"Reprieval" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... started up in the night, in the night, Drawn on without rest or reprieval! The streets with their watchmen were lost to my sight, As I wandered so light In the night, in the night, Through the gate ...
— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: - Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English, Volume 5. • Various
... life, or since his death, For if he be dead or living I can tell no more than you. All I know is—Cocky had one chance more; how he used it,—grew Out of such unlucky habits, or relapsed, and back again Brought the late-ejected devil with a score more in his train,— That's for you to judge. Reprieval I procured, at any rate. Ugh—the memory of that minute's fear makes gooseflesh rise! Why prate Longer? You've my story, there's your instance: fear I ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke |
