Yesterday each depressing detail had been alleviated by the thought that the future held a promise of release.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Lying in nearly the same degree of latitude with Lisbon, the intense heat which oppresses in that city is here alleviated by refreshing sea-breezes; by which means, though I believe there is no occasion at any season to complain of cold, it is only in the very height of the dog-days, if then, that a person, not actually engaged in violent exercise, is justified in complaining of sultriness.
"The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815"
G. R. Gleig
The whole misery of this antimedical movement is therefore somewhat veiled and alleviated.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
