surcease

How To Use surcease In A Sentence

• So this is it; my pounding heart surcease, Rebecca thinks. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
• The morris-dancers stood still — the hobby-horse surceased his capering — pipe and tabor were mute, and The Abbot
• A mixture of pain, grief, and guilt - one of the most bitter cocktails the human experience offers - can cause people to do unexpected things in the quest for surcease.
• Then the people being restrained from their fury, the waters surceased from their fury also. The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
• -- But all his bloody schemes for overturning that covenanted interest that he had so solemnly bound himself to defend and maintain, proving abortive, he fell at last into the hands of Cromwel and the Independent faction, who never surceased, till they brought him to the block, Jan. 30. 1649. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
• In this country, not only have we been about the making of many, many books in recent years-more than 175,000 new titles and editions last year alone-but there also appears to be no surcease in sight.
• In Savannah Bay, two women talk and talk - or pause and pose - without surcease.
• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin 
• The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms. A RAKE'S VOW
• Only art, he says, offers us surcease from this cycle of striving meeting disappointment.