Use resting in a sentence
Sentences starting with resting
- Resting among them under a hastily erected canopy he related, with sparkling eyes, the deeds his son had performed. [10]
Sentences ending with resting
- Are those countries working that kind of lie, day in and day out, in thousands and thousands of varieties, without ever resting? [5]
- So Dietel hobbled to the open window, where the strollers were resting. [10]
- Was the guide resting? [5]
- Fifty-eight judges present--the others resting. [5]
- The seemingly involuntary movement she made brought her arm against a large dictionary, which lay very near the edge of the table on which it was resting. [6]
- But when at his appearance Melissa rose from the divan he begged her good-naturedly to continue resting. [10]
- Then she suddenly felt an eager jerk in the shoulder on which her head was resting. [10]
- Here was an exceedingly heavy burden, but Venters was powerful--he could take up a sack of grain and with ease pitch it over a pack-saddle--and he made long distance without resting. [13]
Short sentences using resting
- Resting, apparently. [5]
More example sentences with the word resting in them
- This one, a young soldier, his face deadly pale, his shako pushed back, and his musket resting on the ground, still stood near the pit at the spot from which he had fired. [2]
- The stranger sat without stirring, either resting or, as it seemed to Pierre, sunk in profound and calm meditation. [2]
- Declining the invitation with thanks, he answered the questions curtly and hurriedly and begged the resting soldiers for a guide. [10]
- Yet even while, with one hand resting on the back of the chair and the other pressed upon her panting bosom, she was striving to find the right words, Don John's glance brightened. [10]
- His broad head with its bold features and glittering eyes was resting on his hand. [2]
- Wolf went on with his noise and with his demands that he be granted the floor, resting his board at intervals to discharge criticisms and epithets at the Chair. [5]
- The Emperor Charles, with his forehead resting on his hand, sat absorbed in thought before the papers which had occupied his attention. [10]
- He brought his wife down to the Great Lakes immediately, scarcely resting day or night. [11]
- Three weeks later, when the army was resting at Napoleon, Arkansas, a self-contained man, with a brown beard arrived from Memphis, and took command. [9]
- 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]
- 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 found the water some three hundred yards away, and had been resting about twenty minutes, when I heard voices. [5]
- A prisoner's guard was resting outside, and the hall was full of officers. [9]
- The old count was resting in his study. [2]
- But his eye was not resting on the work before him, but on the marriage-scene at his feet, in which he detected each moment some fresh and unique beauty. [10]
- The large room was full of light, and through the half-dozen windows burst upon her the enchanting scene of the Bay, Henderson sat at his table, which was covered with neatly arranged legal documents, but bowed over it, his head resting upon his arms. [4]
- A new and violent emotion was stirring her young soul; not many minutes since she had squatted peacefully on the ground by the side of the wounded man, with her head resting on her hand, and thinking of her goats on the mountain. [10]
- Kutuzov, with his uniform unbuttoned so that his fat neck bulged over his collar as if escaping, was sitting almost asleep in a low chair, with his podgy old hands resting symmetrically on its arms. [2]
- A pair of turtle doves over their heads were less indifferent to the sun's rays than they, for the birds had closed their eyes, and the head of the mother bird was resting languidly against the dark collar round her mate's neck. [10]
- For himself, he took his station on a rugged mat before the furnace-door, and resting his chin upon his hands, watched the flame as it shone through the iron chinks, and the white ashes as they fell into their bright hot grave below. [12]
- Then he began to write, slouched forward, one knee resting on the floor, his lips moving at the same time. [9]
- Iberville drew back to the window and, resting his arm on the high stool where Jessica had sat, waited the event. [11]
- We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. [7]
- They sang it to a quaint sweet air--a solacing sweet air which has gone murmuring through my dreaming spirit all my life when I was weary and troubled, resting me and carrying me through night and distance home again. [5]
- Frank sent several times during the evening to inquire after her, and was told that she was resting comfortably. [11]
- After some little time spent in resting and looking and ciphering, we hurried on to the hotel. [5]
- And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep. [5]
- The great ravine, three quarters of a mile long, the ancient boundary which now cuts the town in two, is bridged where the main street, the Corso, crosses, the bridge resting on old Roman substructions, as everything else about here does. [4]
- The elderly man thought he had never seen her look so charming as in the yellow velvet doublet with ash-gray facings, the gray silk hose, and the yellow and gray cap resting on her glittering golden hair. [10]
