How To Use Relieved In A Sentence

Refreshed and regowned, again in dark colors unrelieved by any bright embroidery, Aene paced nervously along a subtly lit path towards the Castrea residence.
We were greatly relieved at the the news of their safe return.
Rangers should be relieved but the country as a whole should be mortified to be portrayed in this way.
I was relieved that we had averted yet another financial crisis .
Immediate pressure on peasant living standards was relieved by the abolition of redemption dues and restraint of the tax burden.

I sighed softly, relieved to have escaped another untimely lecture.
Everyone was relieved when the ceremony at the Ambassador's residence went off without a hitch.
Then, this state of nerves is most frequently to be relieved by care in affording them a pleasant view, a judicious variety as to flowers, * and pretty things. Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not
The plaintiff is relieved of the burden of managing a large sum of money and is protected from possible dissipation of the funds.
So we are intended to be relieved of the fear that our dying need be a fearful experience.
The flaws should be relieved by means such as penalty, disciplinary sanction, civil compensation and criminal compensation.
Mademoiselle herself looked worthy of her squire, for her dark, animated face stood the test of the unrelieved whiteness so successfully, that she was all ablush with delight at the discovery that she was not an old woman after all, but on occasion could still look as girlish as she felt. Pixie O'Shaughnessy
While a system of barracks relieved the villagers of having to lodge the dragoons in their houses, the obligation to transport provisions using their own animals at times when they were needed in the fields was burdensome.
If symptoms are not relieved, physical therapy that includes ultrasonography, massage, and iontophoresis should be considered.
The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
However, for the 100,000 or so Aborigines (50,000 of them under the age of twenty) who are living mostly in remote or extremely remote communities, the story is one of unrelieved tragedy and horror.
Then, with a flourish, he thwacked my paying-in book twice with his stamp, initialled the counterfoil and handed it back to me with a relieved smile.
From the vein that passes through the liver two branches separate off, of which one terminates in the diaphragm or so-called midriff, and the other runs up again through the armpit into the right arm and unites with the other veins at the inside of the bend of the arm; and it is in consequence of this local connexion that, when the surgeon opens this vein in the forearm, the patient is relieved of certain pains in the liver; and from the left-hand side of it there extends a short but thick vein to the spleen and the little veins branching off it disappear in that organ. The History of Animals
He held up a hand to stop her ramblings, and Jane was instantly relieved.
Ruth Sheen was relieved to complete filming on 'taskmaster' Mike Leigh's latest film Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Even though she's presented as an emotionally cold person and therefore more of an antiheroine, she's relieved from being tarred with the usual misogynist brush in a few key ways. "On the Female Vampire," Evie Byrne Guest Post
We were/felt relieved to hear you were safe.
Charles eventually relieved Rupert of all responsibilities and ordered him into exile.
He relieved me from anxiety.
The soil of these plains was a stiff tenacious clay, and had every appearance of being frequently under water: as we were now in the parallel of the spot where the river divided into branches, the altered appearance of the country induced us to hope that we should shortly fall in with some permanent water, and be relieved from the constant anxiety attendant on the precarious supply to which we had lately been enured. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
I’m relieved to hear there’s a chance Sasquatch is really out there — I knew I wasn’t completely crazy! Things You Can’t Tell Just By Looking At Her | Her Bad Mother
Dank, damp and almost unrelievedly joyless, the Starz miniseries tells a fictional tale of 12th-century politics and the skullduggery that was supposedly part of it, as knaves and heretics vie for the throne of a mucky, pig-ridden and sparsely populated England. TV preview: 'The Pillars of the Earth'
Johnson at this period, the Latin poems which he contributed in praise of Cave, and of Cave's friends, or the Jacobite squibs by which he relieved his anti-ministerialist feelings. Samuel Johnson
Lefthander Tom Martin relieved Smoltz after Beltran's homer and was greeted with a blast by Cliff Floyd. USATODAY.com
She was relieved, therefore, when the blue-eyed face broke out in a grin.
My original wingman waited for me at the bottom of the ladder, relieved to see me safe and sound.
The husband is put off by such hand-holding, but after five days of dogged GPS navigating and molten heat, I am relieved to be nannied. Everyone in the RV, It's Road-Trip Time!
The scary bits created tense silence, while relieved cheers followed the good moments.
Borgonie was relieved that his physically punishing and time-consuming nematode bet had paid off. Space Odyssey: Scientists go to the extremes of the earth to divine the secrets of extraterrestrial life.
Lavinia and Camilla, perfectly relieved now from all fears for their brother, repaired to the study of their father, anxious to endeavour to chear him, and to accelerate a meeting and reconciliation for Lionel; but they found him desirous to be alone, though kindly, and unsolicited, he promised to admit his son before dinner. Camilla
In an acute stage, give a dropperful every 15 minutes, then give 2 ounces every one to two hours until symptoms are relieved. Gentle Healing for Baby and Child
He was a seventh child and his mother, left a widow in early life and compelled to earn her livelihood, saw scant chance of educating him when the kindly assistance of a Canon of the Cathedral and President of the Collége de Noyon relieved her difficulties. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
An ancient Russian icon in nielloed silver and one of these Christs in carved wood, executed in the seventeenth century by Bogard de Nancy, in an antique frame of gilded wood backed with velvet, were the only things that slightly relieved the banality of the decoration. Là-bas
At dinner parties, or at house parties with no dancing, or at any occasion where there is no escape from constant, unrelieved social interaction, I can sometimes struggle.
While no one expects hedge-fund values to be listed in the daily newspapers, everyone would be relieved if fewer meltdowns appeared in the headlines.
He was relieved to see Jeannie reach the other side of the river safely.
On the sixth morning of his hospitalization, his bowel congestion finally relieved, he awoke pain-free and cheerful and announced, half joking, "Today, I almost feel like living.
‘Biography’ scriptwriters churn out copy that is always simple, straightforward, and unrelievedly vanilla.
So the Colonel shot back, 'Well, you are relieved of your command.'
Their name humanized them and relieved his awkward feeling. If Winter Comes
There have been too many times when I've been relieved to finally be able to post a halfway-positive review after a string of scathingly negative ones, because I was starting to worry I was coming off as some kind of buzzkill curmudgeon. Archive 2009-03-08
But there was nothing but the unrelieved monotony of dormant fields, no significant growth yet awakened by the spring. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
I was relieved that showrunner Craig Silverstein trusted in the intelligence of the viewers and didn't attempt to hand-hold them through the story after the first few minutes.
Without any reference to the greater or less force of medical theories as to the efficacy of cinchona bark, I now only take an experienced and practical view, well knowing that the sufferings of many millions of poor and rich natives, especially in the jungle districts, are yearly very great, and the mortality quite enormous from remittent and intermittent fevers, by far the greater part of which would be immensely relieved, or wholly cured, by the free use of cinchona bark. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
She was relieved to see the bright lights of the terminal only a few feet away.
Following the scandal, he was relieved of his post as deputy finance minister.
He was relieved to find Tanis cheerful, unreproachful, and brilliant in a frock of brown net over gold tissue. Babbit
Eiko then introduced me to acupuncture, which relieved my arthritis.
Believe me, you will eventually find that you are relieved you were able to escape the trap of unhappiness you were in!
White House reporters will surely have been relieved to learn that Canberra's tap water is drinkable.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality defines a pressure ulcer as a lesion caused by unrelieved pressure resulting in damage to underlying tissue.
The diplomat threw in a joke, and the tension was instantly relieved.
The mother was visibly relieved when the sergeant told her it wasn't serious.
William and his father had been received by Campbell and some other menservants and relieved of their coats.
The process probably required only two minutes, and I was relieved when the signal finally came to shut down.
Thus the new band is relieved of having to play the old Tull chestnuts that work well as boozy, big-room sing-alongs: " Aqualung, " " Too Old to Rock ' n ' Roll, " " Locomotive Breath " and others from the band ' s 43-year-old catalog. Anderson Avoids the Late-Career Tull
If a revealed preference ranking constructed using our procedure were used in place of manipulable indicators like the crude admissions rate and crude matriculation rate, much of the pressure on colleges to manipulate admissions would be relieved. Tournament Ranking of Colleges, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
I was relieved to find out that my problems were due to a genuine disorder.
