Insensible of thatrelaxed weight upon his cramped arm, this guilty wretch hardly can suppress a groan.
Thus chafing against the day's revelations, Oswald continued, until wearied he relaxed from such tense state into uneasy sleep.
Commenting on this change to Esther, Sir Donald says: "Relaxed emotional tension and less concentrated musings permit more hopeful view and brighter horoscope.
As the intimacy between the two grew closer, Pierre relaxed much of his secretive caution.
She searched his face eagerly, piteously, then with a quivering sigh relaxed her tension.
In consequence he relaxed his watchful vigilance, and to Dave he drawled: "We've got most of the leading citizens of the county, and I reckon somebody in the outfit will be able to identify Guzman.
And when the bow of his ardent affection was so relaxedthat his speech descended towards the mark of our understanding, the first thing that was understood by me was, "Blessed be Thou, Trinal, and One who in my offspring art so courteous.
Whatever influence she exerted, it quieted him, changed his savage face, until he relaxed and lay back passive and pale.
Beat by beat the helpless fury in him subsided, and then he fell back and lay still for a long time, eyes shut, relaxed and still.
The strain relaxed in his white face and it lost a little of its stern fixity.
Lily's eye brightened, and a faint smile relaxed the drawn lines of her mouth.
Selden, immersed in his work, had told himself that external conditions did not matter to a man in his state, and that cold and ugliness were a good tonic for relaxed sensibilities.
To counteract these seductions, he relaxed from his usual strictness, treating his men with great indulgence, and promising them large rewards.
An ominous chill ran through his veins, and for an instant the reins slipped through his relaxed fingers.
At this mark of appreciation, he relaxed a trifle, and when the Almighty insisted that he should take the throne seat, Colonel Andrews actually smiled for the first time on earth or in heaven.
At first sighting their camp we were uneasy, holding the herd close together; but as they proved friendly, we relaxed and shared our tobacco with the men.
The woman surveyed me with a curiosity, which in better days I would have ill endured; but perceiving me ready to sink to the ground, she relaxed her scrutiny, while she offered me a seat, which I eagerly accepted.
She never could put him out of humour, though, to do her all manner of justice, she tried hard; and thus finding her attempts to tease ineffectual, she gradually relaxedin the endeavour.
It was the wisest thing he could have done, for it relaxed the nerves of both of them.
The hand in his relaxed and slipped from the clasp.
The thick, stubborn lip of the slave relaxed and fell to quivering.
The white fixity of Goardley's countenance relaxed in a slow grin.
Ethel relaxed a little and the tensest lines smoothed out of her face.
But she could have done it, whoever she was, for there was a wiry strength in her--a strength so great that I had to twist her wrist cruelly before her fingers relaxed and the knife dropped to the floor of the train.
But it was just as well I had privacy, because I had to stand before the mirror for three full minutes to get accustomed to the change, and feel relaxed and casual about it.
She now drank eagerly of the fearful brew, dulled the bite of it with smoke from a hurriedly built cigarette, and relaxed gratefully into one of those chairs which are all that most of us remember William Morris for.
Ma Pettengill built her first cigarette with tender solicitude; and this, in consideration of her day's hard ride, I permitted her to burn in relaxed silence.
Sandy brought his news to the owner of the Arrowhead as she relaxed in my company on the west veranda of the ranch house and scented the golden dusk with burning tobacco of an inferior but popular brand.
The speaker moved round a corner of the barn and relaxed to a sitting posture on the platform of the pump.
Possibly it was owing to this that in the middle of August the Government rather relaxed their vigilance along the Great Glen.
But amid all these friendly demonstrations the general never for a momentrelaxed the strict discipline of the camp, and no soldier was allowed to leave his quarters without special permission.
The grave cold face of Wallenstein relaxed into a smile of welcome.
His moral nature, relaxed by this shrinking from duty, is tempted, and easily conquered.
Here is a limpet in some pond or other, left by the tide, and it has relaxed its grasp a little.
Mahommed's face relaxed its hardness, and he moved and breathed freely while replying: "I do not know what the influences require of me.
It should not be surprising, therefore, if the former relaxed his air, and leaned a little forward to hear what was further submitted to him.
The worst of it is one can never rely upon the troops, and discipline is certainly more relaxed than usual now that the Emperor has been upset, and every Jack thinks himself as good as his master.
He sat back in the ample chair, such as an elderly ancestor might have revelled in, lit a cigar, and, for some idle minutes, all effort was abandoned in favor of the relaxed dreaming of a brain accustomed to high pressure.
The set of his features relaxed as he read the brief communication.
But presently his grip relaxed and he reached out slowly for his rope.
When his eyes returned to Stratton their expression was veiled under drooping lids; his lithe figure relaxed into an easier position against the door-casing, both hands resting lightly on slim hips.
Buck's serious expression relaxed and he promptly launched into a detailed explanation of his scheme.
Then of a sudden her muscles relaxed and she lay limply in his arms, eyes closed, wishing that she might die, or, better yet, that some supreme force would suddenly strike the creature dead.
His lips relaxedin a grim smile, which presently merged into an expression of puzzled wonder.
But the mouth hadrelaxed from its sternly quiet curve into pleasant lines.
Guild's nerves relaxed and he drew a deep, quiet breath.
To look at her as she sat, relaxed yet dominant, before the glass, was to recognize that she was a woman who had achieved the purpose of her life, who had succeeded in whatever she had undertaken.
It was Miss Jemima who had spoken, and her kind, plain face, all puffs and pleasant wrinkles, had not yet relaxed from the unnatural solemnity it had worn at the funeral.
As she bent over her sewing the thin pure lines of her body had a look of arrested energy, of relaxed but exuberant vitality.
