How To Use Surcease In A Sentence
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So this is it; my pounding heart surcease, Rebecca thinks.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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The morris-dancers stood still — the hobby-horse surceased his capering — pipe and tabor were mute, and
The Abbot
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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.
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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The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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-- 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
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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.
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In Savannah Bay, two women talk and talk - or pause and pose - without surcease.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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Only art, he says, offers us surcease from this cycle of striving meeting disappointment.
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The Board of Prison Directors gave me my choice: a prison trustyship and surcease from the jute looms if I gave up the nonexistent dynamite; life imprisonment in solitary if I refused to give up the nonexistent dynamite.
Chapter 4
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Confound that cunning old aunt of mine," said Simon, aloud; and took no notice that the snores surceased.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
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With their thirst for revenge sated, there is nothing left for either Lavinia or the maddened Titus but the surcease of sorrow in death.
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The compulsion to seek succor, support, surcease from his endeavors, in his love's arms.
A RAKE'S VOW
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My wife Mary returned to Honolulu with Miki to help with all the arrangements and to offer some surcease from the grief.
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Every person in it felt the need of surcease, quiet, privacy, whether for thought or grief or merely sleep.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.
The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings
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Once, and suddenly, the Ravenous surceased a moment.
Tiger-Lilies. A Novel.
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A shepherd or two could be spared, but the suffering of kings demands surcease.
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin
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Every person in it felt the need of surcease, quiet, privacy, whether for thought or grief or merely sleep.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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So this is it; my pounding heart surcease, Rebecca thinks.
THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
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All the 12-steps deals seem to give him some sort of surcease from daily pressures.
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As every outraged nerve in my body cried for alleviation, so my tortured mind shrieked for surcease from the accusing memory of the things I had said and done while under the influence of alcohol.
Madeleine: An Autobiography
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It was a pleasant and sociable meal, and, thanks to my cold beef and coffee at home, I had no occasion to trouble myself much about the fare; so I just ate some delicate chicken, and a very small cutlet, and a slice of dry toast, and thereupon surceased from my labors.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2.
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This occupation is decades long and continues before our very eyes, with no prospect for near-term surcease for the Christian and Muslim Palestinians.
Palestine Blogs aggregator
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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin