What is "rests"

Usage examples of "rests".

No shape, no colour, no grandeur of mass: all is for a Soul, something whose beauty rests upon no colour, for the moral wisdom the Soul enshrines and all the other hueless splendour of the virtues.

I afterward learned that the shaft rests directly over the magnetic pole of Mars, but whether this adds in any way to its incalculable power of attraction I do not know.

Therefore should we hold him fast if by any chance he rests for a little space upon our hand.

I do not say this from any sense of inhospitality, but because I am convinced of the sacred duty that rests upon me of preserving to this, on the whole, upright and generous-hearted people the blessings of comparative barbarism.

There that Soul rests, free from all solicitude, not ruling by plan or policy, not redressing, but establishing order by the marvellous efficacy of its contemplation of the things above it.

It is a god, a secondary god manifesting before there is any vision of that other, the Supreme which rests over all, enthroned in transcendence upon that splendid pediment, the Nature following close upon it.

Nature, that upon which the light from above rests, it has less of that vision.

Berthold rests peacefully on a bed of gold and gems, surrounded by six sleeping companions.

I pray she rests at peace in the Chamber of Light with Our Mother and Father of Life.

On an island isolated in the middle of that wasteland of water and reeds rests a stone crown.

The one who was once silent rises from the cold pallet of stone where he rests and gropes along the passage.

The propriety of this rests upon the same reasons with that of the sixth, and therefore needs no further discussion.

Here I meet him face to face, and say I am ready to take the responsibility, so far as it rests on me.

SPEAKER, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF OHIO:--It is true, as has been said by the president of the Senate, that very great responsibility rests upon me in the position to which the votes of the American people have called me.

And for the same reason it may be proper to further say that whether members sent to Congress from any State shall be admitted to seats constitutionally rests exclusively with the respective Houses, and not to any extent with the EXECUTIVE.