How To Use Repose In A Sentence

As soon as the horses had obtained some food and repose, Sir Philip also returned, and Emily was left, with a woman who felt at her heart that she could have poniarded her not an hour before. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851
One of the most beautiful aspects of this rite is the special way in which this second Host is prepared for being brought to the Altar of Repose, before the communion of the celebrant. Compendium of the 1955 Holy Week Revisions of Pius XII: Part 3 - The Mass of Holy Thursday and the Mandatum
Then a strange quiet descends after the Gregorian chant ‘Tantum Ergo’ as the Blessed Sacrament is laid at the altar of repose.
The profile that passed the window was of the sort called aquiline, after the beak of the eagle; but he rather suggested a grey and venerable eagle; an eagle in repose; an eagle that has long folded its wings. The Complete Father Brown
Mass for the repose of her soul was celebrated by Father Gilroy after which burial took place in Annagh Cemetery.

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His entire being had been drained by the immense blast he'd unleashed on the assaulting legions, but Rakael's desperate cry for help had catapulted him out of his repose.
An entry sequence leading from the street, along a koi pond, into the entry, and to a negative edge pool distinguish the main public spaces and master suite while offering a place of repose.
His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
This seam of coal reposes on a layer of clay.
The two boys were blind, also, to the manifold glories of Mirror Lake which reposed at their very feet. DUTCH COURAGE
In the Seetalsee across the border in Austria a further £500m in ingots is said to repose in a watery grave.
She founded the palliative medical field of music -- thanatology and the Chalice of Repose Project, which trains teachers in palliative music vigils with the dying. Alison Rose Levy: What Would You Do If You Did Not Fear Death?
A host of sparrows create such a rioting as renders sleep or repose perfectly out of the question.
As Butler's fictional author of the Book of the Machines notes, ‘I cannot think it will ever be safe to repose much trust in the moral sense of any machine.’
Gracefully asprawl on the ottoman, in an attitude of almost exaggerated repose, was the boy of the woods.
The quality of the Festivals are benchmarks in global standards and local multinational brands and corporate houses have reposed their faith in them by becoming partners to the growth of the DSF.
These all possess an extraordinary organ situated on the neck, the well-known Y-shaped tentacle, which is entirely concealed in a state of repose, but which is capable of being suddenly thrown out by the insect when alarmed. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays
Often, in the repose of my mid-day, there reaches my ears a confused tintinnabulum from without. Walden
For creative work, cats are excellent to contemplate when they are in repose.
But if the bowels are loose, with bilious discharges, tormina, vomitings, a feeling of suffocation, and gnawing pains, it is best to enjoin repose, and to drink hydromel, and avoid vomiting. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
The time is not far distant," he said in a letter to John Adams, "at which we are to repose in the same cerement our sorrows and suffering bodies, and to ascend in essence to an ecstatic meeting with the friends we have loved and lost, and whom we shall love and never lose again. History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919
Celtic legends tell of the misty westward isles, the place of repose to which the soul is borne after death.
Mourners are remembering Lady Bird Johnson, the widow of former President Lyndon Baines Johnson will lie in repose until Saturday.
Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up. Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously
After lunch he reposed on the couch.
She never talked of herself, so that it were well to let it go down that when in repose, expurgated, Greek she certainly was. Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women
A disseisor was no more bound by the confidence reposed in his disseisee, than he was entitled to vouch his disseisee's warrantor. The Common Law
It had been done before, to Oppenheimer, and he had paid dearly for the confidence he reposed in Warden Atherton's tool. Chapter 5
Certainly Lieberson has written a virtuosic orchestral showpiece with some lovely, moving moments of repose.
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed Ulysses
These were endowments to pay for masses to be sung (Latin cantare, ‘to sing’), usually near a tomb or effigy, for the repose of one or more souls in purgatory.
A companion to wellbeing, this bath and massage oil brings you instant repose and relaxation. Times, Sunday Times
It was a common little church enough, with a large mortuary chapel, where all the Danvers family reposed; ancient Danvers lying in armor, with their mailed hands joined, beside their wives; more modern Danvers kneeling in bass-relief in colored plaster and execrable taste in recesses. The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers
just how little control you have over how other people will behave when you repose your trust in them!
