Use rest in a sentence
Sentences starting with rest
- Rest and sleep will fetch you out all right, I hope. [5]
- Rest assured, therefore, that we shall be found always just and paternal in our transactions with your government, and that nothing will be omitted on my part to make your residence in this capital agreeable to yourself and satisfactory to your government. [7]
- Rest fully assured that the good people of the South who will put themselves in the same temper and mood towards me which you do will find no cause to complain of me. [7]
- Rest in his little house at Leganes seemed to have fairly rejuvenated him. [10]
- Rest came to him that night, but no sleep. [13]
- Rest and happiness have no home here. [10]
- Rest and repose be his! [5]
Sentences ending with rest
- He mentioned my young friend and said he was very anxious to have the $7000 now to begin his banking operations with, and could wait a while for the rest. [5]
- They will marry you--and forget the rest. [11]
- When you're eighteen you can read Ivanhoe, and you want to wait until you are ninety to read some of the rest. [5]
- It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
- By the seventh year after our home-coming my hardest cares for the concerns of my trade were overpast, albeit I must even yet keep my eyes open and give brain and body no rest. [10]
- Perhaps in the world of modern reforms this is not possible; but I intend now to cultivate only the standard things, and learn to talk knowingly of the rest. [4]
- You are a woman, and like all the rest. [10]
- The judge smiled with the rest. [5]
- Well, he began with taking off the case, and so on from one liberty to another, until he got it fairly open, and there were the works, as good as if they were alive,--crown-wheel, balance-wheel, and all the rest. [6]
- Demetrius watched it with less anxiety; he knew that his Arabs were far superior to the Egyptian breed in staying power, and they also had the advantage of having had a longer rest. [10]
Short sentences using rest
- I will sleep--I will rest. [11]
- Well, the rest was easy. [9]
- He sat down to rest. [13]
- I have advanced the rest. [9]
- I can understand the rest. [9]
- And you counted the rest. [9]
- You can imagine the rest. [6]
- Humani nihil,--you know the rest. [6]
- It was probably the rest. [5]
- It discounts all the rest. [5]
Sentences containing rest two or more times
- We rest on Sunday, because the commandment requires it; the Germans rest on Sunday because the commandment requires it. [5]
- There is no rest until the last long sigh tells those who look upon the dying that the ceaseless daily task, to rest from which is death, is at last finished. [6]
- But he said rest easy, rest easy and collect the witnesses, for the victory was just as certain as if the conflict were already over. [5]
- When the rest reached the spot a halt was called, for a rest or a smoke. [5]
- Operas are given only on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays, with three days of ostensible rest per week, and two teams to do the four operas; but the ostensible rest is devoted largely to rehearsing. [5]
- When she did not come the next day, Joe told him that she couldn't; that he ought to remember she had had no rest for weeks, and had earned a long rest. [11]
- The leech assures me that this will pass away, but until the chaos within merges into endurable order there is nothing better for me than solitude and rest, rest, rest. [10]
- I soon mastered it completely, but gradually the relation changed and it mastered me, gave me no rest, and forced me to try upon it the poetic power so long condemned to rest. [10]
- You can't rest in that crowded place, but you could rest here, for sure! [5]
- She was giving herself no rest, working day and night; visiting the poor and sick in her hours of recreation just as she used, and if she did not give herself more rest would soon need nursing instead of nursing others. [10]
More example sentences with the word rest in them
- When you meet your man he'll recognize the rest of his suit. [5]
- You could rest your elbow on its eaves, and you had to bend in order to get in at the door. [5]
- She chaffed the young men pleasantly and wittily, as she supposed, and as the rest also supposed, apparently, judging by the applause and laughter which she got by her efforts. [5]
- I will tell you,--I said.---When a given symbol which represents a thought has lain for a certain length of time in the mind, it undergoes a change like that which rest in a certain position gives to iron. [6]
- Well, then, do you think I'd care what--what Mere Langlois or the rest of the world would say? [11]
- The rest of you shall march for Kentucky," he cried, "as soon as Captain Bowman's company can be relieved at Cahokia. [9]
- For the rest, you shall keep a quiet tongue, eh? [11]
- Didn't I take you out of poverty, and make you head of all this, with people to wait on you and all the rest of it? [11]
- For the rest, you can think of me as badly as you will, or as well, for what I do henceforth is the only thing that really concerns the world, Monsieur le Cure. [11]
- If you will, you can lock the door, and fetch me out later, before you go to rest for the night. [10]
- A rest means you are not to sing it. [5]
- I'll walk behind you and rest this gun-barrel on your shoulder, p'inting forward--so. [5]
- They had not yet gone to rest, for loud laughter fell upon her ear from the large sheds, open on all sides, which stood over the dyers' vats. [10]
- There would be yet a half-hour's sun and then a short twilight, and the river and the woods and the Rest of the Flax-beaters would be her own; and she could think of the wonderful thing come upon her. [11]
- You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
