Without any surcease of dignity they grew communicative, and passed from lands to peoples and from peoples to constitutions.
But we, the plain folk, noon and night No surcease of our toil we see; We cannot ease our cares by flight, For Fortune holds our loves in fee.
And if any great crime or impediment be objected, the Bishop shall surcease from ordering that person, until such time as the party accused shall be found clear of that crime.
Week by week she lives with no respite from anxiety, with no surcease from toil.
You and I, my sisters, have had much communion, and many happy times together; for sometimes we have had surcease from toil and a breath of God's fresh air together.
A motion was then made, and the question put whether the assembly would disperse and surcease all further proceedings, according to the Governor's requirement.
But besides wringing a moment's surcease from his black despair, the instant his eye fell to the sights and he felt the familiar pressure of the butt, the old daredevil rustler spirit revived.
While overseeing the housecleaning Lee had obtained temporary surcease from her grief.
Thereon comessurcease from sorrow and the burden of toil.
The deep peace of the night, the thing that was happening in the house, gave her a moment's surcease from her own problem, her own arid loneliness.
To set that error right, even though it be by wronging Rudyard by one great stroke--that is better than hourly wronging him now with no surcease of that wrong.
When the lonely father or the broken hearted mother tells the desolate child that legend, childhood finds surcease there for its sorrow.
What surcease for its sorrow has the little lonely, aching heart in that sad case?
The look in her friend's eyes, the tone of her voice, stayed with Lillian in every moment of surcease of torment for the child's rescue, and worked their own mission of distress.
He had advocated change, travel, aught that might compass a surcease of the indulgence of sorrow and dreary seclusion, that are so dear and so pernicious to the stricken heart.
Thereupon she kissed the ground between his hands and wished him permanence of glory and prosperity and surcease of evil and enmity.
Then he carried them to the Divan of the Caliph and kissing ground before Al-Rashid wished him continuance of honour and fortune and surcease of evil and enmity.
All lovers true since windy Troy Flamed for a woman's golden head, You gained surcease from life's annoy When Venus kissed white roses red.
The laggard steed with aching feet Must stagger on; for him is no Surcease of labour, no retreat Before his stint is done.
Then Liszt fled to the Abbe Lamennais, and in tears sought, at the confessional and in dim retirement, a surcease from the passion that was devouring him.
That such a youth as Frederic Chopin should seek in music a surcease from his world-sorrow is very natural.
I want more space and independence, more quiet--surcease from meeting fellow-boarders at every step.
If New York furniture could think, its reflections would busy themselves with that time of passive pension and surcease from dusting, in the storage warehouse!
If the advent of Madame de Lyrolle had only been the cue for that sweet, old-fashioned culmination--that dulcet, though generally inartistic surcease from trouble!
I might take occasion to tell of the notable and difficult voyages made into strange countries by Englishmen, and of their daily success there; but as these things are nothing incident to my purpose, so I surcease to speak of them.
Let not this man ever again know surcease from torment, in bed, at board, in his body, or in his mind.
So the jovial season sped, and Christmas day was come and gone, bringing with it and leaving, out of conviviality, some surcease of his self-torment.
The patient's system has learned to crave it so much because of the surcease of painful consciousness of self it gives and this it is that compels these unfortunates to go back to ever-increasing doses.
Needless to say unless they are definitely recognized there will be no relief afforded for any discomfort of a permanent character, though the coal-tar products will give temporary surcease of pain.
Men will hold Conclaves of swords to win surcease Of doctrines of the Prince of Peace.
There shall be surcease of enmity between man and beast; the venom of serpents and the ferocity of the brute creation shall be done away, and love shall be the dominant power of control.
There he hoped in a renewal of the old life under the old conditions to win surcease from sorrow and perhaps some measure of forgetfulness.
God help our native land, Bring surcease to her strife, And shower from thy hand A more abundant life.
While her head was bowed in anguish, On her ear there fell a voice, Bringing surcease to her sorrow, Bidding all her heart rejoice.
The silence endured too long; she knew it, but could not yet break it, or the spell which cradled her tired heart, or the blessed surcease from the weariness of waiting.
A blessed sense of rest soothed every bone; in the heavenly stillness and surcease from noise he drifted gently into slumber, into a deep dreamless sleep.
