But in spite of secrecy and fog, how little respite we had given him!

CANUTE BECOMES KING OF ENGLAND A.D. 1017 DAVID HUME (After the success of King Alfred over the Danes in the last quarter of the ninth century, England enjoyed a considerable respite from the invasions of the bold ravagers who had caused great suffering and loss to the country.

The Danes were gradually incorporated with his new subjects; and both were glad to obtain a little respite from those multiplied calamities from which the one, no less than the other, had, in their fierce contest for power, experienced such fatal consequences.

Gray vapors from river and paddy-field, lingering like steam in a slow breeze, paled and dispersed in the growing light, as the new day, worse than the old, came sullenly without breath or respite.

"Isn't it their turn for a respite?

They were to pass the night at Nuremburg; and, as soon as they arrived, Karl was sent out to procure the charcoal; but, after remaining away a long time, he came back saying the shops were all shut, and he could not get any; and as the inn at Nuremburg was not a fit place for any other kind of attack, Adelaide was respited for another four-and-twenty hours.

The Senate might indeed be weary of these interminable discussions and unending compliments, and glad of a respite in which to turn to other matters.

Then, good my lord, let me some respite take.

The respite could not last, but while it lasted he knew no pain.

I had no pleasure, even though I pursued it fiercely during the brief respite of vacations.

We were to have left Pekin on the 8th, so I was obliged to send to beg one day's respite from the General.

When I saw the coffin I knew that I was respited, for, as I judged, there was space between it and the wall behind enough to contain my little carcass; and in a second I had put out the candle, scrambled up the shelves, half-stunned my senses with dashing my head against the roof, and squeezed my body betwixt wall and coffin.

It is a custom among thieves to constitute a sort of mock tribunal of their own body, from whose decision every one is informed whether he shall be acquitted, respited, or pardoned, as well as respecting the supposed most skilful way of conducting his defence.

Culliford was respited, having made his submission to Warren.

On reaching England, Culliford was tried and condemned, but respited, as has already been mentioned.

When the news that Porteous was respited for six weeks was announced, a roar of rage and mortification arose, but speedily subsided into stifled mutterings as the people slowly dispersed.

We never killed one unless it weighed four pounds; they used to be brought in at night, and placed in the scale: if it was the weight I have mentioned it was killed, if not it was respited till it did so.

I do not mean to say three-fourths come off free; they are subjected to some kind of punishment (excepting a few cases of judgment respited); the others feel, no doubt, what they undergo, but it is only as a soldier in the fight considers a scratchotherwise coming off with a whole skin, being ready for action again.

Two were respited, seven were hanged; and in that capital catalogue was this line: "Lewis Pyneweckforgery.

'Yes, one member of your family shall be respited, but on one condition.'

'He who is respited must serve as executioner to the others.'

The other, after having a rope around his neck, was respited and taken to jail.

The Marshal having read the warrant for their execution, and stated that de Soto was respited sixty and Ruiz thirty days, the ropes were adjusted round the necks of the prisoners, and a slight hectic flush spread over the countenance of each; but not an eye quailed, nor a limb trembled, not a muscle quivered.

'Yes, one member of your family shall be respited, but on one condition.'

'He who is respited must serve as executioner to the others.'