surcease
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So if there is surcease from sorrow, and my name is attached to it, thank God.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023
I'll hope for just a few years to spend not wishing every day were over just a weekend, and a momentary surcease.
From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2018
As report after report indicates, he attacks, lashes out, mocks, tweets, pummels, charges and complains, showering calumny on others even as he praises his achievements without surcease.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2017
For Richard Nixon, the sacrifice of his office very likely will not bring even a week of surcease.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I’ve gained pounds lying continuously in bed, seeking surcease and sublimation in food. Now we must run. I must leave this house. It has terrible associations.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Then the people being restrained from their fury, the waters surceased from their fury also.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
In that large lustre all our haste surceased, The sail seemed fain to furl, The silent steersman landward turned, And ship and shore set breast to breast.
From The Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
The Montanines also that remayned at Siena, liued in quyet, wythoute chalenge or quarell of their aduersaries, howbeit mutuall talke and haunt of others company vtterly surceased.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
Heart, did we not think that she Had surceased her tyranny?
From New Poems by Francis Thompson
Forthwith the wind surceased, the ocean became silent, the tempest is appeased, and a great calm is made.
From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by James O'Leary
Vocabulary lists containing surcease
Romeo and Juliet
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"Macbeth": Act 1 Scene 7
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