Meanings of great alleviation in English

There was one great alleviation to the various discomforts of Sutherland's tutor-life.

Mr. Jonas White and Henry were a great alleviation of Maria's desolate estate during her father's absence.

Since God has put within our reach this great alleviation of our sorrow, ought we to refuse it?

They were orphans, but inheritors of considerable wealth-andwealth is a great alleviation of the evils of the orphan state.

They are not the same, not the same as if-asthey might have been, but sometimes it is a great alleviation.

All other topics of consolation, such as men borrow from the unavoidableness of suffering, and the examples of others, bring us no great alleviation.

There are, however, great alleviations to heat in the Mediterranean steamers.

The reason of this is pretty evident, since nothing could be a greater alleviation of such a crime.

One of the great alleviations of his exile at Madeira he has already celebrated to us: the pleasant circle of society he fell into there.