All 13 Uses of
repose
in
David Copperfield
- As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind, some weatherbeaten ragged old rooks'-nests, burdening their higher branches, swung like wrecks upon a stormy sea.†
Chpt 1-3
- She must be well brought up, and well guarded from reposing any foolish confidences where they are not deserved.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- In the morning, too, when I felt weary, and should have enjoyed another hour's repose very much, it was a tiresome thing to be roused, like the Sultana Scheherazade, and forced into a long story before the getting-up bell rang; but Steerforth was resolute; and as he explained to me, in return, my sums and exercises, and anything in my tasks that was too hard for me, I was no loser by the transaction.†
Chpt 7-9
- Mr. Micawber's feelings would never allow him to dispose of them; and Clickett' — this was the girl from the workhouse — 'being of a vulgar mind, would take painful liberties if so much confidence was reposed in her.†
Chpt 10-12
- I thought the simple confidence reposed in us by Mr. Peggotty and by himself, was, in itself, affecting.†
Chpt 19-21
- 'Why that, Master Copperfield,' said Uriah, 'is, in fact, the confidence that I am going to take the liberty of reposing.†
Chpt 25-27
- As no arguments I could urge, in my bewildered condition, had the least effect upon his modesty in inducing him to accept my bedroom, I was obliged to make the best arrangements I could, for his repose before the fire.†
Chpt 25-27
- The time came in its season, and that was very soon, when I almost wondered that nothing troubled his repose, as I looked at him.†
Chpt 28-30
- The resources of this lodging were so limited, that we found the twins, now some eight or nine years old, reposing in a turn-up bedstead in the family sitting-room, where Mr. Micawber had prepared, in a wash-hand-stand jug, what he called 'a Brew' of the agreeable beverage for which he was famous.†
Chpt 34-36
- He had stopped the moment I began, and had listened with his usual repose of manner.†
Chpt 46-48
- He ceased to speak, and his hand upon the table rested there in perfect repose, with a resolution in it that might have conquered lions.†
Chpt 49-51
- If she had ever loved me, then, I should hold her the more sacred; remembering the confidences I had reposed in her, her knowledge of my errant heart, the sacrifice she must have made to be my friend and sister, and the victory she had won.†
Chpt 58-60
- This Christmas-time being come, and Agnes having reposed no new confidence in me, a doubt that had several times arisen in my mind — whether she could have that perception of the true state of my breast, which restrained her with the apprehension of giving me pain — began to oppress me heavily.†
Chpt 61-62
Definition:
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(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie