Avoid crowding your rooms, walls or tables, for in creating a home one must produce the quality of restfulness by order and space.
If this rule is observed a sense of order and restfulness is communicated to the observer.
They get little rest indeed; but restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert, and it is in repose that men prepare themselves for evil.
And it was as though, in spite of the restfulness induced by Mathilde's absence, they were all gloomy because Addie was gone, as if they had all lost him.
There was a certain hard, quiet restfulness in scorning it all so whole-heartedly as either stupid or base.
Below them spread the divinely colored plain, crossed by the ancient yellow river, rolling its age-old memories out to the sea, a blue reminder of the restfulness of eternity, at the rim of the weary old land.
This, to Sir Charles, added to the natural restfulness of the place.
Restfulness fled away, but, in place of it, interest grew.
What you took to be laziness is therestfulness of divine power.
More vigorous horseback exercises, taken through the park-like glades and reaches of the Coconino Forest, produce perfect digestion and the restfulness of dreamless sleep.
He was walking very simply by her side, a tall, thin fellow of perhaps twenty-six, more of a boy than a man in face and figure, but endowed with a certain assurance and restfulness that made him seem older than his years.
And over it all brooded the restfulness of the Sabbath, and the gladness of a fair and equal light.
The restfulness of one quiet, uneventful week following another had steadied his nerves, repaired the waste of fever, and restored his physical strength.
So she sat by his bedside, softly fanning his burning and aching brow, and presently he dropped off into a delicious state of restfulness and ease, such as he had not known since first receiving his injuries.
She realized, with a little shock of discovery, the restfulness that was the essential quality of his companionship.
He also called dutifully at "The Nook" during his week-end visits to Penton Court, where he found restfulness in the atmosphere of lavender.
He had first found himself there out of curiosity, for, though not an irreligious man, he was not given to pious practices; but afterwards he had gone on account of the restfulness of the rural service.
There is about the whole place a restfulness that has been achieved by careful planning and attention to details.
This gives a landscape picture carefully planned and creates a delightful feeling of restfulness and a sense of relief from the bustle of city life.
The atmosphere of the coffee-room being too freezing for my pleasure, I sought the smoke-room in search of more genial society, or the restfulness of none at all.
If there were several whose hearts overflowed with undisguised pleasure at the thought that a period of restfulness was to begin with the morning's sun--others rejoiced from a pure and generous sympathy.
This was the only touch of color, save a water color or two, in a room overflowing with restfulness and that "charm which lulls to sleep.
Restfulness was the last quality to be associated with Wally, who had been remarkable throughout his life for total inability to keep still.
Thus looking back, he vividly recalled the extraordinary restfulness of sitting there in silence, while she worked.
There was a look of strength and of restfulness about the long fingers and beautifully moulded hands.
He had watched with fascination the restfulness of Miss Elton's hands, the one that held her mother's, the one that lay quietly in her lap.
Dick never spoke of love, but the way was pointed not only by the easy restfulness of their comradeship, but in the very atmosphere that surrounded them.
The room was large and suffused with that restfulness which comes to homes where serene and thoughtful lives have been lived.
So it is that nearly all gardens, looking, as they do, to be in a state of preparation and incompleteness, make restfulness out of the question.
Yet she does not contradict him, for she remembers vividly with what relief she heard that news, and how thankfully she had accepted the restfulnessit brought her--a restfulness undisturbed until that morning.
Presently, passing from the restfulnessof that conscious communion, she remembered a strange dream she had had that night.
So when Jonah had fully decided that he would rebel against God and give up all claim to God, a dreadful restfulness came to his troubled spirit.
This consciousness of reconciliation in turn causes a blessed sense of restfulness and peace to spring up in the heart, and thus we have the peace of God within us.
Peace with God by reconciliation must therefore be followed by the peace of God through restfulness of heart day by day.
The sense of repose and restfulness necessary to sitting or reclining groups depends upon the gentle declivities of the curves and their gradual descent to the horizontal.
Their intellectual restfulness in a few clear settled ideas left a degree of freedom to their energy in common duties that may not always be possible amidst the bewildering theories of an unsettled and speculative age.
