reposeful

ADJECTIVE
  1. affording physical or mental rest
    she spent a restful night at home
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  • 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
  • There was a challenge in the reposeful black eyes resting upon my face. The Arrow of Gold
  • 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
  • Why is there nothing of an inner life? nothing which leads to revery, nothing reposeful? The Imaginary Mistress
  • Dona Rita continued leaning on her elbow, her lips closed in a reposeful expression of peculiar sweetness. The Arrow of Gold
  • 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
  • Then, as the middle-aged father and his child grew each gray-faced, as the pretty blush of Frances disintegrated into spotty stains, and the soft rotundities of her features diverged from their familiar and reposeful beauty into elemental lines, Cope was gradually struck with the resemblance between a pair in their discomfort who in their ease presented nothing to the eye in common. Life's Little Ironies
  • It was not less so from the _reposeful_ manners and gentlemanly appearance of the English Canadians, and the vivacity and politeness of the French, to Yankee dress, twang, and peculiarities. The Englishwoman in America
  • For the first time she realized the quality of his strength, the calm and quiet of it, its simple integrity and reposeful determination. Chapter 15
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