt, beyond the hope of most; and the ecstasy of such a reprieve, the rejoicing, deep and silent, after a few fervent ejaculations of gratitude to Heaven had been offered, may be conceived.†   (source)
  • Perceiving that no respite, nor reprieve, nor subterfuge was possible, he bravely decided upon his course of action; he wound his right foot round his left leg, raised himself on his left foot, and stretched out his arm: but at the moment when his hand touched the manikin, his body, which was now supported upon one leg only, wavered on the stool which had but three; he made an involuntary effort to support himself by the manikin, lost his balance, and fell heavily to the ground,…†   (source)
  • "Whether you marry me or not, you're a good little girl, Becky, and I'm your vriend, mind," said Sir Pitt, and putting on his crape-bound hat, he walked away—greatly to Rebecca's relief; for it was evident that her secret was unrevealed to Miss Crawley, and she had the advantage of a brief reprieve.†   (source)
  • Well, then, if you obtain the reprieve?†   (source)
  • Who knows if I shall be reprieved again to see them, or beaten down under Akhaian blows as the immortals will.†   (source)
  • But his breath came back when a cool north wind, a reprieve, blew round and fanned him, wakened him from his black swoon.†   (source)
  • —Who has the office? send Thy token of reprieve.†   (source)
  • — I hope it is some pardon or reprieve For the most gentle Claudio.†   (source)
  • I beseech you? that in his reprieve, Longer or shorter, he may be so fitted That his soul sicken not.†   (source)
  • But, alas! he who escapes from death is not pardoned; he is only reprieved, and reprieved to a short day.†   (source)
  • In short, I say that this book, and all that may be found treating of those French affairs, should be thrown into or deposited in some dry well, until after more consideration it is settled what is to be done with them; excepting always one 'Bernardo del Carpio' that is going about, and another called 'Roncesvalles;' for these, if they come into my hands, shall pass at once into those of the housekeeper, and from hers into the fire without any reprieve."†   (source)
  • To whom the goddess thus, with weeping eyes: "And what if that request, your tongue denies, Your heart should grant; and not a short reprieve, But length of certain life, to Turnus give?†   (source)
  • What angel shall Bless this unworthy husband? he cannot thrive, Unless her prayers, whom heaven delights to hear And loves to grant, reprieve him from the wrath Of greatest justice.†   (source)
  • My comrade, having the brand of an old offender, was executed; the young offender was spared, having obtained a reprieve, but lay starving a long while in prison, till at last she got her name into what they call a circuit pardon, and so came off.†   (source)
  • I have been content, sir, you should lay my countenance to pawn; I have grated upon my good friends for three reprieves for you and your coach-fellow, Nym; or else you had looked through the grate, like a geminy of baboons.†   (source)
  • …of his opinion, except the Cardinal, who said, 'That it was not easy to form a judgment of its success, since it was a method that never yet had been tried; but if,' said he, 'when sentence of death were passed upon a thief, the prince would reprieve him for a while, and make the experiment upon him, denying him the privilege of a sanctuary; and then, if it had a good effect upon him, it might take place; and, if it did not succeed, the worst would be to execute the sentence on the…†   (source)
  • It was like a reprieve to a dying malefactor, with a halter about his neck, and ready to be turned off.†   (source)
  • He is also to be authorized to grant "reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT."†   (source)
  • Then shortly thus the sov'reign god replied: "Since in my pow'r and goodness you confide, If for a little space, a lengthen'd span, You beg reprieve for this expiring man, I grant you leave to take your Turnus hence From instant fate, and can so far dispense.†   (source)
  • The good minister, whose interest, though a stranger to me, had obtained me the reprieve, mourned sincerely for this part.†   (source)
  • I confess though the manner of his behaviour seemed to be ludicrous enough to occasion, laughter, yet I was very much moved at his affection, so that my heart melted within me, fearing he might die away in excess of joy, like reprieved malefactors, especially as I was incapable either to let him blood, or administer physic.†   (source)
  • He is to have power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, EXCEPT IN CASES OF IMPEACHMENT; to recommend to the consideration of Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; to convene, on extraordinary occasions, both houses of the legislature, or either of them, and, in case of disagreement between them WITH RESPECT TO THE TIME OF ADJOURNMENT, to adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper; to take care that the laws be…†   (source)
  • Death, that inexorable judge, had passed sentence on him, and refused to grant him a reprieve, though two doctors who arrived, and were fee'd at one and the same instant, were his counsel.†   (source)
  • Take my defiance: Die; perish! might but my bending down Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed: I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death,— No word to save thee.†   (source)
  • Tom was now mounted on the back of a footman, and everything prepared for execution, when Mr Allworthy, entering the room, gave the criminal a reprieve, and took him with him into another apartment; where, being alone with Tom, he put the same question to him which Thwackum had before asked him.†   (source)
  • …the state of those six poor creatures was determined, and they were now past the offers of salvation; he earnestly pressed me to retain the same sentiments of the things of life that I had when I had a view of eternity; and at the end of all told me I should not conclude that all was over, that a reprieve was not a pardon, that he could not yet answer for the effects of it; however, I had this mercy, that I had more time given me, and that it was my business to improve that time.†   (source)
  • They who have experienced what it is to be reprieved upon the ladder, or to be saved from thieves, just going to take away their lives, or such as have been in the like calamities with my own, may guess my present excess of joy, how heartily I ran my boat into the stream of this eddy, and how joyfully I spread my sail to the refreshing wind, standing cheerfully before it, with a smart tide under foot.†   (source)
  • The good man having made a very Christian exhortation to me, not to let the joy of my reprieve put the remembrance of my past sorrow out of my mind, and having told me that he must leave me, to go and enter the reprieve in the books, and show it to the sheriffs, stood up just before his going away, and in a very earnest manner prayed to God for me, that my repentance might be made unfeigned and sincere; and that my coming back, as it were, into life again, might not be a returning to…†   (source)
  • …therefore was resolved to set out for Ireland; against which I remonstrated very earnestly, and insisted on a promise which he had made me before our marriage that I should never take this journey against my consent; and indeed I never intended to consent to it; nor will anybody, I believe, blame me for that resolution; but this, however, I never mentioned to my husband, and petitioned only for the reprieve of a month; but he had fixed the day, and to that day he obstinately adhered.†   (source)
  • His friends still wrought reprieves for him; and, indeed, his fact, till now in the government of Lord Angelo, came not to an undoubtful proof.†   (source)
  • My heart leaped within me for joy when I heard his voice at the door, even before I saw him; but let any one judge what kind of motion I found in my soul, when after having made a short excuse for his not coming, he showed me that his time had been employed on my account; that he had obtained a favourable report from the Recorder to the Secretary of State in my particular case, and, in short, that he had brought me a reprieve.†   (source)
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