At a brightly painted gatepost, I stepped gratefully onto a wide millstone, cool and smooth to my feet.

He went out, and the pilot stepped gratefully out of his clothes and sluiced himself with water.

Luckily the bank widened again, and I stepped gratefully ashore into warm, sticky mud.

They gratefully stepped out of the cold and trailed Pitt down one deck to Stewart's quarters.

He passed two bars that were closed and stepped gratefully into a third.

He gratefully stepped out of the cell and shook Data's hand.

The strolling couples used to step gratefully into the embrace of these shadows, and from them into other embraces.

He replaced the receiver, stepped gratefully outside into the hot sunshine.

She had laid their two blankets side by side to form an island in the slime, and Gail stepped onto it gratefully.

"Wait here a moment," Silk whispered as they stepped gratefully into its shadow and he slipped around the jutting corner.