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Sentences ending with repose

And Lady Jane this evening was agitated, and once or twice furtively looked at something under the bar-counter; in fact, a close observer would have noticed anger or anxiety in the eyes of the daughter of Dick Waldron, the keeper of the Saints' Repose. [11]
The animal knew the regent, and did not let her disturb its repose. [10]
At any rate, the place was full of delightful repose. [4]
There some of the later Roman emperors fixed their residences, and there they repose. [4]
It is said that Mark Twain never really recovered from the tragedy of his brother's death--that it was responsible for the serious, pathetic look that the face of the world's greatest laugh-maker always wore in repose. [5]
The fact is that he can go nowhere else where life is so uneasy, and where, consequently, he would have so little of his sort of repose. [4]
The panting city sinks into lassitude, and for several hours there is a general repose. [4]
At ten o'clock Shon McGann will meet me at the Saints' Repose. [11]
In a long room, upon elevated biers, lay people dead: they were so disposed that the faces could be seen; and there they rested in a solemn repose. [4]
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. [14]

Short sentences using repose

In that there's more repose. [5]
Rest and repose be his! [5]

Sentences containing repose two or more times

It was a picture of profound repose, but it was the repose of death. [11]

More example sentences with the word repose in them

If the American young man and young woman get it into their heads that repose, especially of manner, is the correct thing, they will go in for it in a way to astonish the world. [4]
The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
Toying with her, who so quickly understood and so gratefully accepted the gifts of the intellect which he offered, was so sweet, but in these days it must not be permitted to impair mental repose, keen thought. [10]
The scorn with which the rebels, after the compromise signed by the highest nobles, had called themselves Geusen, or Beggars, and endangered repose, would have been worthy of the severest punishment. [10]
While her lips were still glowing from his kisses, she had carried on a reckless game with another, and was now robbing him of the repose of mind which he so urgently, needed. [10]
Sleek, unwieldy porkers were grunting in the repose and abundance of their pens, whence sallied forth, now and then, troops of sucking pigs, as if to snuff the air. [4]
His great schemes were completed, he was a rich man, and he had pictured himself retiring to this Seigneury, a peaceful and practical figure, living out his days in a refined repose which his earlier life had never known. [11]
After dinner I went below and took a seat in the stone-paved court, where the customary lemon-trees stand in the customary tubs, and said to myself, "Now this is comfort, comfort and repose, and nobody to disturb it; I do not know anybody in Milan. [5]
For some few weeks there had been an oppressive and fevered tension in the repose of night. [10]
The long storm was over, and the calm autumnal sunshine was now to return, with all its infinite repose and sweetness. [6]
As for Dudley Venner, no beauty in all the world could have so soothed and magnetized him as the very repose and subdued gentleness which the Widow had thought would make the best possible background for her own more salient and effective attractions. [6]
It commands a varied and delicious prospect, and has an air of repose and peace. [4]
He impressed her to-day as force--tremendous force in repose, and yet he was the same Peter. [9]
Senator Dilworthy said to Washington that an humble deportment, under punishment, was best, and that there was but one way in which the troubled heart might find perfect repose and peace. [5]
We looked forward to it as a sweet place of repose from the noontide heat. [4]
I took her to her first assembly, where her simple and unassuming ways had made her an instant favourite; and her face, which had the beauty of dignity and repose even so early in life, gained her ample attention. [9]
Nine couches, arranged three and three in a horseshoe, invited the guests to repose, with their arms of ebony and cushions of dull olive-green brocade, on which a delicate pattern of gold and silver seemed just to have been breathed. [10]
My father said, this morning, when my face was in repose and thoughtful, that I looked precisely as young Edward Twichell of Hartford used to look some is months ago--chin, mouth, forehead, expression--everything. [5]
Some crawl to the tops of the rocks and lie like gunny bags stuffed with meal, or they repose on the broken surfaces like masses of jelly. [4]
His understanding resembled the tent which the fairy Paribanou gave to Prince Ahmed: fold it, and it seemed a toy for the hand of a lady; spread it, and the armies of the powerful Sultans might repose beneath its shade. [5]
And so, in the midst of this quiet inland town, where a mere accident had placed Mr. Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. [6]
She had granted the dreamer repose without arousing him. [10]
The gold and the diamonds have brought the godless stranger within his gates, also contamination and broken repose, and he wishes that they had never been discovered. [5]
None may touch the dead or enter the Towers where they repose except certain men who are officially appointed for that purpose. [5]
Pleasant companionship during the day produced, for the time, the unusual blessing of calm repose at night; and after her friend's departure she was well enough to "fall to business," and write away, almost incessantly, at her story of Villette, now drawing to a conclusion. [14]
