surcease

• Summers provided a surcease, when Henry was sent to work on the State Farm outside the city. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 04-05 - October-November 2002
• Passing the bill may at least offer some surcease -- and will alleviate the sense that on the Republicans 'watch, everything is simply falling apart and the Republican party can't get its act together to do anything. —  Latest Articles
• But the moment of surcease is at hand for him, that point in time when he can relax because his destiny is now with others to determine. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
• Meanwhile, in order to conciliate the Huguenots, orders were issued that all prosecutions for religious offences should surcease, and that the prisoners should at once be liberated, with the injunction to live in a Catholic fashion for the future. —  The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
• No rest, no surcease, a perpetual grind from early dawn often till far into the night; and what is more appalling, outraged nature has rebelled; the long months of semi-starvation and lack of sleep have brought on rheumatism, which has settled in the joints of her fingers, so that every stitch means a throb of pain. —  The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891

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