"Reposeful" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... his eyes as if in temporary vertigo. 'Yes,' he said. And Sheila once more prepared to make a reposeful exit. ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... reposeful room, my dear," said Grandmother. She patted her white curls in front of the mirror, which is an old-fashioned, oblong one, in which two people cannot well see themselves at the same time. Rhodora came up behind her, stooped to peer over her shoulder, and seized upon the ivory comb which ...
— A Court of Inquiry • Grace S. Richmond
... All that was reposeful in nature seemed to have become an irony and a mockery to us—who knew how an evil demigod had his sacrificial altars amid our sweetest groves. This idea ruled strongly in my mind ...
— The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu • Sax Rohmer
... of space—none of them is of any practical value, so far as I can see, but because they have color and majesty, that is enough for her, and she loses her mind over them. If she could quiet down and keep still a couple minutes at a time, it would be a reposeful spectacle. In that case I think I could enjoy looking at her; indeed I am sure I could, for I am coming to realize that she is a quite remarkably comely creature—lithe, slender, trim, rounded, shapely, nimble, graceful; ...
— The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories • Mark Twain
... the room seemed a guarded silence, as though he were being watched over by a love which would not let him be disturbed. (He had the reposeful self-assurance of a man who is conscious ...
— Bride of the Mistletoe • James Lane Allen
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