Better, far better aspire to deserve this name, than to repose indolently on a rank and a title deduced from monarchies, to say to thyself, "I shall be a lady forever. The Young Maiden
His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
One mused reposedly on life -- the other warmly of the immediate hours before her. The Happy Foreigner
The canvas is at once typical and atypical of the artist's expressionist manner, familiar in its emphatic and swelling interlocking forms, yet unexpectedly still and harmonious in its quality of repose.
The placid look of his countenance never changed for an instant; his whole frame rested, uncontrolled, in perfect stillness and repose; not a muscle was seen to twitch.
Inside a tiny front yard, a man with a Muslim's white cloth cap and a bicycle was holding a pair of scales on which reposed a silver fish, which ended in a neat pink ellipse where its head had been.
That repose of manner which is commonly believed to be the heirloom of noble birth is seen quite as often in the low-born adventurer, who regards it as part of his stock-in-trade; and there are many women, and men too, whose position might be expected to place them beyond the reach of what we call shyness, but who nevertheless suffer daily agonies of social timidity and would rather face alone a charge of cavalry than make a new acquaintance. Sant' Ilario
Tenderness is the repose of Passion. Joseph Joubert
He refused to be dragged into unnecessary political controversy and instead reposed his trust in the discretion of his voters who all are celebrated writers drawn from 22 languages of India.
To play with important truths, to disturb the repose of established tenets, to subtilize objections, and elude proof, is too often the sport of youthful vanity, of which maturer experience commonly repents. Christian Morals
She was one of the rather plump Irishwomen, with soft brown hair and hazel eyes, and a beautiful, rather distant repose. The Plumed Serpent
And he could see the lines of the half-miler Benny Vaughn, and Hosford and Atkinson, the whole team, all the lifelines going off in all directions, most of them still moving like his, putting down little tracks toward some unseen goal, some moving target of achievement, some semblance of wealth, some jot of immortality, or perhaps just some measure of repose. Again to Carthage
You would admire the Somali pillow [29], a dwarf pedestal of carved wood, with a curve upon which the greasy poll and its elaborate _frisure_ repose. First Footsteps in East Africa
Beginning where they had left off, drilling and climbing for a week, he had at last set foot upon that awful summit and gazed down into the depths where Mirror Lake reposed, nearly a mile beneath. DUTCH COURAGE
There he stood apart and in repose, and yet, by his mere look, lured the man in gray from his story, much as, by its graciousness of bearing, some full-leaved elm, alone in a meadow, lures the noon sickleman to throw down his sheaves, and come and apply for the alms of its shade. The Confidence-Man
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.
Although, therefore, the learned divine's monument, with his name duly inscribed, is to be seen at the east end of the churchyard at Aberfoyle, yet those acquainted with his real history do not believe that he enjoys the natural repose of the tomb. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
Japanese pattern, and while the ivy that covered the Gothic ceiling trailed long tendrils of the palest and most delicate green, each leaf glossed as if it had been varnished, this unheroic-hero, this pantheistic-devotee, this heathenized-Christian, this half-happy-go-lucky æthestic Bohemian, lay upon his pillow, the incarnation of absolute repose. In the Footprints of the Padres
The work captures O'Hara in repose yet with the suggestion that he would be ready at an instant to bounce into action.
Malay, looks upon the Englishman as little removed from a "Kafir" -- an uncircumcised Philistine -- who through ignorance constantly offends in minor points of etiquette, who eats pig and drinks strong drink, is ignorant of the dignity of repose, and whose accidental physical and political superiority in the present world will be more than compensated for by the very inferior and uncomfortable position he will attain in the next. British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
They also take their turn kneeling to pray amid the flowers in front of the coffin, peering at the waxily reposed figures with a mixture of curiosity and bewilderment.
We repose our confidence in them because we believe that they will live up to their own promises.
Your hair is like a flock of goats That repose on Mount Gilead.
