His distress of mind probably arose from a belated perception of the factiousness of his own conduct and from grief at the unrelieved gloom of the end of a career whose meridian splendour had shed lustre upon him.
Upon this course he was now fully resolved, looking to the future with serious apprehension, not altogether unrelieved by hope.
The simplicity of her dress was unrelieved by ornaments other than a chain of pearls about her long throat.
A moment later Franky heard his late companion lapping noisily from a street-puddle and knew envy, in the anguish of his own unrelieved thirst.
Let none say in your hearing, unrebuked, that this War is an unrelieved misfortune," he said to his hearers.
In this illustration the whole suit of armour presents an unrelieved surface of burnished steel, the outlines of the various pieces of armour being marked by a narrow line of gold.
This unrelieved silence chiselled his lips into ghastly sharpness.
It was not until the pen fell from her hand, weighed down with distress at the thought of so many unadorned and unrelieved hours, that something drew her back into the realm of spirits and visions.
His face was distorted; grimaces of unrelievedmeanness furrowed his brow; his contempt knew no bounds.
It is not so much the work that kills, as the continuity of the work unrelieved by periods of rest and recreation.
Stress and over-strain does not all come from excitement and the rush of competition; it may equally well originate in lack of variety and unrelieved routine.
His residence in Edinburgh was unrelieved by any event worthy of being recorded in his biography, if we except a project, which he brought before the authorities and zealously promoted, for obtaining a more efficient supply of water.
Their outlook was one of unrelieved gloom; and it one day came upon her as a revelation that Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, following in a degree on Rousseau, had forgotten women in the scheme of life.
But months rolled on and on, inharmonious in their sameness, unrelieved by anything from the monotony of work and sleep.
Not all the Orient has been given over to unrelieved despotism.
For the moment, however, it was giddily, dazzlingly triumphant, and Joe had one of the few moments of his life which were unrelieved by disaster.
And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated!
The youthful, girlish traits which appear in both the mirth and the sorrow of the three sisters are well developed, and form a vivid contrast to the unrelievedbrutality of Dulcetius and Sisinnius.
There is the heroic, the romantic, the comic and the unrelieved tragic element, and the two plays that stand last contain long disquisitions on scholastic learning.
The eye, wherever it turns, aches with the cold brilliance, unrelieved save where.
It follows that Pompilia, unrelieved By formal sentence from imputed fault, Remains unfit to have and to dispose Of property which law provides shall lapse: Wherefore the Monastery claims its due.
If we should stay here a year, we should weary of this unrelieved monotony of sun and rain.
Hence, when disappointments occur, they fall with unrelieved violence, and the consciousness of discomfited rivalry gives poignancy to the blow.
As limbs which are wrenched violently asunder do not bleed, so the sudden shocks of overwhelming sorrow are unrelieved by tears.
In her place, Angela thought, she would have felt the effectiveness of an unrelieved black dress; a comment followed by a further recognition of Felicia's indifference to effectiveness that left another little trail of fear.
Her words conjured up a grey picture ofunrelieved effort, a wife striving beside him in obscurity.
But this was not to be considered, for it opened, with sheer precipitation, upon the unrelieved front of the house.
It was an unrelieved alternation of the peeping, the radiant awakening and the duller waning of the stars.
It was an unrelieved alternation of rosy sunrises and orange sunsets.
It was an unrelieved alternation of gold-glittering sands, under implacable, blazing skies, and fading sands, under endless skies of nocturnal blue.
