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  • "But my hand is terribly cramped and would welcome a small respite from its daily exertions," Bibwit had corrected.†   (source)
  • This isn't mindless entertainment, meant to give us some respite from grueling work.†   (source)
  • That overpowering chill lasted a long time, and she could find no respite, not even when Nacha told her what she had overheard as she escorted don Pascual Muzquiz and his son to the ranch's gate.†   (source)
  • The respite from the battle felt too good to be true.†   (source)
  • The reformers, Gold writes: strove for ways to reduce time spent studying, because long periods of respite could save the mind from injury.†   (source)
  • They bring the great the chance of glory, and the lowly a respite from their woes.†   (source)
  • His lips move from my mouth in favor of my neck, so I use the moment of respite to inhale deeply and try again to feel something.†   (source)
  • Not even in sleep is there respite: imagery from the climb and its aftermath continues to permeate my dreams.†   (source)
  • And, though I had a six-month respite from thinking about it, so was I. I Elementary Topography Perhaps it's still unclear how I ended up in there.†   (source)
  • Our respite was over all too soon.†   (source)
  • The light was disappearing quickly, and the horses were tired, but they spurred them on without respite.†   (source)
  • We read he's building himself an actual castle with spires and a moat near Brussels, to provide a respite, I guess, from his villas in Paris and Spain and Italy.†   (source)
  • In fact, she came to enjoy her respite from talk; for a whole week she did not need to console clients, remind Art about social schedules, warn his daughters to be careful, or feel guilty for not calling her mother.†   (source)
  • At first it had been exciting, a welcome respite from the endless casting and pulling and mending.†   (source)
  • "I think my teeth provide a necessary respite from the eerie perfection of everyone else's."†   (source)
  • Little distractions, like the ice storm, were a welcome although brief respite from the haunting presence of his constant companion: The Great Sadness, as he referred to it.†   (source)
  • Music is a meditation, a reverie, a respite from madness.†   (source)
  • It was the first time she had made love in over twenty years, and she had been held back by her curiosity concerning how it would feel at her age after so long a respite.†   (source)
  • But it would at least provide a brief respite from dress talk.†   (source)
  • Yet on the other hand the snowstorm might mean a respite, a happy wintertime vacation.†   (source)
  • The executions moved in waves, and once a neighborhood had been purged it could then expect a measure of respite, until someone committed an infraction of some kind, because infractions, although often alleged with a degree of randomness, were invariably punished without mercy.†   (source)
  • The planes came in waves, now giving us a minute of respite, then pouring down upon us once more, their engines shrieking out hatred for the people down below.†   (source)
  • I was with Evelyn at the hospital when he came into the world, but it was only a brief respite from my activities.†   (source)
  • The drive offered a brief window of personal time and a welcome respite from the last hectic weeks, and Luma was enjoying it, much as she had those long drives around Atlanta when she had just moved to town.†   (source)
  • …saw a rabbit as real as themselves: a rabbit in the last stages of exhaustion, its back legs trailing behind its flattened rump as though paralyzed: a rabbit that stared, white-eyed, from one side to the other, seeing nothing, yet finding no respite from its fear, and then fell to licking wretchedly at one ripped and bloody ear that drooped across its face: a rabbit that suddenly cried and wailed as though entreating the Thousand to come from every quarter to rid it of a misery too…†   (source)
  • I was thankful for the momentary respite.†   (source)
  • Pop would prepare a special Saturday movie meal that was a respite from the endless march of starch in the dining hall dictated by the BOP.†   (source)
  • It was enough to give the demigods a little respite, but there were too many enemies pressing forward.†   (source)
  • Even the jaded horsemen would take a respite from their labors to see him, eating their breakfasts outdoors on the benches near the siding.†   (source)
  • The school week was only a partial respite.†   (source)
  • When the baby was born the day after she stood in the snow, with cloth roses at her feet and a man with blue wings above her head, she regarded him as a beautiful toy, a respite, a distraction, a physical pleasure as she nursed him—until Freddie (again Freddie) caught her at it; then he was no longer her velveteened toy.†   (source)
