For mental relaxation he studied the higher mathematics and wrote poetry-- much of it very good.
The spread of railways and the relaxation of social restrictions are tending to break them down, but they are still very strong.
It makes mercy and relaxation and even a strength to spread a table fuller.
A hurt mended stick, a hurt mended cup, a hurt mended article of exceptional relaxation and annoyance, a hurt mended, hurt and mended is so necessary that no mistake is intended.
The symptoms of this condition are fighting for breath, giddiness, relaxation of the sphincters, and convulsions.
When inhaled, much the same as ether, but produces insensibility and muscular relaxationmore rapidly.
This most probably arises from relaxation and swelling of some internal part of the body, so that there is more or less constant pressure on some nerves.
The expiration should be just as gradual with relaxation of every muscle.
But to-day McAllister showed no signs of relaxation as they dodged past him and scrambled into their places.
There are moods of chastened relaxation from self-consciousness, with peculiar sense of relief and compensation.
As the Doctor went on with his tale, relaxationhad stolen dumbly about Finlay's brow and lips.
The popularity and wealth of the Benedictine order naturally led in many monasteries to relaxation of the rule.
Relaxation of discipline and the diminished number of monks allowed for more individual privacy: thus at Jervaulx some bays of the sub-dorter were cut off to form small rooms, each with its own fireplace.
Kitchens of the size of those at Durham or Glastonbury were unknown in Cistercian houses, where, even after the relaxation of the ordinary simple diet, meat was never cooked in the frater kitchen.
In the same year a carta acordada of June 22nd ordered that even when sentences of relaxation were voted unanimously, the process should be sent to the Suprema for its action.
In the consulta de fe some members voted for relaxation and others for torture; the matter was sent up to the Suprema and, whatever its decision may have been, the accused suffered.
The writers all treat this as impenitence, requiring relaxation in cases of formal heresy.
I voted for relaxation but the Suprema ordered torture; he overcame the torture and was finally sentenced to abjure de vehementi, to undergo public vergueenza and to perpetual banishment from Spain.
The limpieza test survived the Revolution and purity of blood was as essential under the Restoration as under the old monarchy, but there was some relaxation of rigidity.
It was not only when there was discordia or sentences of relaxation that confirmation was required.
Yet when used up for this work, absence of continual anxiety and more opportunity of relaxation may carry a man on without his being wholly useless!
My relaxation is in reading some old favourite, Jackson, Hooker, Jeremy Taylor, &c.
You know I take holiday time this voyage when we are in open water and no land near, and it is great relaxation to me.
Now I really think nothing is so great a relaxationtome as a good book by Trench, or Vaughan, or Ellicott, or Dr.
For he does not make the proper distinction between an equitable interpretation, and the entirerelaxation of a law.
Hurry call," she said briefly, an intense professional concentration banishing the pleasant relaxationof a moment before.
He was taken unawares, but she could detect no relaxation in his strong face; on the contrary, it set more grimly.
It cannot be said that any constitutional principle was involved in what was merely a commercial regulation, or relaxation of such regulations.
Other resolutions demanded the abolition of the "powers exercised by the Privy Council under color of Poynings' Act," and a fartherrelaxation of the penal laws.
After careful reflection, the course on which he eventually decided was to adhere to the principle of a relaxation of duties, but to consent to a moderate variation from his original proposal as to the amount.
The early winter season in Roman times was a period of general relaxation and merry making.
In common with his father, he had promised that his marriage with a princess of France should in no case be made conditional on the relaxation of the penal laws against the Catholics.
At the same time therefore that the Catholics were assured of a relaxation of the penal laws, negotiations for peace were opened with Spain.
The bulk of the Catholics were content with the relaxation of the penal laws; and in the absence of any aid the plotters were forced to suspend their work.
Her body, pressed so close against his that he could have felt the faintest muscle quiver, conveyed no message to him but the relaxation of complete security.
Through his hands which held her he felt the shock, the momentary agony of the effort to recover the threatened balance, the resolute relaxation of the muscles and the steadying breath she drew.
This stillness and relaxation she always resorted to in making any supreme demand upon her self-control.
What clenched the effect was her healthy capacity for complete relaxation when no effort was required of her.
The only relaxation he sought was to spend an occasional hour in the society of Josephine.
And with French troops, such relaxation of strict discipline is always practicable; the instincts of obedience return at the first call of the bugle or the first roll of the drum; and at the word to "fall in!
It was customary with his Serene Majesty, King Charles, after he had come to man's estate, to take the diversion of hunting almost every week, both for the sake of finding relaxation from graver cares and for his health.
In the midst of the cloudlet in question there was a bloody point so small that it disappeared during the contraction and escaped the sight, but in the relaxation it reappeared again red and like the point of a pin.
It was a refreshing and delightful change, a relaxation from a sublimity too stern to bear for long, to the homely geniality of earthly life, and the remembrance of it still lies fresh upon my memory.
In the relaxation of the thought they found pity for those ordered out of season into the Silent Places.
Yet even here Sam Bolton was unable to share the relaxation of mind and body his companion so absolutely enjoyed.
They were to keep their eyes fast upon the paper, and nothing was to tempt them to speech, save at the stroke of the hour when ten minutes for relaxation were to be allowed them.
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