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1. in improbable repose, his folded chin to his chest
2. OF all the gems in the rich collection of Yoga asanas there shines forth one which, in sheer beauty, symmetry and grace, outshines all others except, perhaps, the serene Lotus, that impenetrable fortress of repose
3. The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
4. The capricious ambition of kings and ministers has not, during the present and the preceding century, been more fatal to the repose of Europe, than the impertinent jealousy of merchants and manufacturers
5. A short repose as fortune would have it
6. its lifeless body stretched out in a peaceful-like repose
7. In repose, his face lost some of its animation
8. The government of such a state is very apt to repose itself upon this ability and willingness of its subjects to lend it their money on extraordinary occasions
9. 16 After I am come into my house, I will repose myself with her, for her conversation has no bitterness; and to live with her has no
10. 4 And I swear to you, yes, yes, that there has been no man in his mother's womb, but that already before, even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of that soul, and a measure fixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world
11. Rest, repose, tolerance and renunciation of all sectarian observances,
12. In a leisurely repose, the illusive mosaic of your sketch it spreads
13. Your pleasant evocation overpowers all my being without repose
14. If you pretend to delight with boasting of repose and instruction
15. 4 And I swear to you yes yes that there has been no man in his mother's womb but that already before even to each one there is a place prepared for the repose of that soul and a measure fixed how much it is intended that a man be tried in this world
16. I went to view Cath’s remains and offered a short prayer for the repose of her soul
17. The last carrier had started back with what was left, and Moshe, Judah, and four drovers, all of whom had done the digging, lapsed into the repose of exhaustion in the small shade that their mounts provided, at last away from the stench of death
18. It had stopped smoking shortly after their new journey had begun, and now lay in quiet repose
19. 51 His disciples said to Him "When will the repose of the dead come about and when will the new world come?" He said to them "What you look forward to has already come but you do not recognize it
20. " He said to them "You too look for a place for yourself within the Repose lest you become a corpse and be eaten
21. Elevating his head a little, all he could see around him was silent repose
22. Judah, and four drovers, all of whom had done the digging, lapsed into the repose of
23. “If, therefore, we repose faith in His Providence, we should rest assured that He will give us every day our daily bread, meaning everything that we require
24. were securely locked before they turned in for a well earned night’s repose
25. Colonel Aureliano Buendía saw himself surrounded by chari-table novices who intoned desperate psalms for the repose of his soul and then he was sorry that he had not shot himself in the roof of the mouth as he had considered doing if only to mock the prediction of Pilar Ternera
26. Later on, when he succeeded in getting Fernanda to come back home, she gave in to his urges in the fever of reconciliation, but she could not give him the repose he had dreamed about when he went to fetch her in the city with the thirty-two belfries
27. Nor would she have believed it after the aggressive realism with which she revealed to her that the anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed
28. In Melquíades’ room, on the other hand, protected by the supernatural light, by the sound of the rain, by the feeling of being invisible, he found the repose that he had not had for one single instant during his previous life, and the only fear that remained was that they would bury him alive
29. ” From then on she did not have a moment of repose
30. You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose
31. comfortable up there, as if he’s in a state of repose
32. appears momentous and captivating, as though it is in repose, waiting
33. Instead of quiet mental repose, he
34. in time fascinates the whole pursuit of pleasures impact with value and supreme repose
35. The community celebrated the Office of the Dead for the repose of the soul of Brother Benedict
36. vent for food, comfort and repose
37. Repose is our only joy as the nurses don’t allow suck-
38. “Eiess and Iluxia were charged to work in perfect harmony, one ruling the sun, the day, growth, energy, light and anything pertaining to progress, increase and development, while the other would rule the night and anything pertaining to rest, slumber, tranquility, harmony, serenity, repose and stillness
39. students to break my repose
40. found a lot of rest and repose in that spiritually surcharged place
41. compassion, spiritual repose and consistency
42. by those whose minds repose in equality
43. “After realizing the ultimate repose, all his (the seeker’s) sorrows disappear, and the blissful mind of such a man quickly grows in
44. ently into it without losing its repose
45. his state of sublime repose, but the man who desires rewards of action
46. this he achieves the ultimate repose
47. repose he is transformed into a sage like Krishn
48. state of repose, and with a restrained mind, the devoted worshipper
49. his relinquishment-of the nature of passion (rajas)- fails to bring him the ultimate repose of mind that should be the end of relinquishment
50. Similarly, the store of action begins to grow by the coming together of the doer-dedication of mind, agents such as wisdom, disinterest in the material world, repose, and self-restraint by
1. Though in settling them some regard is had commonly, not only to his labour and skill, but to the trust which is reposed in him, yet they never bear any regular proportion to the capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital, though he is thus discharged of almost all labour, still expects that his profit should bear a regular proportion to his capital
2. great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or
3. branches of trade, cannot arise from the different degrees of trust reposed in the traders
4. artificer whatever ; and the trust which is reposed in him is of much greater importance
5. There exists an underlying current of confidence inherent in teleological designs reposed in a (presumed) understanding of ―things‖
6. “Then you’ll just have to wait and see,” he said, reposed against the counter
7. the positive motivations of those once reposed now living
8. He was a long and lanky figure, reposed as he was, and appeared oddly like a sacrifice left at the foot of an altar
9. LanCoste left water, but Ravan was too wounded to reach the urn and instead slept reposed again upon the footsteps of death
10. Raphael might have scarcely recognized the young man, reposed upon the riverbank with the maiden in his arms
11. Nobody in his life had reposed such complete and colossal trust on him as she had, nor had he
12. But she could know it for sure that Mayank reposed very high hopes on her
13. Under a hall of gray steel where chained compulsions reposed in a growing heat, there was a fire burning
14. Will you let me believe, when I recall this day, that the last confidence of my life was reposed in your pure and innocent breast, and that it lies there alone, and will be shared by no one?"
15. He said, and justly, that a married man upon whom heaven had bestowed a beautiful wife should consider as carefully what friends he brought to his house as what female friends his wife associated with, for what cannot be done or arranged in the market-place, in church, at public festivals or at stations (opportunities that husbands cannot always deny their wives), may be easily managed in the house of the female friend or relative in whom most confidence is reposed
16. To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago
17. which lay like a dreary void on that side of him where the dead reposed
18. The windows were draped with white lace curtains and in the bay was a small bamboo table on which reposed a large Holy Bible, cheaply but showily bound
19. To have looked into this Bible would have reminded her of Mrs Starvem; that was one of the reasons why the book reposed, unopened and unread, a mere ornament on the table in the bay window
20. At a little distance, Heyward discovered, and contemplated with tender emotion, the small bower under which he was fain to believe that Cora and Alice had reposed
21. I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything
22. Fro, to: to, fro: over the polished knob (she knows his eyes, my eyes, her eyes) her thumb and finger passed in pity: passed, reposed and, gently touching, then slid so smoothly, slowly down, a cool firm white enamel baton protruding through their sliding ring
23. A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone
24. "Had treated with the Serasker [*] Koorshid, who had been sent by the sultan to gain possession of the person of my father; it was then that Ali Tepelini—after having sent to the sultan a French officer in whom he reposed great confidence—resolved to retire to the asylum which he had long before prepared for himself, and which he called kataphygion, or the refuge
25. ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the Ellen had stepped to the mantel to take her rosary beads from the small inlaid casket in which they always reposed when Mammy spoke up with firmness
26. Sleep, however, he could not—so near her, yet so far from her—and he continually lifted the window-blind and regarded the backs of the opposite houses, and wondered behind which of the sashes she reposed at that moment
27. Resting my head on Helen’s shoulder, I put my arms round her waist; she drew me to her, and we reposed in silence
28. Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon
29. As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father reposed
30. She locked the story away in the garret trunk where the old Story Club tales reposed; but first she yielded to Diana's entreaties and gave her a copy
31. On chairs in the saloon reposed,
32. Then he locked his store door and stumped away across the field to the big barn, where the remains of Buck’s Leviathan Circus reposed in isolated state
33. This was the automobile which had frightened her horses and set her nerves twittering; and now it reposed by the roadside helpless
34. What was their doctrine in 1798-'9, when the command of the army—that highest of all possible trusts in any Government, be the form what it may—was reposed in the bosom of the Father of his Country, the sanctuary of a nation's love, the only hope that never came in vain! When other worthies of the Revolution—Hamilton, Pinckney, and the younger Washington—men of tried patriotism, of approved conduct and valor, of untarnished honor, held subordinate command under him! Republicans were then unwilling to trust a standing army, even to his hands who had given proof that he was above all human temptation
35. Our citizens, with their usual industry and enterprise, had embarked in it a vast proportion of their shipping and of their capital, which were at sea under no other protection than the law of nations, and the confidence which they reposed in the justice and friendship of the British nation
36. In communicating to you these sentiments of the Executive on the measures you have lately adopted for taking possession of East Florida, I add, with pleasure, that the utmost confidence is reposed in your integrity and zeal to promote the welfare of your country
37. Mary's, where you had arrived in discharge of the trust reposed in you by the President, in relation to East Florida
1. But there are those in the universe who hold that this soul-identity of Jesus now reposes in the "bosom of the Father," to be subsequently released for leadership of the Nebadon Corps of the Finality in their undisclosed destiny in connection with the uncreated universes of the unorganized realms of outer space
2. In deep sleep the mind is a bland and reposes with the body (experience)
3. Jarvis, who is fifty years of age, reposes in the camp in the hazy moonlight
4. It was the first time that Emma had heard such words spoken to herself, and her pride, like one who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded softly and fully at this glowing language
5. "Valentine reposes within the walls of Paris, and to leave Paris is like losing her a second
6. A chamber where one sleeps costs twenty sous; a chamber in which one reposes costs twenty francs
7. Closed gates do not dismiss the inspectors, oversight is supposed to continue, but it grows slack and reposes; and the inspectors, moved by the public anxiety and more occupied with the outside than the inside, no longer glanced into the garden, and had not seen the two delinquents
