On the other hand, for intentional neglect, there was no remedy: the man was impius and it rested with the gods to punish him as they liked (deorum iniuriae dis curae).
Nickie the Kid had put in the busiest day of his varied career, and here he rested from his labours.
John rested his hand on her bridle, as she stroked her horse's mane.
Once acknowledged by his soul, its growth was ended; it hardened into a creed, in which he rested in complete satisfaction.
No one thought of disputing his statement that the wrath of God rested upon all unconverted souls, and that it would, unless they burst from their darkness into the glorious light of revealed truth, sink them to hell.
Max seemed to feel that the responsibility of propriety rested upon him, and he sat with his head on Lois's knee, and his drowsy eyes blinking at Mr. Forsythe.
He was at his desk, and she rested her hand lightly on his shoulder.
Yet a certain brightness rested upon his face, which for a moment hid its pallor.
It is quite true that no successful defence of violence could ever be rested on the formula itself.
The hope, so far as itrested on the agriculturist himself, was rendered something of an anachronism by the present conditions of service.
It rested partly on a conviction of security; but that feeling of security was the most perilous sign of all.
The balance of power on which the nobility had rested its presidency since the fall of Caius Gracchus, began to be disturbed.
Her eyes still rested on his face, questioningly, appraisingly, as though she were seeking to estimate his preparedness for the ordeal before him, his ability to go through with it successfully, triumphantly.
The Godship of Christ rested upon no dogma, it was a conviction born into us with the new birth.
He had left his painting to bring her a glass of water from the house, and sherested in a somnolent calm.
Madam Fulton, too, got up and rested one hand upon the table.
No ray of light fell on the tall white figure that stood in lonely misery on the doorstep; no eyerested on Janet as she sank down on the cold stone, and looked into the dismal night.
But the tiny hand rested with the pressure of contented affection on Maynard's arm, and the dark eyes met his downward glance with timid answering love.
Mr. Tryan might well rejoice when his eye rested on her as he entered his desk; but he rejoiced with trembling.
There was a liquid brightness in her eyes as they rested on the mere walls, the pews, the weavers and colliers in their Sunday clothes.
After this, the thermometer of his regard rested at the moderate point of friendly back-biting, which sufficed to make him agreeable in his morning visits to the amiable and worthy persons who were yet far from convalescent.
I have been kept in-doors by a cold ever since Sunday, or I should not have rested without seeing you.
I 'll come and see you to-morrow, when you are well rested and refreshed.
As the sun sank beneath the hills the heavy exhalations began to well up from the damp earth, till a bluish haze of vapour rested over the plains and even partly up the mountain side.
One wasted, blue-veined hand rested on his knee, the other was in the breast of his robe.
Thor; for human victims were slain in his honour whenever, through some failure of faith keeping or breaking of a covenant, a curse rested upon the community.
The colouring, too, in which all nature had dressed herself, gave another touch of delight through every object which the eye rested on.
Following on over rocks and bushes, they soon came to the place Maggie meant, and Meredith rested his cart and stood still to look.
Getting down on all-fours, holding his breath, yet with never a thought of danger to himself, he crept along toward the door leading into the hall, then stopped and rested under cover of the heavy window drapery.
His determination rested on the abstraction of liberty for an oppressed people; he saw Cuba as a place which, after great travail, would become the haunt of perfect peace.
His flickering eyes rested first on her and then upon Charles Abbott.
Looking up, Sam's glancerested on a young man, of rustic dress and manners, which made him seem quite out of place in a fashionable hotel.
All at once his eye rested on a gold ring lying on the sidewalk at his feet.
He did not immediately find the list of lucky numbers, but at length his eye rested on them.
The lady looked quickly about her, until her eye rested upon the figure of the wounded man; him she approached, and as she looked down her lip began to tremble.
His glance finally rested upon Brownie, a man as characteristic as himself, but at times displaying rather more heart than was common among Enders.
As she pondered, an occasional scream from Toddie helped to unbend the severity of her principles, but suddenly her eye rested upon a picture of her husband, and she seemed to see in one of the eyes a quizzical expression.
As Deacon Bates spoke, his eye restedwarningly on Mr. Jodderel.
The method of his death and origin of his coffin led a spirituous miner to suggest that he rested happily, and from this remark the name of the town was elaborated.
The machine was then worked for a few turns, and alkali immediately appeared at the point of the discharging train which rested on the turmeric paper.
Fitzooth's hand rested at last upon the top rung of a ladder, and slowly the truth came to him.
From where we rested we could see him slowly descending the hill, bareheaded and with his right hand clasping his left shoulder.
So silent was our progress that several times I felt in doubt about any one being behind me and rested motionless until I felt the touch of Delpeuch's hand upon my foot.
Thus we rested until the new day broke, bringing a clear sky and sunshine.
We rested awhile to regain our wind and then began to slide on our stomachs at right angles to our first course.
As we worked, soup arrived, and when that was disposed of, the men rested for some hours.
With one in his hand, he crawled close to the wire, rolled on his back, restedan instant with arms extended, both hands grasping the grenade, then suddenly he doubled forward and back and sent the bomb flying over his head.
The two old men sat cross-legged on the ground, and the chessboard rested on a slab, like a stone table, between them.
And he never restedtill he reached his cottage door, and got inside.
The pillow on which his headrested was made out of the down from humming-birds' breasts.
One day a Prince came, and no sooner had he rested from his journey than he sent for Hans's uncle.
His arms came around me and he rested his head on me and wept.
The swollen shapes of trees and benches rested in the storm.
So rested shee: and then the next in rew Began her grievous plaint, as doth ensew.
So rested she: and then the next in rew Began her grievous plaint, as doth ensew.
Although Origny is a dusty little village, as dull as any in all Picardy, the canoeists rested there a day, and had good profit of the people they met at the inn, as Stevenson's pages witness.
One evening, when he had arrived near a village where he would have rested the night, he determined to press on beyond it because he had heard a young girl insult her mother!
The town must have altered greatly since he rested there, as it is now on the railway line to Villefort, and a considerable trade in coal seems to be carried on.
The stage-coach from Villefort to Mende rested for a time at the inn, causing a flicker of excitement, and in the evening again the mine officials were there to bear us company.
Their dinner had once more rested and refreshed them, and Cecile hoped they might yet find the old court in Bloomsbury.
The moment his eyes rested on the welcome sight, he sent Toby back.
He felt hastily once again in his ragged coat; there rested his one centime.
We shall be quite rested and able to go on down south to-morrow, Joe," said Cecile.
She rested her chin on her hand and one or two puckers came into her brow, and she screwed up her shrewd little mouth.
Discarding the traditional mediævalisms, his faith rested simply on a vivid realisation of the Person of Christ; and whilst his active and lucid intellect exhibit him in many lights, everything else was subordinate to his faith.
At his saddle-bow he carried holsters; his legs had long leather leggins, and his feet shoes with spurs, but they rested in no stirrups.
We fed the horses at Rolle, and rested some time at the Tete Noire, a clean, quiet-looking inn, where one might pass a night comfortably.
He was received, not as an envoy, but with shouts of fury; those nearest him rested their bare knives and bayonets on his breast, and those more distant took aim at him with their muskets: he thought it was all over.
We staid in the cathedral till the daylight failed; and the high roof looked loftier when we could barely distinguish where it rested on the groups of slender columns.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rested" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