  • After a brief respite the day before, the first of the two tropical storms that were expected had entered the area.†   (source)
  • Its first major use had been as a respite for the battered and fatigued 2nd Division after the battle of Tarawa in 1943.†   (source)
  • From Olive, though, there was no respite, and to escape from her, I hid.†   (source)
  • Always after a defeat and a respite, the Shadow takes another shape and grows again.†   (source)
  • And to be honest, they were grateful for the respite and sustenance, stretching luxuriously on the cushions and drinking a large quantity of tea.†   (source)
  • A small, spare man with an aquiline nose and sparse hair, he was lit by an inner fire that gave no respite.†   (source)
  • Yossarian laughed mockingly, and Major Danby, despite his blushing discomfort, leaned back with relief, as though welcoming the respite Yossarian's changing mood promised.†   (source)
  • After the unsettling summer, he thought the familiar terrain of school would offer some respite and maybe solace to his bruised ego.†   (source)
  • Cushy seven-hour respite aside, it was time to get down to business once we landed at London's Heathrow Airport.†   (source)
  • The forest behind our house offered a peaceful respite.†   (source)
  • They waited two hundred years for him, and they got less than a year of relief, respite, before the return to darkness.†   (source)
  • Their combined efforts had bought them only a brief respite.†   (source)
  • On Sundays, the one day of respite from Congress, he was at church most of the day, attending services twice, even three times.†   (source)
  • Anys, I now see, knew well enough that her care would bring my boy but a brief respite.†   (source)
  • But there was no respite.†   (source)
  • Moments like the Madison Square Garden party offer a welcome respite from the pressure.†   (source)
  • Since then …. for two years …. with not a moment's respite ….†   (source)
  • Her respite wouldn't last long, though.†   (source)
  • She should focus on her magnificent catch, Porcellino, should practice his whistling, and Max should enjoy a respite from their incessant bickering.†   (source)
  • He ducks into a drugstore for respite, buys himself a cigar.†   (source)
  • Evening brought a respite of quiet.†   (source)
  • Respite.†   (source)
  • When the new vicarage was done at last there was a brief respite until the new furniture, chosen by the wife of the Archdeacon at the Bishop's request, was delivered to the float to be carried up-river.†   (source)
  • With respite for anxiety about what went on beyond his own sight and hearing, he clicked on his radio, tuned to a Conelrad frequency, 640, and turned it up to maximum power.†   (source)
  • We needed this respite, and despite the fact that we seemed to be in a trap here, there was a way out if John Toomey was right.†   (source)
  • She worked without respite and was happy.†   (source)
  • For hunger is a curious thing: at first it is with you all the time, waking and sleeping and in your dreams, and your belly cries out insistently, and there is a gnawing and a pain as if your very vitals were being devoured, and you must stop it at any cost, and you buy a moment's respite even while you know and fear the sequel.†   (source)
  • Nights, weekends, holidays—respite never came.†   (source)
  • She knew she was heading somewhere for another of her brief respites from Orlando's paperness.†   (source)
  • The two men slept, and it came as something of a relief—a brief respite from the tension.†   (source)
  • There's high drama and contradiction, a collision of opposing forces, lyrical respites.†   (source)
  • A few days' respite, then they will leave, and I will still be trapped.†   (source)
  • Before Saphira scooped up more rocks, he said,Let's take a respite and check on Arya.†   (source)
  • I had to interfere and suffer through two songs with her to give Cal some respite.†   (source)
  • The respite made him suddenly aware of his burning stomach and parched throat.†   (source)
  • After a battle, there would be a brief respite, then we would be back to training.†   (source)
  • The sortie upon the Rock gained only a brief respite.†   (source)
  • She had hoped for a respite from the killing, for some time to build and heal.†   (source)
  • A few moments' respite from the arrows, Jaime thought, pushing them off a half-submerged boulder.†   (source)
  • That gave her respite enough to slip her shield onto her arm.†   (source)
  • THE RECTOR GOT little sleep that night, and the next day brought no respite.†   (source)
  • Her gasps and giggles would make a welcome respite from this silence.†   (source)
