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repose
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Definition:{n} rest; calm{v} to entrust
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Mary studies so much, that her hours of repose should not be broken in on.
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
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"[...] I no longer have a single second for repose. Once every minute I have to light my lamp and put it out!"
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.50 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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she opened her mouth a little, smacked her lips, and settling her sticky lips more comfortably about her old teeth, she sank into blissful repose.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Mrs. Joe made occasional trips with Uncle Pumblechook on market-days, to assist him in buying such household stuffs and goods as required a woman's judgment; Uncle Pumblechook being a bachelor and reposing no confidences in his domestic servant.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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She kept wandering to and fro, from the gate to the door, in a state of agitation which permitted no repose;
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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‘I’m sure it is very condescending of his Lordship to speak to such canaille as all of you,’ and a thousand jokes. After dinner he walked out before him with the fire shovel for the mace, and left him no repose all the evening.
Charles Greville. The Greville Memoirs, volume 2 (Nov. 22, 1830)
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I by no means coveted a night’s repose on one of those wide and heavy beds
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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