95 Verbs to Use for the Word repose

whom I now survey In roseate brightness of the new-born day, To thee my thankfulness I would convey, For self and crowd; Who from the glare and hum of hot Financial lives, Have sought repose upon thy wondrous crest, and Brought our wives I gaze upon thy placid brow, where storms do Reckless rage, Forgetful of the storms of life, and Mister BEACH's stage.

I retired when the rumble of the carriages in the streets, and the tramp on the stone sidewalks had ceased, and the scream of the eleven o'clock train had died away into silence, with a quiet conscience, and in the confidence that I should find that repose to which one who has wronged no man during the day, is justly entitled.

This beautiful bay is always calm, for even the narrow strait which connects it with the open water is divided by a rocky, but wooded island, shutting out alike the winds and the waves from disturbing its repose.

Where they live, there is a white-eared dragon, which acts the part of danapati to the community of these monks, causing abundant harvests in the country, and the enriching rains to come in season, without the occurrence of any calamities, so that the monks enjoy their repose and ease.

To my surprise, the general came out from his poor apology for a tent on hearing our voices, although we spoke cautiously low, and even then I could but ask myself why it was that an experienced soldier such as he was not giving more heed to his bodily welfare, for men on the eve of encountering a strong enemy surely need all the repose which can be had.

I feel little inclined to sleep at present; yet, by the time you have taken some hours' repose, I shall probably require the same refreshment.

"He obtained some repose even while standing."

Such indeed is the activity of his mind that it appears to require neither repose, nor any other stimulus than a delight in its own exercise.

"This system, created by the first Consul at the beginning of the century, has already given repose and prosperity to France; it would still insure them to her.

He was now fifty-three years of age, and he felt that he had earned repose.

Bursts from the troubled larch's giant boughs The pie, and, chattering, breaks the night's repose.

"He told me love, was like yon' troubled deep, "Whose restless billows never know repose; "Are wildly dash'd upon the rocky steep, "And tremble to the lightest breeze that blows!

He had no taste for philosophy, but he wanted the repose that philosophers pretended to teach.

As nightfall came on, however, and the storm began to rise, something seemed to trouble the repose of the boy's mind, and to render his sense of hearing active and acute.

The remainder of that night was spent in making preparations for setting forth on the morrow; and when, at gray dawn, Dick and Crusoe lay down to snatch a few hours' repose, the yells and howling in the Snake camp were going on as vigorously as ever.

Hardly anything will interrupt the repose of some persons during the early part of the night, while they awake afterwards at the slightest noise or movementthe chirping of a cricket, or the playing of a kitten.

We feel unwilling to invade the repose of that majestic reverie by vulgar invocation.

The best of men have ever loved repose

He read them after his customary toil, seated on the bench before his cottage-door, where for such a length of time he had filled his repose with thought, by gazing at the Great Stone Face.

This austere method of marking the repose of the dead commended itself to him, caused him to feel proud of himself and of the ridiculous England that somehow keeps our great love.

Since I could not even so much as hazard a guess, the old man, forgetting his weariness and the need of gaining repose, led me out to where he had been halted by the sentinel, and, finding him at his post, began his investigations by saying: "We two have just come from Fort Schuyler, an' knowin' full well how strong a force is in front of the place, have a better idea of the kind of work in hand than you who haven't seen the enemy.

"For be you ever so wise and good, By some you will be misunderstood, And fame will bring you envious foes To spoil for you many a night's repose; And alas!

Death's icy fingers plucked the rose, But could not steal the grand repose Which adds such pure, celestial charms To this pale form, clasped in his arras.

We laid our chief in Douglas Kirk, The heart in fair Melrose; And woeful men were we that day God grant their souls repose!

O fear not the bugle, though loudly it blows, It calls but the warders that guard thy repose; Their bows would be bended, their blades would be red, Ere the step of a foeman drew near to thy bed.

95 Verbs to Use for the Word  repose