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with relief

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I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact. Winston Churchill

Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. Diana Wynne Jones

Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life sized. Margaret Atwood

She kissed me, her mouth tasting of liverwurst on rye. She sat back, breathing with relief. I took out my handkerchief and wiped the sweat from my forehead...She pulled me down and her arms went around me and we fought until I thought it was absurd. I sat back and tried to think of another escape. John Fante

As I settled down to sleep in that new bed in the dark city, I saw that it was too late now, too late for everything. I would not be given a second chance. In the hours when I woke, I have to tell you that this struck me almost with relief. Colm Tóibín

Will you give the girl to me?" she said. "Will you let me try?" He nodded, dizzy with relief. "Please, Willo. Please. Save her. It doesn't matter... what happens to me. Cinda Williams Chima

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