surcease

How To Use surcease In A Sentence

• My wife Mary returned to Honolulu with Miki to help with all the arrangements and to offer some surcease from the grief.
• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin 
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• All the 12-steps deals seem to give him some sort of surcease from daily pressures.
• So this is it; my pounding heart surcease, Rebecca thinks. THE CHEEK PERFORATION DANCE
• Every person in it felt the need of surcease, quiet, privacy, whether for thought or grief or merely sleep. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
• Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain. Charlie Chaplin 
• A shepherd or two could be spared, but the suffering of kings demands surcease.