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Example sentences for "reposeful"

Lexicographically close words:
reportorial; reports; repos; repose; reposed; reposes; reposeth; reposing; reposited; reposition
  1. It startled her from this reposeful feeling when Stobart rose abruptly and began to pace the room, for some minutes in silence, broken only by a sigh, then bursting into impassioned speech.

  2. There was a challenge in the reposeful black eyes resting upon my face.

  3. Doña Rita continued leaning on her elbow, her lips closed in a reposeful expression of peculiar sweetness.

  4. The desire to show the capacity of the method of printing a pattern in colours may not always be on all fours with the wish for tasteful design and reposeful effect.

  5. His gait was by no means the result of any reposeful sense.

  6. Outside Quebec City and Montreal, Quebec is the most reposeful region in all America.

  7. Or the slowness of the rhythmic pulse that is set up in me, the largeness, the volume, the depth of sound, all bring about in me the kind of nervous state that belongs to a reposeful and yet deeply moved feeling.

  8. But the greatly predominating use of the second for landscapes would remain unexplained, for at least nothing can be more reposeful than the latter.

  9. A wide gulf indeed separates the mood and the method of this superb bravura piece from the reposeful charm of the Giorgionesque saint in the St. Mark of the Salute, or the healthy realism of the unconcerned St. Sebastian in the S.

  10. Anthea turned and looked at him with reposeful eyes.

  11. I see," said the girl with the reposeful eyes, and Jimmy backed out in haste.

  12. She was tall and somewhat large of frame, with a quiet face that had something patrician in it, and reposeful brown eyes.

  13. And when she presently and with due courtesy invited me to enter, I very affably did so, finding the atmosphere of the place reposeful and her conversation of a character that I could approve.

  14. Very grave and reposeful they lend an air of great solemnity to the chapel, and as Messrs.

  15. With the lisping of the inch-deep wavelets at our heels we stood and regarded the worn yet defiant, the wasted and jagged yet reposeful face of the guardians of the shore.

  16. A drowsy reposeful quiet reigned in the back streets which made strolling through them very pleasant, barring the almost unbearable heat of the sun.

  17. The gleam of domes and towers, softened in the glamour of the distance, catches our eyes; and the reposeful atmosphere and mediaeval tints seem to belie the strife of its past, or even the incidents of its modern industrial life.

  18. He is cultivating more and more of a reposeful attitude.

  19. When you meet people of some consequence, assume a reposeful attitude before them.

  20. It is not difficult to know what you us doing all the time, if you will just practice concentration and with a reposeful deliberation, and train yourself to think clearly, promptly, and decisive.

  21. But no other suggestion of these successive evictions was ever visible in the reposeful serenity of the spot.

  22. It was also a genial, reposeful country for the faithful historian, Diedrich Knickerbocker; and here he picked up many of those legends which were given by him to the world.

  23. The river, which has averaged about a mile in breadth, begins to gradually widen at Hastings, and almost seems like a gentle, reposeful lake.

  24. It was almost reposeful in its resolution.

  25. She was received by a very reposeful lady of middle age in inconveniently tight-fitting black silk, with the powder thick upon her pallid face.

  26. There was a trace of moisture on Muriel Gascoyne's cheek, but she held herself erect, and she was tall and large of frame, as well as a reposeful young woman.

  27. Nevertheless it has a distinctive charm of its own-a reposeful atmosphere and a simplicity of form that become more and more appealing with riper acquaintance.

  28. But in it is that reposeful strength which characterizes so much of French's work-a sense of completeness, of fullness, that is perhaps the most soul-satisfying quality of great sculpture.

  29. She was usually a reposeful young woman herself, and the man's graceful tranquillity, which was of a kind not to be met with every day in that country, appealed to her.

  30. For a moment a curious expression, which Brooke could attach no meaning to, crept into his companion's face, but though there was a faint flush in her cheeks it grew suddenly reposeful again.

  31. She merely made a slight little motion with her hand, as when one brushes away a fly, and said with reposeful indifference: "Passez outre.

  32. There was no uncertainty in any fold of her cashmere that morning; in any movement of her person, slow and reposeful as every movement was.

  33. The heart that lives on the will of God will be calm and steadfast, and ennobled into reposeful tranquillity like that which it grasps and grapples.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reposeful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    calm; cloistered; comfortable; commodious; convenient; cool; cozy; cushioned; cushy; dispassionate; dwindling; easy; equable; even; friendly; halcyon; homelike; homely; homey; hushed; impassive; isolated; luxurious; moldering; pacific; peaceable; peaceful; placid; quiescent; quiet; relaxing; reposeful; reposing; restful; roomy; secluded; sequestered; serene; sheltered; smooth; snug; soft; still; stolid; subsiding; tranquil; undisturbed; unmoved; unperturbed; unruffled; untroubled; waning; warm