Reposes
[rɪ'pəʊziz]
Examples
- It acquiesces in them; and, in a manner, fixes and reposes itself on them. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- One hand of the mistress generally reposes on the loving serf's rude head, because if she takes it away he groans and is discontented. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- His heart, exhausted by his early sufferings, reposes like a new-healed limb, and shrinks from all excitement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And before a statue of one of those dead Medicis reposes a crown that blazes with diamonds and emeralds enough to buy a ship-of-the-line, almost. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- A tall and stalwart man reposes on a couch there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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