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  • All trace of the recent interment had been removed, and its sober grey gloomed reposefully in the sunshine.

    To Let 2004

  • So that did not trouble him greatly as he lounged in his doorway, and reposefully contemplated the ruddy noonday light which was endeavoring to lend picturesqueness to a scene which, he assured himself, was an "everlastin 'disgrace an' stain on the lousy pretensions of a museum of bum human intellec's."

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • That one thing was that while the face listened reposefully the legs were industriously dancing like the legs of a marionette.

    The Club of Queer Trades 1905

  • Sitting there beside one of the sunny southern windows, her small, faintly wrinkled hands lying reposefully in her lap, she made a dainty, attractive picture of age which was yet not old.

    Shoe-Bar Stratton Joseph Bushnell Ames 1903

  • All trace of the recent interment had been removed, and its sober grey gloomed reposefully in the sunshine.

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • All trace of the recent interment had been removed, and its sober grey gloomed reposefully in the sunshine.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • All trace of the recent interment had been removed, and its sober grey gloomed reposefully in the sunshine.

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

  • He found Lord Chetwode, as usual, in the green library, not reading the newspapers, and reposefully smoking.

    The Twelfth Hour Ada Leverson 1897

  • In spite of the new and loftier soul looking out of her eyes, in spite of the new and womanly dignity which she bore so reposefully, she read my face with that quick, intuitive glance I had learned to know so well.

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • "I'll take it from you, gentlemen," he said, and settled himself reposefully.

    Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

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