Example Sentences

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Indeed, when you look longer at it, you begin to doubt whether there is any repose in it at all,—whether it is not the most unreposeful thought ever put into architectural form.

From Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres by Adams, Henry

In French the story is too confused and chaotic and unreposeful and ungrammatical and insane; consequently it could only cause grief and sickness—it could not kill.

From The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories by Twain, Mark

At heart something of a Puritan, the straight-backed chairs and unreposeful sofa, the secretary with its diamond-paned doors and glass knobs, the quaint old jardinières brought from China a century ago, pleased her fancy.

From Mr. Pat's Little Girl A Story of the Arden Foresters by Leonard, Mary Finley