| 单词 | unrelieved |
| 例句 | Her back hunched that way; her head to one side as though crouching from a permanent and unrelieved blow. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a bleak, harsh view, the sea and the rock unrelieved by any tree or sweep of grass or sand. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z Against their rhetoric, I stood out in relief, unrelieved. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The Soundkeeper looked around with an expression of unrelieved sadness on her unhappy face. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Other people of color lay down there, too, moaning and groaning in unrelieved pain. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z B. R. Myers, writing in The Atlantic, said that “no book review can convey the tedium of reading bad prose in such unrelieved bulk.” Denis Johnson, Who Wrote of the Failed and the Desperate, Dies at 67 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z Then the gate slides open, and Ulrik looks out at freedom: the flat, white, unrelieved winter landscape of Norway. "A Somewhat Gentle Man": Hilarious darkness from the frozen north 2011-01-14T01:30:00Z “The film is almost unrelievedly brutal and without the saving grace of unreality, which makes Frankenstein’s horrors a little comic,” Frank S. Nugent wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Sunday: Grammys, ‘Girls’ and John Oliver 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z But the fatalistic protagonist and finned predators of “The Gulf Stream” also serve as a metaphor for the unrelieved obstacles and threats for Black people and especially for Black men, that remain crushingly pertinent today. Winslow Homer: Radical Impressionist 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z When it comes to making a watchable film, though, The Alamo's tone of unrelieved gloom isn't a great start, and nor is its ponderous pace. The Alamo: a cannon that fails to fire 2012-11-08T11:37:47Z Proceeding in a tone of unrelieved misery, “Coldwater” is a punishing, predictable drama that’s almost rescued by strong acting and good intentions. ‘Coldwater,’ a Brutal Tale of Juvenile Lockup 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z That voice is both dramatic and poetic, informational and expressive, collecting shards of observations and reminiscences, pushing unrelieved tensions to the fore and turning his story into a crisis of consciousness. “Ad Astra,” Reviewed: James Gray’s Masterwork of Personal Film in an Alien Setting 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z Honest or not, the symphonic result seems to me unrelievedly hostile and rebarbative in manner, even the music associated with Renate's entry into a convent being far from unshadowed in its tranquillity. Review: Baleful Prokofiev yields to dazzling Tchaikovsky at Seattle Symphony 2010-11-12T20:16:00Z On the other hand, Willy himself is often so unrelievedly monstrous that you sometimes can’t see past it to the monstrosity of American business that Miller means to indict. Review: In a New ‘Salesman,’ the Lomans Look Like All of Us 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Levine, in a telephone interview, said the post helped avoid an “unrelieved series of guest conductors,” and that Mr. Luisi’s appointment was coincidental to his own health problems. Fabio Luisi Is to Be Met Opera?s Principal Guest Conductor 2010-04-27T21:07:00Z When said character is one of only two in the play, the sole item on the menu is likely to be unrelieved agony. Review: ‘The Quare Land,’ a Tubcentric Comedy 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z But the lack of actual interaction and the unrelieved ticktock structure eventually grow monotonous. Review: 4 Characters in Search of a Big Moment in ‘A Day’ 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z After 50 pages, one is swept along by the book's unrelieved energy. The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf – review 2013-01-11T20:00:04Z Like many, I was put off by the unrelieved intricacy of the years-spanning “mythology” episodes – the ones about the overarching theory that there is a government conspiracy to cover up the existence of alien life. Rewatching the X-Files: my 50-episode binge 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Still, a monotony sets in somewhere around the midpoint of a 100-minute show that’s unrelieved by anything except the physical dazzle. Synetic Theater takes us all to hell 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Their music soothes after the unrelieved brutality of Jesus' crucifixion. York Mystery Plays' triumphant return to St Mary's abbey 2012-08-09T10:00:00Z What we get is a ruthless dissection of the family's snobbery, hypocrisy and, in the case of Laura's sister Kathleen, unrelieved vindictiveness. Before the Party – review 2013-03-29T17:37:17Z The piece proceeds with almost unrelieved agitation, giving an urgency unusual in Thomas' work — though not suggesting Dickinson. Rush of music sometimes lacking in refinement 2011-05-29T19:51:17Z The play is unrelievedly bleak, but with a denouement of unexpected hope: a moving, almost revelatory evening of theater, and easily the best new play of the year. When the Rain Stops Falling: The Year's Best New Play 2010-03-18T09:35:00Z It was Carver who said that “unrelieved responsibility and permanent distraction,” for him, necessitated the short story form. Review: ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women,’ Lucia Berlin’s Soul-Baring Stories 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z One of the best things about the work is the way McLeod has injected humor into what might be an unrelievedly grim evening. New opera celebrates imprisoned Maori hero 2012-03-16T10:01:06Z Yet what makes this a fine play is that Lamont Stewart neither sentimentalises Maggie nor treats working-class life as unrelievedly grim. Men Should Weep - review 2010-10-26T23:25:00Z Always a realist, never a romantic, Degas was demonstrating how unrelievedly exhausting it was to be a young dancer in 19th-century Paris. Perspective | Are nature documentaries the greatest art of our time? 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z Yet following the frolicsome “Square Dance” with this confection presaged an evening of unrelievedly light fare. City Ballet Presents ‘Masters at Work’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z Economic collapse, structural racism, unrelieved suffering: Even without Trump, she says, none of the country’s enormous problems will go away without enormous efforts to address them. In a Memoir, the Impeachment Witness Fiona Hill Recounts Her Journey From ‘Blighted World’ to White House 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z “It feels as if we may start to see unexpected grace and resourcefulness and pluck, rather than unrelieved cynicism and self-dealing.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘38 at the Garden’ and a ‘Twilight Saga’ Marathon 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Jeremy ducked back, bladder unrelieved, to commence killing the cloud of insects one by one. A Crash Course in Honeymoon Survival 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z I looked out upon jagged fields of unrelieved rock, extending in every direction — all of it precisely that black-brown hue. On Top of Mount Etna, a Lesson in Lava (and Luck) 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z The movie is an unrelievedly depressing illustration of Henry David Thoreau’s observation that “the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Like “Pride and Prejudice” but in its own long, unrelieved way, “The Makioka Sisters” has in an immense degree the power of veracity, which is second only to the power of truth. Review: ‘The Makioka Sisters,’ by Junichiro Tanizaki 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Yet Malle directs it, and the whole film, unrelievedly earnestly, adding a sneer of world-weary indifference that plays like a pose—but that pose has an intellectual foundation. Louis Malle’s “Elevator to the Gallows,” and Its Historic Miles Davis Soundtrack 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z The use of a bad-son brother, played by Brian White with staccato anger, not only has its own problems, it also underlines the unrelieved obviousness of Wesley’s decency. Movie Review: ?Tyler Perry?s Good Deeds,? With Thandie Newton 2012-02-25T00:20:20Z Surely, unrelieved despair — either personally or more broadly, socially — can lead to paralysis. We don’t need more optimists: Unchecked positive thinking is more dangerous than it sounds 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z The main drawback to this noble effort, just nominated for the foreign-language Oscar, is that the two-hour film is unrelievedly grim and tense. 2010-02-04T03:33:00Z At first glance this year's Nielsen top 100 is unrelievedly dispiriting. The year's bestsellers 2011-01-01T00:05:26Z By anybody's reckoning, Lilly's life is a traumatic one, encompassing multiple bereavements and separations, material hardship, numerous upheavals and unrelieved exile from an oppressed and divided homeland. On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry ? review 2011-07-20T11:00:01Z Slow ones were unrelievedly elegiac; fast ones, too furious to make out the details. In Vadym Kholodenko, talent and tragedy mix 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z High quality drama but a little downbeat and unrelieved. Unreported World 2010-05-21T05:45:00Z Its members are nice, even at their most ostensibly fierce, and so unrelievedly bland that it feels like an affront, especially to all the women here doing so much hard work. ‘The Marvels’ Review: You’ve Seen This Movie 32 Times Before 2023-11-09T05:00:00Z The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service says inspectors documented “continued failure” to provide adequate veterinary care, “resulting in a state of unrelieved suffering for the identified animal.” Private Louisiana zoo claims federal seizure of ailing giraffe wasn’t justified 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Scrutiny of Tuesday’s skies, in their unrelieved dimness, showed few of the bright delights of the season. Tuesday moved us into last two-thirds of the year, and did it coolly 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z For three solid, unrelieved weeks, the pileup of cyclonic storms has obscured the Northern California coastlines with dense drifting fogs and white mist thrown off huge waves. Perspective | On California’s coast, humans ride out nature’s rage 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z Davis, he added, “offers a dark, almost unrelievedly oppressive picture of life in a tough, hardhearted city.” Mike Davis, 'City of Quartz' author who chronicled the forces that shaped L.A., dies 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Acts of unbroken earnestness, like those of unrelieved wickedness, are dull to watch and boring to talk about. Column: Why are TV's two big fantasy shows so epically humorless? 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z “Oz” is a prison series that shackles viewers to a universe of such unrelieved violence, grimness and hopelessness that watching it is painful. The 75 best TV shows on HBO Max right now, according to our experts 2022-03-23T04:00:00Z “My life was a failure, and the gloom and despair I felt were constant and unrelieved.” America’s first opioid crisis grew out of the carnage of the Civil War 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z For women, there is no shock, only lasting discomfort, unrelieved pain. Perspective | Our sports need a healthier version of masculinity, and men need to create it 2021-02-22T05:00:00Z His research claimed that these symptoms resembled drug-seeking behavior but were actually caused by unrelieved pain. Perspective | I was a drug rep. I know how pharma companies pushed opioids. 