I am, however, relieved to say that I do not instinctively want to protect and cherish her.
We were relieved not to have had to use our borrowed anti-polar bear rifle, but disappointed not to see any bears, walruses, narwhal or beluga.
Everybody else will be relieved, but there's also what they call survivor's guilt, so if you do have to downsize, you have to do it knowledgeably. State Journal Featured Content
The upper stage is relieved by a pointed window, of two lights, on each side, the dripstone of each terminating in heads.
Graf was relieved of duty in January, after nearly two years on the Cowpens, for "cruelty and maltreatment" of her crew, according to a blistering Navy inspector general's report obtained by TIME.
After the dissolution of the religious houses, where the poor used to be relieved, there was for long no settled provision for them.
Hickory, twirling colour into a glowing paperweight on the end of a slender five-foot-long steel rod called a punty iron, looked extremely relieved at my return from the races. Shattered
Relieved, we wobbled up the stairs to the restaurant.
I'm really pleased and frankly relieved to report," begins Glenn Kenny, "that, a couple of snippable minutes and some dubious music choices aside (that Cake song about the jacket is one thing, but a cover of Howard Jones's 'No One Is To Blame' is pushing it), writer/director Adrienne Shelly's final feature Waitress is a delight, a refreshing comedy that mixes a bunch of familiar ingredients in offbeat ways that payoff every time, much in the way that its title character Jenna (the fabulous Keri Russell) blends, say, blackberries with bittersweet chocolate in her universally beloved pies. GreenCine Daily: Sundance. Waitress.
Previous to the change, the animal almost ceases to feed, and becomes rather inactive; the proper time having at length arrived, exuviation is effected in the course of a few hours, body and limbs being alike relieved from their hard covering. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852
Severely ill patients are given support in hospitals, their symptoms being relieved as far as possible, and most eventually recover.
Mosquito and ant bites can be relieved by the application of a moist bicarbonate of soda paste.
Her dress and her toupet were black, relieved by silver sequins and a silver mounted tiara. The Tragic Bride
He is pleased and relieved, of course, but fanfare gratifies him less than the hard grind itself. Times, Sunday Times
It relieved him to see a smile finally break through the boy's complacent state as he returned the greeting.
Following the scandal, he was relieved of his post as deputy finance minister.
Is the client entitled to be relieved of responsibility on the basis that the contractor would have been late anyway?
Nearly relieved for a break from his brooding thoughts, Rick reached for the phone, ‘Hello?’
They would also be relieved of that very uncomfortable obligation of investigating their colleagues.
I was relieved to find out that my problems were due to a genuine disorder.
‘It is sad but we are relieved that we will now be able to bury him and visit his tomb when we want,’ he said.
The cloning of human beings has seemed inevitable since Dolly took her first bleat, and we should be relieved that it was done by scientists in a laboratory, not by wild-eyed members of some cult.
My headache has been relieved.
The urge to write has always been turbulently strong within her, and she has relieved this through the years by writing short stories.
Seb was somewhat less effusive in his acclaim, yet he was far more relieved than anyone else at Nahum's success.
Parlabane was wandering relievedly towards the exit, his shift mercifully over, when McCreedie called him across to their gathering. Quite Ugly One Morning
I was not merely celebrating my survival of evensong; I was escaping from the unrelieved stress of the entire day. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Well, thanks to technology, today postmen have been relieved of these duties.
I held my breath as the dust cleared, and was relieved to see the tortoise lying fully retracted but unharmed.
Yet the old instinct which has made the name of Englishman glorious in the past was there, in the audience before him, and there was "immense cheering," relieved by some slight colubrine demonstrations. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
The long Crusading Romance is relieved by a sequence of sixteen fabliaux, partly historiettes of men and beasts and partly apologues proper — a subject already noticed. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
This killer disease of young people in dense cities caused coughing and was evidently exacerbated by polluted air, just as it was relieved by the pure air of the mountains.
The officer involved was relieved of his duties because he had violated strict guidelines.
This plaguy Serpent cannot be slain, for the soothsayers aver it beareth a charmed life, but it were a mighty achievement, if for only one year, the realm could be relieved of its oppression. PodCastle » 2010 » February
He first looked relieved at seeing her, but her expression telegraphed her concern. A Time to Hate
I nestled down close to him, relieved in mind and body, and I was just thinking that though scraps of slaty stone and brashy earth were not good things for stuffing a feather-bed, they were, all the same, very comfortable for a weary person to lie upon, when I felt a hand laid upon my shoulder, and opening my eyes found the sun shining brightly and Patience Wins War in the Works
Itchiness caused by a nettle rash, heat rash, allergy rash, or a rash that results from a viral infection may be relieved by a paste of bicarbonate of soda and water.
The drama of being a small person within a vast black space, relieved by gashes of red light, sheets of flame and more spots of white light, has to be experienced.
That's not quite true; I have more hours and more money than at the beginning, and have been relieved of some more enervating teaching duties in favour of some more favourable to my interests and temperament.
A citizen must not be relieved from fulfilling the fundamental duties of citizens.
Are you relieved to know that she's not dying or very ill?
Soak or bathe the affected part in vinegar or isopropyl alcohol for thirty minutes or until the pain is relieved.
The general came home, relieved of duty, and became an icon of right-wing Republicans.
In the midst is a well where women in flowing drapery, with tall jars, draw water as if posing for Bible illustrations; and a camel market in which fifty or more of the brown, ungainly beasts have been relieved of their burdens and lain down for the night – doubled into uncomfortable heaps and bubbling and moaning with querulous discontent. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved.
I felt as if I was relieved from a heavy weight, when the packet sailed with a fair wind from Ireland, and I had quitted for ever the country which had been to me the scene of so much misery. Chapter 4
He was relieved when she finally broke the silence between them.
Adrian was relieved and elated at the time the police vindicated him and David but that didn't last too long.
And the market simply teeters back and forth, worrying and then feeling relieved again.
The Alis said the flames were higher than the trees in the playground opposite and other residents were relieved the wind was fanning the fire away from properties.
However, I also felt relieved that he wasn't here to complicate things.
Elise, relieved, tried to vent some of her indignation like a teakettle spouts steam.
After a moment, Henry tapped the man on his epaulet-clad shoulder and relieved him of his beautiful burden.
We were relieved to hear that she was out of danger.
No 2 is unrelievedly harrowing, written when he was a sick man, and sometimes dismissed as a failure. Times, Sunday Times
The photophore is simply radiant heat -- heat plus light (See Fig. 3) -- and as this heat is applied to legs and buttocks of the crying child the diaper is warmed, the abdomen relaxes, gas is expelled, intestinal contractions relieved, and the baby is soon fast asleep. The Mother and Her Child
No one was too badly hurt (save those who had already died); he was relieved at that.
Now, the Minister is relieved of a duty by certain provisions in the Act, is he not?
Sam didn't seem too disappointed at losing. If anything(Sentence dictionary), he seemed relieved that it was all over.
She started to count how many people, who might not confess it in simple language, were relieved MacQuillan had gone.
But Taylor was relieved when a long range free-kick from Robert thudded against a post and rebounded to safety.
The first memorably charts his wife's descent into Alzheimer's, but all progress into meditations on bereavement with its consolations of memory and excursions into the fantasies which have relieved his grief.
And it was this unrelieved emotion that made The Children Are Watching Us such a radical departure for a film made during the last years of the Fascist regime.
I was relieved to find that my favorites on the menu had not changed in execution one bit.
During both seasons the dirty white of the face and cheeks is only relieved by the dark facial streak, which is short and narrow, but defined by a sprinkling of rufous hairs; the lateral and pygal bands are very faintly indicated, the dark bands being more rufous, the light band rather paler than the grey fawn colour of the upper parts of the body; breast and belly white; tail and ears moderate in length, the former blackish-rufous. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
School was uneventful as usual; he was relieved when the bus stopped at the bus stop near his house.
I think everyone was very relieved when the director called it a wrap for the night.
Why you are pretty well 'blowed'" I said, with a poor attempt to be funny, but immensely relieved. Idle Hour Stories
At this point I'm not sure if I'm relieved or disappointed.
