"RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a……" — Ambrose Bierce

"RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable the Executive to determine whether the murder may not have been done by the prosecuting attorney. Any break in the continuity of a disagreeable expectation."

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