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  • I relented.†   (source)
  • So I don't regret relenting.†   (source)
  • He relented, glancing back up at Alby, then followed Minho out and away from the Maze.†   (source)
  • The tall one would not relent.†   (source)
  • But she insists and they relent, and soon Joe and Eddie are laughing and stumbling into each other.†   (source)
  • The officer eventually relented.†   (source)
  • Bod was ready to argue or simply to negotiate, but he saw the hurt look on Thackeray's face, and he relented.†   (source)
  • She says it like she expects him to relent, but her wide eyes and ashen face suggest otherwise.†   (source)
  • The captain had relented and let Alyona marry the first mate.†   (source)
  • The last broadcast finally relented just as Reynie was closing his notebook.†   (source)
  • The judge did relent on one point, however: Williams would not be transferred right away to the much-feared state penitentiary at Reidsville.†   (source)
  • "Oh, all right," Dionysus relented.†   (source)
  • Yet Owen relented on the issue of whether or not the cattle should "low"; he saw there was more to be gained in rearranging the order of music, which he had always found improper.†   (source)
  • Vincent at first refused to let me play, but when I offered my Life Savers as replacements for the buttons that filled in for the missing pieces, he relented.†   (source)
  • But he refused to relent, and I stayed behind with tears running down my face as Shawnee and her dad went off to the movies together.†   (source)
  • Miss Peregrine demurred, pointing out that they hadn't yet finished their dinners, but the children pleaded with her until she relented.†   (source)
  • Mord fingered his strap thoughtfully, but in the end, he relented and went to fetch paper and ink.†   (source)
  • He could see that she was pleading, and that in spite of herself the old woman was relenting.†   (source)
  • They did not see this as quite the same, but when I didn't give them any other choice, they grudgingly relented.†   (source)
  • He sighs, but eventually relents.†   (source)
  • "Well, yes," said Andy, relenting.†   (source)
  • HERMIONE (relenting): If there is another stink pellet in there then Merlin won't help you.†   (source)
  • I'm coming to drop off my mother," she tells Rosa Amalia, who relents.†   (source)
  • She relents.†   (source)
  • I once wanted these white moccasin-type shoes that were the fashion in those days, and I bothered Tateh to buy them for me so much he got sick of me and relented.†   (source)
  • Underdown relented after a while and told me certain sentences.†   (source)
  • The secretary finally relented.†   (source)
  • The seas did not relent.†   (source)
  • The gloom of the forest didn't relent, though, for there were six primordial cedars that shaded an entire acre with their vast sweep of branches.†   (source)
  • It was Taylor who finally relented.†   (source)
  • Relenting slightly, Olmsted said he would think about it and agreed to meet with Ellsworth two days later, on Ellsworth's return from Maine.†   (source)
  • Maxon eyed him warily but then relented.†   (source)
  • "I'll tell Little you said hello," he relented just as I went out the door.†   (source)
  • The previous summer, he'd set it up in the backyard, and the kids had slept outside when the heat relented and allowed it.†   (source)
  • I did, I suppose, hope that she might finally relent a little and make some conciliatory response or other, allowing us once and for all to put the whole episode behind us.†   (source)
  • Jai smiled at me, her dying showman, and finally relented.†   (source)
  • Then I relented, and said, He seems like a proper enough young man.†   (source)
  • It took some coaxing, but Mack finally relented and retold the story as they all stared up into the mists shrouding the falling cascade.†   (source)
  • I relented.†   (source)
  • "Well, go put a T-shirt or something over the pope first," she would finally say, relenting.†   (source)
  • Finally, Mama relented, but she insisted Pedrito and Patria go along to take care of me, and Jaimito and Dede go to make sure Patria and Pedrito did their job.†   (source)
  • He was feeling more and more uncomfortable and wanted to end this visit to Hedeby, but he relented.†   (source)
  • "Okay," she relented, "I'll go."†   (source)
  • He might have relented and given him a drag, the jackal, but he'd seen him pulling one of his fast ones already that day.†   (source)
  • Maghara begged She of the Gilded Horns not to take her eldest son, but Rahna would not relent.†   (source)
  • "please, let me go along with you," I said, and he relented on that point.†   (source)
  • Yet, in a moment he relented.†   (source)
  • In order to circumvent the restrictions, I offered food to the warders, who might then relent.†   (source)
