She could relax the control that she had put upon herself and which had seemed to be slowly turning her to stone.
Beyond the curtains she stood a moment, shaking all over, her face hidden in her hands, able to relax a little the hold she was keeping on herself.
That corporation applied to the government to relax the restrictions of the Bank Act of 1844.
When in 1805 Napoleon consulted Ganteaume as to the possibility of the flotilla of transports effecting its passage by evasion, the admiral told him it was impossible, since no weather could avail to relax the British hold sufficiently.
It would damp all future expeditions, and would show to Europe that it might be advisable to relax in the blockading system occasionally for the express purpose of putting them in our hands at a convenient opportunity.
Before the episode was ended, De Neufville was only too glad to dispatch his son to Paris to beseech the bear to relax his hug.
His humor is the humor of men whose grave, weather-beaten features do not relax into a smile or grin except under the compelling influence of some broad joke or ridiculous spectacle.
If envious age relax the nuptial knot, Thy food be mushrooms, and thy feast shalot.
Those too which are bitter are generally diuretic, but some of them also relaxthe bowels.
They can be brought to relax only through especially powerful pressure or through the voluntary relaxation of one's own constrictors.
However I may have been bothered by the multiplication of ten groups of factors and whatever accuracy I may have applied to a task can not permit me to relax my attention in the addition of the individual results.
It inclines one to be easy, that is, to temper or relax the severity of the law.
It is worse to relax too much than too little, for amusement is not taken for its own sake, but is subordinated to serious things.
Perhaps the general humanising of his attitude, through intercourse with the child, had caused him to relax this little point of punctilio.
The machinery was so adjusted that not more than half that strain could possibly come upon the cable, when the brakes would relax their grasp, the wheels revolve easily, and the cable run out into the sea 'at its own sweet will.
Although conducting a business which required the constant exercise of the highest mercantile talent, he did not relax his energy in the mechanical department.
The business was to James, as to the others, the great central interest, but prosperity could not relax his steady character.
He tried to relax but that only made him listen harder.
Sandy could almost feel them relax as they turned round and round in their nests, trying to find the most comfortable spots for slumber.
When he vomits the muscles and ligaments (tissue connecting the joints) will relax and you may be able to get the bone back in place.
A mounted sentinel may dismount occasionally and lead his horse but will not relax his vigilance.
The best way, indeed, to view the bazaars is to relax--to relax your ideas of time as well as of pace, and not be in a hurry about anything.
He could afford to relax a little now the rigour of consistency in conduct.
Louis did not move, nor did his features relax in the slightest.
Numbers came in and matriculated; and the pressure on the authorities to keep faith, and relax the dead-lock they had put us in, was great.
Backed by public opinion, one friendly professor took this occasion to move the university to relax the regulation of separate classes since it had been abused.
All violent emotions, such as hatred, jealousy, and anger, mean that no food should be taken until the body has had the opportunity torelax and regain some of its tone.
If there is a tendency to become angry, relaxand the mind will ease up.
She should have at least one hour each day sacred to herself, in which she can relax and cultivate the mind.
Let a man in pugnacious mood relax his face and his fists and in a very short time his anger vanishes.
Those who perform hard physical labor, as well as those who work chiefly with their brains, should relax a while after the noon meal.
The Inquisition evidently had worthy pupils, but it did not relax its own efforts.
Although in this letter of December, 1303, Dolcino recognizes the necessity of concealment, perhaps the expected approaching fruition of his hopes may have encouraged him to relax his precautions.
After the officer had helped himself and condescended to relax his stern features into the semblance of a smile the young man bid him good night and resumed his way toward the hotel.
He recalled that the sheriff had said that the girl's father was a friend of his, and so assumed that it would be safe to relax the rules in her behalf.
Safely back inside the Embassy, Abrams seemed to relax a bit.
From experience he knew how to regulate his breathing and to let his muscles and nerves relax as much as possible, so that for him there was but a brief moment of discomfort.
It was plain now that the nervous, worried superintendent felt he could relax in the company of this young, naive guard, for the latter was so patently no challenge to his position.
The leader smiled suddenly while Hanlon was thus thinking, and the rest grinned as though they had been waiting for his lead to relax their vigilance.
Never for a moment did Van relax his vigilance upon himself, or treat her otherwise than as a man for whom he had conceived a natural liking.
Then Van found his feet could be rested on the shelf, and he let himself relax to ease his arms.
I babbled on, till from the corner of my eye I saw the flush fade from the professor's face and his back gradually relax its poker-like attitude.
It's ever so much more friendly to relax and be chummy.
Thus the surrender of the extremists did not go very far; it merely helped to relax the friction between the kaiser's councilors.
I listened eagerly for some intermission, but it did not relax or recede, and I knew that the Turks must be holding on.
They are lying low, in the hope that we'll accept precisely that idea and relax our vigilance.
We must not for one moment relax our vigilance; we must not be caught napping; we mustn't let any of those people 'git the drap' on us.