Not in him, but in me were reposed the sealed orders. CHAPTER XIV
Not sharp and vivid like that of her father, but dim and nebulous was the picture she shaped of her mother — a saint's head in an aureole of sweetness and goodness and meekness, and withal, shot through with a hint of reposeful determination, of will, stubborn and unobtrusive, that in life had expressed itself mainly in resignation. Jack London's Story - Moon Face: Planchette pg 3 of 3
Their highest power was connoted by the word Europeanism, which stood for a supposed feeling of solidarity among all the peoples of the old Continent, and for a certain respect for the treaties on which the state-system reposed. The Inside Story of the Peace Conference
The moment Charity had found her cousin, or any other occupation, Tom would slip away; and in a minute shrill cries would be heard from the dairy, "Charity, Charity, thee lazy huzzy, where bist?" and Tom would break cover, hands and mouth full of curds, and take refuge on the shaky surface of the great muck reservoir in the middle of the yard, disturbing the repose of the great pigs. Tom Brown's Schooldays
It is highly evocative, both in violent action and in repose.
His face in repose possessed a boyish charm that disarmed her. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
This seam of coal reposes on a layer of clay.
A disseisor was no more bound by the confidence reposed in his disseisee, than he was entitled to vouch his disseisee's warrantor. The Common Law
Let the court and philosophy now be to thee step-mother and mother: return to philosophy frequently and repose in her, through whom what thou meetest with in the court appears to thee tolerable, and thou appearest tolerable in the court. The Meditations
At center stage, in the eye of the storm, she exquisitely poises a dynamic tension that offers a momentary, philosophical repose, which is nothing more than the point of view of her birds. James Scarborough: Lisa Adams and the Spirituality of Imperfection
After lunch he reposed on the couch.
I've got a cruel face in repose. Times, Sunday Times
Practice in the speech of pleasantry may have great value in giving a man repose, in giving him that saving grace, an appreciation of the humorous, in affording him a means of relief or enlivenment to the serious speech. Public Speaking
Police caught them in flagrante, or maybe in grass-stained, post-coital repose.
There is about the scene a feeling of deep rural repose: the occasional buzz of a hornet, the halfhearted peck of an odd stray hen scratching amid the clumps of cowitch begonia, perhaps the soft flip-and-splash of a hooked perch in some nearby fern-banked pond, or a supperbound catfish in one of the creeks. I Tina
Every feature was strong and rugged, which gave his countenance an expression masterful to the point of being almost surly when it was in repose; but it was a face which caused most men -- and women over thirty -- to turn for a second glance. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands
The morning vapors having dispersed from the opposite plain, and Helen quite refreshed by her long repose, Wallace seated her on horseback, and they recommenced their journey. The Scottish Chiefs
She stared at the empty cabinet where once the vase had reposed.
I sat, leaning against a mound of downy pillows and the high, intricately carved headboard of the massive bed on which I reposed.
Aurelia to enjoy some repose; and so far she succeeded in the attempt, that for one night the toil of travelling was intermitted. The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
Two skulls repose upon the same Worn pillow in their dusty mine.
Mass will celebrated for the repose of his soul in Castlebar at a later date.
And the same, who feeleth this inclination in himselfe, by all likelihood may hope, or rather confidently repose in the preordinance of God, that in this last age of the world (or likely neuer) the time is compleat of receiuing also these The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I.
He retired to his bibliomaniacal bed, but not to repose. Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs
He cast a sidewise glance at Abasio's pocket, where the drug reposed. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
I have, as a great modern said, seen too many ghosts to believe in them, so betook myself seriously to my repose, lulled by the wind rustling among the lime-trees, the branches of which chequered the moonlight which fell on the floor through the diamonded casement, when, behold, a darker shadow interposed itself, and I beheld visibly on the floor of the apartment — The Fortunes of Nigel
In the third case, a short period of comparative repose succeeded the first fiery battle, but in the midst of felicitations on his victory he was attacked by the most agonizing hemicranial headaches (resulting from what I now fear to have been already permanent disorganization of the stomach), and went back to his nepenthe in a state of almost suicidal despair, only after the torture had continued for weeks without a moment's mitigation. The Opium Habit
Japanese postposes the adpositions, whereas English preposes them
Rendered with harsh black lines in Pierson's characteristic expressionist style, the figure bows its head in abject repose.
