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But every day after dinner, for an hour, we were all together, and then the Favourite and the rest of the Royal Hareem competed who should most beguile the leisure of the Serene Haroun reposing from the cares of State – which were generally, as in most affairs of State, of an arithmetical character, the Commander of the Faithful being a fearful boggler at a sum.

The Haunted House by Charles Dickens | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News 2004

Now if he had chosen me, my body would, at this moment, have been concealed behind the sofa, and my class pin reposing in the murderer's pocket.

When Patty Went to College 1903

And these two uses of the expression reposing on its plain meaning, in the first instance signifying, 'I tell you that it is so'; and in the second instance signifying, 'So may it be!' or, 'So we believe it is,' underlie this grand title which God takes to Himself here, 'the God of the Amen,' both His Amen and ours.

Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868

He shall never have cause to repent his confidence in reposing such a trust in the Lord Jesus.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

All the same, a little more fear leavened his exhilaration as he returned his attention to the sword reposing upon the bottom of the frozen pool.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

All the same, a little more fear leavened his exhilaration as he returned his attention to the sword reposing upon the bottom of the frozen pool.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Rowling, J. K. 2007

It never struck me that the time might have been profitably employed in paying a flying visit to one of the most sacred objects in Calabria and possibly in the whole world, one which Signor N. Marcene describes as reposing at Bagnara in a rich reliquary -- the authentic Hat of the Mother of God.

Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

Moreover, in the front yard were cast-iron images painted white: a stag reposing on a door-mat; Diana properly dressed and returning from the chase; a small iron boy holding over his head a parasol from the ferrule of which a fountain squirted.

The Blue Flower 1902

Moreover, in the front yard were cast-iron images painted white: a stag reposing on a door-mat; Diana properly dressed and returning from the chase; a small iron boy holding over his head a parasol from the ferrule of which a fountain squirted.

The Blue Flower Henry Van Dyke 1892

The husband appears to have been more attached to her than Walpole supposed; at least if we may judge from his will, in which he desires to be buried in the same grave, and expresses his gratification at the idea of reposing by the side of one whom he had, during his lifetime, cherished and respected so highly.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757