Rested

Usage examples of reclined.

Donning a beruffled dressing gown of blue cambric, she reclined on the chaise longue in her sitting-room.

Theophanu reclined at her ease on a fabulously padded couch, playing chess with one of her ladies while her companions looked on in restful silence.

But she reclined on soft cushions behind the lattice of the balcony on the street, drinking sherbet, chewing mastic and eyeing the passers-by.

He cast a veiled glance at the War Chief, who reclined at his ease and watched with a paternal smile on his lips while the unmated danced and disported with one another.

The next afternoon Ravenel, while polishing a ragged line of a new sonnet, reclined by the window overlooking the besieged garden of the unmercenary baron.

He reclined into the couch with an air of unsuppressed enjoyment of the outlandish scene that was unfolding.

Brilliant cloths of many hues and strange patterns formed the soft cushion covering of the dais upon which they reclined about her.

On this cloud reclined two djinn, resting comfortably among the ephemeral mists as they might have rested on the finest cushions of the most luxurious couch.

Maximus Praeclarus reclined upon a sofa far down the board from Fastus, the guest of honor.

Many of them went forward, perching upon the headrails or running out upon the bowsprit, while others seated themselves upon the taffrail, or reclined at full length upon the boats.

First came the double rank of nobles and behind these the chariot drawn by the two banths, bearing the litter upon which reclined Valla Dia.

One resembled a sanitized and opulent version of one of the notorious drug dens of Altair III, another was a formal, candle-lit affair featuring crisp linen tablecloths, fine china and silver, and servants in powdered wigs and Revolutionary America costumes, while a third was simply a huge silk tent in which the customers sat or reclined on large cushions and ate off a long, very low table.

Sapientia reclined on a couch while her attendants fluttered around her and her new physicianon loan from Margrave Judith and newly arrivedtested her pulse by means of pressing two fingers to her skin just under her jawline.

Narrator: reclined laterally, left, with right and left legs flexed, the index finger and thumb of the right hand resting on the bridge of the nose, in the attitude depicted in a snapshot photograph made by Percy Apjohn, the childman weary, the manchild in the womb.

As he reclined in the corner of the broad window-seat, his feet up, and drowsy, of a summer afternoon, he heard the languid cawing of an occasional rook, for rooks are idle in the heated hours of the day.