  • My mom relented, kissed me good-bye, sad her perfume.†   (source)
  • I wait her out, and she relents, pulling her fingers from mine and sitting back down.†   (source)
  • Liam stared at him for a moment, before relenting.†   (source)
  • Buckheath asked, turning to her with a half-taunting, half-relenting smile on his face.†   (source)
  • After the first week, though (and once he realized that he really couldn't stop me), he'd relented, and I'd started putting my own songs in here and there.†   (source)
  • (relenting) Sorry, Willie… WILLIE.†   (source)
  • He kept twisting and turning, hoping she would relent.†   (source)
  • Then I relented and called him over and gave him the car keys.†   (source)
  • Frost relented in the mornings, took hold again each afternoon.†   (source)
  • Finally, Adam relented.†   (source)
  • At first his father said no, but the boy kept begging and he eventually relented.†   (source)
  • Where the sand relented, burlap bags of recently harvested potatoes awaited collection at the edge of fields.†   (source)
  • My parents fought the move until the end, but they finally relented.†   (source)
  • They were still climbing gently, but they now went much quicker, and with better heart; for it seemed to them that the Forest had relented, and was going to let them pass unhindered after all.†   (source)
  • "Okay," I finally relented.†   (source)
  • Having won, General Peckem relented.†   (source)
  • Ivy relented, picking up her tattered skirts and leading Genevieve out past what used to be her mother's lemon grove.†   (source)
  • "Oh yeah," Cedric relents, "and his hair was beady."†   (source)
  • Finally she sighed, relenting.†   (source)
  • Relenting, Casey and Jessica gathered close on either side of me.†   (source)
  • But one kind god who truly loved the people argued against it, and the other gods were so moved by his love that they relented from killing the people.†   (source)
  • The girl relents.†   (source)
  • There's no discouragement Shall make him once relent His first avowed intent To be a Pilgrim."†   (source)
  • It was the only explanation I could imagine for her relenting.†   (source)
  • Grandmother had sacked him on the spot and refused to relent even when Daphne's father said that Biggleswick's mother had died that day.†   (source)
  • Old Put would not relent, wrote one of Washington's staff.†   (source)
  • Jason relented to the point of a brief slight smile.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Bradford and her daughter seemed about to relent in the case of their maids, and inquired of the colonel whether two or three of the young women might not take shelter in the stables or the well house, but Colonel Bradford refused them even that.†   (source)
  • After several more gentle nudges, Grandmother finally relented.†   (source)
  • Gulliver relented and moved on again up the path.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, the smaller guy didn't relent even as he fell steadily behind.†   (source)
  • Eugenides relented.†   (source)
  • Having great respect for the druid's councils, but ignorant of the latest prophecy, the king relented, and Cuchulain ran off to the smithy.†   (source)
  • But they relented after Ajax and the other two just stood around for one hour and a half and repeated their request at regular intervals.†   (source)
  • Kennedy pressured Greyhound, and the company relented.†   (source)
  • "All right," she relented.†   (source)
  • Miri stood stiffly at first, then relented.†   (source)
  • We girls beg to be let out as well, and Mrs. Nightwing relents.†   (source)
  • On a sigh, Branna relented.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they would have relented.†   (source)
  • Abby rolled her eyes, and he relented.†   (source)
  • The tower shook again, and this time the trembling did not relent.†   (source)
  • Then I relented, nice, empathetic person that I am …. ummm.†   (source)
  • Finally, after I threatened to haul every one of them in front of the nearest judge, they relented.†   (source)
  • I had no choice but to relent.†   (source)
  • "Well," she said, relenting a bit.†   (source)
  • But Brave Orchid would not relent; her dainty sister would just have to toughen up.†   (source)
  • She hauled me with her to the corner delicatessen one day to buy three slices of bologna, and when the counterman gave her the wrong change she gave him a tongue lashing that had him whining apologies before she relented.†   (source)
  • When Edna relented, the last major bulwark of opposition or doubt among the parents tumbled to the ground.†   (source)
  • Then, not looking at either of them, Luke relented and handed the pack of cigarettes and the matches through the bars and turned to go.†   (source)
  • He had tested this strength once, briefly, but had relented because they were allies in that fight.†   (source)
  • He looked so little hopping up and down beside the pile that she relented.†   (source)
  • A little later he relented.†   (source)
  • Relenting.†   (source)
  • If she asked Dick again, and explained to him what it meant to her, perhaps he would relent and find the money?†   (source)
  • Haymitch gives me a scowl, then relents.†   (source)
  • Thomas asked, trying to hide his surprise at how easily the Rat Man had relented with Newt.†   (source)
  • 'Oh, all right, come in, then, come in,' said Slughorn, relenting.†   (source)
  • Here we all thought El Jefe had relented against our family and let Minerva enroll in law school.†   (source)
  • Just as I felt I might pass out, he relented.†   (source)
  • She relents, and I'm off down the hallway with her right behind me.†   (source)
  • He won't give up until I eat, so I just relent.†   (source)
  • What would possibly make Lysa Arryn relent?†   (source)
  • The sounds of pursuit from behind didn't relent or fade, but he wasn't losing ground, either.†   (source)
  • Rasheed had relented this time-as he infrequently did-and accompanied the four of them.†   (source)
  • "If the old fool does not relent and let me cross, he'll leave me no choice but to storm his walls.†   (source)
  • "Fine, you be Jack," she relented "You die young, and I get to live to a ripe old age."†   (source)
  • Finally, she reached for his hand and tugged on it until he relented.†   (source)
  • I say, relenting, letting him know I still take him seriously.†   (source)
  • So I relented, and assumed that would be the end of it.†   (source)
  • She considered that she had already relented too much in letting him leave the room.†   (source)
  • The ambassador finally relented and agreed to meet him at 10:00 on Sunday morning.†   (source)
  • When Will showed no signs of relenting, Scott leaned across the table.†   (source)
  • Then, after a while, Orik relented and said, "First, you must find some dirt."†   (source)
  • Last minute, the father relented and went along, but he might as well have stayed away.†   (source)
  • The giants grumbled, but in the end they relented.†   (source)
  • "It is appreciated," Eragon finally relented.†   (source)
  • The rain didn't relent and Smith had no choice but to work the horse in the mud.†   (source)
  • When Max repeated the question, however, Sameer relented.†   (source)
  • She relented then, standing next to him until he was shuddering with cold, finally ready to go.†   (source)
  • Moody quickly relented, too preoccupied to worry about me.†   (source)
  • Adam relented, holding out his hands, which Harley was amazed to find were only slightly red.†   (source)
  • Robert wanted to scream at him to let her be but didn't and, blushing, Grace relented and sat down.†   (source)
  • But Oswald refused to leave without his wife, and the Soviet authorities finally relented.†   (source)
  • Well, maybe one night wouldn't hurt," she relented, and Garrett winked.†   (source)
  • Finally, Arya relented and said, "Your concern is appreciated.†   (source)
  • Just don't get into any bad habits," she relented.†   (source)
  • He wouldn't relent until he'd had his fill of her.†   (source)
  • Then we are at an impasse, for so do I. And I will not relent.†   (source)
  • July was tempted, but Joe looked so unhappy that he relented and decided to let him stay with them.†   (source)
  • I was relieved that she didn't put up a fight and relented.†   (source)
  • For a second, it seemed like Macon might relent, but only for a second.†   (source)
  • I relent with a sigh, knowing what she wants to hear.†   (source)
  • Pollard begged Howard for the mount, and the owner relented.†   (source)
  • Then he relented a bit and said, "I'm glad you're feeling better."†   (source)
  • Renny says, "I suppose Liv and I are relenting, which I hope is as good a reason as any."†   (source)
  • I would never,she sniffed, then relented.†   (source)
  • Even so, when she saw how her reaction stung him, she relented and reached out and took his hand.†   (source)
  • Two days before the race, the heavens finally relented.†   (source)
  • He'll make a fuss and refuse and resist, and then he'll relent.†   (source)
  • "All right," I relented.†   (source)
  • Presented with the data, I relented.†   (source)
  • I don't know if I would've relented.†   (source)
  • He turned around and around, then relented and pinched off a corner for each, requiring each to do some small thing.†   (source)
  • Naturally - and why should I not admit this - I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run had I not been so determined over the issue of our evening meetings; that is to say, had I relented on those several occasions over the weeks that followed when Miss Kenton suggested we reinstitute them.†   (source)