  • Night and day I have no respite from the pain of the world.†   (source)
  • As he stabbed, Clegane twisted violently aside, winning himself half a heartbeat's respite.†   (source)
  • His time with the agents was actually a respite from tension in his household.†   (source)
  • It was a welcome respite from the impossible pressures in Corpus Christi.†   (source)
  • Ready? he asked Saphira after a brief respite.†   (source)
  • Bert and John stood at the prow, enjoying the respite they'd found, however limited it might be.†   (source)
  • That won him a respite to pull his axe loose.†   (source)
  • The Nine have been unhorsed indeed but that is but a respite, ere they find new steeds and swifter.†   (source)
  • Afternoon brought Ser Barristan a brief respite from his doubts.†   (source)
  • But her respite was cruelly brief, for the Plague felled her the following week.†   (source)
  • With scarcely a moment's respite, they began to play a very different sort of song.†   (source)
  • And so I bought Mr. Mompellion a respite from the graveyard.†   (source)
  • Our respite was a brief one, it would seem.†   (source)
  • The gods gave us a respite, but for how long?†   (source)
  • The snows had finally moved off to the south and given them a respite.†   (source)
  • A wave of horrifying images with a brief respite I confuse with waking--only to find another wave knocking me back.†   (source)
  • He asked for good luck, for a respite from the fog; he prayed that the gods would clear the fog away and keep him safe from the freighters in the shipping lane.†   (source)
  • The brief respite it brings us?†   (source)
  • One can almost hear a unified sigh rise from the nearby city and surrounding countryside where Nature has intervened to give respite to the weary humans slogging it out within her purview.†   (source)
  • The President had agreed to give the governor a ten-day respite to sort out his response to the court order.†   (source)
  • …however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the entrance, and on the wet envelope he recognized at once the imperious handwriting that so many changes in life had not changed, and he even thought he could detect the nocturnal perfume of withered gardenias, because after the initial shock, his heart told him everything: it was the letter he had been waiting for, without a moment's respite, for over half a century.†   (source)
  • The chute opened, the deluge arrived, and Mae worked against the flood until eleven or so, when there was something like respite.†   (source)
  • It'd be selfish to let her own fear prevent her from bringing her friend the peace she wanted—the respite from pain she deserved.†   (source)
  • The Countess was of a mind that dinner should provide one with respite from life's trials and tribulations.†   (source)
  • At least the flesh was tasty and unfishy, and the crunchiness of cartilage was a welcome respite from so much soft food.†   (source)
  • The deadline for their departure drew nearer, then nearer still, and then came and went, and they were still there, and the police had not charged, and they felt they had won some kind of a respite, and then something they could never have expected happened: other people gathered on the street, other dark— and medium— and even light-skinned people, bedraggled, like the people of the camps on Mykonos, and these people formed a crowd.†   (source)
  • That won him a moment's respite.†   (source)
  • MY HOPES FOR A BLISSFUL TWO-WEEK RESPITE FROM Central High over Christmas vacation had been dashed by the dilemma we all faced because of Minnijean's suspension.†   (source)
  • This was meant, of course, to be an insult, but I liked the respite of the unpainted walls, the narrow window that showed only a sliver of the relentless sun.†   (source)
  • She waved to him as if they were old friends, she invited him to have coffee while the confusion abated, and he was delighted to accept (although it was not his custom to drink coffee) and to listen to her talk about herself, which was the only thing that had interested him since the morning and the only thing that was going to interest him, without a moment's respite, during the months to follow.†   (source)
  • Being forced to live such lives, with no respite, no reprieve, and no escape, would make servants of anyone.†   (source)
  • With its precise geometry and pervading silence, the belfry was much like a chapel or reading room—a place designed to provide one with solitude and respite.†   (source)
  • By unspoken consent, Saphira took flight and rose above the struggling armies, seeking a respite from the madness.†   (source)
  • Both of the films were popular with the public, both found favor with the Politburo (which was eager to give the People some respite from the war years through suitably themed diversions), and our young starlet reaped the effortless rewards of fame.†   (source)
  • Will hands me a test, and in the time it takes to complete it I do my best to focus entirely on the questions at hand, hoping I'll find momentary respite from my new reality.†   (source)
  • During all of her girlhood the only respite Nel had had from her stern and undemonstrative parents was Sula.†   (source)
  • She was watching the Inn for a friend, and she'd hoped it would he a respite of sorts, but now it seemed like a mistake.†   (source)
  • It was Aureliano Amador, the only survivor of Colonel Aureliano Buendia's seventeen sons, searching for a respite in his long and hazardous existence as a fugitive.†   (source)
  • His flights with Saphira provided no respite as they only revealed hills of prickly green that rolled unbroken into the distance like a verdant sea.†   (source)
  • If he had given me a chance to collect my wits, I might have been able to fool my jailer, as you did, and avoid consuming the drug that kept me from using magic, but I never had more than a few hours' respite.†   (source)
  • Alan hadn't spoken to Ruby on the phone for two years and the break in battle had allowed his nerves to strengthen, his mind some respite.†   (source)
  • It was a sweet sound, a welcome respite from the harsh screams and endless quorking of the ravens he had tended all day long.†   (source)
  • Seeking respite from the Washington humidity or just to get away from the office seekers and politicos permeating the White House year-round, the president escapes there alone on horseback most evenings.†   (source)
  • In places the branches wove a canopy overhead and he was given a moment's respite from the drumming of the rain against his head.†   (source)
  • He knew the respite would be short.†   (source)
  • As the initial group of about twenty people passed more houses, they called to the people standing in doors and leaning out of windows to join them; to help them open further this slit in the veil, this respite from anxiety, from dignity, from gravity, from the weight of that very adult pain that had undergirded them all those years before.†   (source)
  • Eventually, the Dikori family decided to leave and to join the tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees streaming into Egypt in search of, if not economic opportunity, at least a respite from the overt and relentless persecution of Africans and Christians in the Sudan.†   (source)
  • "Or she rocks back and forth when she talks, and he doesn't like it—they will never have any respite from the quality they don't like.†   (source)
  • Class is dismissed, and Cedric nods a farewell to Maura and moves quickly for the door, happy to be alone as he walks across campus to Spanish, a class that offers a brief respite.†   (source)
  • THE YEAR 1798, the most difficult and consequential year of John Adams's presidency, was to provide him no respite.†   (source)
  • There was the same pureness in the air, the same clarity, the same respite from dust and destruction that Aureliano Segundo had known in childhood and that only Colonel Aureliano Buendia could not perceive.†   (source)
  • The predictions are that the next two weeks will be a nice respite from the snow before winter begins.†   (source)
  • Her respite was interrupted by the voice of Trianna as the sorceress said, "Leave off what you're doing, handmaid, and remove those bandages so I can heal your mistress.†   (source)
  • To Mary Cranch she confided, "I think sometimes that if the [Congress] does not rise and give the President respite, they will have Jefferson sooner than they wish."†   (source)
  • He'd decided that he liked this wench, whoever she was; her sharp wit was a welcome respite from the damp gloom of Pyke.†   (source)
  • He crosses his arms, leans his back against the chalkboard, and lets them have at it, winning a respite, after an hour of lecturing, to watch how various kids might connect educational theory to their passionately held views about grading and fairness.†   (source)
  • If they were wise, they'd drop their weapons and run for their ships, which would give them a temporary respite at best.†   (source)
  • The Street of the Turks was again what it had been earlier, in the days when the Arabs with slippers and rings in their ears were going about the world swapping knickknacks for macaws and had found in Macondo a good bend in the road where they could find respite from their age-old lot as wanderers.†   (source)
