A man condemned to die and suddenly Reprieved; another suddenly released from awful slavery; a third suffering from heavy sorrow and suddenly overwhelmed with good tidings-any of these will know what we felt.
"In the Days of Drake"
J. S. Fletcher
Even some of the papers asked that he might be Reprieved.
"Paris From the "Three Cities""
Emile Zola
On the scaffold Van Baerle was Reprieved and sentenced to perpetual imprisonment, for the Prince of Orange shrank from further bloodshed.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.