Use rested in a sentence
Sentences starting with rested
- Rested and refreshed, we took the rail happy and contented. [5]
Sentences ending with rested
- Twelve youths bore the framework, covered with a richly embroidered blue cloth, on which the coffin rested. [10]
- Then I remembered that my sinful feet were upon holy ground--the ground where that celestial shadow had rested. [5]
- Therefore, as the sun was blazing hot, we did not climb up there, but took the place on trust, and observed it from a distance while the horse leaned up against a fence and rested. [5]
- This keeping of Saturday night instead of Sunday night we did not very well understand; but it seemed, on the whole, a good thing that we should rest Saturday night when we were tired, and play Sunday night when we were rested. [4]
- A moment it rested. [11]
- He did not pause until he gained the narrow divide and there he rested. [13]
- I called my own steward, and asked him to watch for a couple of hours while I rested. [11]
- Ledscha again gazed over the calm landscape, but in the wild tumult of her heart she no longer distinguished the details upon which her eyes rested. [10]
- The boat struck on the lower shoulder of the short pier as she swung around in the splash door; then as she went on around she struck the point or end of the pier, where she rested. [7]
- At times, also, it appeared to rest on nothing; and many declared that they could see clean between it and the oval floor of the crag on which it rested. [11]
Short sentences using rested
- Often they rested the horses. [13]
- And there they rested now. [9]
- Finally they rested on Galbraith. [11]
- Here they rested and watched. [13]
- Are you rested? [4]
- I never rested. [13]
- Here they rested. [13]
- They rested. [13]
More example sentences with the word rested in them
- Yet her mind would linger at the Serapeum, where her lover, too, still rested his fevered head. [10]
- I went, therefore, with peculiar interest, on the day that we rested at our grand hotel, to visit some new pleasure-grounds the citizens had been arranging for us, and which I had not yet seen. [6]
- Withered laurel-wreaths, tied with long ribbons, fluttered over the mantel-piece; one had fallen, dropped over the bald head of Julius Caesar, and rested on the breast. [10]
- It rested entirely with jungfrau Blomberg to decide whether she would accept it at so late an hour. [10]
- Euphrasia stood upright with her hand on the knob, and her eyes flashed over the group and rested fixedly on the daughter of Mr. Flint. [9]
- Then, seating herself, with a melancholy glance at her embroidery where it lay folded together, she rested her elbow on the table and her head in her hand, considering to whom she could appeal to save her father. [10]
- She screamed aloud,--so wildly that Myrtle lifted her head from the pillow against which she had rested it, and started forward. [6]
- Now and then, while we rested, we watched the laborious ant at his work. [5]
- But often nowadays, when you a mile-long sentence from you given and you yourself somewhat have rested, then must you have a touching inquisitiveness have yourself to determine what you actually spoken have. [5]
- The time was when the divine authority of his gospel rested chiefly upon the miracles he is reported to have wrought. [6]
- Both curly heads were turned towards the side, and rested on a dimpled hand pressed upon the silken pillow. [10]
- For the horses were to be rested and meat was to be got, as we could not use our guns so freely on the far side of Cumberland Gap. [9]
- England's power and wealth rested upon her coal-beds. [4]
- Colossal as it was, the real base on which its weight rested was actually very small: the view from the village had not been all deceitful. [11]
- Every one who was respectable and aristocratic in Leipsic followed her, as well as many humbler folk on whom Bianca's glance had rested but once. [10]
- One long foot was crossed over the other and rested on the point of the toe, and his head was tilted to one side. [9]
- Tom discovered Charing Village presently, and rested himself at the beautiful cross built there by a bereaved king of earlier days; then idled down a quiet, lovely road, past the great cardinal's stately palace, toward a far more mighty and majestic palace beyond--Westminster. [5]
- Virginia's eye rested upon them, and the light of love and affection was in it. [9]
- This sanctuary rested upon a lofty foundation, and a long flight of steps led to the cella. [10]
- Prince Andrew came up, stroked her hair, and asked if she felt rested after their journey. [2]
- He had sat up till morning, had rested scarcely three hours, and now, with knitted brows, was comparing the results of his night's observation of the starry sky with certain astronomical tables which lay spread out before him. [10]
- Hands were flung up that were past counting, and men who were barely rested from the hardships of the Wilderness Trail shouted their readiness to go. [9]
- He rested again until the sun was well up and gilding the great river with its splendor, and then he plunged into the stream. [5]
- As she lingered unobserved, her eye rested on the touching picture of the two young things clasped in each other's arms, and she overheard the last words of the gentle little creature who had done her such cruel wrong. [10]
- An honorable man undertook without fear of persons the lost cause of the poor condemned wretch, and never rested till he had restored him to honor and liberty. [10]
- One may rest under the Poultry Cross, where twenty or thirty generations have rested before him. [6]
- Between twelve and two o'clock, as the day was mapped out, the prince rested and the princess played the clavichord. [2]
- Princess Mary had turned toward her brother, and through her tears the loving, warm, gentle look of her large luminous eyes, very beautiful at that moment, rested on Prince Andrew's face. [2]
- Yet when she turned her face toward him, and his ardent gaze rested yearningly upon her, she felt that the opportunity had now come to carry out her half-forgotten intention of arousing the jealousy of her royal lover. [10]
- It was half-way towards noon when the hoof-beats drummed over the Brown Hermit's cave, and they rested not there; but it was noon and no more when they rode through Pango Dooni's gates and into the square where he stood. [11]
- The sea was tossing; the sun rested, a red, rayless disk, on the sea-line in the west. [5]
- Agatha's extreme beauty, too, struck the artist's daughter as something divine, and her eye often rested admiringly on her new friend's pure and regular features. [10]
- At Radley you toiled and rested from your toil--and feasted. [11]
- And it occurred to Victoria, as her eyes rested on his back, that she ought to be sorry for him--but wasn't, somehow. [9]
- Yet from time to time, as he rested, he saw the massive red walls growing higher and wilder, more looming and broken. [13]
- The present pilgrim to the old church will find no memorial that Smith was buried there, and will encounter besides incredulity of the tradition that he ever rested there. [4]
- And they climbed to the nook and rested and looked out across the valley to the curling column of blue smoke from their campfire. [13]
- In marked contrast to the earnestness of young Mr. Vane, who then rested, Mr. Billings treated the affair from the standpoint of a man of large practice who usually has more weighty matters to attend to. [9]
- He helped me to rise, and I rested an arm on his shoulder. [11]
- And it came to pass that when Coriantumr had leaned upon his sword, that he rested a little, he smote off the head of Shiz. [5]
- The Macedonian bowed to his sovereign with calm dignity, and in the name of the municipally hoped he had rested well. [10]
- How many a time have I rested under its well-known trees and silently looked back on the past. [10]
- But on the threshold he started back, and Helena, who had followed him, did the same, for there stood his friend Dion, and Barine's beautiful head lay on his breast, while his hand rested as if in benediction on her fair hair. [10]
- These rested in three-branched iron chandeliers, every portion of which, from the slender central shaft to the intricately-carved and twisted ornaments, had been carefully wrought by Aquanus with his own hand. [10]
- It was at this instant that, glancing round the theatre in acknowledgment of the applause, her eyes rested mechanically on Gaston's box. [11]
- And when you think of the leagues of blighted, blasted, sandy, rocky, sun-burnt, ugly, dreary, infamous country you have ridden over to get here, you think it is the most beautiful, beautiful picture that ever human eyes rested upon in all the broad universe! [5]
- The same tree they rested under when they first arrived, was there a short time ago, but the Viceroy of Egypt sent it to the Empress Eugenie lately. [5]
- I doubt not they rested there, if--" "If they reached it! [11]
- At Koongat Bridge they rested for two hours, and drank coffee, and broke bread, and Cumner's Son slept by the side of Tang-a-Dahit, as brothers sleep by their mother's bed. [11]
- Macavoy looked round: there was no one near save Pierre, whose eye rested on him lazily. [11]
- First, the bath; then, while I rested, Macrinus's report; after that, the inspection of the sacrifices; then a review of the troops, with a gracious word to every one. [10]
- Every now and then she perceived that his eye rested on her with a compassionate expression, and when she inquired whether he were anxious about the sufferer, he gave her some evasive answer, quite unlike his usual decisive speech. [10]
- Then one of them got on one side of the coffin, and t'other on t'other side, and they kneeled down and rested their foreheads on the coffin, and let on to pray all to themselves. [5]
- And there sat the young creature, whom she knew to be soft-hearted and gentle, smiling and with beaming eyes--though those eyes must have rested on the most hideous spectacle--looking as though the roll in her lap were the first enchanting raptures of a lover. [10]
- The simmering urn, the white cloth, the shining silver, the big green melons that the hot summer sun had ripened for them alone, and Hugh's eyes as they rested on her--such was her illusion. [9]
- My mother led the way into the small enclosure, which was surrounded by an iron railing, and prayed or thought silently of the beloved dead who rested there. [10]
- We frequently selected the trout we wanted, and rested the bait patiently and persistently on the end of his nose at a depth of eighty feet, but he would only shake it off with an annoyed manner, and shift his position. [5]
- They rested near the town of Alus, and then went forward again between bare walls of greyish-green and red porphyry. [10]
- Casually, while surveying the squadron, the Emperor's eyes met Rostov's and rested on them for not more than two seconds. [2]
- From the outside the spectacle might have had its pathos, and it is not easy to justify such an experiment as he had made at his time of life, except upon the ground where he rested from its consideration--the ground of necessity. [8]
- She well knew the silver chain with the blue turquoises, that rested on the plump neck. [10]
- I threw from the shallop into the stream enough wheat to lighten her, and now, well stored and trimmed, we pushed away upon our course, the Chevalier and his men rowing, while my men rested and tended the sail, which was now set. [11]
- We walked about the place, rested quietly, drove into the neighboring country, and made a single excursion,--to Tewkesbury. [6]
- The side facing the north rested upon a solid substructure of hard blocks of hewn stone washed by the waves. [10]
- The escutcheon of the noble family from which Rosalinde, Herr Casper's wife, had descended rested against the shield bearing the birds. [10]
- His eyes, sweeping the mountain from the notch to the granite ramp of the northern buttress, fell on the weather-beaten little farmhouse in which he had lived for many years, and rested lovingly on the orchard, where the golden early apples shone among the leaves. [9]
- A moment later, the meek eyes of the pale young fellow heretofore mentioned came up slowly, rested upon the old man's face a moment, and the meek mouth began to open. [5]
- The Chief of the Long Knives surveyed the morning from his door-step, and his eyes rested on a solemn figure at the gate. [9]
- He rested on the landing and faced round toward me. [6]
- The joy of the hunter seized him, and guided his eye over the sights of his father's rifle, as he rested the barrel on the window- sill, and the animal was his! [11]
- I believe that the human mind, whenever it is developed enough to comprehend its own action, rests, and has always rested, in this expectation. [4]
- Then Venters rested the horse and used his eyes. [13]
- When they reached the group of paupers they rested upon a woman with deadly pale, hollow cheeks, pressing a pitifully emaciated infant to her dry breast, and her eyes swiftly filled with tears. [10]
- The General paid the fine, and then the matter rested for nearly thirty years, when Congress refunded principal and interest. [7]
- He turned to the doorway where a stew-pot rested, and his mind dwelt cheerfully on the lamb he had looted for Fielding's dinner. [11]
- Their control of the country rested upon force; the stability of the Diaz rule, for instance, depended upon the "President's" ability to maintain his dictatorship--a precarious guarantee to the titles he had given. [9]
- Here he rested the case for the moment. [6]
- Here Lassiter rested the burros for a little while, but he was restless, uneasy, silent, always listening, peering under the trees. [13]
- She promised, therefore, that she would never go without having Mrs. Hopkins as her companion, and with this assurance her old friend rested satisfied. [6]
- And she rejoiced that she had worn it--the wounded man's eyes rested upon her so joyously when she sat down opposite to him. [10]
- The Man's eye, sweeping the world for a new plaything, had rested upon one which had excited the fancy of lesser adventurers, of one John Law, for instance. [9]
- My father had succeeded in presenting my ambition as the height of absurdity and presumption, and with something of the despair of a shipwrecked mariner my eyes rested on the green expanses of those book-backs, Bohn's Standard Library! [9]
- He ran his strong arm around her waist with a little humouring laugh, her hand rested on his shoulder, and he timed his step to hers. [11]
- Then suddenly he stopped and looked round the room till his eyes rested on a portrait-drawing which hung on the wall opposite the window, through which the sun poured. [11]
- Where they had stood there rested on his long bow the Red Patrol. [11]
- The portly woman stood comfortably at ease behind her eatables and drinkables, rested her fists on her hips, and glanced toward her assistant, who stared boldly into the musician's face, and asked him to take some refreshment for himself and his sweetheart. [10]
- The prince stood still; his lively glittering eyes from under their thick, bushy eyebrows sternly scanned all present and rested on the little princess. [2]
- While Kuni's gaze still rested upon him as if spellbound, Cyriax nudged her, stammering hurriedly: "They will have to pass us. [10]
- At this Horapollo stepped up to Alexander, his eyes flashing with rage, and demanded that the intruder should be forbidden to speak; but the commanding eye of the new-comer rested on the dyer, who bowed his head and allowed him to proceed. [10]
- Of the United States he had only a dim conception, but his mind rather rested upon the statement that we lived "near Boston. [4]
- It bore the stains of blood that had trickled through its joints long ago, and on one side it had a projection whereon the torturer rested his elbow comfortably and bent down his ear to catch the moanings of the sufferer perishing within. [5]
- Memories of the spring of her love seemed to irradiate her last moments and, as her eyes again rested on Eva, her lips once more smiled with the bewitching expression, once her husband's delight, which had long deserted them. [10]
- His tear-dimmed eyes sought his mother's features, but only rested on them a moment--then he shuddered, turned away, and giving the torch to his companion, said, softly: "Cover her head. [10]
- Her glance rested sorrowfully upon him a long time, but even when she moved several paces nearer he retained the same motionless rigidity which had seized upon him and even communicated itself to the dog. [10]
- As he did so his eyes again rested on the stern face of Nemesis, and the wheel whose turning determined the destiny of men at her feet. [10]
- He had not slept or rested, before, for more than thirty hours. [5]
- We durst not slacken pace that night, and by morning, much exhausted, we deemed ourselves safe, and rested for a while, making a hearty breakfast, though a sombre shadow had settled on the face of the good Chevalier. [11]
- Georg adapted his singing to hers and his eyes, whenever they were raised from the notes, rested on her face. [10]
- At a mute sign from him, a telescope was handed him which he rested on the back of a happy page who had run up to him, and he gazed at the opposite bank. [2]
- They were also shed for the beautiful Queen who, unmindful of the spectators, rested her noble brow, with its coronal of pearls, upon his mighty shoulder. [10]
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