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z The entire first section of his novel No One Gets Out Alive feels like a nightmare that grows ever more relentless, from which we may never waken, and that’s my choice for sheer unrelieved fear. 'I was so scared I took it back to the library': the books that scare horror authors 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z That is, until an even more troublesome symptom — excruciating scratchy eye pain unrelieved by drops — prompted an immediate visit to her ophthalmologist. The Challenge of Identifying Sjogren’s Syndrome 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z And many conservative Christians see the national news media as unrelievedly hostile to them. Making sense of evangelicals' support for Trump | Michael Massing 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z But their gratitude underscores the reality that hundreds of thousands of other members of the class of 2019 will be carrying unrelieved burdens of debt as they begin their adult lives. Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z I was packing up at the end of a family vacation in Florida when my back went into an excruciating spasm unrelieved by a fistful of pain medication. Virtual Reality as Therapy for Pain 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z It presents the 1990s as a period of unrelieved misery and Mr. Putin’s time in office as an era of prosperity and national rebirth. A Sparkling Shrine to a Reviled Russian Leader 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z Funny, of course, because the knock on her has always been that she’s so unrelievedly moderate. Recent Kansas editorials 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z Symptoms may include unusual fatigue; decreased endurance during physical activity; shortness of breath, chest pain or discomfort upon exertion; dizziness or palpitations; unexplained arm or jaw pain; and indigestion that is unrelieved by antacids. Trim and Fit? You May Still Have Heart Disease 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet this exploration of American society is unrelieved in its negativism. Review | A relentlessly dark indictment of global capitalism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z It saddens us that there is so much unrelieved basic need in an immensely wealthy country and city. How to Stretch a Dollar 2018-03-05T05:00:00Z Consider the implications, in a men's penitentiary where everyone is dressed in bright orange jump suits; the effect is unrelieved distress and aggression. What Is the Perfect Color Worth? 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z Re-reading Vaughan and Alphona’s original comics arc, the parents all came across as a sort of unrelieved blank evil mass where everyone had the same voice. Marvel’s Runaways might get good once its heroes actually run away 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z While not good, the economic picture is no longer one of unrelieved gloom. Brazil’s election, economy give sense of hope 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z As tends to be the case with clarion calls to global socialist revolution, the reader is left not just reeling from the unrelieved darkness of the verdict against capitalism but wondering about some basic questions. Review | A relentlessly dark indictment of global capitalism 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z The past eight years of the Obama presidency left conservatives in a condition of nearly unrelieved glum resignation. Post-Election Tristesse 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z And this unrelieved stress now represents a risk down the line. Risks remain after Italian quakes - BBC News 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z But the unrelievedly dire picture he has painted of black America has left many black voters angry, dumbfounded or both. Donald Trump’s Description of Black America Is Offending Those Living in It 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z If it’s anything like Na’s two previous efforts, “The Chaser” and “The Yellow Sea,” it will be a thriller of such grisly, unrelieved intensity as to put most American action movies to shame. Cannes 2016: 11 films our critic can’t wait to see 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Those experiences taught me that living in unrelieved pain is living without meaning or hope. Finding a life with meaning by managing pain “In a radio age when personality means rant, hysteria, terminal adolescence and unrelieved, unbelievable perkiness,” Mr. Goodman wrote, “Post is a person. He’s depressed. He kvetches. He whines.” Steve Post, Sardonic Wit on WNYC, Is Dead at 70 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Something wholly unexpected, and perhaps wretched, for the biggest stars in a moment of unrelieved pressure. World Cup 2014: Final Between Germany and Argentina Could Surprise Fans 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z And yet this Connecticut hospital is not a place of unrelieved misery. Life Goes On at Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z I read Aviv’s piece while watching my wife enter her seventh week of unrelieved agony resulting from pain in her sciatic nerve. The Mail: Letters from Our Readers 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Its design has proved controversial, with The Architectural Heritage Society for Scotland branding it "alien" and questioning the "use of large unrelieved stretches of grey opaque glass". Living up to a Mackintosh classic 2014-04-09T07:03:50Z Catherine, who was not further identified to preserve her privacy, was diagnosed with leukemia and suffered intractable bone pain, unrelieved by acetaminophen with codeine. Personal Health: Palliative Care, the Treatment That Respects Pain 2013-12-02T21:43:53Z The darkness was metaphorical as well, unrelieved for months, 403 firefighters and police officers dead. 9/11 Retrospective: A Year Of Living Gratefully 2013-09-10T04:00:00Z So he started Axcient. Of course, it’s risky to assume that your unrelieved pain will be widely shared. 4 Ways to Get & Keep Customers 2012-10-02T12:47:34Z The movie, "You've Been Trumped," takes an unrelievedly dim view of the man for seeking to build golf courses on an environmentally delicate stretch of the Scottish coast, north of Aberdeen on the North Sea. City Room: A Familiar Tale of Trump and Real Estate, This Time in Scotland 2012-08-09T13:08:55Z Some Greeks were clearly exhausted, or bored, by two months of unrelieved politicking. Greek elections: A tight vote for the euro 2012-06-18T10:55:44Z From the era of Noah it had been made the subject of more remarks unrelieved by common sense than any other. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z And these two years of unrelieved and sobering obscurity cannot but be considered most opportune. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z Seen through slant lines of grey rain it was beyond measure dreary and forlorn, burdening the gazer's soul with its flat and unrelieved heaviness. Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) A Novel 2012-04-03T02:00:33.630Z Sooner would the sentinel quit his post unrelieved—sooner the gallant soldier turn his back on his enemy—or sooner would Antonio forget his Julia! Tales for Fifteen 2012-03-21T02:00:38.090Z An undergraduate, to whom the natural sciences, unrelieved, were a monotonous study, slipped into the ante-room, from which he emerged with the professor's hat. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Ngan-king, completely invested by land and water, and unrelieved by the Ying-wang, after its garrison had endured the most terrible privations, fell into the hands of the besiegers. Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume I) 2012-03-19T02:00:25.027Z She wore that evening a white dress, unrelieved by any color. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z Here the Coldstreamers stayed unrelieved for over three weeks, up to their knees in water, under ceaseless shell-fire, and sniped at with horrible precision on every occasion when they raised their heads. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z This species in its gait, flight, and general appearance closely resembles the American Golden Plover, but is smaller than that bird, and its sober upper plumage is unrelieved with flecks of golden colour. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z And the existence of the long day makes possible unrelieved labor, hard and hot, the whole turn of fourteen hours, if there is need for it. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z In fact, they were chiefly English landowners here, and the extent of their exports is only the measure of the misery which they left unpitied and unrelieved. The Commercial Restraints of Ireland 2012-02-13T03:00:20.483Z But the unrelieved black made her look extremely pale, and it was her recent illness, probably, which made her look also tired and languid. Dorothy and other Italian Stories 2012-03-18T02:00:18.513Z In the case of the machine-gun section of the Blues, under Lord Worsley, that period was doubled, the detachment having been in the advance trenches for six days and nights unrelieved. The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres 2012-03-17T02:01:05.397Z A commonplace house, with well-disposed grounds, flower-beds in the right place, a well-planted lawn, may please longer than a fine pile where is ostentation and unrelieved artifice. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The mortal agony, unrelieved by excitement, is painful in the extreme to witness, but worse still is reckless bravado. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 2012-02-10T03:00:15.463Z May not the impressions of pain and destruction be unrelieved and overwhelming? Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The walls, floors, and ceiling were of crumbling gray brick, unrelieved by a single color or attempt at ornament; and the usually open door-way was now closed by a black curtain. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z It was he who gave a devil-me-care connotation to the words “Regent” and “Regency”; and his wild escapades have sufficed to redeem the Georgian Era from the reproach of unrelieved dulness and greasy vulgarity. The Brighton Road The Classic Highway to the South 2012-01-24T03:00:26.933Z Civic dissolution or civic perpetuity—this was the immediate, the unrelieved, the ominous alternative. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z I looked instead at him, in some surprise and resentment His face was gloomy, stupid and unrelieved. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Full of thrills and unspeakable juxtapositions, it is governed by a sheer delight in horror and unrelieved by any moral standard. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z Even by her own account, those months in Ireland were not altogether unrelieved by the glitter for which her soul craved. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z They were rude and bearded men, for the most part spare and sinewy, but the elder among them tramped with a shambling gait that told of unrelieved drudgery. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z To leave the burden of the feeble unrelieved, or to clog the progress of the slow is in any Nation's history a primal sin, and is sure to be abundantly revenged. Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians 2012-01-17T03:00:21.120Z There I had an ordinary palco, enclosed by a railing from the promenade and elevated above the body of an audience composed of every possible shade from fairest noon to unrelieved midnight. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z While the range of crime is confined, lust for instance never appearing as a motive, there is an unrelieved concentration on the evil course of ambition. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z This fumbling in the cadaver of the old world, however, only disgusts me when so unrelieved as in this case by any contrast or any souffle of inspiration such as you get in Tourgu�neff. Notes of a Son and Brother 2011-12-29T03:00:14.087Z The sense of horror grew in him with cumulative but unrelieved effect. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z The mud walls, unrelieved by whitewash looked black and murky. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Teazed by the constant irritation, fever soon sets in, and, if the sheep be unrelieved by the shepherd's aid, death ensues in four-and-twenty hours. A Treatise on Sheep: The Best Means for their Improvement, General Management, and the Treatment of their Diseases. 2011-12-04T03:00:03.890Z Taunton still remained unrelieved, and Goring’s horse still rode all over Dorsetshire when the New Model at last took the field. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z None pity a fallen woman so little as her fellow women, and Sally's fellow servants were not long in making her life an unrelieved agony. The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant 2011-11-27T03:00:11.777Z On the other hand was a dull, bare sweep, unrelieved by even a single hut. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z And none but themselves and God knew the bitterness of their bondage and the depth of their dark and unrelieved despair. Steve P. Holcombe, the Converted Gambler His Life and Work 2011-11-01T02:00:21.043Z Swish—swish—swish—— Not that the rhythm is unrelieved. Leaves in the Wind 2011-10-28T02:00:25.937Z They are gray and unrelieved by any visible vegetation. Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes 2011-10-28T02:00:24.840Z The widow's eyes showed unutterable sadness, which was unrelieved by tears. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z Honest, humble poverty approached the overseer's door with fear and trembling, and the slightest rebuff or harsh word, which an importune application might occasion, would be sufficient to make her leave the door unrelieved. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z Impossible were it to find language or figures to exaggerate the wretchedness of humanity unrelieved by the gracious revelations of God. Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses 2011-10-20T02:00:26.230Z But, as is usually the case with the afflicted, it fled her eyelids, and she passed several hours in the severest mental torture, unrelieved by a single cheering thought. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z The long, low line of officers' quarters lay black and unrelieved against the reddening sky. A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z Bats were hawking in and out of the black shadow, as yet unrelieved by the electric lights, and the spacious piazza was nearly empty. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z No especial reference can now be made to the amount of unrelieved suffering which this fact discloses. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z But Artemisia chose a linen robe of pure white, unrelieved by color. The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great 2011-10-02T02:00:13.920Z Yes, the scamp was the joy of his life; and really, really, except for the boy, everything was unrelieved gloom.... The Later Life 2011-10-02T02:00:13.037Z Looking up from the lake the crag, which is a high dependence of Aran Benllyn, shows on the right an almost unrelieved slabbiness at an easy angle, which gives good practice in small footholds. Climbing in The British Isles, Vol. II Wales and Ireland 2011-09-23T02:00:23.653Z It was an unrelieved alternation of gold-glittering sands, under implacable, blazing skies, and fading sands, under endless skies of nocturnal blue. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z She had laid her arms on the table and bowed her head upon them and shook and quivered with emotions unrelieved by a single tear—weeping was for lighter hearts and less severe demands! The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The thick darkness was unrelieved by a single lightning-flash, and the hoarse murmur of the seething river was the only noise which could be distinguished from the pitiless storm. Mind Amongst the Spindles 2011-09-20T02:00:13.677Z He could not account for his act; he did not know it for the culmination of a highly nervous condition induced by the twenty-four sleepless hours of unrelieved suspense. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z I'm sure I've said this before, but I can't think of another series that has managed to maintain this level of unrelieved tension over so many hours. Breaking Bad: The Man Behind the Chicken 2011-06-07T00:05:00Z It was an unrelieved alternation of the peeping, the radiant awakening and the duller waning of the stars. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z After two months of unrelieved defeat, Tulsa won two games in a row in late August. Trading Detroit for Tulsa, W.N.B.A.?s Shock Lost Their Way 2011-09-05T00:49:48Z She had a new frock for the occasion, white and soft and unrelieved by any colour, and she wore for her sole ornament her husband’s gift of pearls. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z He looked up at the dark bulk of Chigringo, unrelieved even by the tiny fleck of lamplight which he had so often called his guiding star. The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z Nothing of that dinner survives in my memory, from which I infer that cooking and conversation were unrelievedly mediocre. The Sixth Sense A Novel 2011-08-24T02:00:18.870Z It was an unrelieved alternation of rosy sunrises and orange sunsets. The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z "He hath come," she said, in far-reaching whisper fraught with burden of unrelieved curiosity. A Maid of Many Moods 2011-08-23T02:00:27.517Z I see a dreary autumnal day; thick mists upon the hill-tops, dripping trees, and a still more dismal procession, winding its way along the high-road, unrelieved by any touch of colour. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z All was night, unrelieved darkness, midnight, midday, morning or evening. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z In the winter sky unrelieved by the least fleck of cloud—a dome of spotless polished steel—nothing, you would think, can move unseen. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z Perhaps it was the black woollen dress, unrelieved, contrary to her usual custom, by flowers or ornaments of any kind, but she seemed quite a different creature. Judith Trachtenberg A Novel 2011-08-03T02:00:13.470Z The face that gazed out at the driving October rain was one whose expression of unrelieved misery and hopelessness might well have melted a heart of flint. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Their heavy carriages, painted black, drawn by black horses their harness unrelieved by brass or plating, pass unnoticed in the streets. Rome 2011-07-24T02:00:10.227Z The psychology of this period of depression partly lies, undoubtedly, in this instinctive dread of death from lack of food and the natural depression of unrelieved gloom. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The children are dressed for confirmation at the expense of the chateau; layettes are found for poor mothers, and no case of distress is allowed to pass unrelieved. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1 2011-07-17T02:00:36.813Z The Cimmerian gloom was unrelieved by the faintest pencil of light. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z And you must be tired of this very quiet life, unrelieved save by a couple of old fogies like yours truly and Upward?” The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z It is as though one had come to the place after reading the unrelieved brutality of a newspaper report. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The loneliness, the monotony, the hardship of steady, unrelieved travel were keenly felt. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z Her dress, of dark, "navy" blue serge, made plainly, the long skirt heavy and still while she stood, and unrelieved save by narrow linen collar and cuffs, looked like a mourning garb. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Meat was badly needed; we had eaten the last of the sand-grouse on the previous day, and a diet of unrelieved rusks is apt to pall. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Nor did the ensuing morning bring a change, for a burning sun beat, unrelieved by a breath of air, on the surface of a sea that was glittering like molten silver. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z The dress was black, the waist unrelieved—the costume of the woman who works. The Salamander 2011-06-10T02:00:22.890Z But as he entered upon the level plain, unrelieved by any watercourse; and baked and cracked by the fierce sun into narrow gaping chasms and yawning fissures, he unconsciously began to slacken pace. Gabriel Conroy 2011-06-08T02:00:19.217Z There is much that is wholly sound and good in Chartism; but it is unrelieved and unbalanced. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z He even carried a walking cane, black as ebony and unrelieved by gold or silver. The Letters of Ambrose Bierce With a Memoir by George Sterling 2011-05-26T02:00:19.673Z Laura had gone up to town to get a few new clothes, but she was still wearing unrelieved black, if not exactly conventional widow's mourning, when she arrived at Knowlton Abbey. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z He was a visible and concentrated embodiment of the war spirit in its unrelieved and unredeemed essentials. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Women who wear simple, unrelieved black display an excellent taste although any subdued color is equally good. Book of Etiquette Volume I 2011-04-28T02:00:13.993Z She looked well in a gown of soft, grey silk, hanging in full, straight folds, unrelieved by ornament, save a few sprays of sweet heliotrope at her collar-fastening. A Romance of Toronto A Novel 2011-04-23T02:00:04.677Z Seriousness unrelieved by humour is tiresome; but Gray, however melancholy he felt, could always retire a few paces and view himself as a spectator, with a smile. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z She was wearing a white dress, almost bridal in its dead whiteness—a rather singular fact considering that she had till to-day worn unrelieved black. Love and hatred 2011-05-13T02:00:08.103Z An icy crust covered its surface, the wind blew fiercely and the darkness was unrelieved by a star. The History of Company A, Second Illinois Cavalry 2011-03-28T02:00:23.133Z He beheld nuclear arsenals still bristling, poverty unrelieved, abortion legal and the death penalty the law of most of the land. On Religion: Governor?s Change of Heart Is Influenced by Faith 2011-03-25T15:30:58Z By the besieged ones the day is passed with anxiety unrelieved. