The discipline of a ship (as all seafaring persons know) becomes
relaxed in a long calm.
Its folds
relaxed, and the coils of the great body fell in a heap at the roots of the two trees, between which the scientist had been standing.
'If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter.' Heathcliff's countenance
relaxed into a grin.
He was safe now, but surely never a man before had walked so near the "Valley of the Shadow of Death." A single moment's vigilance
relaxed, a blanket displaced, a dose of brandy forgotten, and Trent might have walked this life a multi-millionaire, a peer, a little god amongst his fellows, freed for ever from all anxiety.
When she first came I was at some pains to prevent her seeing much of her aunt; but I have
relaxed, as I believe I may depend on her observing the rules I have laid down for their discourse.
He wiped the streaming sweat from his brow,
relaxed the tension of his knees, - by which the horse breathed more freely, - and, gathering up his reins, moderated the speed of the vigorous animal, his active accomplice on this man-hunt.
Her prejudice against the minister had
relaxed under his genial talk and presence, but feeling that Mrs.
In another and later clinch, when she had already
relaxed and sighed her relief at seeing him safely snuggled, Ponta, his chin over Joe's shoulder, lifted his right arm and struck a terrible downward blow on the small of the back.
Hugh wiped his heated brow, and
relaxed into a smile.
The travel-stained adventurers gazed after her in astonishment, and even the unemotional Indians, journeying in with their pelties,
relaxed their accustomed stoicism as they marvelled at the beauty of the pale-faced maiden.
Fatigue stole over her at last; her grasp
relaxed, tightened,
relaxed again, and they slept side by side.
He sat still and passive, his head resting against the back of the wooden rocking-chair, his hands
relaxed upon the arms.