1 He tried to think of something to say and couldn't, and silently he blessed her because she kept up a steady chatter which relieved him of any necessity for conversation.
2 Scarlett found that it relieved her overwrought nerves.
3 Probably Honey's husband was as happy to be relieved of her company as she was to leave him, for India was not easy to live with these days.
4 As he rolled off through the crowd of masons and carpenters and hod carriers Scarlett felt relieved and her spirits rose.
5 She was relieved to see his mood pass and good humor apparently return, so she smiled too.
6 Lily had such an air of always getting what she wanted that she was used to being appealed to as an intermediary, and, relieved of her vague apprehension, she took refuge in the conventional formula.
7 Trenor, however, appeared at once on the threshold of the drawing-room, welcoming her with unusual volubility while he relieved her of her cloak and drew her into the room.
8 The skin was puffed out under his sunken eyes, and its sallowness had paled to a leaden white against which his irregular eyebrows and long reddish moustache were relieved with a saturnine effect.
9 The expanse was relieved by clumps of oaks with patches of short wild grass; and every mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds' wings across them.
10 Her dejection was relieved by speculation as to what the men were discussing, in the corner between the piano and the phonograph.
11 She was relieved to be assured that she did not want bookish conversation alone; that she did not expect the town to become a Bohemia.
12 She was relieved, and apologetic to her friend Maud.
13 And she was not relieved by the quiet of the house.
14 She relieved the attendant at the rest-room for an hour a day.
15 This relieved me; and once more, and finally as it seemed to me, I pronounced him in my heart, a humbug.