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  • Seemed to think it might, ah, bring about a relapse , . tempt me into my old ways.†   (source)
  • Relapse†   (source)
  • You know the singing could lead to a relapse in these patients.†   (source)
  • He was assigned quarters on my old floor, but he has so many mental relapses, he still basically lives in the hospital.†   (source)
  • And now, on what should have been a badly needed day and a half of rest, Fischer had just been forced to make a hasty round-trip from Camp Two to Base Camp and back to help his good friend Kruse after he came down with what appeared to be a relapse of HACE.†   (source)
  • Two days later he suffered a relapse.†   (source)
  • Sometimes, when I have relapses of my old demon, I lie in the crook of his arm and he comforts me this way, talking to me all night long to stave off the bad dreams.†   (source)
  • He may relapse into addiction and trouble with the law.†   (source)
  • He had remarried, stopped drinking (more or less) and suffered only occasional relapses.†   (source)
  • She would dawdle in the bathroom, rolling her cigarettes in perfumed paper, smoking alone, relapsing into her consolatory love as she did when she was young and free in her own house, mistress of her own body.†   (source)
  • The staff had no obligation to tell anyone, but many of them had developed an uncanny ability to sense problems, especially relapses and complications.†   (source)
  • Some relapse into the reflective life of their aesthetic stage.†   (source)
  • When he was only twenty-six, the German government sent Virchow to Upper Silesia to report on an epidemic of what was then termed famine fever, now called relapsing fever.†   (source)
  • He had stopped smoking ten years ago, but occasionally he would have a relapse.†   (source)
  • There were a few moments of minor relapses, like when I told her I had never belonged to the Latin Club, but on the whole she took things better than I thought she would.†   (source)
  • However, this was before Inigo's wound reopened, and Westley relapsed again, and Fezzik took the wrong turn, and Buttercup's horse threw a shoe.†   (source)
  • Kahaar relapsed into hedgerow vernacular.†   (source)
  • "Alive," she echoes, as if she were relapsing to her old quoting days.†   (source)
  • This effect is strong enough that when smokers with a history of psychiatric problems give up cigarettes, they run a sizable risk of relapsing into depression.†   (source)
  • And having thus paid his ultimate compliment to Johnnie, Himes relapsed into intermittent slumber as Shade moved away down the squalid, dusty street under the fierce July sun.†   (source)
  • I'm having a relapse just sitting here.†   (source)
  • "It was the second time he'd relapsed," she says.†   (source)
  • Dad's had a relapse.†   (source)
  • I learned about relapsing fever as a schoolboy when Ali of the souk opposite Missing brought his brother, Saleem, to the hospital and asked me to intercede.†   (source)
  • Jose Fax had passed away two years earlier and Cesar's brother, Joseph, had told him that their mother, F elicit as was having a relapse of pneumonia.†   (source)
  • But after failed rehab and long periods of separation from my heroin-addicted daughter, after years of holding my breath, waiting for another relapse, I now believe there is no blame.†   (source)
  • For a moment he relapsed into his old Gollum-manner.†   (source)
  • In a day or two he was coughing and said he thought it was a relapse of lung disease from war deprivation.†   (source)
  • It would be a great pity if she were to suffer a relapse.†   (source)
  • GUIL: I thought you— (Relapses.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said George, relapsing into a gently simmering quiescence.†   (source)
  • Then he relapsed into his usual silence except when he was berating Thomas for being lazy.†   (source)
  • He had relapses.†   (source)
  • And in the next sentence, the relapse into fear: "Do you know Elizabeth down in Baltimore is a baker who wanted me affoul bad last time I was there maby I will take the job for a while, how would you like that, would you come and see me, or I come and see you.†   (source)
  • For a while they reviewed old times, for a while they recounted the times when they were apart, and finally they relapsed into the long ugly silences, the hours of speechless work, the guarded courtesy, the flashes of anger.†   (source)
  • I suffered a relapse of my former mental illness, and I spent from 1953 to 1961 in a private hospital on Long Island.†   (source)
  • It had not yet relapsed into savagery, as at the capitals.†   (source)
  • We both relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • "I do so like it when the rains come," she would say conversationally, giggle a little, and relapse suddenly into a blank, staring silence.†   (source)
  • He handed in his resignation at once—and that night the Judge suffered a relapse and died.   (source)
    relapse = return to an undesirable previous condition
  • Poor lads! they—like Tom—had suffered a relapse.   (source)
  • Fanny was silent, and Miss Crawford relapsed into thoughtfulness, till suddenly looking up at the end of a few minutes, she exclaimed, "Ah! here he is."   (source)
