Now came the days of respite, the days of grass and water before the waterless desert.

You are not in sanctuary there, there are no forty days of respite for you.'

Many of the men born between 1957 and 1960 and called back to army service in the last month are getting a couple days of respite before they are dispatched to Kuwait.

They were poised to make an unusually harsh winter even worse, but forecasters said Gibraltar should have at least a few days of respite until the new fronts moved in, and Bennett and McCoy were grateful.