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z In his public lectures and his ordinary lessons he was often arid and uninteresting, insisting too much on unrelieved details, "the dry bones of science." Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z Wide grassy undulations, interspersed with extensive cultivation, rose unrelieved by a single tree or other redeeming feature, save the many European flowers that wantoned beneath the joyous sunshine on the far-stretching prairie. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z None but God can realize the extreme bitterness of that bondage, the depths of that dark and unrelieved despair. The Nation Behind Prison Bars 2011-02-10T03:00:55.530Z After six days and three nights of this travelling, unrelieved by companionship, or interest of any kind, I began to sink with fatigue. Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men 2011-02-10T03:00:51.280Z The journals themselves are mere logbooks, rigid and dry in their details, destitute of any powers of reflection upon the events they narrate, and unrelieved by exact research, tact of observation, or high-souled sentiment. Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, Vol. 1 of 2 Indian Tales and Legends 2011-02-04T03:00:18.247Z Her dress was a plain one-piece garment of some dark, cheap stuff, utterly unrelieved from somberness except for a row of shiny white horn buttons down the front. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z But the practical problem never confronts them in its unrelieved difficulties and dangers. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The black dress, unrelieved by the slightest ornament, was fastened high in the neck and closely at the wrists. No Surrender 2011-01-29T03:00:22.467Z She was never susceptible to melancholy; but she felt a twilight descending upon her from the unrelieved sky overhead. Dr. Adriaan 2010-12-29T03:00:33.467Z It was so marked and of such an unrelieved type that, after once seeing the man, you could never again think of him without recalling his lank frame and inharmonious features. One of My Sons 2010-12-21T22:55:57.893Z There was only blackness, unrelieved by any hint of moon or star light. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z They stood listening in the drawing-room; the old woman, in her white crape cap, looking flushed and excited, and Gertrude, in her unrelieved black dress, white—even sallow—with excitement. The Mynns' Mystery 2010-12-20T17:12:18.180Z According to my thesaurus, it is an "illness, sickness, ailment, syndrome, malady, disorder, or complaint" that is "constant, unceasing, unending, continual, persistent, unrelieved, never-ending, ever-present, or lasting." Live well with a chronic disease 2010-09-27T18:40:00Z Indeed, the new phone applications seem to promise hours of unrelieved, humorless argument. A War of Apps for and Against Belief 2010-07-03T02:10:00Z To suggest he had suffered "an unrelieved catalogue of failure" was untrue and defamatory. Tennis pro labelled world's worst loses libel action against Daily Telegraph 2010-04-28T13:45:00Z To some people, it strained credulity that a person’s first thoughts on watching such unrelieved horror would be to think of the president — any president — and to thank the Lord for his existence. 2010-01-12T03:55:00Z The natural enjoyment of life, the susceptibility to beauty in art and nature, the love of simplicity, were no longer possible to minds enervated and hearts deadened by the unrelieved monotony of luxurious living. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil But at this moment the door opened and a tall, nun-like figure, dressed in unrelieved black, stood on the threshold. The Undying Past Throughout the whole of the argument there is strong common-sense and a stern severity unrelieved by conscious humour. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Their predilection for indoor life is pronounced, and when hastening to morning mass through the streets of Valletta, the shielding black hood is always in requisition, unrelieved by a touch of bright or cheerful color. The Story of Malta We drove into the unrelieved darkness of the convoy park and drew up with precision in our place, I wrestled again with the flap, and we got out into the wet sleet, half-snow, half-rain. The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France Nearly three centuries of degradation and scandal, unrelieved by one heroic effort-14- among the successors of Gregory VII., connected the Reformation with the triumph of Charles and the Pope at Benevento. Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia. With human nature what it was, it became almost unrelievedly evil. The History of Cuba, vol. 1 Yes, every Spirit has received Due honor, and, still unrelieved, Our sufferings greater grow. The Wisdom of Confucius with Critical and Biographical Sketches She felt humiliated and utterly miserable, and perhaps, worst of all, she was oppressed by an unrelieved realization of her own futility. The Tempering It was a wilderness of tangled green, unrelieved by life or colour. Maori and Settler A Story of The New Zealand War The walls were hung with heavy tapestries, unrelieved by light or brilliant colour. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance She shrugged her shoulders, alabaster white, rising from the unrelieved black of her velvet gown. The Missioner Their outlook was one of unrelieved gloom; and it one day came upon her as a revelation that Nietzsche and Schopenhauer, following in a degree on Rousseau, had forgotten women in the scheme of life. A Bed of Roses Boone himself regarded the golden present as an era for which the whole future must pay with unrelieved levies of black despair. The Tempering Her simple evening frock of black voile, unrelieved by any colour save a ribbon of St. Patrick's green that bound her hair, showed up the paleness of her skin and the redness of her lips. Patricia Brent, Spinster The dull, sad picture of this defeated man is not wholly unrelieved by any brighter touch. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day Had her eyes held tears they would have been easier to meet, for the shock was there, dry and unrelieved. The Gray Mask But months rolled on and on, inharmonious in their sameness, unrelieved by anything from the monotony of work and sleep. A Bed of Roses She, too, had been to one of those settlement schools that were just beginning to introduce new standards in the hills, and her homecoming to unrelieved crudities was not an unmixed pleasure. The Tempering I know that unrelieved naturalism and atheism are much more admired subjects with the critical faculty; but the public differ from this view. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. She could hear herself wheeze in her throat; and her petal-like skin, unrelieved by moisture, was alternately hot and cold. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The play is monotonous and unrelieved by action. A Short History of French Literature The sky is grey to its farthest limits—an unrelieved greyness which presses upon one's spirits. Windyridge He is the dramatist of broken hearts, whose waste places are unrelieved by a touch of sunlight. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Then the final flame of intelligence winked out, and it was night and unrelieved blackness, and he fell asleep. The Giants From Outer Space However, that his instinct in this matter, in general, led him to seek the artistic consolation which removes the spectator from too close and unrelieved proximity to the horrible is beyond cavil. How to See a Play There is interest in the story, which deals with the vengeance of Nebuchadnezzar on the Jewish king, and its chief drawback is its unrelieved gloom. A Short History of French Literature It was a toilsome and dreary march, unrelieved by aught to lessen the fatigue. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands His historical personages are certainly possibilities, because they are human, and the traditional figures are either monsters or saints; and humanity—at least Teutonic humanity—does not produce unadulterated saints nor unrelieved monsters. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Yet all these unwholesome and painful trains of thought, may if persisted in and unrelieved by healthy interests and activities, tend towards insanity. American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick Hour after hour the march continued, unrelieved by any change, unbroken by any speck or spot of color. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure You feel, besides, that such a meal is unrelieved by those suggestive excursions of fancy which a well-served table abounds in. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas You read in the cold grey tints the formal stiffness and unrelieved regularity around the Quaker-like flatness of their existence. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands Better, a thousand times better, had I borne all the solitary condition of my lot, unrelieved by one token of regard, than think of her who had wrecked her fortunes on my own. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The entire success of this dangerous arrangement depended on his ability to create an impression, where he was concerned, of unrelieved vapidity. The Bright Shawl By these means the benches of the galleys were filled, and Colbert took no thought of the long unrelieved agony borne by those who filled them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" Whatever the cause, Friday came, with the strained relations between sister and brother unrelieved. The House of Fulfilment The few cottages along the roadside were empty, the herds had disappeared from the hills, and a dreary waste, unrelieved by one living object, stretched far away before us. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands They were the utterance of a heart loaded with its own unrelieved griefs, who now found sympathy on touching the very soil of home. Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II The line of rough buildings stood indistinct in the darkness, unrelieved by one ray of light. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon Atmospheric Effects.—But the face of nature, even in her most terrific and repulsive aspect, is seldom altogether unrelieved by some traces of beauty. Volcanoes: Past and Present So intolerable is a continual and unrelieved sweetness, that it has been truly said, "Every pleasure too long continued begets disgust"; and again, "Pleasure itself turns at length to loathing." Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) Fortune continued so adverse to him that after a series of reverses, unrelieved by one success, he resolved, with his family and trusting friends, to abandon Mew�r, and found another kingdom on the Indus. Rulers of India: Akbar Inquisitorial tortures, unrelieved by any mock civility, were continued to extract further confessions from the pain-racked prisoners. Pirates and Piracy Four square walls of rough-hewn logs, unrelieved by ornament or picture; a bunk, a sheet-iron camping stove, one or two three-legged stools, and a small table filled the room, dimly lighted by one feeble candle. