His answer was, "Shall I grant that man a reprieve of six weeks, who, if it had been in his power, would not have granted me six hours?

Grandma gets a reprieve.

The queen sent a reprieve for Essex, but Burleigh took care that it came too late, and the earl was beheaded as a traitor.

They might likewise imagine, my lords, that a criminal, encouraged by a fortunate escape to a repetition of his guilt, would undoubtedly some time fall into the hands of the law, though not extended on purpose to seize him; and, therefore, they constituted their proceedings in such a manner, that innocence might at least not be entrapped, though guilt should sometimes gain a reprieve.

On one occasion, in 1570, fourteen free judges, whom Kaspar Schwitz, Count of Oettingen, caused to be seized, were already tied up in bags, and about to be drowned, when the mob, pitying their fate, asked for and obtained their reprieve.

In pity then prevent my fate, For after dying all reprieve's too late.

Then he seized a pen, and, with the only hand he had, scratched a letter, directing a reprieve until further orders.

This is common sense, no doubt, always provided that the Hun does not misinterpret his reprieve, and, instead of laying golden eggs for our benefit, resume the practice of the goose-step.

I suppose she has made some application to Mr. G for a respite for Edie, on finding how terribly unfit she is for work; or perhaps Mr. , to whom I represented her case, may have ordered her reprieve; but she came with much gratitude to me (who have, as far as I know, had nothing to do with it), to tell me that she is not able to be sent into the field for another week.

Conscious that if the unfortunate man really was guilty, he was at least not deserving of capital punishment, I exerted myself to procure a reprieve.

The letter was all too short, and I devoured it over and over again with the eagerness of a condemned man reading a reprieve: "My Dear Paul, "Forgive me for leaving you so abruptly this afternoon, and leaving you so unhappy, too.

The decree was not executed, however; Saint-Vallier received his reprieve on the scaffold itself.

Wesley in his Journalthe reference I have mislaidseemed from this consideration almost to regret a reprieve that came to a penitent convict.

She was strangely impelled to reject a reprieve from a life of wretchedness, unless it came through the high court of love.

And Ben welcomed the plan as might a prisoner, waiting in the death-cell, welcome a reprieve.

" So Ida turned away quickly, that the sister might not see her tears, and accepted the reprieve.

There's little chance that I can win Hughie a reprieve; and, whether or no, it will eat up all, or nearly all, my savings.

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.

M. de Bienville had been recalled to France, and the sovereign of the Natchez thought that the protector's absence had annulled the reprieve granted to the protected person, and accordingly he caused him to be arrested.

The sheriff enters, bearing in his hand a reprieve, written apparently on a window-blind.

Sorrow brings him no reprieve from duty, so the next morning after the last sad offices for poor Caesar, Coquenil faced the emergency before him with steady nerve and calm resolution.