Grace reposes her whole hope and love in God, and is never mistaken, never deluded by false expectations.
Time reposes on eternity; the truly great and= 10 =transcendental has its basis and substance in eternity; stands revealed to us as eternity in a vesture of time.
Chadband's attitude is entirely changed from that in the etching, and Jo is placed on the other side of the drawing, with his back to Guster, while a cat reposes upon an ottoman near Mrs. Snagsby.
The drawings were subsequently bound up in a copy of the first edition of the story, and the treasured volume now reposes in the library of a New York collector.
How pleased, how delighted, the rapt eye reposes On the picture of beauty this valley discloses, From the margin of silver, whereon the blue water Doth glance like the eyes of the ocean foam's daughter!
Perpetual blooms his bower of summer roses, No winter comes to turn his green leaves sere, Beside his song-stream where the swan reposes The bulbul sings as by the Bendemeer.
There reposes peacefully enough now by the side of its companion, the weapon with which the "Liberator" shot Mr. D'Esterre.
Here reposes Romanus, a presbyter, who sat a presbyter twenty-eight years ten months.
Their marriage law, to repeat our case briefly, now reposessolely on the familiar and confessedly late system of exogamous alternating classes, as among other northern tribes.
On the opening day the Speaker's Chair is, of course, vacant, and the mace reposes peacefully underneath the table.
Here, too, reposes the mace, that ancient symbol of the royal authority.
V On the lake as it reposes Dwells the moon with glow serene Interweaving pallid roses With the rushes' crown of green.
The fluvio-marine series usually terminates upwards in finely laminated sands and clays without fossils, on which reposes the boulder clay.
This glacial drift reposes near the mountains on ancient metamorphic rocks and farther from them on marine Pliocene strata.
Oft as summer closes, When thine eye reposes On its lingering roses, Once so loved by thee, Think of her who wove them, Her who made thee love them, Oh!
The Princess wears her long ducal mantle and crown, and at her feet reposes a superb greyhound.
It reposes on the long gentle slope of a low hill, with plenty of air and sunlight.
They themselves have a tradition, which cannot easily obtain credit, that their deity enters this temple and reposes by night on this couch.
Her character was such as has well been compared to that soft green on which the eye, wearied by warm tints and glaring lights, reposes with pleasure.
Vishnu reposes on his celestial Serpent; the god of Dogma maintains his government by support of the infernal Serpent.
On the verge of the Desert, Prime Minister to the Necropolis at whose gateway it stands, the Sphinx reposes amid the silence of science and the centuries.
The heart reposesin greater security on the immensity of Nature's works, "expatiates freely there," and finds elbow room and breathing space.
Nature is the soul of art: there is a strength as well as a simplicity in the imagination that reposes entirely on nature, that nothing else can supply.
A bright clear sky, with a few light clouds at sunset, reposes on the ocean, on the treeless peninsula, and on the plains of Cumana, while we see the storms accumulate and descend in fertile showers among the inland mountains.
I have observed in several places, and very distinctly, that the sandstone not only reposes on the limestone, but that this last rock frequently includes and alternates with the sandstone.
And though such a man's prayer is not meritorious, it may yet have the power of winning favours; for while merit reposes upon justice, the power of winning favours reposes upon grace.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reposes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