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon The mise-en-sc�ne—the Field of Waterloo—alone however redeems it from such a charge; and the principal actors play their part in no common-place or unrelieved tragedy. A Week at Waterloo in 1815 Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an Account of How She Nursed Her Husband, Colonel Sir William Howe De Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, Mortally Wounded in the Great Battle They turned up Beechurst street, which was swallowed up in unrelieved blackness a few yards ahead. The Deaves Affair When the author looks back upon his labours, he discerns "a scene of almost unrelieved blackness." The History of Freedom Her face may be called dark too, the black eye-brows and olive skin being unrelieved by colour in the cheeks. Aliens Of the others, some had no matches or oil for lights, some were nearly out of water, and all were reduced to an unrelieved fish diet, of which the men were beginning to sicken. Campaigning in Cuba The picture of Balzac's career which is given in these letters is a record of little else but painful processes, unrelieved by reflections or speculations, by any moral or intellectual emanation. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 In the half-light Dr. Dunton came to his second-story window—I knew it must be he—a tall, slender figure, somewhat bent, garbed in unrelieved black, save for the open white collar of ante-bellum style. The Mermaid of Druid Lake and Other Stories Her face was pale and wrinkled, unrelieved by any sort of cosmetic. The Cartels Jungle The rolling hills were beginning to lose their green tint, under a hot sun, unrelieved by rain. Mystery Ranch Bitter as was my experience, it was not unrelieved by some of the most precious moments I have ever known. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 Its great wings flapped, flapped, flapped, beating against his body, flooding it with unrelieved anguish— Then Monk gasped. Heart But Rip is no matter of fact bowser--the type that woofs approvingly at your presence then is content to carry himself off to a corner and deliver up his bulk with an unrelieved sigh. The Land of Look Behind The inner door was of close bars; they saw a narrow cell with unrelieved walls and a grated opening through which came a small trickle of daylight. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist Father Bright wore his normal clerical black, unrelieved except for the pure white lace at collar and cuffs. The Eyes Have It She wore a dress of some soft black material, unrelieved by any patch of color, against which her cheeks were almost ghastly in their pallor. The Moving Finger So long as the difficulty remained unrelieved, the thoughts of many of the most sensitive minds in regard to Theism were held in suspense. God and the World A Survey of Thought The dark of a night unrelieved by a single star was about them as they moved noiselessly away. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Lida Bowman bringing her little brood sometimes would sit silently watching the children, and look at Laura as if about to speak, but she always went away with her mind unrelieved. In the Heart of a Fool The unrelieved black of his attire accorded with his meagre frame. The Missourian White is taken as being generally safe and becoming, but when worn unrelieved in the daytime it is very trying to some. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements True, she was clad in plain unrelieved black from head to foot, but no other costume could have so exquisitely displayed her glowing loveliness of coloring or the pure correctness of her outlines. A Manifest Destiny And below there was only utter, unrelieved darkness, from which now and again beast-sounds arose. The Fifth-Dimension Tube So long as spasmodic colic is unrelieved, retention of water from spasm of the neck of the bladder usually persists. Special Report on Diseases of Cattle Although the Arab race is considered a strong one, we find among the women every ill to which their flesh is heir, unrelieved and oftentimes even aggravated by their foolish native treatment. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It He painted the present in colours of such unrelieved gloom, that it is hard to see in it the possibility of a brighter future. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle It was a wearisome seven months, a nightmare kind of life, unrelieved by even a phantom show of success. A Singer from the Sea The faint radiance which was diffused about him by the light cone showed the walls before and on either side of him to be of uniform blackness, unrelieved by any suggestion of windows. The Ivory Snuff Box The girls, gazing into the valley which yawned at their feet, were looking into a shadowed hollow of sombre melancholy––unchanging, unrelieved. The Hound From The North The little town of Dunkirk, with its many ruins, was bathed in shadow, unrelieved by any artificial light, but the narrow, tortuous harbour showed a silvery streak in the brilliant moonrays. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships She stood in what at first seemed unrelieved darkness--but for glimpses revealed by the incessant slash and flare of lightning--at one end of a short hallway, by the rail of a staircase well. Nobody The sky was unrelieved by any further flashes of light for many minutes. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana She and her husband and son were guests; also that Sister Jane, of whom they had talked, a woman of real goodness and rather unrelieved sweetness; also her sister and bankrupted brother-in-law. Dr. Sevier If the world crowds itself fuller and fuller of population and progress at the same time stagnates, nothing can prevent an increase of poverty unrelieved by any bright outlook. Social Justice Without Socialism Silence filled the narrow street, and unrelieved darkness. The Affair of the Brains And still there was no ray, nothing but unrelieved blackness. Pirates of the Gorm For the suit's full load of metal and fabric was upon him now, its enormous boots binding him to the ground since their weight was unrelieved by the partial lift of the helmet plates. The Bluff of the Hawk This is unrelieved by sea-weed of any kind, appearing like an imagined fragment of Martian or lunar landscape. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 But the cowman’s forehead was furrowed with unrelieved suspense. Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation In all the people around him, the only face that shared his unrelieved wretchedness was Redbird's. Shaman On the contrary, the life of such a family appealed to me as an almost unrelievedly tragic futility. A Son of the Middle Border The last of these melted into the ink behind, and there was a period unrelieved by sign of man's presence below. The Bluff of the Hawk The soft amber-colored marble of Majorca is enriched in tint by exposure to the air, and even when built in large, unrelieved masses retains a bright and cheerful character. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 The dense tangle of the undergrowth stretched everywhere, repellent, unrelieved by the vivid color flashes of the mountain blossoms. Heart of the Blue Ridge After the posse had turned into the unrelieved shades of Maple Street, Mr. Crow halted every few yards and said: "Sh!" Anderson Crow, Detective But she cuts or slackens it perpetually, long arguments and digressions intervening, and the dialogue, whose monotony is unrelieved by wit, nowhere compensates for the limited interest of the action. Famous Women: George Sand And so Beth's legs ached on unrelieved, and, when they kept her awake, Kitty became the object of her contemplation. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The sun mounted towards the zenith, and still his beams had no power upon the sluggish atmosphere; and the quiet and warmth of the day were unrelieved by a breath of air. A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition The consequent play of light and shadow unrelieved by colour was pleasing enough. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 It has been said that the book is powerful; but it is almost unrelievedly gloomy throughout, and suffers from the extremely narrow range of its interest. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century His eyes were burning like the eyes of a sentry, long unrelieved, at the outpost of a city.... Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation Beth opened the door, and stepped down into darkness, unrelieved by the slightest glimmer of light. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Then with her blue apron—otherwise she was dressed in unrelieved black—she rubbed an imaginary speck from the brass banding of the cask. The Rough Road There is something sinister in the saturnine melancholy on the faces of the crowd, unrelieved by any lightness, and culminating in the evil expression of Antichrist himself. Luca Signorelli Stone walls would not a prison make nor iron bars a cage—so odious as this unrelieved tyranny of concupiscentia carnis—to order! A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Until the sun's rays fall more or less perpendicularly, the slanting light paints broad reaches of water a brilliant dazzling white, unrelieved by shadow or reflection. In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula The sense of guilt was unrelieved by expiations, penances, and prayers. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles The popular idea of a desert of dry drifting sand unrelieved except at occasional oases by evidences of life was born of our early geographies, which pictured the Sahara as the desert type. The Book of the National Parks He ended in sand—and, for another fifty paces, sand—sand unrelieved by aught save some low bushes sparsely scattered here and there. In Her Own Right It was, of course, a sad childhood, unrelieved by anything like what we should in Great Britain call the comforts of life. From Slave to College President Being the Life Story of Booker T. Washington They must have been an unrelieved mass of forest and marsh. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty Too wicked a character or too unrelieved a situation revolts us for this reason. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Their mode of cooking these articles was extremely simple, though not so much so as their style of dress, for they went about in a state of nature, unrelieved even by the traditional fig-leaf. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century In the day-time the sun beat into them with unrelieved violence, and many troopers squeezed into the bomb-proof shelters and tunnel entrances to seek shade. The Tale of a Trooper Can it even be that while I have sought refuge and a kind of 300 forgetfulness in the domination of my work, you have been left a prey to unrelieved despondency? The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance At the first glance, Antony saw that she was a tall woman, dressed in black unrelieved save for ruffles of soft creamy lace at her throat and wrists. Antony Gray,—Gardener Unless some arrangement of this kind can be made, the trials of missionaries must remain unrelieved and unmitigated. Thoughts on Missions But now Man is too great a subject to allow of any unrelieved aspects. The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 The lives of the agricultural laborers were lives of incessant work and unrelieved misery; their complaints, if they ever dared to complain, were treated with insolent contempt. The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan With her the word "ranch" had connoted large prairie areas, bald landscapes, herds of cattle, lonely horsemen, buildings more or less ugly, unrelieved by any special surroundings. