repose

• Only an hour or two of rest (broken like the sleep of those of a household who retire from the side of beloved sufferers, leaving them to the care of others while they snatch a few moments of the repose which is needed to prepare them for fresh exertions) and I was once more on my way to the wards. —  Memories
• And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. —  Free New York Blog
• Lady Locke was indoors, writing the unnecessary letter to New Zealand, which has already been referred to; and Tommy, fatigued to tears by luncheon, had gone to bed, and was dreaming in an angry manner about black beetles, unable quite to attain the dignity of a nightmare, and yet deprived of the sweet repose which is popularly believed to shut the door on the nose of the doctor Yes, decidedly, it was Sunday afternoon The weather was very hot and languid, and the bees kept on buzzing all the time. —  The Green Carnation
• I have no repose, that is, none which shall cause 40 The loss of an hour's time unto the State Let them meet when they will, I shall be found Where I should be, and what I have been ever Exit Senator. —  The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry
• Those masters sacrificed, if it be a sacrifice, something to repose--repose is the thing to be sacrificed according to the notions of too many of our modern schools. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.

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