There was a challenge in the reposeful black eyes resting upon my face. The Arrow of Gold
We had sheets of our own, which were spread upon a mattrass, and here I took my repose wrapped in a greatcoat, if that could be called repose which was interrupted by the innumerable stings of vermin. Travels through France and Italy
The other hotel we stayed at, the Shangri-La Rasa Ria, reposes among villages some 40 minutes from the airport.
Not in a day can the tyro learn to employ the snarling immediacy of mastery of Mr. Pike, nor the reposeful, voiceless mastery of a CHAPTER XLV
The beginning of the poem images the self's divisions as the body pulls the speaker's ascending thoughts down from a scene of repose, tranquillity and safety.
Its baptismal font (in which many of my ancestors' noggins were wetted) now reposes in a side-chapel of the nearby Johanneskirche.
The calm repose of a classical statue turns into something snakish and writhing. Times, Sunday Times
His bodyguard has abandoned himself to his repose.
Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid. Times, Sunday Times
I have seen the Lago di Garda, Albano, De Vico, Bolsena, and Geneva, and, upon my honour, I prefer Lough – Lomond to them all, a preference which is certainly owing to the verdant islands that seem to float upon its surface, affording the most inchanting objects of repose to the excursive view. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Civilised life, as it advances, does not seem to have so much repose in it, that we need begin early in exciting the mind, for fear of the man being too lethargical hereafter. Friends in Council — First Series
After lunch he reposed on the couch.
Je veux d'abord voir mes filles et un peu me reposer … Global Voices in English » Bahrain, Oman: The Lives Of Migrant Workers
The hallucinations produced in this way are called hypnagogic (from its derivation this term is properly applied only to phenomena observed at the instant when we fall asleep, or when we are imperfectly awakened, and not to the period of most perfect repose), and they occur when the subject is not in a condition favorable to sound sleep. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
As I sipped, the waiter appeared at my elbow proudly showing off a plate on which two gnarly knots of truffle reposed.
And the same, who feeleth this inclination in himself, by all likelihood may hope or rather confidently repose in the preordinance of God, that in this last age of the world Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland
Among all their sons and so many well-bred youth who have become soldiers through patriotism, or who have left their families to prevent these from becoming suspect, one half repose on the battlefield or have left the hospital only for the cemetery; "the muscadin [3341] died from the first campaign. The Modern Regime, Volume 1
Hugh, and the death of his brother, and what great confidence he reposed in them concerning these warres: and that nowe therefore they being departed and dead, he must of necessity differre the besieging of Sagitta, and for this time dismisse the armie assembled. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Why is there nothing of an inner life? nothing which leads to revery, nothing reposeful? The Imaginary Mistress
Scooping his hand into the same scientific elbow-rest as before, and backing it up with the inert strength of his arm, as skilfully as a Police Expert, and with an apparent repose quite unattainable by novices, Mr. Crisparkle conducts his pupil to the pleasant and orderly old room prepared for him. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
took his repose by the swimming pool
The chief manager has always reposed complete faith in his secretary.
It is desirable, at certain times of day or night, to look deeply at objects in repose: wheels that have run long dusty distances bearing great loads of vegetable or mineral, coal sacks, barrels, baskets, carpenters' hafts and helves.
Wilson should not be ignorant, as he really would have been, of this timely service on the part of Mesty, who certainly, although with a great deal of "sangfroid" in his composition when in repose, was a fiend incarnate when his blood was up. Mr. Midshipman Easy
It was said; and we retired under the pretence of seeking repose, each fancying that the other was deceived: but when at morning's dawn I descended to the carriage which was to convey me away, they were all there — my father again to bless me, Clerval to press my hand once more, my Chapter 3
His face looked less hard in repose.
I've got a cruel face in repose. Times, Sunday Times
It is not the social disaster which we hark back to, but the emotive response - the existential repose and quietude with which men confronted their impending doom.
