All 13 Uses
repose
in
David Copperfield
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- 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 *reposing = resting or lying
- 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 10-12reposed = rested or lay
- 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 25-27reposing = resting or lying
- 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 34-36reposing = resting or lying
- 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 58-60reposed = rested or lay
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(repose as in: repose on the sofa) to rest or lie
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(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Repose can also mean to put something (e.g., trust) in someone or something.