  • After donning her green hunting frock-which, with its light skirt, provided some respite from the day's heat-Nasuada decided that even though she was ill disposed toward Orrin, she would take his advice and break with her regular schedule to do nothing more important than help Farica rip out stitches from the overgown.†   (source)
  • With the fierce temerity with which Jose Arcadio Buendia had crossed the mountains to found Macondo, with the blind pride with which Colonel Aureliano Buendia had undertaken his fruitless wars, with the mad tenacity with which Ursula watched over the survival of the line, Aureliano Segundo looked for Fernanda, without a single moment of respite.†   (source)
  • …. until, breathless, he stepped back and let the point of the sword fall to the ground, giving her a moment of respite.†   (source)
  • Between assignments in hot, troubled places like Gaza and Baghdad, I tried to find respite in the English countryside.†   (source)
  • If Meereen knew that a wedding was in the offing, that alone might buy her a few nights' respite, even if Hizdahr's efforts came to naught.†   (source)
  • Lord Beric gave him no respite.†   (source)
  • Tyrion was grateful for the respites.†   (source)
  • They were lovers, when there was time, and place and privacy, and respite from fatigue and hunger and the dangers and responsibilities of the day.†   (source)
  • The only respites were when Mark, the utility boy, came in.†   (source)
  • For our penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.†   (source)
  • Nor was he himself ungrateful for the respite.†   (source)
  • Wearily the Confederates lay on their arms and prayed for respite and rest.†   (source)
  • A Party member is expected to have no private emotions and no respites from enthusiasm.†   (source)
  • I said, "Give him (myself) another moment's respite" as I went downstairs.†   (source)
  • At the instant's respite the old man sank upon the ground and the little boys lay down in the dust, heedless of the feet trampling everywhere about them.†   (source)
  • There is no respite here, no shadow made of quivering leaves, or alcove to which one can retreat from the sun, to sit, with a lover, in the cool of the evening.†   (source)
  • And he was in the midst of it, wanting again to let his body taste of that short respite of rest he had felt after talking with Max.†   (source)
  • Even though the faintest rustle sent me hurrying to the door and, pressing an ear to the rough, cold wood, I listened so intently that I could hear my breathing, quick and hoarse like a dog's panting--even so there was an end; my heart hadn't split, and I knew I had another twenty-four hours' respite.†   (source)
  • The drudgery of making a coherent life of Roger has once more become intolerable, and so I turn for a few day's respite to May 1895.†   (source)
  • It had a ruthless sound, as the voices of all men did to him yet, since he was too young yet to escape from the world of women for that brief respite before he escaped back into it to remain until the hour of his death.†   (source)
  • After the daily clean-up of the town, which took place at sunrise, there was a brief respite; then gradually the rats began to appear again in numbers that went on increasing throughout the day.†   (source)
  • The night brought coolness and respite.†   (source)
  • It was he who decided when Winston should scream with pain, when he should have a respite, when he should be fed, when he should sleep, when the drugs should be pumped into his arm.†   (source)
  • Only in the warm days of spring and summer did the pupils have a respite for then the old man nodded and slept after he had eaten at noon, and the dark small room was filled with the sound of his slumber.†   (source)
  • As for the rest, we must hold fast, trusting in the divine goodness, even as to the deaths of little children, and not seeking personal respite.†   (source)
  • When they caught sight of the plague watchman, Rieux guessed that Tarrou, like himself, was thinking that the disease had given them a respite, and this was good, but now they must set their shoulders to the wheel again.†   (source)
  • This straining of Duane's faculties brought on a reaction which in itself was a respite.†   (source)
  • It was his brightness indeed that gave me a respite.†   (source)
  • I was punished enough at the time—is there to be no respite for me?†   (source)
  • Carley had a respite from her severest pains.†   (source)
  • And from all the unending horror of this there was a respite, a deliverance—he could drink!†   (source)
  • But one might obtain a respite, all the same.†   (source)
  • I obtained from my father a respite of some weeks.†   (source)
  • Deprived of this respite, I should have sunk under my hardships.†   (source)
  • The trapper was not sorry to find that so long a respite was granted.†   (source)
  • The fresh respite which the assailants were granting to the barricade had, in fact, been prolonged.†   (source)
  • We profited by this respite on the part of the government to make friends everywhere.†   (source)
  • My dear Albert, one word, for I must give poor Lucien a respite.†   (source)
  • However, the last two or three years I had allowed myself some respite.†   (source)
  • Shefford was grateful for this respite.†   (source)
  • He was glad of the respite.†   (source)
  • …them, in particular—could stop to drink ale or cold tea from the flagon now and then, or to exchange a few gossiping remarks while they wiped their faces or cleared the fragments of straw and husk from their clothing; but for Tess there was no respite; for, as the drum never stopped, the man who fed it could not stop, and she, who had to supply the man with untied sheaves, could not stop either, unless Marian changed places with her, which she sometimes did for half an hour in spite of…†   (source)
  • Presently, when the driver had to halt to repair or adjust something wrong with the harness, Carley was grateful for a respite from cold inaction.†   (source)
  • Then there came a respite from the steep climb, and the way led in a winding course through a matted, storm-wrenched forest of stunted trees.†   (source)
  • And once this conclusion was put before Clyde, he saw it as a very reasonable arrangement—all things considered—quite a respite from the feeling of strain that had settled upon him after his last conversation with Hortense.†   (source)
  • Thus several days went by; and the miseries of this tramping life, and the weariness and sordidness and meanness and vulgarity of it, became gradually and steadily so intolerable to the captive that he began at last to feel that his release from the hermit's knife must prove only a temporary respite from death, at best.†   (source)
  • It was the last respite.†   (source)
  • Such a pitiful beginning it was for their married life; they loved each other so, and they could not have the briefest respite!†   (source)
  • So much did I love that good night that I reached the stage of hoping that it would come as late as possible, so as to prolong the time of respite during which Mamma would not yet have appeared.†   (source)
  • He fought frantically for respite for his senses, for air, as a babe being smothered attacks the deadly blankets.†   (source)
  • …he believed he was going to die, and he wished to see Hugh and Edith settled in life before he passed away; but Edith begged hard for delay, hoping for Miles's return; then the letter came which brought the news of Miles's death; the shock prostrated Sir Richard; he believed his end was very near, and he and Hugh insisted upon the marriage; Edith begged for and obtained a month's respite, then another, and finally a third; the marriage then took place by the death-bed of Sir Richard.†   (source)
  • Chapter 18 The ragged line had respite for some minutes, but during its pause the struggle in the forest became magnified until the trees seemed to quiver from the firing and the ground to shake from the rushing of men.†   (source)
  • This compulsion to an activity without respite, without variety, without result, was so cruel a scourge that one day, noticing a swelling over his stomach, he felt an actual joy in the idea that he had, perhaps, a tumour which would prove fatal, that he need not concern himself with anything further, that it was his malady which was going to govern his life, to make a plaything of him, until the not-distant end.†   (source)
  • "I should have thought you had found complete respite in the reconciliation which was effected at my expense," Lily began, with renewed impatience; but he broke in imploringly: "Don't put it in that way—when that's been the worst of my punishment.†   (source)
  • Of the disinherited of life, for whom there is no respite and no deliverance, to whom the world is a prison, a dungeon of torture, a tomb!†   (source)
  • Such were the cruel terms upon which their life was possible, that they might never have nor expect a single instant's respite from worry, a single instant in which they were not haunted by the thought of money.†   (source)
  • It was their one hope of respite, as long as they lived; they had put all their money into it—and they were working people, poor people, whose money was their strength, the very substance of them, body and soul, the thing by which they lived and for lack of which they died.†   (source)
  • Six years more of toil they had to face before they could expect the least respite, the cessation of the payments upon the house; and how cruelly certain it was that they could never stand six years of such a life as they were living!†   (source)
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