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Sentence Examples
It is a resting-place to which at close of day the weary retire to gather new strength for the battle and toils of tomorrow.
Above is a tent-like roof, which betokens a resting-place, and in the surrounding space, open at one side, there may have been a seat.
When she dies her ulu or its model accompanies her to her resting-place.
There are many European traditions, from Procopius onwards, which think of Britain as an island of the dead, a resting-place for transmigrating souls.
The despised pauper, most likely a foreigner, when his spirit has gone to its final resting-place, is probably carried to the Potter's Field.
The purpose of the vestibule, at least in western Europe, was not to provide a resting-place for penitents, but to deaden the noise outside.
Examples from Classical Literature
After 1830, there was no possible resting-place for weary Indians this side of the Ozark Mountains.
There was not even one of her kin to say the first Kaddish over her resting-place.
There is a good serai or inn for native travellers, and a dak bungalow or resting-place for Europeans.
The Archimedian lever found a resting-place in his brain, and sundry of his thoughts seem not inapt to upheave the world.
Mr dawks, having arisen from his nightly resting-place outside Daphne Vereker's bedroom door, strolled downstairs to the study.
A favoring spot was seized on by de Spain for the resting-place 347 he wanted.
For us, however, it was not the resting-place of the wicked woman but a haven of safety for our relief, so much had the sea now got up.
Probably the reference is only to a resting-place or caravanserai.
Oh, no, this damnable spot must not be her last resting-place!
Could not a single gull or ptarmigan find a resting-place there?
I hope he enjoys the odoriferous, sudoriferous resting-place.
It is used as a DPT and resting-place for the troops near it.
Loutherbourg, the painter, found a resting-place in its churchyard.
The resting-place of the griffon Vulture is always on some lofty spot.
Then, with Johnson's assistance, he built a resting-place in an iceberg.
There is no monument to mark the last resting-place of our friend.
It did not skirt the resting-place, and Kim, trudging beside a baggage-cart under fire of comments from soldiers' wives, was not so confident as overnight.
Somewhat as two vultures may swoop upon a dying lamb, Fettes and Macfarlane were to be let loose upon a grave in that green and quiet resting-place.
Kim tore back down the ditch till he reached a point opposite his second resting-place, slipped across the road like a weasel, and re-coiled himself in the blanket.
How many vain pleaders for mercy, do you think, have turned away heart-sick from the lawyer's office, to find a resting-place in the Thames, or a refuge in the jail?
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He died quietly in 1892, at the age of eighty-three, and was buried in Westminster Abbey beside Browning, who had found a resting-place there three years earlier.