    relapsed = returned to an less desirable previous condition
  • Then she was not doing so well, she'd had a relapse.†   (source)
  • And Farmer predicted—correctly as it would turn out—that many of that 5 percent would relapse.†   (source)
  • A government clinic had treated her for tb, but she had relapsed.†   (source)
  • Then once again we relapsed into silence, sunk in our own thoughts.†   (source)
  • They relapsed into a prickly silence.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Humphrey came to the table, saying she felt a little better, and ate a good deal of it for one so fragile; but when the washing up had to be done she suffered a relapse, and Simon was left to do it himself.†   (source)
  • This was forty years before medical science identified all the biological sources of relapsing fever—its vector is the louse—but subsequent discoveries would show that Virchow was right.†   (source)
  • You're my relapse.†   (source)
  • Years later Ghosh showed me the correspondence he had with the editor of the New England Journal of Medicine, who was about to publish Ghosh's seminal series of cases of relapsing fever.†   (source)
  • For Kelley it bordered on miraculous that Adam had lasted this long without a relapse, because "it was the devil to him.†   (source)
  • Adam had been drug free for a year and seven months, but she'd done her research and learned that relapse was still extremely likely.†   (source)
  • Surely, the world is ready for an eponym honoring a humble compounder who has seen more relapsing fever with one eye than you or I will ever see with two.†   (source)
  • Back in Little Rock, where she had moved in with her father, the new Mrs. Brown was "a nervous wreck" She knew Adam had what it took to make it through boot camp, but she also knew the likelihood for relapse.†   (source)
  • The clinician has only to grab the patient's thigh, squeeze the quadriceps muscle, squeeze it hard: Patients with relapsing fever will jump up because of the otherwise silent muscle inflammation and tenderness that is part of this disease.†   (source)
  • I would be remiss in publishing a paper on relapsing fever without providing the clinician a practical way to make the diagnosis, particularly in settings where blood and serum tests are hard to come by.†   (source)
  • At the beginning of 1998, Kelley informed Janice and Larry of the relapses and they told her to break up with Adam.†   (source)
  • An initial interest in sexually transmitted illness had given way to major scholarship on relapsing fever, for which he was the world's expert, because the louse-borne variety of this disease was endemic to Ethiopia, and because no living person had observed the disease as closely.†   (source)
  • For six months, Kelley spent the better part of her days either baby-sitting Adam or searching for him during his relapses, which occurred every week or two.†   (source)
  • Or is it relapsing fever?†   (source)
  • And another thing which contributed to his change--or rather, relapse--of heart was this: whenever he had a cold his wife Marguerite was always unusually kind and solicitous, forever bringing him sweets, offering him orange or grapefruit juice, plying him with candied pills and sugary syrups freighted with aspirin and codeine and milk of magnesia and heaven knew what; or she would read to him out of the Saturday Evening Post or Field and Stream (which he did not like but which it…†   (source)
  • He relapsed into silence, glowered across at Gummy, then reached down for the bottle.†   (source)
  • Then he had a relapse when the topic got away from him, and seemed very meager.†   (source)
  • Scarlett relapsed into silence but she could not sit still.†   (source)
  • Henry Cameron had had a relapse and the doctor warned his sister that no recovery could be expected.†   (source)
  • They relapsed into the silence which was their usual form of intercourse.†   (source)
  • Perhaps he would relapse in the end—perhaps.†   (source)
  • Al relapsed into an insulted silence.†   (source)
  • There would be no Pepita to enlarge her work; it would relapse into the indolence and the indifference of her colleagues.†   (source)
  • He relapsed into silence and took no further part in the conversation until something Mary Durrant said caught his attention.†   (source)
  • Relapsing into his earlier and more consequential manner, the High Lama responded: "It is an intricate story, if you would care to hear it.†   (source)
  • Then, for fear that its brief relapse into prose might have hardened the tyrant's heart, it launched out breathlessly into Genevieve, for the third time.†   (source)
  • She remained abed ten years, gradually growing better, but never completely recovering, relapsing periodically into her paralytic state.†   (source)
  • I relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • JOE—(to Captain Lewis who has relapsed into a sleepy daze and is listening to him with an absurd strained attention without comprehending a word) Dere.†   (source)
  • Gant, who under the stimulus of his son's graduation had almost regained the vitality of his middle years, relapsed now into whining dotage.†   (source)
