Took his repose by the swimming pool. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The long list of occupations which you call 'repose' is enough to wear out any constitution, even one which is so admirably knit as yours. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton] Reference
Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy's seat may remain empty for months] Reference
Kennedy's body will lie in repose through Friday at the library. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy makes final visit to brother's presidential library] Reference
Without a certain repose or leisure, a liberal education shrivels. From Wordnik.com. [11.03] Reference
His face, a caramel pudding in repose, suddenly looked quite fierce. From Wordnik.com. [Florence of Arabia (Part II)] Reference
As a consequence, star gazing could be a great repose from a busy life. From Wordnik.com. [SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles - Part 1237] Reference
Anything that interrupts a matinal sabbath repose is bound to stir things up. From Wordnik.com. [Antonio Garcia-Martinez: Pseudorandomness, Or How I Got Into Y Combinator and Had a Child With a Woman I Barely Knew, Almost Simultaneously] Reference
She seemed always in repose, at peace with herself and with the external world. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 9] Reference
Robinson is believed to be just the fifth person to lie in repose at the Capitol. From Wordnik.com. [Admirers honor Robinson at Louisiana Capitol] Reference
Now he asserts that happiness consists in repose, pleasure, in the comforts of life. From Wordnik.com. [Indiana] Reference
Indeed my longing for him makes me restless, and no repose is left me since yesterday. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
The National Cemetery, wherein repose the heroic dead, has become a marvel of loveliness. From Wordnik.com. [At Gettysburg, or, What a Girl Saw and Heard of the Battle: A True Narrative] Reference
His jacket, cap and frying pan lay in repose, as it were, inside Gate 4 of Yankee Stadium. From Wordnik.com. [Tony Sachs: This Yankees Fan "Sez" Thank You, Freddy Schuman] Reference
Major and minor Saints of Spain repose in nichos, recesses, that cross the entire facade of Landa. From Wordnik.com. [Major and minor Saints of Spain repose in nichos, recesses, that cross the entire facade of Landa.] Reference
He was a tall man, so perfectly proportioned that, in repose, he seemed smaller than his actual height. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: Zulu Heart by Steven Barnes] Reference
As one approaches it from the outside one sees, below the carved figure of a lion in repose, these words. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Remembrance] Reference
Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington « - Blogs from CNN. com. From Wordnik.com. [Kennedy to lie in repose in Boston, be buried at Arlington] Reference
The body of former Grambling State football coach Eddie Robinson lies in repose in the Louisiana Capitol in Baton Rouge. From Wordnik.com. [Admirers honor Robinson at Louisiana Capitol] Reference
There is an indescribable majesty about this human life which in repose and silence gathers strength and newness of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
She never talked of herself, so that it were well to let it go down that when in repose, expurgated, Greek she certainly was. From Wordnik.com. [The Scorn of Women] Reference
A decade later the cast of his face and body when in repose suggested deep, abiding gloom to nearly all who crossed his path. From Wordnik.com. [Lincoln's Great Depression] Reference
Outlying islands look like green animals in repose. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bangs: Nic' of Time] Reference
I have no repose, that is, none which shall cause 40. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry] Reference
A strong man in repose, and again, some fairy child. From Wordnik.com. [Three Girls in a Flat] Reference
How old and sad she looked when her face was in repose. From Wordnik.com. [Purple Springs] Reference
A few moments afterwards the whole household was buried in repose. From Wordnik.com. [Zoe: The History of Two Lives] Reference
“self portrait in repose, balanced on a whirlwind” or something. From Wordnik.com. [A Picture Is Worth Years Of Therapy | Her Bad Mother] Reference
There is a time of leisure, a waking repose, which is as necessary as sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves.] Reference
Induce a state of energetic repose, which is the ideal condition for reading. From Wordnik.com. [2009 June 28 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS] Reference
The contrast between the faces was striking, even now when both were in repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
We stood still for a moment, unwilling to break a repose so peaceful and profound. From Wordnik.com. [Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra] Reference
Motion is joy is flight, is freedom - dizzying spins, wide leaps full stops in repose. From Wordnik.com. [Poetry Thursday – Arabesque] Reference
He thought of himself as ugly, but this was because he had never seen his face in repose. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon] Reference
He has passed into that divine repose, which is at the same time the most energetic divine activity. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference
So repose, which is consistent and coexistent with the intensest activity, is the great hope that comes out of these metaphors. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII] Reference
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