"Please thank your mother for me," returned Miss Archer, her face relaxing, "and thank you for bringing it.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
At times she walked rapidly forward, and then, relaxing her pace, she would stroll listlessly along, as though no object engaged her.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But the evidence is as plain in the one case as in the other as to the natural, and even powerful, effect of socialistic arrangements in relaxing the industry of many sorts and conditions of men.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae