One of these staircases is figured in a bas-relief from Nimroud; it seems to rise to a line of battlements that form, no doubt, the parapet to a flat terrace behind.
In the bas-relief from Kouyundjik, reproduced in our Fig.
But most writers say that the "Relief from burdens" meant the extinction of all securities whatever, and this agrees best with what we read in his poems.
The populace did not want more preaching and instruction, but fun and frolic, relief from labor, thought, and care.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
Operations upon the prostate are valuable and indeed often afford the only avenue of relief froman intolerable condition.
While the habit may have secured such deep control that the patient almost despairs of relief from it, when care is taken to remove physical and moral predispositions the conquest of the habit becomes comparatively easy.
If there is no real accomplishment, then pleasure soon palls, because pleasure has a place only as an interval in the midst of labor and as a relief from effort.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from an Assyrian bas-relief from Khorsabad At first they knew not whom to send against her.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a bas-relief from Nimrûd, in the British Museum.
Drawn by Faucher-Gudin from the bas-relief from Nimrûd preserved in the British Museum.
The inhabitants, though pressed with the greatest rigors of famine, still refused to submit; being supported, partly by the lectures of their zealous preachers, partly by the daily hopes of relief from England.
When I willingly fail in these particulars, I shall expect no aid or relief from man, nor any protection from above: but in this resolution I hope for the cheerful assistance of all good men, and am confident of the blessing of Heaven.
The men of those times were acquainted with baths also of all sorts, as a relief from fatigue.
The plant rests upon a stand, the top of which is shaped volute-wise and resembles the capitals of the columns on the bas-relief from Sippar (cf.
XX we have a bas-relief from Ashur-bani-pal's palace on which a wild-ass hunt is seen in full progress.
Both these instruments appear on a bas-relief from a tomb at Sakkarah, of the twelfth Pharaonic dynasty, circa B.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "relief from" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