- Kutuzov still in the same place, his stout body resting heavily in the saddle with the lassitude of age, sat yawning wearily with closed eyes. [2]
- After her came the river-god Nile, the bridegroom of the marriage, studied from the famous statue carried away from Alexandria by the Romans: a splendid and mighty bearded man, resting against an urn. [10]
- Bent-Anat slowly arranged the reins in her hand, her eyes resting the while on the poet, who, leaning against a door-post, gazed at her in beatitude. [10]
- The independence of the life he lived, the freedom from resting upon the financial will of the lumber king had given him light, air and confidence. [11]
- The one at the left was sound asleep, with her head resting on her little fat arm. [10]
- They show that the duel has a singular fascination about it somewhere, for these free men, so far from resting upon the privilege of the badge, are always volunteering. [5]
- Yet I trust that in view of the great responsibility resting upon me you will perceive no want of respect to yourselves in any undue earnestness I may seem to display. [7]
- While we were talking we turned a curve and saw old Ursula resting in the shade of a tree, and she had a lean stray kitten in her lap and was petting it. [5]
- I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. [5]
- Mrs. Pomfret, outraged, sweeps the frivolous offenders with her lorgnette; Mr. Crewe, with his arm resting, on the reading-desk, merely raises the palm of his hand to a perpendicular reproof,--"and gentlemen. [9]
- And there he stood, with the crotch of his cue resting against his disk while the ship rose slowly up, sank slowly down, rose again, sank again. [5]
- The tomb is still a very solid affair,--a rotunda built of solid blocks of limestone, and resting on a ten-sided base, each side having a recess surmounted by an arch. [4]
- He was now standing near the grave, and his eyes were turned from one to the other of us, at last resting on Justine. [11]
- Nancy--was it Nancy?--was standing facing me, tall, superb in the maturity of her beauty, with one hand resting on an antique table, a smile upon her lips, a gentle mockery in her eyes as though laughing at the world she adorned. [9]
- Comyn was resting so much easier that the surgeon had left, and her Ladyship retired two hours since. [9]
- At the top she paused again, and for a short space stood alert, her glance resting on the little table in the corner, on top of which a few thumbed law books lay neatly piled. [9]
- Maria had never seemed to her so beautiful; resting in her white night-robes on the snowy pillow, she looked like a sorrowing angel. [10]
- Dorothy and I scampered over the grass and into the cool, wide house, resting awhile on the easy sloping steps within, hand in hand. [9]
- Doing so he saw the watch start up from the capstan where he had been resting, and walk towards him. [11]
- Here, then, he sat, one leg cocked carelessly over the other, his chin resting on the palm of his hand, his head turned a little on one side, and his ugly features twisted into a complacent grimace. [12]
- The dumb wife sat on the stump, with her dying husband resting on her lap. [10]
- He was also said to be a poet, and devoted himself most ardently to verse when resting from the toils of war. [10]
- Thus the gorilla runs with a sidelong shambling gait, but more commonly progresses by resting on its bent hands. [1]
- Everything in the room, from the elegant little couch resting on lions' claws, to the delicately-carved ivory combs on the toilet-table, proved that the outward adornments of life had possessed much charm for the former owner of these rooms. [10]
- The lion was resting, but when he starts up, let his foes beware! [10]
- Her fingers were resting upon my arm, and she greeted me with a smile all tenderness. [9]
- With her forehead resting upon her hand, she sat thinking, thinking, while the unheeded moments winged their flight. [5]
- Well, lying abed resting up, two days and nights, I have thought over all these talks, and passed them carefully in review. [5]
- His elbows were resting on the arms of his chair, and he looked at the tips of his fingers, which met. [9]
- His head was resting on her bosom. [6]
- Caracalla was still resting here; for every movement increased the pain that tormented him. [10]
- While you are resting here I will ride on to the governor's palace and bring you word as to how matters stand. [10]
- I have been resting from the fatigues of London, while you have been wearing yourself out. [9]
- He did not reply directly to Rouge Gosselin, but standing perfectly still, with one hand resting on the counter at which Suzon stood, he prepared to speak. [11]
- It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and its object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science. [5]
- When Monsieur Doltaire reached us, he said, his eyes resting on me with intense scrutiny, 'His Excellency will present me to his distinguished entertainer? [11]
- Seated on the railing, with the tip of one toe resting on the porch, she smiled down at him from under the shadows of her wide hat. [9]
- They marched very quickly, without resting, and halted only when the sun began to set. [2]
