At the top, David threw himself down before a log with his pack resting upon it, but Roly thought he could improve on this arrangement by sitting on the trunk itself and letting the pack come against the great upturned roots.
Trinità, beneath an arch resting on elegant corbels, and on the edges of which are seen pretty genii playing.
It has arches resting on an entablature laid on the capitals, a square end to the choir, a cupola, a flat roof, and chapels of no great depth.
The sarcophagus, resting on lions’ claws and richly adorned with flowers, leaves, and streaming ribands, is one of the most beautiful productions of decorative sculpture.
Croce, a figure of the dead man resting on the sarcophagus in a niche crowned by a lunette, with a Madonna in relief.
Her eyes were resting upon him with a look of agonised appeal.
With a grunt Mr. Crowninshield led the way into his parlour and stood with his finger-tips resting on the table and his long body bent over it.
The spaniel was lying upon his belly, his neck stretched out, his jaws resting upon his paws.
It seemed that felicity, resting on such foundations, could never be disturbed; but one single moment was sufficient to overturn the work of seventeen years!
It is the material image of the Christian; his heart resting on the Rock of Ages, his eye fixed on the brighter world above.
The skilful and politic queen, well pleased to find her lovely head still resting on her own shoulders instead of on the executioner’s block, gave thanks to God for her deliverance, and henceforth left theology in peace.
A gentleman sixty-three years of age, a lady, and a youth of fifteen are resting in the pleasure grounds of an English rural mansion.
Freyer was sitting on a wooden stool by the table, his head resting on his hand, absorbed in sorrowful thought.
And as he will be loyal to us in his inmost soul, we will be true to him and prepare a resting place when the world has nailed his heart upon the cross.
Madeleine von Wildenau embraced him with unspeakable tenderness, yet she felt the burden of a heavy responsibility resting upon her, for she now realized--that she was his destiny.
What else should I do during the long evenings, when wearied by my work, I am resting at home?
He laid it on the table, his eyes resting dully on the large childish characters of the unformed hand: "Forgive me!
Then, resting his head on his hand and looking fixedly into vacancy, he said: "There is a constraining power about this man, which draws us all into its spell and compels us not to fall behind him in generosity.
Here the wanderer, deceived in everything, lay resting on his way home.
The countess stood with her hands resting on the table and her eyes bent on the floor.
It was too dark for the prince to see distinctly, but her head seemed to be resting on the peasant's breast.
Beneath this, the ponderous volumes that contain the file of the paper for the last forty years are piled, their weight too great for a shelf resting on the floor.
At the corner of a field a team of horses--his own--were resting awhile as the carter and his lad ate their luncheon.
Old Hodge viewed the scene from a distance, resting against a gate, with his chin on his hand.
Her hand wasresting on his arm; he pressed it, and she did not attempt to withdraw it.
She rose languidly, and moved to the harp; resting her hand on the table as she went: selected one of the strings Mr. Haveloc brought her, and began to undo the broken one.
Ambulinia was seated by a small table--her head restingon her hand--her brilliant eyes were bathed in tears.
When examined with high powers the wall of the salivary gland shows a network of protoplasm with large scattered nuclei, resting upon a structureless chitinous membrane.
True Beetles have a resting or chrysalis stage, and may further be recognised in the adult state by the dense wing-covers, meeting along a straight line down the middle of the back, and by the transversely folded wings.
In this act it is said not to flex the fingers, as does the Chimpanzee, resting on its knuckles, but to extend them, making a fulcrum of the hand.
The natural position is on all fours, the body anteriorly resting upon the knuckles.
He lies sometimes on his back, or, by way of change, turns on one side or the other, drawing his limbs up to his body, and resting his head on his hand.
It is then apparently lifeless, with the antennæ restingclose along the back, above which the wings are folded.
Dragon flies lazily winged their way across the pool, now resting daintily upon a blade of sedge or swamp grass, now dipping the tips of their abdomens beneath the surface of the water while depositing their eggs.
In pursuit of these, the Bats flit rapidly about trees, houses, and other buildings, now and then resting by clinging for a moment to the rough surfaces of the walls or the trunks and branches of trees.
She rose, took her own lute from her neck, and stood resting one hand on the high back of her chair, turning her face from him; for she was afraid, now that she had heard him.
The tall bearded porter stood motionless by the entrance, resting both his hands on the huge silver pommel of his polished staff.
It's a very dear little pig," he said, resting his hand for a moment upon her shoulder.
I have no objection," he said, restinghis hand for a moment upon her shoulder, "to your talking to her whenever you may happen to meet.
Phineas Duge rose from his seat, and, resting one hand upon the table, peered forward at the two men.
Considering the time at which he received the letter, and the necessity of resting before he attempted to return, it was impossible for him to avoid being away from home for one night, at least.
His long hair flowed down under it over the collar of his coat; his bright black eyes, after resting an instant on my mistress, turned to Mr. Meeke.
Great flocks of water birds were passing overhead, flying to the south; and many of them stopped in the streams, resting and feeding.
That of Speed is his bust, in doublet and ruff, with his right hand resting on a book, and his left on a skull.
These travels even in France resting solely on the authority of Leland, Tyrwhitt disputes, but of their reality there can be little doubt.
On the 25th both were back at Bath, where they resumed their quiet, regular way of life, resting and reading.
Mary did not know our danger; she was resting between my knees, that were unable to support her; she did not speak or look, but I felt that she was there.
Not a man would move except three or four, who slowly rose from the ground and stood resting on their guns.
We reached Berber on May 31st, and spent a week in resting after our formidable desert march of fifteen days.
After resting from my long walk I decided to go on to Republic county, Kansas, and take a homestead.
Then she turns back sharply, to answer some remark made in the little drawing-room, and looks quickly out again with hands resting on the door.
At the old-fashioned square piano her mother was seated with her hands resting upon the keys which were silent.
Meanwhile Julia had gone straight to her mother and knelt down at her feet, resting her hands upon her knees, in her old child-like position, and gazing up in the pale, wasted face for some minutes without speaking.
He snatched the piece offered to him, took careful aim by resting the musket on the edge of the scarped bank, and fired.
There was a defiant look, too, in her eyes; but it was evident that she had been crying, as she ushered the friends into the room where Mrs Hallam was sittings with Julia kneeling at her feet and resting her arms upon her mother's knees.
Presently the people all began to go away, and with keen pain he saw Liane leaving with her new admirer, her little hand resting like a snowflake on his black coat sleeve.
While the human workers were busy at the breakfast-table, the snow and wind did not take any resting spell, but kept right on, doing their best to restore the damaged drifts.
A stout pole was laid across each pair of stakes, resting in the forks.
