Is there not some relaxation of the law necessary in vindication of the civilization of the age, against the legal barbarisms still remaining on the statute books, and adhered to by the common law, in regard to wives and mothers?

You have, in seasons of relaxation from the labors of a profession in which you have achieved such enviable distinction, indulged in the sports pertaining to that wild region.

He governs with a loose rein, that he may govern at all; and the whole of the force and vigor of his authority in his center is derived from a prudent relaxation in all his borders.

He read and remembered much poetry from such standard authors as Milton, Pope, Gay, Gray, Swift, &c., which was destined to prove in after life an invaluable relaxation for his mind.

With respect to the frequent digressions in his dialogues, these also, when accurately examined, will be found to be no less subservient to the leading design of the dialogues in which they are introduced; at the same time that they afford a pleasing relaxation to the mind from the labor of severe investigation.

Everywhere was the atmosphere of physical relaxation after the long journey.

His recreations are calm and gentle, and not more full of relaxation than void of fury.

Most of the privileged profited by the pause to leave their seats, and to seek such relaxation as the confinement rendered agreeable.

Yet the old recluse was far more inclined to toleration than he had been in principle himself, though the spur of the occasion had led him to relaxations towards others in the individual cases brought before him, when he had thought opposition would do more harm than the indulgence.

Once the atmosphere of the bays and rivers of New York was a source of health to the excursionists who, in summer time, seek relaxation by inexpensive voyages upon the waters adjacent to the city.

Though such a driver for worksometimes twenty hours a day seemed too short and they often worked all of twenty-four,there was not unfrequently a jolly, prank-playing relaxation among the employees in the laboratory.

There was evidently some relaxation toward the close of the 18th Century.

He touched a bell-cord and lowered himself with a little grunt of relaxation into a chair.