Altogether we had not a reposeful time in Hagarein. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Arabia] Reference
He found her reposeful, and very steadying to the nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Wall]
I want nothing which I cannot get and my mind is reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
This position must be light, active, buoyant, and reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Expressive Voice Culture, Including the Emerson System] Reference
There is nothing of a reposeful nature about an army "rest.". From Wordnik.com. [With Our Army in Palestine] Reference
It was very secluded, very beautiful, and wonderfully reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
In a reposeful attitude, such rhymes as follow may be employed. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk] Reference
The sounds are sad, the curve tender, the sea placid and reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
There was a challenge in the reposeful black eyes resting upon my face. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
Finland is reposeful; and has a charm about it which is particularly its own. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Why is there nothing of an inner life? nothing which leads to revery, nothing reposeful?. From Wordnik.com. [The Imaginary Mistress] Reference
It was a soft, reposeful summer landscape, as lovely as a dream, and as lonesome as Sunday. From Wordnik.com. [The "It was" and "There Was" Brouhaha] Reference
Trèves during that time, however, was by no means the reposeful, dignified city it is to-day. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
The wall is the background of the room, and so must be flat in treatment and reposeful in tone. From Wordnik.com. [The House in Good Taste] Reference
This room was also panelled with painted wood; its character was quiet and stately and reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
Earnestly we pantomimed stretcher beds -- our own stretcher beds -- and reposeful slumber thereon. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919] Reference
The title "Not at Home," from his 2008 release Home, produced by Broderick himself, is a reposeful gem. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Sixty-Four] Reference
Dona Rita continued leaning on her elbow, her lips closed in a reposeful expression of peculiar sweetness. From Wordnik.com. [The Arrow of Gold] Reference
The few windows give a soft light, and the brown of the stone has a mellowness that is both rich and reposeful. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Life was an art, symmetrical, unified, reposeful, -- like the poem of perfect art, or the statue, or the temple. From Wordnik.com. [Horace and His Influence] Reference
Prospective homemakers must learn, too, the value of reposeful surroundings and of some degree of natural beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Vocational Guidance for Girls] Reference
Removed from society, women become once more what is so reposeful to a weary old man, an object of contemplation. From Wordnik.com. [The Captive] Reference
He watched the young fellow's face narrowly, but it was entirely reposeful, and so also was the voice that answered. From Wordnik.com. [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference
And then, looking down at the reposeful little face, she kissed it, and continued, 'Did he co thee an idol, my darlin'?. From Wordnik.com. [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference
The tired spirit translated the homely English country, so deeply reposeful in its spirit, into an image of dull unrest. From Wordnik.com. [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference
For there is no suggestion of city here; it is country, pure & simple, & as still & reposeful as is the bottom of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It was of such forgetfulness that in anticipation I preferred, without acknowledging it to myself, the reposeful tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
On Egyptian monuments the sphinx never appears standing as in this fresco, but crouching in the attitude of reposeful observation. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood] Reference
Not in a day can the tyro learn to employ the snarling immediacy of mastery of Mr. Pike, nor the reposeful, voiceless mastery of a. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER XLV] Reference
Lennox rode his mildly disposed but violently gaited steed homeward in that reposeful state of bliss known only to accepted lovers. From Wordnik.com. [Lodusky] Reference
For the first time she realized the quality of his strength, the calm and quiet of it, its simple integrity and reposeful determination. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
The scattering, far-off homesteads, with trees about them, were so homelike and remote from the warring world, so reposeful and enticing. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
So she let them fall again, and the placid, reposeful sense of nothingness which had been momentarily interrupted enveloped her once more. From Wordnik.com. [The Vision of Desire] Reference
And Miss Anderson, unclosing her fan, turned her reposeful head a little in the direction of three married schoolgirls voluble on her left. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
At the corner of this reposeful spot stood the episcopal palace. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
It is unimaginably still and reposeful and cool and soft and breezy. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900)] Reference
The memorial Chimney stands in a quiet pastoral locality that is full of reposeful expression. From Wordnik.com. [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference
It did not disturb our reposeful frame of mind, nor much interfere with our enjoyment of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
The one place, however, where you might expect to find people reposeful and calm is at the theatre. From Wordnik.com. [The Ways of Men] Reference
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