All 11 Uses of
repose
in
Middlemarch
- Sometimes when Dorothea was in company, there seemed to be as complete an air of repose about her as if she had been a picture of Santa Barbara looking out from her tower into the clear air; but these intervals of quietude made the energy of her speech and emotion the more remarked when some outward appeal had touched her.†
Chpt 1
- One evening, tired with his experimenting, and not being able to elicit the facts he needed, he left his frogs and rabbits to some repose under their trying and mysterious dispensation of unexplained shocks, and went to finish his evening at the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin, where there was a melodrama which he had already seen several times; attracted, not by the ingenious work of the collaborating authors, but by an actress whose part it was to stab her lover, mistaking him for…†
Chpt 2
- …in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence—seems, as it were, to throw itself on its back after vigorous swimming and float with the repose of unexhausted strength—Lydgate felt a triumphant delight in his studies, and something like pity for those less lucky men who were not of his profession.†
Chpt 2
- The clear heights where she expected to walk in full communion had become difficult to see even in her imagination; the delicious repose of the soul on a complete superior had been shaken into uneasy effort and alarmed with dim presentiment.†
Chpt 3 *
- Lydgate, you perceive, had talked fervidly to Rosamond of his hopes as to the highest uses of his life, and had found it delightful to be listened to by a creature who would bring him the sweet furtherance of satisfying affection—beauty—repose—such help as our thoughts get from the summer sky and the flower-fringed meadows.†
Chpt 4
- She was always trying to be what her husband wished, and never able to repose on his delight in what she was.†
Chpt 5
- "And now I think that I can take some repose," said Mr. Casaubon.†
Chpt 5
- In my opinion Mrs. Casaubon should do what would give her the most repose of mind.†
Chpt 5
- That repose will not always come from being forbidden to act.†
Chpt 5
- At that moment he snatched at a temporary repose to be won on any terms.†
Chpt 5
- In the months since their parting Dorothea had felt a delicious though sad repose in their relation to each other, as one which was inwardly whole and without blemish.†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie