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
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
He found Lord Chetwode, as usual, in the green library, not reading the newspapers, and reposefully smoking.
From The Twelfth Hour by Ada Leverson
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
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 G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