  • That was as accurate a summing up of the situation as could be made and Scarlett relapsed into infuriated silence.†   (source)
  • He was nearly sixty-but he seemed more like fifty …… Yes, very strong …… " She relapsed again into her dream.†   (source)
  • "The ev-en-ing-star," he said in English, slowly and somewhat sententiously, then relapsed into Spanish.†   (source)
  • Ruthie and Winfield tried to play for a while, and then they too relapsed into sullen inactivity, and the rain drummed down on the roof.†   (source)
  • I relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • When informed of this, he stopped and said Tally-ho, what?" in a feeble voice, then relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • From this conviction of wrongness, Frank gathered courage to forbid Scarlett to do such a thing, and so strong were his remarks that she, startled, relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • He was a relapsed saint, who had fallen into the Pelagian heresy of Celestius, and he believed that the soul was capable of its own salvation.†   (source)
  • When she was able to bear the sniffling noise no longer, Scarlett turned and pinched her viciously, causing Prissy to scream in good earnest before she relapsed into frightened silence.†   (source)
  • Doctor South gave him an odd look and relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • I'll stay, if I have to get a relapse and go down on my back again," declared Jack.†   (source)
  • HIGGINS [relapsing into gloom] Lord forbid!†   (source)
  • He relapsed into silence, with his chin now sunken almost to his knees.†   (source)
  • They have had a serious relapse, I am sorry to say.†   (source)
  • And here the Herr Doctor relapsed into silence again.†   (source)
  • With a sigh of rapture she relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • Then she relapsed into the same mute looking into space, her hands folded on her lap.†   (source)
  • At sea precautionary vigilance was strained against relapse.†   (source)
  • "I'm not defending them," said Lucy, losing her courage, and relapsing into the old chaotic methods.†   (source)
  • Kells slowly became convalescent and then he had a relapse.†   (source)
  • That fury consumed all her remaining strength, and from the relapse she sank to sleep.†   (source)
  • Nastasia trembled with rage, and looked fixedly at him, whereupon he relapsed into alarmed silence.†   (source)
  • She will relapse into the gutter in three weeks without me at her elbow.†   (source)
  • [with a sigh of intense relief she relapses].†   (source)
  • He relapsed into a moody silence, which was not broken until we drew up in Serpentine Avenue.†   (source)
  • He had suddenly relapsed into musing, and had probably not heard the question at all.†   (source)
  • 'H'm!' she said, and then relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • Assuming an aggrieved air, Luzhin relapsed into dignified silence.†   (source)
  • After one exceedingly observant look at him, his companion relapsed into his lightest air.†   (source)
  • A relapse might get us into trouble, and we have no time to lose, for the voyage may be a long one.†   (source)
  • Beth kept on, with only slight relapses into idleness or grieving.†   (source)
  • 'Ay,' murmured the sick woman, relapsing into her former drowsy state, 'what about her?†   (source)
  • 'Oh!' said Miss Squeers, relapsing into melancholy.†   (source)
  • Ralph looked at her a little; then he slowly relapsed.†   (source)
  • By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.†   (source)
  • Surety, father, you do not think him in danger of relapsing into the worship of his ancestors?†   (source)
  • And when the relapse fell on him, was he in most respects—or in all respects—as he was then?†   (source)
  • You haven't been relapsing into (Mrs General is not here) into old habits, have you, Amy?'†   (source)
  • The court relapsed into silence at once.†   (source)
  • The prisoner had relapsed into his taciturnity.†   (source)
  • 'And the best and tenderest feelings,' added Crummles, relapsing into the old man.†   (source)
  • I dustn't," says Jo, relapsing into the profile state.†   (source)
  • A bad relapse, that will lead you, if I mistake not, to the Place de Greve.†   (source)
  • 'You wouldn't relapse, if you were going out?' asked somebody else.†   (source)
  • She received them both uncomplainingly, and having accepted them, relapsed into her grief.†   (source)
  • He was anxious to see if she had relapsed since the previous evening.†   (source)
  • Marmaduke insensibly relapsed into the language of the Friends as he grew warm.†   (source)
  • Kolya looked sternly at the luckless dog, who relapsed again into obedient rigidity.†   (source)
  • "Would he remember what took place in the relapse?" asked Mr. Lorry, with natural hesitation.†   (source)
  • He relapsed into silence, then resumed:— "50-52.†   (source)
  • To which he roused himself to answer, 'Not at all!' and soon relapsed again.†   (source)
  • Besides which, she is so charmingly ugly,' relapsing into languor.†   (source)
