Which preposition to use with reprieve
It was not because she wished to hear any of Dotty's brilliant stories, for she had not asked a single question about Out West; it was because she hoped for a reprieve from the dreaded knitting.
After the condemnation she drew up and carried to the king a petition for a short reprieve of a few weeks; but this was rejected, though the king saw at his feet the daughter of the Earl of Southampton, the best friend he ever had.
We left her to enjoy her frugal meal and her noontide reprieve in peace, and came back to the middle of the town.
She was overwhelmed by the woman's utterly unconscious impressiveness, which exceeded that of a criminal reprieved on the scaffold, for the woman had dared an experience that only the fierce and sublime courage of desperation can affront.
It was like a reprieve to a dying malefactor, with a halter about his neck, and ready to be turned off.
The face of a man galloping for life and death, coming up at the last second with a reprieve for one about to be shot, could hardly be fuller of intense anxiety than was Archie's as he waved his paper and shouted.
Then he seized a pen, and, with the only hand he had, scratched a letter, directing a reprieve until further orders.
Kaiser Bill was making the most of his reprieve by breaking bounds every day and damaging property to his heart's content.
Andrew White, indicted, proved, reprieved before judgment, and banished.