- During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
- If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
- I had simply written her that after the campaign I had gone for a rest to California; yet in her letters to me, after this information had reached her, I detected a restrained anxiety and affection that troubled me. [9]
- Every letter Comyn writ me was nine parts Dolly, and the rest of his sheet usually taken up with Mr. Fox and his calamities: these had fallen upon him very thick of late. [9]
- And when this wretch in the purple shall close his eyes, he, like the rest of the criminals who have preceded him on the throne, will be proclaimed a god! [10]
- The heart so wounded should be healed at last; the proud spirit so tortured should find rest again; the humbled head should be lifted up once more. [5]
- How quickly suspicion would rest on a lass whose respectability was questioned! [10]
- His swift horses would not need more than that time for the journey, and during their absence the rest of the party could move from the inn. [10]
- How gladly she would have held back the sun which was bringing on the day of death to this kindest of mistresses, and have spent the rest of her own life in perpetual night, if only her yesterday's deed could but have been undone! [10]
- I said he would be happy the rest of his days, and he will, for he will always think he is the Emperor, and his pride in it and his joy in it will endure to the end. [5]
- It was another world, where sin and sorrow never came; a tranquil place of rest, where nothing evil entered. [12]
- The men-folks, having worked in the regular hours, lie down and rest, stretch themselves idly in the shade at noon, or lounge about after supper. [4]
- It was not without astonishment that the rest of the Holt family beheld them returning together as the gongs were sounding for luncheon. [9]
- Rostov galloped back with the rest, aware of an unpleasant feeling of depression in his heart. [2]
- I'll sit up with my patient the rest of the night, doctor; I can't trust Nancy, she couldn't make Luigi take the medicine. [5]
- He concluded arrangements with Major Pond to take him as far as the Pacific Coast, and with R. S. Smythe, of Australia, for the rest of the tour. [5]
- The chiefs argued with her, and at last persuaded her to go home and prepare for the great work by taking proper rest, and also by having a leech look to a wound which she had received in her foot. [5]
- They know whether with all their leisure they get placidity of mind and the real rest which the older nations have learned to enjoy. [4]
- She received him with a gentleness which touched him, she let her hand rest in his, she seemed glad to have him with her. [11]
- I do not wish to suggest that the rest of the people there were like me, for, indeed, they were not. [5]
- We were perfectly willing to go in there and rest, but it could not be done. [5]
- Go whither you will, stay away even if I send for you; but"--and here his brow clouded again--"why should I try to be merciful to her from whom I looked for sympathy and kindliness, when she flees from me like the rest? [10]
- Then, happen what will, for the rest of our lives I will try to atone for the wrong I did you. [11]
- How many readers will smile before the rest of this true incident is told? [9]
- I hope you will rest well. [9]
- I believe it will never rest again till you--yes, Uarda--till you let me give you one, only one, kiss. [10]
- In time man will exterminate the rest of the wild creatures of Australia, but this one will probably survive, for man is his friend and lets him alone. [5]
- A little rest will do you good. [9]
- And these creatures will compare these pins together, and if one is a shade finer than the rest, they will all be thrown on my hands, and I will have to order a new lot to keep peace in the family. [5]
- His good name will be restored, and the rest of his life will be happy. [5]
- I published the wickedest article on them I ever wrote in my life, and you can rest assured we got all the information we wanted after that. [5]
- Woe unto them who rob the innocent of happiness here and of rest beyond the grave! [10]
- Therefore the lawyer who had so zealously striven to expedite the blind man's entering into possession of his friend's inheritance would very willingly have permitted Myrtilus--doubtless an invalid--to continue to rest quietly among the dead. [10]
- It was she who had procured the imperial sleeper his rest, which she could certainly restore to him even if she now woke him. [10]
- Many a man who had gone through what I had, would have wanted to rest. [5]
- I said--'She is white, and the white people will never rest till they have killed you all, if you do this thing. [11]
- They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no good rest. [5]
- But before the whip could reply, the hare, scenting the frost coming next morning, was unable to rest and leaped up. [2]
- Besides the sun, which when the battle began had just risen, was already sinking to rest and should it prove necessary to force an entrance into the oasis it was not advisable to fight in darkness. [10]
- We must determine which of us shall die to furnish food for the rest! [5]
- There are four which are equal to all the rest, namely, Mercury, Antimony, Bark and Opium. [3]
- I doubt, too, whether the Young Astronomer will pass the rest of his life in hunting for comets and planets. [6]
- We didn't think whether it was sad or not, we only knew it pleased our ears, and we wanted those sweet fields of Eden, and the blooming tree of life, and the rest under the tree. [11]
- But touch him where we may he feels a hurt; and while Uncle Conrad and the rest press him with questions, he can only point to his head and lips, which are too weak for thinking or speaking. [10]