  • At first Belknap declined this offer as well, but feeling perhaps that he had been overly rude in avoiding the roof, he relented.†   (source)
  • But we did not relent and as I glanced back at him standing alone in the middle of the crossing, he looked as if the world itself was slung around his neck.†   (source)
  • "Well —" he looked away — they'd just brought out a fresh bowl of caviar; he was already half turned toward the buffet—and then relented.†   (source)
  • My mother wasn't so high on the whole escapade, but she relented pretty quickly when she saw how excited I was.†   (source)
  • I calmed down only after Mamaw relented and agreed that henceforth no one would ever refer to Lindsay as my "half sister" again.†   (source)
  • I slide my hand behind his neck and pull his face to mine, pressing my lips back to his. if I just kiss him enough, he'll relent and kiss me back.†   (source)
  • His friends were not allowed to see him, but the Old Bear did relent and permit him Ghost, so he was not utterly alone.†   (source)
  • But I pushed until she relented and agreed to recommend me to a high-powered federal judge with deep connections to multiple Supreme Court justices.†   (source)
  • It had taken much pleading, and all the pillow tricks Doreah had taught her, before Dany had been able to make Drogo relent and allow Viserys to rejoin them at the head of the column.†   (source)
  • They hated domesticated animals and had little use for "critters" that weren't for eating, yet they eventually relented to the children's demands for dogs and cats.†   (source)
  • She reached for Sarah's hand again, and even though Sarah pulled it away at first, she persisted until Sarah relented.†   (source)
  • Trina seemed disoriented, but Mark didn't relent, half dragging her to the other side of the dead coals of their fire from earlier that night.†   (source)
  • "Okay," he relented.†   (source)
  • "All right," Nico relented.†   (source)
  • Richter relented.†   (source)
  • It's the way one relents when walking the last half-mile of a hike in light rain, to taste the sweet of the water on your face, and not just feel its chill.†   (source)
  • Hie battering went on for a while; then it relented, and Mouldy spoke to us once more before he went away.†   (source)
  • Monkey kept rolling closer to me, nudging my elbow, until I finally relented and scratched the matted fur on his belly.†   (source)
  • But Max would not relent, and at last the witch told him to continue northeast until he arrived at the ruins of a road—an ancient Roman road that had survived the Fading.†   (source)
  • The workout demonstrated that the horse was ready for the February 19 San Carlos Handicap, and for once the track secretary relented, assigning him 130 pounds.†   (source)
  • But the, Evenstar would not relent.†   (source)
  • "Fine," she relented.†   (source)
  • His lords pleaded with him to build inland; his priests told him he must placate the gods by giving Elenei back to the sea; even his smallfolk begged him to relent.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist cut the interviews to a minimum, and in recent months he had relented only when the woman from She on TV4 talked him into it, and that had happened only because the investigation had apparently moved into a new phase.†   (source)
  • Unless a new source of coin could be found, or the Iron Bank persuaded to relent, he would have no choice but to pay the crown's debts with Lannister gold.†   (source)
  • I relent!†   (source)
  • "Okay," Percy relented.†   (source)
  • Frank relented.†   (source)
  • But about six months later, the authorities relented and we were given three-legged wooden stools and the stand-up desks were lowered.†   (source)
  • Mia relented.†   (source)
  • He asked her repeatedly about her childhood in Savannah, and she finally relented, regaling him with a couple of girlhood stories that made them both chuckle.†   (source)
  • Inside of a week, Mami relented.†   (source)
  • Fortunately, however, the American International Ballet Competition Association persisted and eventually the Russian authorities relented.†   (source)
  • There was a collective hiss inside my head, which either meant I'd blown a brain gasket, or the lights were relenting.†   (source)
  • But after a few minutes of wheedling, plus a promise to buy her dinner and whatever else she wanted to do that night, she'd relented, and even seemed to warm to Monkey a bit, petting him cautiously as I got the baby pool-a WalMart bargain at a mere nine bucks-out of my car.†   (source)
  • Later in the day, Mrs. Nightwing relents and has us help Brigid prepare a basket of food and medicine for Mother Elena as an act of charity.†   (source)
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