Underneath it, at the back of the altar, an oil light is always burning; and below repose the bones of the holy man. [4]
The mouth, larger than her mother's, had full lips, the upper one short, and admirable curves, strong in repose, but fascinating when she smiled. [4]
Silken coverlets were spread over their weary, beautiful limbs, and a troop of eunuchs took good care that the dreamy repose of the entire body should not be disturbed by quarrelsome or petulant individuals. [10]
We mention this so that the tourist who comes this way may learn to possess his soul in patience, and know that steamboats are not run for his accommodation, but to give him repose and to familiarize him with the country. [4]
In fine, although so much is said of the American lack of repose, is it not best for the American to be content to be himself, and let the critics adapt themselves or not, as they choose, to a new phenomenon? [4]
And what a sense of peace and repose she brought into his apartment! [4]
Here were no scenes but summer scenes, and no disposition inspired by them but to lie at full length on the mail sacks in the grateful breeze and dreamily smoke the pipe of peace--what other, where all was repose and contentment? [5]
He was almost rigid with emotion, for the ancient habit of repose and self- command of the Quaker people was upon him. [11]
Unfortunately for his repose, his haunch is as tender as his heart. [4]
Take him in repose, and he looked a lank ascetic who dreamed of a happy land where flagellation was a joy and pain a panacea. [11]
Under the altar repose the ashes of St. Mark--and Matthew, Luke and John, too, for all I know. [5]
I must procure repose some way, else I cannot get down to work again. [5]
The gravity and repose of the Eastern peoples is due to the unchanging aspect of the sky, and the deliberation and regularity of the great climatic processes. [4]
In October no region in the North has a monopoly of beauty, but there is a certain refinement, or it may be a repose, in the Berkshire Hills which is in a manner typical of a distinct phase of American fashion. [4]
You lose some quiet by this attitude, some repose that is pleasant and even desirable perhaps, you entertain many errors, you may try many useless experiments, but you gain life and are in the way of better things. [4]
Impressed by the profound silence and repose that rested over the beautiful landscape, and being, as usual, in the rear, I gave voice to my thoughts. [5]
Two beautiful English pointers and a slender hound were moving about and sometimes disturbed the repose of the two Wachtersbach badger dogs, who were trained to keep side by side everywhere--in the room as well as in hunting. [10]
In the next place--Mr. Langdon is old, and is trying hard to withdraw from business and seek repose. [5]
It was a pity; instead of going to these fine shows tired, sleepy, wanting repose more than anything else, we should have come to them fresh, in good condition, and had many days at our disposal. [6]
The ashes of Peter, the disciple of the Saviour, repose in a crypt under the baldacchino. [5]
And Lord how pervading were the repose and peace and blessedness that poured out of the heart of the invisible Great Spirit of the Mountains. [5]
At noon the people were permitted to rest, but there was not a hand's breadth of shade where they sought repose. [10]
A dim light penetrated into her prison through the single barred window that opened on to the court, and she could see a little bench of palm-branches on which she sat down to seek the repose she so sorely needed. [10]
Each one a peerless picture, the powerful thinker, the man of action, who permits his restless intellect to repose, and suffers his heart to overflow with the love of youth! [10]
Delightful repose stole over him, pleasant weariness soothed every stormy emotion of his heart. [10]
It was not otherwise inapt, for there was something antique about him, though he wasn't old; a flavour, an old-fashioned repose and self-possession. [11]
He can repose only in the midst of intense activity. [4]
The "run," in one direction, will lead to water; but, in the other, it climbs the highest hills, to which the deer retires, for safety and repose, in impenetrable thickets. [4]
We looked out on the green and over to the beautiful churchyard, where one of England's greatest painters, Gainsborough, lies in rural repose. [4]
This vast city of the sea has many charms, and is the resort of thousands of people, who find here health and repose. [4]
All these schemes of a helpful, altruistic life had been in her dream, but how empty it was without the mutual confidence, the repose in the one human love for which she cared. [4]
Then at ten o'clock you will come to the Saints' Repose, if you choose, to know how the game has ended. [11]
The resting ruler now seemed to have brought his mind to repose also, for every emotion had vanished from his pallid face. [10]
There is a noble and beautiful view of ocean and islands and castellated peaks from the governor's high-placed house, and its immediate surroundings lie drowsing in that dreamy repose and serenity which are the charm of life in the Pacific Islands. [5]
I often reproached my dear friend and classmate, Tames Freeman Clarke, that his ceaseless labors made it impossible for his coevals to enjoy the luxury of that repose which their years demanded. [6]
The immediate future must decide Geronimo's fate, so she went on a pilgrimage with her darling to the Madonna of Guadelupe to pray for the repose of the Emperor's soul, and also to beseech the gracious Virgin mercifully to remember him, Geronimo. [10]