- The arrangement adopted when they started, that the officer prisoners should be kept separate from the rest, had long since been abandoned. [2]
- For it's rest when the gallop is over, my men, And it's here's to the lads that have ridden their last; And it's here's to the lasses we leave in the glen, With a smile for the future, a sigh for the past! [11]
- It was late when Johanna came to admonish her to retire to rest. [10]
- At his side, when all was over, she would rest in the grave, and compel the world to remember with respectful sympathy the royal lovers, Antony and Cleopatra. [10]
- That much of what they said is true, and the rest is lies. [5]
- They cannot take what they like, and leave the rest. [7]
- He must know what the rest of the letter contained, and the ex-schoolmaster was at hand to give the information at once. [10]
- He represents that what food "he carefully provided the rest carelessly spent," and there is probably much truth in his charges that the settlers were idle and improvident. [4]
- You tell him what day you will start, and whither you are going--leave all the rest to him. [5]
- The train marched westward; for there, where the earthly remains of man also found rest, the millions of suns had disappeared, each of which was succeeded daily by a new one, born of the night. [10]
- The two former were to attend to the sick in the infirmary, to ring the bell and chant the services as usual, that the escape of the rest might not be suspected; and Joanna, Paula, and Pulcheria, were to assist them. [10]
- Spades and shovels were soon procured, and before the moon had set, the wild horse of the Pampas was at rest under the turf at the wayside, in the far village among the hills of New England. [6]
- If the men were so wicked, I'll ask my papa How he dared to propose to my darling mamma; Was he like the rest of them? [6]
- His weary limbs were resting, a pleasant smell came up from the perfumed fountains in the arena, and his eyes, which could not here rest on anything to gratify him, were fixed on vacancy. [10]
- True, the billiard-tables were of the Old Silurian Period, and the cues and balls of the Post-Pliocene; but there was refreshment in this, not discomfort; for there is rest and healing in the contemplation of antiquities. [5]
- Partings all round were made, and, after some injunctions to Mrs. Falchion and Justine Caron from myself as to preventives against illness, the rest of us started for Sunburst. [11]
- We two youths were happy; happier than any words can tell--for we were not in the secret any more than the rest. [5]
- Thus all eyes were directed upward, and Diodoros's with the rest. [10]
- All the rest were ciphers; all had lost, momentarily, their feelings of partisanship and were conscious only of these two intense, radiating, opposing centres of force; and no man, oddly enough, could say which was the stronger. [9]
- All the rest were cases of grave disease; and so far as the trial, which was interrupted about the fortieth day, extended, the patients grew worse, or received no benefit. [3]
- And the oysters were as good as the rest of the company. [5]
- When the rest were all gone, he turned his chair round towards mine, and began. [6]
- Only, if I were a man, I shouldn't rest until I became great. [9]
- Before his master went to rest, the freedman--whom he had sent out to look for a vessel bound to Pelusium and Alexandria the next day or the following one--returned to the ship. [10]
- But ere he went to rest he thought of his hapless mother, whose birthday at this hour, beyond midnight, was now over, and, kneeling before the priedieu in his bedroom, he fervently commended her to the mercy of Heaven. [10]
- Every morning he went down to the Euphrates with Cambyses and the rest of us, and enjoyed watching the sons of the Achaemenidae at their exercises. [10]
- Manchon and I went along to keep the record--that is, to set down what might be useful to Cauchon, and leave out the rest. [5]
- You're not looking well; you've worked enough for to-day; go down to my cabin and eat what you want, and rest. [5]
- It is probably well to have a period in the year that tests character to the utmost, and the person who can enter spring through the gate of February a better man or woman is likely to adorn society the rest of the year. [4]
- I might as well stay the rest of the afternoon. [9]
- She was looking well now, and most fair and beautiful after her fortnight's rest from wordy persecution. [5]
- Perhaps I ain't well known hereabouts, but back up North there's Mormons who'd rest uneasy in their graves at the idea of me sittin' to table with you. [13]
- When he got well he set sail for Jersey, was wrecked off the Ecrehos, and everybody knows the rest. [11]
- Goodness knows when we'll get in the rest of it--full of workmen yet. [5]
- He knows as well as the rest of us that one hand washes the other! [10]
- But he was wealthy, had an intense admiration for Mrs. Falchion, and had managed to secure her in his boat, to separate from the rest of the picnic party-- chiefly through his inefficient rowing. [11]
- They go for weakness whenever they see it, with stimulants and strengtheners, and they go for overaction, heat, and high pulse, and the rest, with cooling and reducing remedies. [6]
- From Great Malvern we went to Bath, another place where we could rest and be comfortable. [6]
- We saw all we wanted to,--pictures, furniture, and the rest. [6]
- After all this we started for a luncheon at All Souls, but had to wait (impatiently) for H. R. H. to rest herself, while our resting was done standing. [6]
- I presume, however, we shall have no rest from it. [7]
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