And the same, who feeleth this inclination in himself, by all likelihood may hope, or rather confidently repose in the preordinance of God, that in this last age of the world (or likely never) the time is complete of receiving also these gentiles into His mercy, and that God will raise Him an instrument to effect the same; it seeming probable by event of precedent attempts made by the Spaniards and French sundry times, that the countries lying north of Florida God hath reserved the same to be reduced unto Christian civility by the English nation. Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s Voyage to Newfoundland. Paras. 1-49
In repose now, he would not be simply lazy; he would be _being lazy_. A Poor Man's House
These philosophers reposed the law in the people
It had lost the bloom of youth, of health, of sweet repose! PERDITA: The Life of Mary Robinson
He had removed his helm and had propped an arm upon a knee as he gazed toward the forest in quiet repose. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
Then you reposed an absolutely blind faith in the Emperor!
In Yosemite, he writes, "some lean back in majestic repose; others, absolutely sheer, or nearly so, for thousands of feet, advance their brows in thoughtful attitudes beyond their companions, giving welcome to storms and calm alike. John Muir
It is also a powerful cautionary tale for all those who blithely repose their faith in State-led legal reform, codification, standardisation and uniformity.
The truth of his argument reposes on his honesty.
The relic reposes in a glass-fronted reliquary beneath a side altar of the same church in which it was first interred.
She pursued, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that Gharib, after giving robes of honour to the citizens of Cufa and com mending the Ryots to their care, went out on a day of the days to hunt, with an hundred horse, and fared on till he came to a Wady, abounding in trees and fruits and rich in rills and birds It was a pasturing-place for roes and gazelles, to the spirit a delight whose scents reposed from the langour of fight. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
He started and half reached for an open drawer where must have reposed a revolver, then bethought himself and growled, 'This is no bank.' Local Color
As a consequence, star gazing could be a great repose from a busy life. Others Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
Well, poor man, he could not help it, if he were coarse, and an Abolitionist, and a Fourierite, and -- -- She was getting a little muddy now, she was conscious, so turned her mind back to the repose of her stocking. Margret Howth: A Story of To-Day
Balanced sonorities and evenness of metre direct listeners on a course of undiminishing grandeur that leads naturally to calmness in repose.
Having delivered myself of that Friday afternoon piece of advice and homily, can we turn then to the preposed orders and directions.
A disseisor was no more bound by the confidence reposed in his disseisee, than he was entitled to vouch his disseisee's warrantor. The Common Law
MY Presence being no way serviceable to you in Barbary, and the Repose of my future Life calling me with the utmost Expectation to Fez, I humbly entreat your Permission to return thither. Idalia, or, The Unfortunate Mistress: A Novel
Imams and muezzins have reposed their faith in the credentials of BJP leaders, who do not have great reputation for keeping promises.
But the dreamlike quality conveyed by Metaphysical painters differed from that of the Surrealists because of their concern with pictorial structure and a strongly architectural sense of repose deriving from Italian Renaissance art.
Dona Rita continued leaning on her elbow, her lips closed in a reposeful expression of peculiar sweetness. The Arrow of Gold
But over all and through all poured the flame of her -- the unanalyzable something that was fire and that was the soul of her, that lay mellow-warm or blazed in her eyes, that sprayed the cheeks of her, that distended the nostrils, that curled the lip, or, when the lip was in repose, that was still there in the lip, the lip palpitant with its presence. The Wit of Porportuk
Whose money reposes in the Liechtenstein account?
Moral philosophy reposes on natural law precepts as common presuppositions, but its advice will be true only in the main.
Not in calm groves, not in games and music, nor in fragrant spots, nor in curious banquetings, nor in the pleasures of the bed and the couch; nor (finally) in books or poesy, found it repose. The Confessions
And in focussing on the heel and away from the forced point, she accented the descent - the moment of repose.
Look at saying 61:Jesus said, "Two will repose on a couch: one will die,one will live.
Lord Lacy, whom he met dressed in a long furred gown and the knightly cap called a mortier, irritated at the noise, and demanding to know the cause which had disturbed the repose of the household. Waverley
A rest in glory, the everlasting sabbatism of heaven, which is the repose and perfection of nature and grace too, where the people of God shall enjoy the end of their faith and the object of all their desires. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
That God reposed alone through all the past eternities, but roused some day and sent forth a shout, or six successive shouts, and spoke things out of nothing into "noumenal" existence, were absurd enough, to use Mr. James's nervous English, "to nourish a standing army of Tom Paines into annual fatness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
The trees, with their gently curving trunks, offer a sense of repose, while the references to art history establish Otnes's dialogue with the art before his own.
