He told Underwood, "The reprieve you have been granted is not given because your crime is considered any less grievous.
Was it too late to hope now forreprieve from the destruction that hovered over them?
The reprieve was coming, and thereprieve has come.
Technically speaking, I dare say, it would be an evasion of the law to hold the arm of an executioner if the executioner and I knew that a reprieve was actually arriving.
The application failed; even a reprieve of a few days was denied.
In vain he raised various objections; they were well met by his own previous arguments for the immediate reprieve of Alfred Croucher, and he feared to press them.
You would reprieve the apparent murderer, and let the real one continue militant here on earth?
The sense of reprieve from approaching and apparently inevitable death, had its usual effect.
If chance had timed the occurrence just right he would win the reprieve that he required for what he meant next to undertake.
The bird drooped while it was in jail with his master, but after Barnaby’s reprieve It soon recovered its good looks, and became as glossy and sleek as ever .
After the reprieve of Barnaby, Mrs. Rudge lived with him in a cottage near the Maypole, and her last days were her happiest.
When the reprieve arrived, “the captain” confessed his marriage, and vowed to abide by Polly for the rest of his life.
I therefore sent a private wire to General Allenby asking him on these grounds to reprieve him.
A reprievewas all she craved,--a reprieve in which to reflect, for she was in no condition to reflect now.
Well, I grant it a Mistake, and that shall reprieve the Windows.
Might but my bending down Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed: I'll pray a thousand prayers for thy death, No word to save thee.
I hope it is some pardon or reprieve For the most gentle Claudio.
And now like a reprieve from the death sentence had come the finding of these tubes, still intact.
Relief at the reprieve from death itself rushed through him in a revulsion of feeling that left him weak.
This was carried by an affirmative, and followed by a motion to address his Majesty, humbly to desire him to reprieve the lords who lay under sentence of death.
Your Lordship will also, provided there is no hopes of a reprieve this night, make me acquainted with it as soon as possible, that I may meet that fate with readiness which, in a state of uncertainty, I expect with uneasiness.
It is after waiting in vain, as it were, for a reprieve from fate, that sorrow for the dead seems gradually to reach its climax.
At last she turned and reluctantly retraced her steps, as one whose hour ofreprieve has expired.
III At nine o'clock that evening, when a reprieve came, Hodder went out.
My uncle used to obtain for her a reprieve of sleep by mesmerising her, but in this state, though immovable and taking rest, she could be talked to, understood all that was said, and recollected it afterwards.
My only reprieve from the misery of Lyncombe in 1850 was in a three days' visit to my half-uncle Gustavus Hare at Exmouth.
It was the misshapen eagle that stared back at him from the face of the coin, and he took his reprieve sullenly, calling his evil genius a usurer.
Had the reprieveopened up any practicable way out of the cynical labyrinth into which he had wandered?
Uneasily she leaned her head against her little window at sundown, and earnestly Mr. John Smith wished he could reprieve forever from such drudgery those taper little fingers.
No reprieve from that wearisome ledger, for the throbbing brow and dimmed eye.
They received a reprieve for four weeks, but the two who were adjudged sane were executed June 16.
I interceded with Governor Peabody and secured a reprieve for a year, and when Governor McDonald took office he fixed the date for the death of the young man.
Very rarely; strange to say, a copy of a newspaper containing a paragraph referring to the reprieve of the murderer was sent to my mother by some one in England.
You would probably never have recollected reading the paragraph about the reprieve of the man if you had not met Mr. Westwood a few months afterwards.