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters At present the landscape has all the beauty that snow can give without the monotony of the unrelieved waste of white. Faces and Places But an interview with Ann Howard was always so arduous, so stiff with unrelieved righteousness. Impact He heard of them from Peppermore, whose journalistic itching for news had so far gone unrelieved; Peppermore himself knew no more than that rumour was busy, and secret. In the Mayor's Parlour This unrelieved silence chiselled his lips into ghastly sharpness. The Goose Man She was clad in simple white, unrelieved by any touch of colour. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters Eternal, dazzling, direct sunlight, unrelieved by any night, unstrained through any clouds! Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner A tinge of gray had by this time been woven into the unrelieved blackness. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest Thanks to the delegate, who is friend, confidant and confessor in one, immediate help can be obtained in all instances, and no suffering is left unrelieved. Modern Saints and Seers His face was distorted; grimaces of unrelieved meanness furrowed his brow; his contempt knew no bounds. The Goose Man The exertion of a high mail power causes many costly parts to burn out from unrelieved pressure and friction, which would not be the case under other conditions. Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post The sums that came in were wholly insufficient to relieve the actual pressure, and that pressure, unrelieved, grew daily more severe. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Untrained basses and tenors, unrelieved by a single female voice, are not inspiring. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The civilian’s life has been one of varied activities, and becomes one of almost unrelieved monotony. The Better Germany in War Time Being some Facts towards Fellowship She now removed her hat from her head and Ensal noted that her hair was so arranged as to allow her face to fully stand as nature gave it to her, unrelieved. The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist Nowhere else in the world, perhaps, do the cold facts of life call for a more unrelieved material response. Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. A tall man with a white mustache alighted, and assisted to the ground a lady who was dressed and veiled in unrelieved black. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume X (of X) Work unrelieved by play, and play unrefreshed by work, grow equally stale and dull. Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion It was the first time she had been face to face with Mrs. Farrington, and she found the slender figure in its unrelieved black gown rather awe-inspiring. Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen Hard and unrelieved as their lives were in many respects, gallantly as they shouldered their part of the burden of homesteading, the women inevitably brought one important factor into the homesteaders' lives. Land of the Burnt Thigh Otherwise she remains unrelieved, and must try, and try, until she succeeds in getting out, and putting another in her place; and so on. Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Not all the Orient has been given over to unrelieved despotism. The New World of Islam Socrates, on the other hand, was evidently something of a bore, with a bore's unrelieved earnestness and inopportune persistence. Dr. Johnson and His Circle They were self-evidently secret police, as yet unrelieved after a night's vigil about the Embassy's rugged wall. The Pirates of Ersatz It was dreary, it was unrelievedly ugly; above all, it looked like grim failure. Land of the Burnt Thigh But this was not to be considered, for it opened, with sheer precipitation, upon the unrelieved front of the house. The Flaw in the Sapphire Their political tradition has been practically that of unrelieved Oriental despotism, the only exceptions being a few primitive self-governing communities in very early times, which never exerted any widespread influence and quickly faded away. The New World of Islam The versatile author of "The Beggars' Opera" had been sinking for some years into a condition of almost unrelieved despondency. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II These men wore unrelieved black, with gray shirts. The Pirates of Ersatz His wry faces were from no indigestion, but from the savour of asafoetida, unrelieved by brandy. Feats on the Fiord The third book in "The Playfellow" He tore the rotting planks aside, and looked as it seemed, down into unrelieved blackness. Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale The tragic intensity of Hamlet and Othello is unrelieved by any touch of Nature's eternity. Creative Unity The wind lulled, the rain ceased, the thunder was silent, and the impenetrable darkness remained unrelieved by the lightning. Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island The Democrats in this canvass were rather handsomely treated; but the fierceness and fury of the Grant men toward the Liberal Republicans were unrelieved by a single element of honor or fair play. Political Recollections 1840 to 1872 Days passed on, but not quite unrelieved by events. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Christmas passed, and the winter, and she was unrelieved. Elsie Marley, Honey The revulsion was gradual; but, with the third year of unrelieved blockade, it became complete. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death From a state of unrelieved despondency she issued so merry, in such exhilaration, that her mother was glad to welcome back the shadowed mood which soon succeeded. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 The tale is one of unrelieved horror, but it is a masterpiece nevertheless, and it has had a very large sale. Robert Louis Stevenson A sister of another monastery had been for eight years in a deep melancholy unrelieved by anyone. The Autobiography of Madame Guyon Her story now was to be of almost unrelieved misfortune until the culminating misery of the Turkish conquest. Bulgaria In the unrelieved darkness of the night I slept there alone. My Reminiscences Her home seemed poorer and meaner than ever; the boarders disgusted her with their coarseness; teaching was unrelieved drudgery; everything was distasteful. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 They despaired of the future, which, to their depressed vision, seemed to be overhung by a sky of unrelieved blackness. The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion It looked a desolation, a poignant gloom, an unrelieved sorrow. The Long Roll There was naturally much difficulty in taking over, and next morning it was discovered that three platoons of the 8th Warwicks, whose position was unknown to their C.O., were still lying unrelieved round Border Farm. The War Service of the 1/4 Royal Berkshire Regiment (T. F.) Secondly, a condemnation, as sweeping and as unrelieved as his praise in the first instance is unstinted, of the whole of the rest of the force. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 The transparent delicacy of her complexion was accentuated by her gown, which was of black, unrelieved save by a little line of white at the throat. The Genius At the dinner table she had expressed much the same thought that was condensed in the verse, but the quotation, unrelieved by her smile, carried a sting. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! Now you speak a little in my line, sir," said the barber, not unrelieved at this return to plain talk; "that notification I find very useful, sparing me much work which would not pay. The Confidence-Man Unlike the gorgeous temple decorations of Atlantis however, the Shinto temples are characterized by an entire absence of decoration—the exquisite finish of the plain wood-work being unrelieved by any carving, paint or varnish. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria Worst of all are the monotonous incidence of the stress, and the unrelieved, undistinguished, crowded poverty of the Saxon monosyllables. Milton They were remotely situated, apart from the observation of the community, left to the burdens of unrelieved labor and the harshness of small masters or foremen. An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England Perhaps the unrelieved poverty of the industrial workers and the stress of uncertainty in the matter of employment made the differences. Expansion and Conflict It is not so much the work that kills, as the continuity of the work unrelieved by periods of rest and recreation. New Ideals in Rural Schools One was arched and slim, the other flat and square; one had French heels and little sparkling buckles, the other was of dull leather, unrelieved by any trace of ornament. Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story It was clean, it was bright, walls and furniture were alike of a plain unrelieved white, and through the open casement window could be seen a distant slope of green overtopping the intervening chimney tops. The Independence of Claire At the very edge of the city began jungle unrelieved and primeval; the impenetrable, unconquerable jungle, possible only to such meteorological conditions as obtained there. Skylark Three And, more than this, I felt the burden of Mr Smith’s secret still hanging unrelieved on my mind. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life The building seemed to be made of a dense, gray stone, much like granite, which was depressing in its perfectly unrelieved front. Islands of Space The sun shone brightly on the snow, which was unrelieved by a single dark object. The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska She had expected something to happen, but nothing happened; all through February the weeks dragged on, unrelieved by any episode except the weekly mail from India. The Independence of Claire Plainly to be read in those sinister depths were the untold wisdom of unthinkable age, sheer ruthlessness, mighty power, and ferocity unrelieved. Skylark Three Seaton called to the others and soon the party was assembled in his room, all dressed very lightly, because of the unrelieved and unvarying heat, which was constant at one hundred degrees. The Skylark of Space The ground was either a brilliant white or an intense black, unrelieved by half-tones. Spacehounds of IPC It was the one unrelieved tragedy in 19—’s history; there seemed to be absolutely no help for it,—the kindest thing to do was to forget it as soon as possible. Betty Wales Senior But his charity was not confined to his own hospital: he looked upon it as his own misfortune if the necessities of any distressed person in the whole country had remained unrelieved. The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Nothing he had ever read conveyed anything of the plain sordidness of it,—the unrelieved pall of it which burdened like the weary dead stretch of an alkali desert. The Seventh Noon Many of the most necessitous and deserving poor would also be left unrelieved. Historical and Political Essays Our camp was in among the sand hills, which are unrelieved by scrub and of an almost incredible yellowness. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 He wants the gloom of Haxard's death to remain in unrelieved inkiness at the end. The Story of a Play A Novel His oratory is of that substantial and yet spirited character which at once convinces and interests and engages the attention of the mind, without wearying it by unrelieved exertion. