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surcease


  • n  a stopping

  • Says Author Roberts through the mouth of troubled Oliver Wiswell: "God grant to all peoples a Wilderness Trail at whose end they can find surcease from demagogues, interference .
  • But in nature he finds surcease from human irritations: I know what I know People are not everything God, how the willows glow.
  • To achieve, through "sensory deprivation," surcease from tension, reconciliation with the id, relief from jet lag, hangover, back pain or nicotine withdrawal, for rediscovery .
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  • Blake Edwards in Wall Street Journal
    I was essentially a very lonely kid,Mr. Edwards said in late January from the light-filled living room of the house he shares with Julie Andrews, his wife and muse of 40 years come November. "I found surcease in going to the local Saturday...

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