  • "Alas," murmured Edmond to himself, "this is a terrible relapse!†   (source)
  • But, unfortunately, there has been," he paused and took a deep breath—"a slight relapse."†   (source)
  • Tell me, how does this relapse come about?†   (source)
  • We relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • Far from relapsing into hypocrisy, as Sganarelle feared, he has unexpectedly discovered a moral in his immorality.†   (source)
  • As I was even more when, on one of my walks, as I stepped out briskly on account of the weather, which, after several days of a precocious spring, had relapsed into winter (like the weather that we had invariably found awaiting us at Combray, in Holy Week),—seeing upon the boulevards that the chestnut-trees, though plunged in a glacial atmosphere that soaked through them like a stream of water, were none the less beginning, punctual guests, arrayed already for the party, and admitting…†   (source)
  • The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hay-field; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim.†   (source)
  • After that she relapsed into silence, read awhile, and dreamed awhile, looking into the fire, and then she limped over to kiss Helen good night and left the room.†   (source)
  • "Try the settee," said Holmes, relapsing into his armchair and putting his fingertips together, as was his custom when in judicial moods.†   (source)
  • I should be much obliged if you would ask Mr. Bunbury, from me, to be kind enough not to have a relapse on Saturday, for I rely on you to arrange my music for me.†   (source)
  • She was hysterical, and laughed aloud every other minute with no apparent reason—the next moment relapsing into gloom and thoughtfulness.†   (source)
  • Jonathan still pale and dizzy under a slight relapse of his malady, and now a telegram from Van Helsing, whoever he may be.†   (source)
  • He said no more, and I had to guess the rest from the inflection of his voice and his sharp relapse into silence.†   (source)
  • Having gone through unprofessional agonies during her long relapse following Topsy's birth, he had, perforce, hardened himself about her, making a cleavage between Nicole sick and Nicole well.†   (source)
  • When, however, the freedom ceases the change back or relapse comes quickly, preceded only by a spell of warning silence.†   (source)
  • …coming over the calm sea, or subtler relation to the afterguardsman there is no telling, the old Merlin gave a twisting wrench with his black teeth at his plug of tobacco, vouchsafing no reply to Billy's impetuous question, tho' now repeated, for it was his wont to relapse into grim silence when interrogated in skeptical sort as to any of his sententious oracles, not always very clear ones, rather partaking of that obscurity which invests most Delphic deliverances from any quarter.†   (source)
  • Anne had relapsed into reverie, with her chin in her hands and her eyes on the sky, when Marilla returned from her cellar pilgrimage.†   (source)
  • That danger at least was over; but this, I knew was only the first of the series of relapses that must come.†   (source)
  • You won't relapse, will you?†   (source)
  • And the silence, which showed Mrs. Harker's coming relapse from her freedom of soul, did not seem so full of despair to any of us as we had dreaded.†   (source)
  • [He composes himself to sleep, murmuring] Louisa, I love thee; I love thee, Louisa; Louisa, Louisa, Louisa, I— Straker snores; rolls over on his side; and relapses into sleep.†   (source)
  • Each instant he seemed as though he would open his eyes and speak, but then would follow a prolonged stertorous breath, and he would relapse into a more fixed insensibility.†   (source)
  • The effort succeeded, for an instant he unconsciously relapsed into his old servile manner, bent low before me, and actually fawned upon me as he replied.†   (source)
  • When we left her, Marie used to relapse at once into her old condition, and sit with closed eyes and motionless limbs.†   (source)
  • I know that minutes, even seconds of delay, might mean hours of danger to Lucy, if she had had again one of those frightful relapses, and I went round the house to try if I could find by chance an entry anywhere.†   (source)
  • "I do desire it," murmured Gania, softly but firmly, lowering his eyes; and he relapsed into gloomy silence.†   (source)
  • She immediately relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • She stopt to blush and laugh at her own relapse, and then resumed a more serious, more dispiriting cogitation upon what had been, and might be, and must be.†   (source)
  • "Impossible," said Mary, relapsing into her usual tone; "husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."†   (source)
  • In a short period it was certain, however, that a relapse had taken place; the color disappeared from both eyelid and cheek, leaving a wanness even more than that of marble; the lips became doubly shrivelled and pinched up in the ghastly expression of death; a repulsive clamminess and coldness overspread rapidly the surface of the body; and all the usual rigorous illness immediately supervened.†   (source)
  • She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her.†   (source)
  • After several relapses into business-absorption, Mr. Lorry had become the Doctor's friend, and the quiet street-corner was the sunny part of his life.†   (source)
  • I have not seen our senior in such earnest preparation since he condemned to the stake Hamet Alfagi, a convert who relapsed to the Moslem faith.†   (source)
  • He had taken the silence of the old man for a return to reason; and now these few words uttered by Faria, after so painful a crisis, seemed to indicate a serious relapse into mental alienation.†   (source)
  • He relapsed into gloomy silence.†   (source)
  • Once he opened his eyes for a while and fixed them upon her intelligently, but when she went to him, hoping he would recognise her, he closed them and relapsed into stupor.†   (source)
  • In the meantime he had relapsed into his stupor; he was obliged to make a tolerably vigorous effort to recall what had been the subject of his thoughts before midnight had struck; he finally succeeded in doing this.†   (source)
  • Now that there was an end, they needed more breath, more fit to support the gross and earthly life into which they relapsed, than that atmosphere which the preacher had converted into words of flame, and had burdened with the rich fragrance of his thought.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bread, however, relapsed again into troubled dumbness, and all Newman could do was to fold his arms and wait.†   (source)
  • During that long interval Starbuck would ever be apt to fall into open relapses of rebellion against his captain's leadership, unless some ordinary, prudential, circumstantial influences were brought to bear upon him.†   (source)
  • Then she relapsed into silence.†   (source)
  • A people amongst which individuals should lose the power of achieving great things single-handed, without acquiring the means of producing them by united exertions, would soon relapse into barbarism.†   (source)
  • The head of Munro had already sunk upon his chest, and he was again fast relapsing into melancholy, when the young Frenchman before named ventured to touch him lightly on the elbow.†   (source)
  • This fire is consuming all that marked your advance from barbarism, or that could have prevented your relapse thither.†   (source)
  • She was fast relapsing into stupor; nor did her mind again rally: at twelve o'clock that night she died.†   (source)
  • "Bravo, Jos!" said Mr. Sedley; on hearing the bantering of which well-known voice, Jos instantly relapsed into an alarmed silence, and quickly took his departure.†   (source)
  • Rather do they protest, not altogether unjustly, against a few relapses into staginess and caricature which betray the young playwright and the old playgoer in this early work of mine.†   (source)
  • A fearful idea now suddenly drove the blood in torrents upon my heart, and for a brief period, I once more relapsed into insensibility.†   (source)
  • From time to time she smoothed the folds of her dress, and whenever the story produced an effect she glanced at Anna Pavlovna, at once adopted just the expression she saw on the maid of honor's face, and again relapsed into her radiant smile.†   (source)
  • Evidently, after his fit of promptitude, Mr. Tulliver was relapsing into the sense that this is a puzzling world.†   (source)
  • When I had taken this commission on myself prospectively, Mr. Barkis relapsed into perfect silence; and I, feeling quite worn out by all that had happened lately, lay down on a sack in the cart and fell asleep.†   (source)
  • Accordingly, they exhibited none of those indistinct, incoherent notions of right and wrong, none of that deep corruption of manners, which is usually joined with ignorance and rudeness among nations which, after advancing to civilization, have relapsed into a state of barbarism.†   (source)
  • 'Well!' she said, relapsing into stone.†   (source)
  • The decisive moment was not far off Adam felt a shuddering horror that would not let him look at Hetty, but she had long relapsed into her blank hard indifference.†   (source)
  • He withdrew his encircling arms, and Alice—whose figure, though flexible, had been wholly impassive—relapsed into the same attitude as before these attempts to arouse her.†   (source)
  • Whether this was Judith relapsed into her early failing, or some other victim of the soldier's, Hawkeye never knew, nor would it be pleasant or profitable to inquire.†   (source)
  • More than once the agitation into which these reflections threw me made my friends dread a dangerous relapse.†   (source)
  • A letter from Washington added to their trouble, for Mr. March had had a relapse, and could not think of coming home for a long while.†   (source)
  • Why shall I pause to relate how, time after time, until near the period of the gray dawn, this hideous drama of revivification was repeated; how each terrific relapse was only into a sterner and apparently more irredeemable death; how each agony wore the aspect of a struggle with some invisible foe; and how each struggle was succeeded by I know not what of wild change in the personal appearance of the corpse?†   (source)
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