The house has a dark look, being built of the native whinstone, or grau-wacke, as the Germans call it, relieved by the quoins and projections of the windows and turrets in freestone. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2
Billy felt the wind rushing into the cab as the lorry trundled through the tunnel and he felt relieved.
She was glad to be relieved of this burden.
The praetor and his council were greatly relieved at not having to call Scipio to account; Pleminius and thirty-two others they found guilty and sent them in chains to Rome. The History of Rome, Vol. IV
Oliver at last relieved his host by swaggering off, imitating as well as he could the sturdy step and outward gesture of his redoubted companion, and whistling a pibroch composed on the rout of the Danes at The Fair Maid of Perth
St Mirren caretaker manager John Coughlin was mightily relieved that Ricky Gillies was deemed fit to play.
After three years he was, upon his own urgent request, relieved from the priorate and returned to Saint-Germain-des-Prés. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
It offered him a job swap and relieved him of most of the responsibility for running the cleaning services.
Where the man could have disappeared to was a mystery on a road apparently without any offshoots, so we concluded he must have thought we contemplated doing him some bodily harm, and had either "bolted" or "clapp'd," as my brother described it, behind some rock or bush, in which case he must have felt relieved and perhaps amused when he heard us "trigging" past him on the road. From John O'Groats to Land's End
And his court will follow him about: for we are all relieved of our posts, in the moment when the succession occurs. VALENTINE PONTIFEX
These sturdy wooden boats mingle picturesquely alongside the quay, while they are relieved of their morning's catch or stocked with sacks of spices.
Relieved of command, he led IX Corps for much of the rest of the war.
I was secretly relieved that my appointments were with a friendly and approachable dental hygienist.
The young chap in the dungarees laughed relievedly. Archive 2009-03-01
So I was relieved to be welcomed only with a glower, a few quickfire questions, and the request for evidence that I was from the press.
Fortunately we had brought books with us, and we relieved the monotony by observing the habits of a pair of "kastooras," a hawk, and a brace of chikor at intervals, but it was truly a tedious chase. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
Soon I'll be reduced to relating little incidents from my life, unrelieved by links anywhere.
Even his wife and daughter are less relieved to see him and be rescued than they are concerned by how much of a mentalist he has become.
The pain of gastralgia is sometimes allayed by using half a teaspoonful of subcarbonate of bismuth, and repeating the dose, if the attack is not relieved. The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand
As nothing is so successful a subject for ridicule as the fashionable follies of the time, it occurred to him that the more serious scenes of his narrative might be relieved by the humour of a cavaliero of the age of Queen Elizabeth. The Monastery
I asked, relieved, performing another tiny jig, and realizing the window blind was open.
Larry puzzled over the situation: Should the banquette be held for the diva, or bequeathed to the refreshingly unassuming — and relievedly present — young actress? Ye Waverly Blog: Stood Up: Vanity Fair
So relieved was I to have averted disaster on the tee that, before I had time to see sense, my feet were striding across the sand, and enabling a 7-iron to flick the ball clean off the surface and onto a position just ahead of the green.
The literature on immigration policy is almost unrelievedly critical of the state.
The day was too much, and the battalion commander requested to be relieved of his duty.
As I finally reach the top of the climb I'm momentarily relieved.
Soon after, he played a sharply rising ball as well as he could, off his ribs almost, and watched, relieved as it fell just short of silly mid-off.
Wiltord runs at Cisse and is relieved of the ball by a wonderful tackle from Cisse, who's having a fantastic game.
This pressure lasts only the first two or three months, because after that the growing womb lifts itself out of the pelvis, rising into the abdominal cavity; it is no longer anteverted and the pressure on the bladder is relieved. Woman Her Sex and Love Life
Relieved, I leveled off and once again began dealing with those knotty little details like useless gauges - both my airspeed and my fuel gauge read zero.
Under the judicious application of cooling astringent collyria, and other remediate means, the irritation and pain of the parts were relieved, and the lids somewhat retracted. The Dog
See an orthosurgeon if your pain is not relieved by these simple measures.
She was glad to be relieved of this burden.
We find only a few clusters of trees punctuating the grassland, which is almost unrelievedly open and sunny—disadvantageous for a lurk-and-lurch predator. The Song of The Dodo
It is generally relieved by passing wind or actually having a bowel movement.
