A few steps came and went, passing me; but no one took any notice, and the absence of the noise and crowding gave me a momentary respite.

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.

Even for such a purpose royalty is not always allowed the respite which would be conceded to those in a more moderate station; and affairs in Paris began to assume so menacing a character that she was forced to rouse herself to support her husband.

On Thursday, when she left him to try to gain a respite till Monday, he said he wished she would cease from seeking his preservation, but he did not forbid her trying, thinking that these efforts, though unavailing, might bring some mitigation of her sorrows.

Heaven grant these good people of Guadaloupe a long respite; for they are said to deserve it, as far as human industry and enterprise goes.

Although it was usual for criminals to be executed the day following their condemnation, he enjoyed a respite of thirty days, during which time his friends had access to his prison cell.

Having thus secured a temporary respite, Henry encouraged and aided his people in building walled cities all along the frontier.

Those who were not in attendance on the family, had sought some respite from their ordinary labours.

After this they conquered the land of Sarugur, and the country of the Karanites, and the land of Hudirat, and returning into their own country, took a short respite from war.

Dorothea heard their footsteps retreating, and knew that her brother's thoughtfulness had found her this short respite.

Stone, who had been expecting at least ten minutes' respite, was taken unawares.

When I desire a respite, I find it impossible; and after I have exhausted my powers, there seems to be something standing straight up in front of me, and though I have the mind to make towards it I make no advance at all.

The severity of the winter afforded no respite from the operations of war.

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

III.Pompey having got a year's respite to provide forces, during which he was not engaged in war, nor employed by an enemy, had collected a numerous fleet from Asia, and the Cyclades, from Corcyra, Athens, Pontus, Bithynia, Syria, Cilicia, Phoenicia, and Egypt, and had given directions that a great number should be built in every other place.

My disgrace brought me respite for fresh adventure.

which, but for us, must both have immediately fallen, now that the last hope of subverting the Throne of Sicily and installing a usurper on its ruins was about to vanish from the eyes of the British seamen, our Admiral, acting in concert no doubt with the British envoy, and inspired with the feelings of our Foreign Office, required a respite to be allowed the insurgents, and determined to back his requisition with his ships.

He touched unreservedly on a number of other subjects and finally his appeal"If you don't want to be at peace, restore to us both Sardinia and Sicily; for with these we purchased not a temporary respite but eternal friendship"caused them to become milder and ashamed [lacuna] (Ursinus, p.378.

Orlando then, seeing the stars come out, was the first to propose a respite.

The years 1961-64 provided a needed respite from the failures of the Great Leap.

Waller, having received some respite, employed the time in petitioning, flattering, bribing, confessing, beseeching, and in the exercise of every other art by which a mean, cowardly spirit seeks to evade death.

He was arrested at night, led to a small wood, where the free judges awaited him, and condemned to death without being allowed an advocate; and, after being refused a respite even of a few hours, that he might make his peace with heaven, he was confessed by a monk, and his head was severed from his body by the executioner on the spot.

Yielding at lastsince they gained nothing save a respite from punishmenthaving prorogued the assembly, and given orders that their march should be proclaimed for the following day, at daybreak he gave the signal for departure by sound of trumpet.

From open violence The attachment of thy soldiery secures thee Todaytomorrow: but grant'st thou them a respite Unheard, unseen, they'll undermine that love On which thou now dost feel so firm a footing, With wily theft will draw away from thee One after the other other WALLENSTEIN.

"Fidelis," quoth Beltane, "methinks there is some magic in thy touch, for now is my pain abatedhast a wondrous gentle hand" "'Tis the cordial giveth thee respite, lord" "Nay, 'tis thy hand, methinks.