Relaxed

Examples

• We had reached the first houses, and were close on the new Wesleyan college, before her set features relaxed and she spoke once more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The others crowded around him, and even two who had hold of Gurth relaxed their grasp while they stretched their necks to see the issue of the search. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• The Ionian, he replied, and the Lydian; they are termed 'relaxed. Plato. The Republic.
• The earth of the dugout was warm and dry and I let my shoulders back against the wall, sitting on the small of my back, and relaxed. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Already the knowledge that Dorothea had chosen Mr. Casaubon had bruised his attachment and relaxed its hold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Mr. Jingle's face gradually relaxed; and something distantly resembling a wink quivered for an instant in his left eye. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• After a few moments' silence, it had relaxed into its usual weak condition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Those fingers whose attenuation it gave pain to see were now relaxed in sleep. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His attentive face relaxed a little. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Well, leave me: he relaxed his fingers, and I was gone. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• With tense nerves he sat leaning forward in his chair, but suddenly he relaxed and dropped back, smiling. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• For a moment his muscles stiffened and relaxed convulsively, then he lay still. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• The grasp of his hand relaxed; the upraised arm fell languidly by his side; and he lay like one in a profound trance. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• No, he said and relaxed completely into the length of the robe and lay now quietly with his cheek against her shoulder, his left arm under her head. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• As she lay more quietly in his arms Tarzan slightly relaxed his grip upon her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Slowly her features relaxed, and her eyes looked at me with their expression gaining in curiosity what it was fast losing in fear. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The discipline of my ship became relaxed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• The dolls' dressmaker, all softened compassion now, watched him with an earnestness that never relaxed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• They never relaxed; but continued to the hour of our parting exactly as they had begun. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• For a moment his rigid countenance relaxed with a quiver of content: quickly bent up again, however, he went on,-- Vite à l'ouvrage! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Slowly her face relaxed into a smile of obscene recognition. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And the father's will never relaxed or yielded to death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The discipline of a ship (as all seafaring persons know) becomes relaxed in a long calm. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Classes were broken up, rules relaxed. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• As well might you look for good fruit and blossom on a rootless and sapless tree, as for charms that will endure in a feeble and relaxed nature. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• His arms straight by his sides, his hands relaxed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The mouth--a little while ago, so sullenly projected in defiance--was relaxed and livid. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Lord St. Simon had by no means relaxed his rigid attitude, but had listened with a frowning brow and a compressed lip to this long narrative. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Lily's eye brightened, and a faint smile relaxed the drawn lines of her mouth. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Her features relaxed, and she drew a heavy breath of relief. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

Edited by Debra