repose
noun
the state of resting or being at rest; sleep.
Example Sentences
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The letters, books, and drawings, for so long seen as expressing spasms of his restlessness, now seem reposefully all of a piece.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 5, 2015
He sits not very reposefully in his professorial armchair, and reads from dainty slips of MS. in a clear, penetrating voice full of subtlest comprehension, but painfully and often interrupted by a cough.
From A Biography of Sidney Lanier by Edwin Mims
It seemed to give her pleasure to lean against his shoulder and dreamily, half asleep, to rest there reposefully like a tired child.
From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone
When Tanty entered on tiptoe some hours later, she saw her niece motionless upon her pillow, sleeping as easily and reposefully as a child.
From The Light of Scarthey by Egerton Castle
By-and-by, when the visitors had departed, and Mr. Smithson was reposefully enjoying his tea by Lady Lesbia's side, he approached the subject.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