- All these people presently managed to drag themselves to the vicinity of the Hawkins' wagon, and there they took up permanent positions, hands in pockets and resting on one leg; and thus anchored they proceeded to look and enjoy. [5]
- By the other pillar stood Antinous; he had placed his right foot on the low window-sill, and with his chin resting on his hand and his elbow on his knee, his figure was well within the room. [10]
- And the common people, the artisans, the lower classes, who in countless numbers had accompanied her brother's coffin to its resting place, and during the mass for the dead had crowded the spacious nave of St. Sebald's? [10]
- The danger is over, and he is resting easily. [9]
- And there stood Orion, just as she had pictured him in moments of tender remembrance; she felt his eye resting on her in ecstasy. [10]
- Lajeunesse was leaning on his bellows, laughing, and holding an iron in the spitting fire; Muroc was seated on the edge of the cooling tub; and Duclosse was resting on a bag of his excellent meal. [11]
- Helene's hand, resting on Antoinette's shoulder, trembled there. [9]
- The minutes flew on and became hours, till at last Melissa begged him to quit the marble seat on which they had so long been resting, if indeed her feet could still carry her home. [10]
- Could the whole of this hideous structure, tier resting upon tier, have been reared without something of a foundation? [9]
- As the light of the untried world to the infant, so is the dawning of the light resting over the unexplored realms of science to the student. [3]
- Under the windows of the king's rooms, at least forty feet from the ground, was a narrow parapet resting on the ends of the beams which supported the rafters on which lay the floor of the upper story in which the king slept. [10]
- And so the occasional sneezing of the resting mules, and the champing of the bits, grate harshly on the grim stillness, not dissipating the spell but accenting it and making one feel more lonesome and forsaken than before. [5]
- He stood there now, resting his great frame against the wall and gazing toward the reciter like one entranced. [5]
- The resting ruler now seemed to have brought his mind to repose also, for every emotion had vanished from his pallid face. [10]
- He was sitting now in the high-backed chair, his mouth and chin in his hand, his elbow resting on the chair-arm. [11]
- The boat had neither oar nor sail, but was towed by a couple of horses, who, with the rope to which they were harnessed slack and dripping in the water, were resting on the path. [12]
- At last report Mr. Blodgett was resting easily. [9]
- It looks to me like a creature that is more interested in resting than it anything else. [5]
- Bagration was to make this march without resting, and to halt facing Vienna with Znaim to his rear, and if he succeeded in forestalling the French he was to delay them as long as possible. [2]
- The first improvement made was in the construction of a rude wagon a cart without springs, the body resting solidly on the axles. [4]
- Parpon and the Little Chemist raised him to his feet, and held him, his shaking hands resting on their shoulders, his lank body tottering above and between them. [11]
- Then, seeing the light through the crack between the partly open wooden shutters, she softly pushed them farther apart, and, resting her bare feet against the wall, she raised herself to look in. [10]
- An army of legislators is not very likely to throw away its political privileges, and the idea of a despotism resting on an open ballot-box, is like that of Bunker Hill Monument built on the waves of Boston Harbor. [6]
- The stout fellow lay upon two chairs, resting his head on his hand, and the squinting man reposed in a similar attitude on the opposite side of the table. [12]
- A deaconess was kneeling at his head and gazed in silence in the face of the dead, while old Eusebius crouched prostrate by his side, resting his cheek on the breast of the man whose eyes were sealed in eternal sleep. [10]
- The bones of Kamehameha, after being kept for a while, were so carefully concealed that all knowledge of their final resting place is now lost. [5]
- He descended carefully into the valley, and directed his steps to the resting place of the wife of Mena. [10]
- Fish, in his instructions:-- "It might, indeed, well have occurred in the event of the selection by lot of the arbitrator or umpire in different cases, involving however precisely the same principles, that different awards, resting upon antagonistic principles, might have been made. [6]
- You do it in this way: you hop along behind it on your right foot, resting the other on the mounting-peg, and grasping the tiller with your hands. [5]
- We haven't been in the trenches long enough to evolve web feet, so mine are resting on a duck board spread over a quagmire of pea soup. [9]
- Now he sat in front of the cabin with his head resting on his hands, staring at the planks of the deck like one distraught. [10]
- I hesitated whether I had better fire lying on my stomach or lying on my back, and resting the gun on my toes. [4]
- The dust always hung motionless above the buzz of talk that came from the resting troops. [2]
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