Cortisone remarkably relieved inflamed, swollen joints after just a few days of use.
I quietly packed away my ego, made a quick call to my stockbroker, and relieved the local convenience store of their lanolin supply. Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
The garrisons - native troops commanded by British officers - held out and were relieved after a week of day and night assaults.
All the tension that had built up was released, and she was relieved.
This brings me to what you will be relieved to be reassured is my last point. The Changing Political Face of Canada
In ductile materials, these stress concentrations may be relieved by creep and stress relaxation in the matrix or by grain-boundary migration.
Archie was thinking he ought to be relieved to get the job of making a retro photomap off his plate, considering he’d have his hands full tackling one problem at a time, among them sifting through mountains of electronic log-in data for Doc Ray’s inside-out Flash Ink user-tracking quest. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep
However, since the Republican noise machine is so concerned about my "well-being" and that of America's students, they'll be relieved to know that I was not "inducted" into homosexuality, assaulted, raped, or sold into sexual slavery. Alex Blaze: The War on LGBT Teachers
I was: from any doubts as to which I was speedily relieved by the entrance of the priest's bare-footed "colleen," to deposit on my table a bottle of soda water, and announce breakfast, with his reverence's compliments. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
Women have reason to be relieved that Parliament's attention was distracted.
It is a prosperous society of states - productive, diverse, but subject to waves of disruption and containing pockets of unobserved and unrelieved grimness.
I was relieved to see that he had not assumed one of his more disgusting disguises-a verminous beggar or odorous camel driver. HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
A counterthrust temporarily relieved the pressure on Moscow (Dec. 6), and the Russians were also able to retake Kalinin (Dec. 16). Nov. 15
I was relieved when the interminable service was over, and the solemn signing the register with witnesses was announced.
He was relieved to find Tanis cheerful, unreproachful, and brilliant in Babbitt
The following Sunday I took my husband into hospital to be relieved of a bony hip in favour of a titanium one.
At their back, the continent to which they belong offers an image of unrelieved misery.
He sighed, slightly relieved to have escaped their self-righteous wrath, but also a bit discomposed.
Later, as soon as I was relieved, I hurried down to the 'prentice's berth. The Ghost Pirates: Chapter 2
Your coming relieved me of the bother of writing a long letter.
The youth's regiment relieved a command that had manned a series of trenches along a line of woods.
Then she could hear him resume his walk through the room, and, as if his spirits had been somewhat relieved and elevated by the survey of his wardrobe, she could distinguish that at one turn he half recited a sonnet, at another half whistled a galliard, and at the third hummed a saraband. The Monastery
He kept the iambic blank verse form but relieved it entirely of its poetic burden.
Brilliantly though the power of war to destroy, corrupt and degrade everything it touches is conveyed, the book's unrelieved grimness will be a problem for some.
He was relieved of his duties as presidential adviser.
When he went to court asking to be relieved of the child support payments that consumed a third of his take-home pay, he was turned down.
The relieved Prince grunted an acknowledgement, then leaned forward to gaze critically in the mirror.
In the midst of this, Pinfold suspects he is going insane, and when he discovers he is being hoaxed by enemies among the passengers, he is relieved: “He might be unpopular; he might be ridiculous; but he was not mad.” Henry’s Demons
He admitted he was relieved to have passed the post first on what will be remembered as one of racing's greatest days.
There is something unrelievedly juvenile about the current Republican mentality. Republicans celebrate April Fools by praising Obama
As Bedingfield pointed out, the situation of Elizabeth needing a household in order to pay for her own imprisonment meant that, as her goaler, he could not completely isolate her: "there ys an evident waye that I cannot avoyde by enye possible mense, butte that daylye & howerlye the sayde Parye maye have & gyve intelligence" to the princess. 185 It is little wonder that Bedingfield begged to be relieved of the impossible task. From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Then she could hear him resume his walk through the room, and, as if his spirits had been somewhat relieved and elevated by the survey of his wardrobe, she could distinguish that at one turn he half recited a sonnet, at another half whistled a galliard, and at the third hummed a saraband. The Monastery
More than 30 were relieved to discover they were staying at the school.

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