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repose
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repose as in:  repose on the sofa

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    We must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.†  (source)
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    If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.†  (source)
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    Joy, temperance, and repose,
    Slam the door on the doctor's nose.†  (source)
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    took his repose by the swimming pool†
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    These philosophers reposed the law in the people†
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    Mao reposes in his mausoleum†
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    With a curiosity so justly awakened, and feelings in every way so agitated, repose must be absolutely impossible.†  (source)
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    Several hours passed, and I remained near my window gazing on the sea; it was almost motionless, for the winds were hushed, and all nature reposed under the eye of the quiet moon.†  (source)
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    So now, after all this bustle of preparation, the town and province were left in stillness and repose.†  (source)
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    It is always the way of events in this life, ... no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired.†  (source)
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    "It's a lot nicer than going round by the road; that is so dusty and hot," said Diana practically, peeping into her dinner basket and mentally calculating if the three juicy, toothsome, raspberry tarts reposing there were divided among ten girls how many bites each girl would have.  (source)
    reposing = lying
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    dost thou think, If I would stand against thee, would the reposal Of any trust, virtue, or worth in thee Make thy words faith'd?†  (source)
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    And like the seasons you are also, And though in your winter you deny your spring, Yet spring, reposing within you, smiles in her drowsiness and is not offended.  (source)
    reposing = resting
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