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But a few hours before Brahe, unrelieved by Wright, and thinking that Burke had died or changed his plans, had taken his departure for the Darling. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Gloom ... blackness, unrelieved by any speck of light; murmuring, subdued, all around; the murmuring of a concourse of people. Brood of the Witch-Queen Consequently this company, owing to the fact that they had no opposition, had to hold the front for four days unrelieved, and were through no fault of their own omitted. The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 Ah," she muttered, "this eternal anxiety, this unrelieved suspense and excitement are consuming my strength—nay, my life. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Moreover, some of his most marked literary defects were seen here exaggerated and unrelieved. James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters The town smoked in a continual steam of heat, unrelieved even by the torrents of rain which fall there every day. On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. The moments to me were moments of unrelieved agony. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Dyspnea unrelieved by tracheotomy calls for bronchoscopic search for deeper obstruction. Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Its only drawback lay in the monotony of water and forest, unrelieved by a sign of human presence, that constantly surrounded them. At War with Pontiac The Totem of the Bear He is the one light set to shine there for his Master, and if his light be hidden, the darkness will be unrelieved. Making the Most of Life The hour of starting was late, by reason of everybody being tired with the hard, dull, wet work of yesterday, unrelieved by the slightest approach to a breach of the peace. Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. And that was how the morning went by, heavy footed, unrelieved, with a sense of waiting for a sudden crash and horror. Golden Lads He dismounted at the stile to find ministering neighbors gathered there and, as never before, the unrelieved and almost biblical antiquity of this life impressed itself on his realization. A Pagan of the Hills We cannot conceive of a greater national calamity than an industrial population delving in mental sluggishness at unrelieved and unchanging tasks. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions When the wagon reached the crest of a slope about a mile out of town, Calumet halted the horses and rolled a cigarette, a sullen look in his eyes, unrelieved by the prospect before him. The Boss of the Lazy Y The sophomores had elected to be patriotic, and wore khaki-colored suits, unrelieved by a contrasting color. Jane Allen: Right Guard They went out, the mother leaning on Rafaelito's arm with a sort of languor, as if she could hardly drag her weak body,—her pale face unrelieved by the least sign of blood. Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) The first and second acts of it pass in almost unrelieved shadow. Shadows of the Stage His is the only misery that is unrelieved; his is the only burden that is too great to be borne. Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions The island society, unrelieved by any eminence of genius or virtue, or by the stir of great public interests, presented little more than a dull monotony of sensuality and indolence, on a ground of inhumanity. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 "You hardly conveyed the impression of unrelieved gloom as you came around that corner," he assured her. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Everywhere else the blue of the sky and ocean was unrelieved. Ralph Granger's Fortunes Her dress was black, unrelieved by any ornament. The Swindler and Other Stories The next few years may be dismissed briefly, for they were years of unrelieved melancholy, from the point of view of the public financial policy and the political development of the colony. The Story of Newfoundland A tall marble front, placed in a modest row of freestone, is hideous, and yet the unrelieved monotony of many such rows is quite as bad. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 A bad simile, you will say; but there are no words to express the unrelieved blackness of her hair. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Is it true, as has been said, that he stands midway between the “unrelieved realism” of the new school of writers and the “genteel moralism” of the old? Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines She had apparently an abhorrence for her own unrelieved society that amounted to a positive mania. The Land of Promise A discontent of this kind, Mr. Arnold tells us, unrelieved by incident, hope, or resistance, is not a fit subject for poetry. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc The laughter is loud and coarse, the terror unrelieved, and the splendour dazzling. Among Famous Books It is sheer uncompromising ugliness; rendered by the cavernous mouth, the blear eyes, the flaccid complexion, the unrelieved cranium—all carried to a logical conclusion in the sloping shoulders and the simian arms. Donatello, by Lord Balcarres In the midst of controversy unrelieved by any glimmer of understanding on the part of anybody present we would slide gracefully into a state of rest on a mudbank or bump violently against the shore. A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden The living household was about its tasks for all the horror of the night before, and the still unrelieved suspense as to the fate of one of its members. The Chief Legatee She seated herself in the wide window, so that back of her was the silver haze of the glorious night Her dress of thin fine white was unrelieved. Contrary Mary Instantly all was confusion and uproar; a scene of savage debauchery, unrelieved by a redeeming feature or a sign of mercy. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country "Your judgment is right," I returned gravely enough, not unrelieved myself by the thought. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France Of course, unrelieved tenderness and not a high note in the gamut. Dead Man's Rock All about stretched a dull, dead picture of desolation, a dun-colored plain, unrelieved by vegetation, matching the skies above, extending in every direction through weary leagues of dismal loneliness. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Surmising that this might be the night clerk, yet unrelieved from his duties, and that Duncan might have arrived during the time he officiated, Manning approached him, and propounded the usual question. The Burglar's Fate And The Detectives On every side stretched away a scene of utter desolation, unrelieved by either shrub or tree—an apparently endless ocean of sand, in places levelled by the wind, and elsewhere piled into fantastic heaps. The Strange Case of Cavendish Along one side was the bare wall, unrelieved in its plain planking except for a small cracked mirror and a highly colored picture of the Virgin in a rude frame. Prisoners of Chance The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen, Borderman, through His Love for a Lady of France It was of unrelieved black, and she wore a conventional widow's bonnet, with floating white strings. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Light and shade alternate in his descriptions, and only here and there is the background entirely unrelieved. Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry He was a tall man, thin and erect, with a sallow, beardless face unrelieved by any line of mobility, but redeemed and almost glorified by the deep-set, eager, burning eyes. The Quickening She was wearing a plain black dress, buttoned to her throat and unrelieved even by a linen collar or any touch of white. A People's Man If her life spelled unrelieved drudgery she accepted it as the station to which it had pleased God to call her, and conceived that complaint would be a form of blasphemy. Destiny The occasion was a memorable one in the American Embassy in London, not unrelieved by a touch of the ridiculous. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II The atmosphere of Macbeth, however, is not that of unrelieved blackness. Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth A day of unfulfilled expectation, unrelieved even by lies and rumours. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege The temples of Kâmâkhyâ leave a disagreeable impression—an impression of dark evil haunts of lust and bloodshed, akin to madness and unrelieved by any grace or vigour of art. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 Besides, the river does not always smell very nicely now that it has so long been unrelieved by rain. Lost Leaders Yet it never exists unrelieved by redeeming qualities. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Around us were level, snow-covered fields unrelieved by anything except an occasional tree and the farm. Combed Out One long blank of drenching rain unrelieved by shells, till at sunset a stormy light broke in the west, and a few shots were fired. Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Aunt Blin, faithful to Bel's parting order, stood in the spirit of an unrelieved sentinel, though the whole army had broken camp, keeping herself steadfastly safe, in her own doorway. The Other Girls Quite otherwise, indeed: an unrelieved green strikes the keynote of equatorial forests. Science in Arcady Everywhere I see the most hopeless, unrelieved suffering,—and for aught I see, it may be eternal. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Then active charity, with boundless care, From gloomy faces chased the fiend Despair, Dispelled the horrors of the wintry day, And none that asked went unrelieved away. The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. The story is monotonous; for the wrong it describes is perpetual and unrelieved. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 The sun had altogether disappeared, and nothing was visible in the sky but one unbroken mass of darkness, unrelieved even by a single pile of clouds. Fardorougha, The Miser The Works of William Carleton, Volume One Lydia's unrelieved babble reacted upon her bulk, and awoke in me an absorbing, fascinating desire to strike her. Noughts and Crosses Stories, Studies and Sketches The sea was the same colour as the land, for the sun had sunk away into the low thick heavens, leaving the sea an unrelieved, tossed dun waste. Joanna Godden There was a strange simplicity, too, about her dress—a plain, tight-fitting, tight-sleeved dress of unrelieved black, her only adornment being some bands of big blue beads worn loosely round the neck. Macleod of Dare I mention them in order to show that the blackguardism under review was an unrelieved failure. The Open Secret of Ireland Moreover, his record as a Roman ecclesiastic is one of almost unrelieved failure. Outspoken Essays The later volumes are devoted to the era of the Counter-Revolution and present a canvas of unrelieved gloom, immorality and drunkenness, ignorance, superstition and violence. Recent Developments in European Thought As for Ellen, the Marsh had always stood with her for unrelieved boredom. Joanna Godden The heat from the overhead sun, intensified by the reverberations from the great masses of rock around us, and unrelieved by the slightest breath of air, was well-nigh suffocating. Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance Her graceful figure clad in a simple black robe, unrelieved by a single ornament, is slight, and almost girlish, though there is a rounded fullness in its line which betrays that womanhood has been reached. Mary Anderson It was unrelieved by any break in the menacing winter cloud. The Man in the Twilight "No," he returned after a pause and with that same air of unrelieved condescension, "the short story is what I want to specialize in." Twelve Men Every day he went off to his office in Fetter Lane, leaving Joanna to the unrelieved society of his mother, for which he apologised profusely. Joanna Godden In the pseudogenial conversation of the two Archbishops there was something forced: the attitude of the elderly hostess was one of unrelieved gloom. The Sword Maker While we drank tea some choice specimens were displayed before a screen of unrelieved gold. The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People Such is the everlasting song That in the ears of all men rings,— That unrelieved, our whole life long, Each hour, in passing, hoarsely sings. Faust They congregated in masses on the roads, idling under the name of work, the really destitute often unheeded and unrelieved because they had no friend to recommend them. The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times Both also strenuously insisted on the gross injustice of leaving the landlords unrelieved of any of the charges fixed upon their estates, while their means of meeting those charges were cut down by legislation. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) For him erewhile We had labour infinite and unrelieved, And now in his last hour we have to tell Of sights and sorrows beyond thought. The Seven Plays in English Verse The inn lay below me, and all round it the village clustered in a soft black shadow unrelieved by a single light. The Empty House and Other Ghost Stories For in the top of that church tower for months a Capuchin monk has held his position alone and unrelieved. Kings, Queens and Pawns An American Woman at the Front This was probably true when the first corrugated iron houses huddled unrelieved near the railway station. African Camp Fires For the moment, however, it was giddily, dazzlingly triumphant, and Joe had one of the few moments of his life which were unrelieved by disaster. Sketches in the House (1893) Shame on the wight who when beset with ill Cares to live on in misery unrelieved. The Seven Plays in English Verse Once more he felt the pressure of the silence, and the room in which he sat became haunted with a terrible vacancy—a vacancy cold and shadowy with an unrelieved gloom. Lancashire Idylls (1898) The hatred is black and deadly, the instinctive hatred of a brutal nature for a delicate one, which, were it unrelieved, would be too vile for the art of poetry. The Poetry Of Robert Browning If you find any successful work done with this quality of edge unrelieved by any sharpnesses, it will depend on colour, and not form, for any qualities it may possess. The Practice and Science of Drawing Although the moral tone of the book is one of almost unrelieved gloom, the actual scenes are full of colour and light. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Until the victories of Farragut in Mobile Bay, late in August, and Sherman at Atlanta a few days later, the gloom was unrelieved. The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him Her life had been unrelieved by a single deed of charity. Lancashire Idylls (1898) He had seen blood enough spilt at the siege of Iwis, but this came upon him in all its horror unrelieved by the excitement of war. After London Or, Wild England When the Roman Empire that was really Roman went down in ruin, there followed an interval of centuries when the gloom was almost unrelieved. African and European Addresses From either side of the wall of the palace yard came glittering a detachment of the Royal Golden Guard, clad in uniforms of unrelieved cloth-of-gold. Romance Island All round us, Want crawls to her lairs; and, shivering, dies unrelieved. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Her black velvet gown, unrelieved by any trimming, gave her an air of austerity. A Love Episode The very little child pities, and its tender heart must be protected from depressing sadness as unrelieved as we find it in The Little Match Girl. A Study of Fairy Tales The short pillars that support the choir gates, and the unrelieved backs of the returned stalls, have at present the unsatisfactory appearance of all unfinished work. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See The constant unrelieved erections which took place when I saw my friend adopt a graceful attitude caused pain at the bottom of my back, and I consulted two specialists, who also advised marriage. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion They had remained there for forty-eight hours—unrelieved—listening and telephoning. Elizabeth's Campaign The whole somber incident is unrelieved by a single gleam of light. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Moods when he contemplated his behavior lightly and brightly or darkly, in unrelieved disgust, moods when he refused to contemplate it at all. The Fortieth Door Yes, it is deathly boredom, unrelieved by one ray of light, as in solitary confinement; but you try to hide from that enemy, too, you play cards eight hours out of twenty-four. The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories The bar encourages levity, and the levity is unrelieved by any real gaiety—it is the hysterical feigned merriment of lost souls. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour As Mr. Neville Talbot has recently pointed out in his book, "The Mind of the Disciples", if the story stopped with the cross, God remains unexplained, and the story ends in unrelieved tragedy. The Jesus of History As the winter wore on, the family succumbed to the depressing influence of unrelieved monotony and dread of the future, and only Hamilton knew to what depths of anxiety Washington could descend. The Conqueror They breathe a spirit of the deepest melancholy unrelieved by hope. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature This was not altogether a misfortune for him, nor an unrelieved sorrow. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 One by one the facts would be brought out, added to and subtracted from, until the whole affair was a triumph of the transient story-teller art, unrelieved by the remotest flash of understanding. Broken to the Plow Empty the water from it and it is pure and unrelieved desolation. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter And now day after day passed by, unrelieved save by the little common incidents of a peaceful voyage. The Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter The hundred cantos of his poem are unrelieved by a single scene of comedy. Emerson and Other Essays He had been suffering from depression throughout the summer, unrelieved by the energetic work for St. George's Museum, which in other days might have been a relaxation from more serious thought. The Life of John Ruskin Our own first battalion once remained in the trenches, unrelieved and only securing its supplies with difficulty, for five weeks and three days. The First Hundred Thousand Sunshine comes and goes; the attempt to substitute any unrelieved light for sunshine is somewhat of a failure at the best. Robert Browning In the former, there is a piquant sense of the pathos and the awesomeness of life, but not of its unrelieved ugliness and disgust; an impression which is received from the latter. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities It is dangerous to try to use high, pure colors, unrelieved and uncontrasted, in large masses, but the brightest, strongest colors may be used with safety in units of sufficiently restricted size. Architecture and Democracy Insoluble as are the dilemmas he propounded and tense and unrelieved as his accusations were, he stood in his methods nearer, say, to the humane Millet than to the angry Zola. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) They made their exit, Francisco frankly weary and the young reporter bored by the unrelieved crudity of it all. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Those vague and gloomy years, of which we know so little, are almost unrelieved in their hopeless confusion. Ravenna, a Study She was standing by the window when he entered, a slim, straight figure in unrelieved black; but though she must have heard him, she neither spoke nor turned her head. The Way of an Eagle The late celebrated Dr. Macknight, a learned and profound scholar and commentator, was nevertheless, as a preacher, to a great degree heavy, unrelieved by fancy or imagination; an able writer, but a dull speaker. Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character But I am not without a suspicion that she too, if she could have been consulted, would have sided with phlebotomy and whist, as against modern practice unrelieved by any such alleviation. What I Remember, Volume 2 The habits of years are broken up; sad to say, the middle-aged will suffer unrelieved, but the young can be incited to grapple with the situation and hew out for themselves a way through. The Cost of Shelter Traveling southward for two days over bare brown mountain-sides, their monotony unrelieved except by groves of planted pine and fir trees, we descended abruptly into the great subtropical valley at Shih-tien. Camps and Trails in China A Narrative of Exploration, Adventure, and Sport in Little-Known China She wore a dress of unrelieved white for the occasion, for she had but recently discarded her mourning for her father, and her face was almost as devoid of colour. The Way of an Eagle The tower is of rather an unusual type, being low and squat, and unrelieved by battlements. Somerset He could not endure the sharp angle of the nose, that so stabbed up into the dim night, unrelieved by the other features. Bart Ridgeley A Story of Northern Ohio With the exception of some of the additional scenes, which are undoubtedly by a different hand from the rest, the play is unrelieved rubbish. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Without another word, the three hurried off, seemingly not at all unrelieved to escape from what Merritt was pretty sure were embarrassing questions. The Boy Scouts of the Eagle Patrol After all this pageant of unrelieved material prosperity, it was a rest to get to the stillness of the big foothills, though they, too, had been in-spanned for the work of civilisation. Letters of Travel (1892-1913) The blank expansion of the leaf is not quite unrelieved by ornament, but is set off with small points, spots, and blossoms. Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 "Butterflies," for example, spells unrelieved horror; "The Face in the Window" demands sympathetic admiration for its heroine; to read "Contact!" means to suffer the familiar Aristotelian purging of the emotions through tears. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 None had seen the deed, consummated in unrelieved gloom; the light had failed most timely…. Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life A chill, white fog had slowly settled over the land, obliterating outline and color, toning everything down to a monotonous sameness of appearance—a flat, unrelieved vacancy. A Williams Anthology A Collection of the Verse and Prose of Williams College, 1798-1910 The whole was of white stone, unrelieved by carving of any kind. Dawn of All For this purpose he avoided the unvaried and unrelieved style of grotesque description and combination, which had been fashionable since the satires of Cleveland and Butler. The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author |
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