The people in the mosk recited the afternoon prayer without my knowing it, and now I have a mind to get an hour's sleep, probably I shall find repose for the body, and what I suffer will pass off. Arabian nights. English
After lunch he reposed on the couch.
In this fresco, a pile of martial armor offers a pillow for the reclining figure of Peace, who in seductive repose turns a receptive ear and extends an olive branch to the viewer. Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Preposed and postposed forms that come first include: aero (air), crypto (hidden), demo (people), geo (earth), odonto (tooth), ornitho (bird), and thalasso (sea).
Kenneth, “to debate thine hest;” and swallowed the narcotic, mingled as it was with some water from the spring, then wrapped him in the haik, or Arab cloak, which had been fastened to his saddle-pommel, and, according to the directions of the physician, stretched himself at ease in the shade to await the promised repose. The Talisman
The faces of most cast figures are in repose, and when the artist attempts to animate them, they most often end up resembling masks or caricatures.
By that electric spark within me, of which thou art the Twin Flame, I ask of thee to send me this one more poor human soul; let me change its unrestfulness into repose, its hesitation to certainty, its weakness to strength, its weary imprisonment to the light of liberty! A Romance of Two Worlds
Now, more than twenty years later, the Breton presbyter had lost none of his grace or his repose.
In repose they had a dreamy introspectional expression. The Prince of India — Volume 01
The body of her grandmother reposes in the churchyard.
In repose, his face was sad.
Its surface of turbulent waves, sprayed with twelve coats of turquoise automobile paint, floats the eye up to artifacts lifted in moments of repose above the sea of intensity.
Señor Villablanca, the wealthy rubber concessionist, reposed his fat figure on two chairs, with an emollient smile beaming upon his chocolate-coloured face. Whirligigs
I perceived a real feeling of health, strength, and freshness of youth, happiness and joy of life, repose and peace of the soul.
He has the kind of idealized face that's made to be observed in repose, like he was a painting or a sculpture in cool white marble or something.
In a sense, it was this next generation that drove neorealism into repose, making it a relic of a particular time and place.
Eyes closed, his strong features were peaceful in repose.
(CNN) - Three sources close to the Kennedy family say Sen. Ted Kennedy will lie in repose at the John F. Kennedy presidential library in Boston. Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington
My wound with balmiest herbs, and soothed me to repose; The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
The public duties to which he was often called bespeak his ability, and the confidence reposed in him by the leading men of his day. The Sermons of John Owen
He was not a big man, but his voice boomed, and his hands were meaty, and in repose there was something august about his heavy midwestern features: pale blue eyes that, in the absence of hopefulness, might have looked severe; prominent, straight nose and heavy jowls that, in the absence of mirth, might have seemed imperious and disapproving. Excerpt: Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Mao reposes in his mausoleum
Baited, bayed at through so many throats, his Grace, growing consumptive, inflammatory (with humeur de dartre), lies reduced to milk diet; in exasperation, almost in desperation; with 'repose,' precisely the impossible recipe, prescribed as the indispensable. The French Revolution
The benign prerogative of mercy reposed cannot be fettered by any legislative restrictions.
The chief manager has always reposed complete faith in his secretary.
Ferdinand sounded the beldame with a thousand artful interrogations, and she answered with such appearance of truth and simplicity, that he concluded his person was quite secure; and, after having been regaled with a dish of eggs and bacon, desired she would conduct him into the chamber where she proposed he should take his repose. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
First, your faith, and mine; and then, the strength and repose of that other faithfulness, which is round us both; in whichwe will _both_ walk, Hazel, shall we not? ' The Gold of Chickaree
But, for the denizens of the Temple City, there are still avenues to get quality products at the most competitive price, if only they repose their faith in the products manufactured by Self-Help Groups.
Fiction is thus a way of appropriating the world, giving the world the color, the taste, the sense, the dreams, the vigils, the perseverance and even the lazy repose that, to go on being, it claims.
