surcease

I will leave you, laddie, to seek in slumber a surcease from martyrdom.

They knew no surcease from labor, but toiled on without murmur or complaint.

What blew up the Art, will in its own surcease terminate its success.

But about them there was no sign of reluctance or of surcease.

What overflattered child ever asked for a surcease of flattery?

Certainly there was some surcease in going fast and having nothing to do.

He could find no surcease only in the oft-repeated exclamation of reproach.

All he wanted now was sleep, the surcease of a few hours of oblivion.

There was no surcease, however, in the constant hail which fell upon the town.

She made no effort to rebel; she lay as though an agony had come from which no surcease can be.