8. An unclean person is universally a slothful one, one who sits by a stove, whom the sun shines on prostrate, who reposes without being fatigued
9. The alluvial part is elevated above the bed of Connecticut river from 10 to 100 feet, and, in most places, reposes on red sandstone
10. On this singular class of strata, reposes an extensive calcareous formation, occupying the northern and eastern part of the island, having subordinate to it, and at its lowest part, where it is in contact with the conglomerate, large beds and patches of chert, which contains also a vast variety of petrified woods, several of which are of the palm tribe, with silicified shells, chiefly cerithea; though at the Church-hill, at St
11. This admonition I owed to candor—I have paid it, not because I doubted; my purpose is settled, my mind reposes upon it
12. Here it may be seen in different stages of induration; from a state in which it is too friable to be detached from the rock upon which it reposes, to a hardness so considerable, that it requires a very violent blow from a sledge to break it
13. It reposes on a very level and extensive plain, and is itself the largest I ever saw
1. In this respect, the teachers of a new religion have always had a considerable advantage in attacking those ancient and established systems, of which the clergy, reposing themselves upon their benefices, had neglected to keep up the fervour of faith and devotion in the great body of the people; and having given themselves up to indolence, were become altogether incapable of making any vigorous exertion in defence even of their own establishment
2. Reposing under individually tailored dust-covers in his garage, among others, was a 1940 Packard Darrin convertible, a ten-year-old Lincoln Continental, a Nash-Healey, two Jaguars, an Auburn and a 1929 Duesenberg
3. England, Scotland, and Wales were always fighting each other until they gave up their respective sovereignties, reposing them in the United Kingdom
4. The gold lamp burned low, casting a mellow glow over the thick tapestries and the rich coverings of the couch whereon he had been reposing
5. She looked down with a new sympathy at Ditti's head reposing, also according to plan, on her shoulder
6. For all of the changes wrought upon her life by Cambridge's maniacal ideals, in spite of all the loss and heartbreak that had grown from the spoiled crops of his failed enterprise, Ingrid had no idea what the body reposing inside the casket looked like
7. In no single instance is this faith described as reposing on a belief in natural immortality
8. When a Royal hand attached to an invisible body slipped out and withdrew the red and white bouquet reposing on the scarlet ledge, the Queen of England seemed a name worth dying for
9. They were reposing, then, in the shade, when a voice unaccompanied by the notes of any instrument, but sweet and pleasing in its tone, reached their ears, at which they were not a little astonished, as the place did not seem to them likely quarters for one who sang so well; for though it is often said that shepherds of rare voice are to be found in the woods and fields, this is rather a flight of the poet's fancy than the truth
10. For Jo sat on the grass, with an encampment of boys about her, and a dirty-footed dog reposing on the skirt of her state and festival dress, as she related one of Laurie's pranks to her admiring audience
11. Then the three statues advanced towards him with looks of love, and approached the couch on which he was reposing, their feet hidden in their long white tunics, their throats bare, hair flowing like waves, and assuming attitudes which the gods could not resist, but which saints withstood, and looks inflexible and ardent like those with which the serpent charms the bird; and then he gave way before looks that held him in a torturing grasp and delighted his senses as with a voluptuous kiss
12. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market-days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant
13. By degrees he fell to reposing such great confidence in me, as to ask my advice in reference to his own affairs
14. He was employed in a vague personal capacity—while he remained with Cody he was in turn steward, mate, skip-per, secretary, and even jailor, for Dan Cody sober knew what lavish doings Dan Cody drunk might soon be about and he provided for such contingencies by reposing more and more trust in Gatsby
15. "Thank God!" murmured Clare; and yet he was conscious of a pang of bitterness at the thought—approximately true, though not wholly so—that having shifted the burden of her life to his shoulders, she was now reposing without care
16. velvet lawn closely girdling the grey base of the mansion; the field, wide as a park, dotted with its ancient timber; the wood, dun and sere, divided by a path visibly overgrown, greener with moss than the trees were with foliage; the church at the gates, the road, the tranquil hills, all reposing in the autumn day’s sun; the horizon bounded by a propitious sky, azure, marbled with pearly white
17. It is customary to have two harpoons reposing in the crotch, respectively called the first and second irons
18. Owing to the density of the crowd of reposing whales, more immediately surrounding the embayed axis of the herd, no possible chance of escape was at present afforded us
19. Christ had listened to it, but was now musing—one hand reposing on the child’s bright head
20. One night Madame Kouan dreamed that she saw a pearl of wonderful purity reposing on the breast of her son