First, it is NOT BY PATRICK WHITE, the Australian novelist whose bio accompanies your description, but by the English novelist T(erence) H(anbury) White, author of The Once and Future King and Mistress Masham's Repose. Egregious-- and Hilarious-- Error
And so they love ease and repose for their pleasure, but they keep themselves from inordinate excess.
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. Frank Lloyd Wright
Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs.
When the FDIC acquires a failed bank, it often makes assets such as reposed properties and some mortgage notes available for sale. South Florida Business News - Local South Florida News | The South Florida Business Journal
“We ARE friends,” repeated the knight; and there was a pause, during which the fiery Saracen paced the tent, like the lion, who, after violent irritation, is said to take that method of cooling the distemperature of his blood, ere he stretches himself to repose in his den. The Talisman
As noted, the ideophone can occur with quotative go, with either a preposed or a postposed subject nominal.
Innocence and repose are the oratorio's distinguishing features.
She recalled her statuesque repose, and her aristocratic manner which had so pleased her father. Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks
Still beyond this lovely island rose from the water the gardens, villas, palaces, temples, and propyla which lay between Memphis and the river; while the city of Apis, “the diadem of Egypt,” in all the glory of architectural majesty and beauty, reposed on the plain beyond; the mighty pyramids, with their winged temples and colossal dromos of sphinxes, filling the background of this matchless scene. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
Pareil je tiens 2 albums dans mes mains, je flane encore et toujours, regarde quelque titre, impregne ma meoire de pochettes interessante pour de futures dessins que je pourrais faire quand j'en aurais retrouvé le courage et puis je repose les albums a leur place comme je l'avais fait avec les livres quelques instant avant. Pinku-tk Diary Entry
English preposes the adpositions; Japanese postposes them
Seen in repose on a table, with their eccentric keys and multiple drones protruding from a bag, they look like an improbable squid. Times, Sunday Times
French windows led out into the grassy back yard and a fireplace made of black marble reposed on one side of the room.
The chief manager has always reposed complete faith in his secretary.
-- The most natural and characteristic indication of a cadence is the _longer tone_, seen in the examples to which reference has just been made; for a tone of greater length than its fellows is, in itself, the most conclusive evidence of a point of repose, as compared with the shorter tones in the course of the sentence, whose more prompt succession indicates the action of the phrase. Lessons in Music Form A Manual of Analysis of All the Structural Factors and Designs Employed in Musical Composition
They remained nearly a month in the ancient episcopal city, strolling out in the gloaming through the lonely, grass-grown streets with their crumbling palaces of the time of the Council; floating with the current down the river Rhine along its forest-clad banks; stopping to look at the tiny houses with red roofs and spacious arbors beneath which sang the bourgeoisie, stein in hand, with the Germanic joy of a subchanter, grave and reposeful. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan
That for me the chandelle of bailiffship the canvasback that the dinginess of reposeful the webby haganah of the us leonidas. Rational Review
Blue turned her head slightly and saw that Ciel's eyes had shut and she was breathing silently, as if in eternal repose.
Here, Mr. Saviano attacks the legitimacy of the Camorra's tentacular business empire, which reposes largely on the two Cs: cocaine and cement. Saviano's Hell on Earth
A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone. Ulysses
Through all dominated a grand repose, like the calm of nature, which storms may prove but not disthrone! Idolatry A Romance
Indeed, solicitude did not terminate with them: the munificence of his disposition having spread itself through every county in which he owned a rood of land, as many prayers ascended for the repose of his spirit as ever petitioned Heaven from the mouths of "monkish beadsmen" in favor of power and virtue. Thaddeus of Warsaw
Yes, and back of the house he would have a small garden, a place of meditation and repose, with goldfish in a tiny lakelet, and wind bells tinkling in the several trees, and there would be a high wall all around so that his meditation and repose should be undisturbed. THE CHINAGO
It took place in the bed-room, where, as usual save on Sunday morning, Ada consumed her strong tea and heavily buttered toast; the state of her health -- she had frequent ailments, more or less genuine, such as afflict the indolent and brainless type of woman -- made it necessary for her to repose till a late hour. In the Year of Jubilee
A tall white bed reposed shyly by the lonely window.

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