I drained it with pleasure and sank thankfully onto my blanket.

She remembered being relieved of a dragging weight and of sinking thankfully into sleep.

I was just sinking thankfully back into unconsciousness when the door opened again, this time to reveal a middle-aged woman I took to be the publican's wife, carrying a ewer and basin.

"Curtains," he said shortly, sinking thankfully into an armchair.

Gerard told them he had a matter of urgency to bring before the council and then, having been standing for hours, he sank thankfully onto a bench outside the chapel to await the Lord Knights' pleasure.

It was a little dark after the strong sunlight, but it was cool, and she sank to her seat thankfully as Felipe stayed at the bar.

The mingled scents of burned flesh and kireseth pollen faded away as the Tower monitor bent over their twitching body, and they sank thankfully into darkness.

He opened the car door and ushered her in, and she at once sank thankfully into the comfort of the soft leather.

So did the way she sank thankfully into the back seat of the car and smiled her sad good-bye.

She stood, her eyes on the floor, twhting her fingers nervously together as Matilda sank thankfully into her chair and picked up the carved bone spoon.