reposefulness

There was no sinister note in the loneliness such as he had experienced in the vast spaces of the African veldt, but a reposefulness, a quiet rest which appealed to him.

Antony Gray,—Gardener Leslie Moore

"My cows like me -- and there's great comfort after the stress of a stormy session in the reposefulness of a pig."

The Gay Cockade Temple Bailey

It is this extreme reposefulness of colour that opposes the unrest in the form and helps to restore the balance and necessary repose in the picture.

The Practice and Science of Drawing Harold Speed

That the snug little system of 1882 would be ousted from its reposefulness --

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

The partners are a wife, clothed in purity, walking in modesty, with a reposefulness of spirit which reflects the very glory of God; and a husband, walking with his wife according to knowledge, bowing before her in reverence, and pervading all his behaviour with the temper of his secret communion with the Lord.

The Epistles of St. Peter 1817-1893 1910

Some, on the contrary, have a natural purity of soul and a reposefulness which renders them fit for the contemplative life; if such men were to be applied wholly to the active life they would incur great loss.

On Prayer and The Contemplative Life Aquinas Thomas 1907

He has lost the feel of reposefulness and peace -- oh, years and years ago!

A Double-Barreled Detective Story 1902

High cheek-bones, straight black hair, and a certain dignified reposefulness of manner pointed to an aboriginal descent.

The House Behind the Cedars 1900

The quiet boy Grisha accompanied them, and looked with the blue reposefulness of his impassionate eyes into the blue flames of her rapturous ones, soothing the sultriness and passion of her agitation.

The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895

The early evening sky was growing bluer -- a blue reposefulness was pouring itself out upon the earth and extinguishing the ruby-coloured flames of the sunset.

The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895