At the time she left London with her infant, she sought the protection of my father, who procured her an honourable asylum in the family of the Reverend Mr. Blond; with his relict I believe she at present resides.
"The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. I"
Sophia Reeve
Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr. Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazine, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes
Mrs Barlow was a widow lady of about forty, the relict of a well-to-do merchant of the station, who, after her widowhood, preferred to stay and keep her brother's house to going back to England; at any rate, as she expressed it, for a few years.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn