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 found Lord Chetwode, as usual, in the green library, not reading the newspapers, and reposefully smoking.
From The Twelfth Hour by Leverson, Ada
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 Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)
"I'll take it from you, gentlemen," he said, and settled himself reposefully.
From Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
That one thing was that while the face listened reposefully the legs were industriously dancing like the legs of a marionette.
From The Club of Queer Trades by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