But those were mere words, for, when I besought you to grant me some repose, you scorned my very reasonable request, and roughly ordered me to remain and attend on you. [10]
All these working men were driven with sticks by their overseers, and sang at their labor; but the voices of the leaders sounded muffled and hoarse, though, when after their frugal meal they enjoyed an hour of repose, they might be heard loud enough. [10]
It lifts a man away from the fret of life, and sets his feet on the heights where lies repose. [11]
But for the line of telegraph poles one might have fancied he could have security and repose here. [4]
Thus, then, our library is a temple as truly as the dome-crowned cathedral hallowed by the breath of prayer and praise, where the dead repose and the living worship. [3]
Leave me, and let me wear my spirit with weariness and waiting, even as I have done these ten long days, counterfeiting thus the thing that is called rest, the prone body making outward sign of repose where inwardly is none. [5]
Cleopatra goes to it whenever she longs for repose after the pursuit of pleasures which have lost their zest. [10]
Lord, how blessed is the repose, the tranquillity of this place! [5]
What I want is repose first, last, and all the time. [5]
Sorrow was dead indeed in her, but peace and perfect happiness were born; imaged in her tranquil beauty and profound repose. [12]
We walked silently in yon little valley you see, where we spent a momentary repose. [5]
Her indolent nature in repose wanted the dust of existence swept into a corner out of sight; yet when she was roused, and there were no corners into which the dust could be swept, she could be as bold as any better woman. [11]
Some were talking in low voices, and others sat silent on the chairs and sofa, not awkwardly or uncomfortably, but with a characteristic self-possession and repose. [9]
All that my imagination conjured up during the years of quiet and repose accompanied me into my after-life. [10]
At last the ideas that troubled her found utterance and, as if roused from her repose, she exclaimed in terrified accents: "You are Ephraim, who seemed like his son, and the old man is Nun, his dear father. [10]
Well, do as I say; for these things must be according to the rules of the game, and I myself will tell him all at the Saints' Repose. [11]
I find that I can repose confidence in you. [9]
She played it hour after hour, as others play chess; and lost herself in it, and so got repose for her mind and healing for her heart. [5]
The scholar's peaceful home was deprived of its nocturnal repose, and when Gorgias had gone and Didymus had refused Helena's request to have the aged porter take her to her sister, the old man remained alone with his wife in the tablinum. [10]
Philip regretted that his vacation would so soon be over, and that he must say good-by to all this repose and beauty, and to the intercourse that had been so delightful to him. [4]
So he pulled his stool up to a great chest full of gypsum to get a little repose by leaning against it. [10]
But having made his speech, he settled back to his tobacco and into the orator's earned repose. [11]
Tom was altering his position every few minutes now, but none of his changes brought repose nor any small trifle of comfort. [5]
Hodder pushed back his chair, crossed his knees, and sat perfectly still regarding his host, his body suggesting a repose that did not interfere with his perceptive faculties. [9]
Then Eva reproached herself for depriving her dead mother, to the repose of whose soul this hour was dedicated, of her just due, and she strove with all her power to regain the spirit of devotion which she had lost. [10]
Solitude dwelt in her chamber--no sound from the neighboring world penetrated its stillness; it appeared a temple of silence, of repose, and of mystery. [5]
A few people have discovered that repose can be had at home, but this discovery is too unfashionable to find favor; we have no rest except in moving about. [4]
Meanwhile, Pretty Pierre had made his way to the Saints' Repose, and was sitting among the miners indolently smoking. [11]
In that, doubt had had no part, and the delightful feeling of freedom which had shone on her soul, now shrank deep into the shade before a growing curiosity and the longing for her usual repose. [10]
This idle repose had become unendurable, he felt suffocated with pain and anger. [10]
To increase the grandeur of his family and render it the most powerful reigning house in the world, he had become prematurely old; had undertaken superhuman tasks of toil and care; even now he would permit himself no repose. [10]
I do not get out my great Albinus before every lecture on the muscles, nor disturb the majestic repose of Vesalius every time I speak of the bones he has so admirably described and figured. [3]
She glided slowly from that almost statue-like repose into another gesture. [11]
To be the friend of Swiveller you must reject all circumstantial evidence, all reason, observation, and experience, and repose a blind belief in the bookcase. [12]
The details are finely worked out; the repose proper to hair in a recumbent and inactive attitude is charmingly expressed. [5]
As I had felt pleased at first by her confidence I determined to deserve it, and to do credit to the nature which had prompted her to repose it in me. [12]
Whoever experiences what fate has allotted to me has learned to know other gods than those whom the master described as dwelling happily in undisturbed repose. [10]
There is just enough of whispering breeze, fragrance of flowers, and sense of repose to raise one's thoughts heavenward; and just enough amateur piano music to keep him reminded of the other place. [5]
Consider what I did--I who so loved repose and inaction. [5]

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