Significados de little alleviation en inglés

Smoking was accordingly practised after every meal, with little alleviation of the difficulty.

He might give some to the prison people, and thus obtain a little alleviation.

Morning dawned, but brought little alleviation.

Now Jesus had nothing to do but to die, and before He died He let flesh have one little alleviation.

Yet though their arguments were futile, he keenly felt the genuineness of their affection, and it brought a little alleviation to his heavy mood.

In the "ordinary run of domestic transactions" they find many little alleviations.