What you have told me, Mr. DIBBLE, concerning the breaking of the engagement between your ward and my nephew, relieves my mind of a load.

As the work progressed the interest in it increased, the more so when Diggory suggested that the figure should be supposed to represent the obnoxious Noaks, and that the company could then relieve their feelings by pelting his effigy as soon as it was completed.

I saw your name in The Examiner only an hour ago, and I came at once to relieve the distress I knew you must be suffering.

* As soon as Bruce had gone out Edith rang up the elder Mrs Ottley on the telephone, and relieved her anxiety in advance.

So abstemious and self-denying was he, that his mode of life resembled that of a hermit; and, at the same time, so liberal was he in relieving the wants of otherswhether his own countrymen or the red Indiansthat, if his wife had not been a careful and clever manager, they must often have been reduced to absolute want.

Brigades were on the move each day in country which was one continual rise and fall, with stony beds of wadis to check progress, without a tree to lend a few moments' grateful relief from a burning sun, and nothing but the rare sight of a squalid native hut to relieve the monotony of a sun-dried desolate land.

A young man rubbed some oil on my scorched legs, which relieved the pain of them.

Doctor Craik, who had enlisted as lieutenant, was soon compelled to lay aside his gun and do what he could to relieve their suffering.

The enemy made a determined attempt with two corps to retake Jerusalem, and while their finest assault troops melted away before the staunch defence of the 53rd and 60th Divisions, the 10th and 74th were pressing forward over the most precipitous country, brushing aside all opposition in order to relieve the pressure on our right.

In Salamis, filled with the foaming, &c.]A striking instance of the artistic value of the Greek chorus in relieving an intolerable strain.

It was natural, and relieved the tension of the mind.

"Yes," she said, "you will be relieving the anxious heart of a sister if you find what I am seeking.

The preceding winter had been passed in making necessary preparations, in relieving the necessities of the famished poor of Paris, and in other works of charity.

"I am very glad you have come, my dear niece," he said, "to relieve the tedium of our uneventful existence.

The Turks tried again and again to secure the hill, which commands a track to Bethlehem, but, although they fired 400 shells at the position, they could not enter it, and a battalion sent up to relieve the Middlesex men next morning found that the company had driven the enemy off, its casualties having amounted to only 2 killed and 17 wounded.

" "The sufferings must be awful," said Evadne, anxious to relieve Marion's embarrassment.

But in general we search in vain for some roughness to relieve the eye, and some sharpness to provoke the palate.

Spring came late that year, and after it had given a hint of relieving the misery of the poor, there followed an Easter storm which covered all the new-made gardens with sleet and sent people shivering back to their winter wear.

The general was at this time sick in bed, having been just blooded, and was not therefore able to go in person to relieve the people in the factory; but immediately sent all the boats of the fleet, well manned, under the command of Sancho de Toar.

The poor, in fact, do more to relieve the poor than any other class.

The Russians meanwhile were making a determined effort to relieve the situation at Bucharest by a counter-demonstration in the Carpathians, where on December 3 a great battle was developing in their favor.

I will wait for your honour, in the court, the moment of relieving guard being often chosen by a cunning enemy for the assault.

Antipholis began to think he was among a nation of sorcerers and witches, and Dromio did not at all relieve his master from his bewildered thoughts, by asking him how he got free from the officer who was carrying him to prison, and giving him the purse of gold which Adriana had sent to pay the debt with.

The aim is, while securing soldiers for the army, to relieve the government of the expense of dependency on the part of women.

By this means he relieved the state of numerous idle agitators, assisted the necessitous, and overawed the allies of Athens by placing his colonists near them to watch their behavior.