relent

• Pity thine allies; relent, and retire before thy conqueror. —  The Aeneid of Virgil
• The chances were that a little persuasion would have induced the farmer to relent, and permit the boys to remain where they were until morning But Randy's unfortunate temper blazed up just then, and made a breach that was too wide to be healed It's a confounded shame to turn us off at this time of night," he muttered angrily. —  Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters
• The will, that never can relent-- The aim, survivor of the bafflement Make this memorial due AN UNINSCRIBED MONUMENT On one of the Battle-fields of the Wilderness Silence and solitude may hint Whose home is in yon piney wood) What I, though tableted, could never tell-- The din which here befell And striving of the multitude. —  John Marr and Other Poems
• She would rather people should say of her boy that he married a milliner's daughter than that he was hung, and hurrying to the window just as Ben looked back, hoping for a signal, she waved her hand for him to return, calling out at the top of her voice, "I relent--I relent." —  Rosamond — or, the Youthful Error
• But Dad doesn't relent--Dad's going to die and leave his money to a Home for Cats! —  The Pot Boiler

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