Even in hell (I use the word as indicating mental or physical sufferingin my case, the formernot with any local significance) there are moments when the anguish-stricken spirit is mercifully allowed a temporary reprieve.

They exist only during good behavior, and like men, they are living under a sentence of death, with an indefinite reprieve.

The wretch condemned to the scaffold, who receives, at the moment he expects to die, the joyful reprieve, he can best conceive the state of our minds.

Quack and Cuffee, for example, terror-stricken at the stake, made somewhat stereotyped revelations; but the desire of the officials to stay the execution with a view to definite reprieve was thwarted by their fear of tumult by the throng of resentful spectators.

"Monsieur Cuffe has given me good food, good wine, good words, a good stateroom, a good bed, and a most timely reprieve.

The decision of the Court had come as an unexpected reprieve and the ruin of my friends' prospects was at least postponed.

But at the same time she was relying upon a good-natured reprieve in exchange for all which she had revealed, upon a gallant clemency ... because she was she.