Example Sentences

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A tear trembled on the edge of her black lashes and then splashed on to the chubby cheek of Peter the reposer.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

Eh! n'avez-vous pas pour vous reposer V'eternite toute enliere?'

From Louisa of Prussia and Her Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

"Il faut que votre mère—se reposer," he told her, with the grave caesural pause which he always made in the middle of a French sentence.

From One of Ours by Cather, Willa Sibert

At half after two in the morning our two horse attendants had the civility to wake us out of tired Nature’s sweet reposer, balmy sleep.

From A Sailor of King George by Bevan, A. Beckford

Ce fut dans cette plaine que je descendis pour me reposer et diner; car j'avois apporté des poulets crus et du vin.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard