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    1. Though in settling them some regard is had commonly, not only to his labour and skill, but to the trust which is reposed in him, yet they never bear any regular proportion to the capital of which he oversees the management ; and the owner of this capital, though he is thus discharged of almost all labour, still expects that his profit should bear a regular proportion to his capital


    2. great trust which must be reposed in those who exercise them; and, fifthly, the probability or


    3. branches of trade, cannot arise from the different degrees of trust reposed in the traders


    4. artificer whatever ; and the trust which is reposed in him is of much greater importance


    5. There exists an underlying current of confidence inherent in teleological designs reposed in a (presumed) understanding of ―things‖


    6. “Then you’ll just have to wait and see,” he said, reposed against the counter


    7. the positive motivations of those once reposed now living


    8. He was a long and lanky figure, reposed as he was, and appeared oddly like a sacrifice left at the foot of an altar


    9. LanCoste left water, but Ravan was too wounded to reach the urn and instead slept reposed again upon the footsteps of death


    10. Raphael might have scarcely recognized the young man, reposed upon the riverbank with the maiden in his arms

    11. Nobody in his life had reposed such complete and colossal trust on him as she had, nor had he


    12. But she could know it for sure that Mayank reposed very high hopes on her


    13. Under a hall of gray steel where chained compulsions reposed in a growing heat, there was a fire burning


    14. Will you let me believe, when I recall this day, that the last confidence of my life was reposed in your pure and innocent breast, and that it lies there alone, and will be shared by no one?"


    15. He said, and justly, that a married man upon whom heaven had bestowed a beautiful wife should consider as carefully what friends he brought to his house as what female friends his wife associated with, for what cannot be done or arranged in the market-place, in church, at public festivals or at stations (opportunities that husbands cannot always deny their wives), may be easily managed in the house of the female friend or relative in whom most confidence is reposed


    16. To examine and arrange these things gave Amy great satisfaction, especially the jewel cases, in which on velvet cushions reposed the ornaments which had adorned a belle forty years ago


    17. which lay like a dreary void on that side of him where the dead reposed


    18. The windows were draped with white lace curtains and in the bay was a small bamboo table on which reposed a large Holy Bible, cheaply but showily bound


    19. To have looked into this Bible would have reminded her of Mrs Starvem; that was one of the reasons why the book reposed, unopened and unread, a mere ornament on the table in the bay window


    20. At a little distance, Heyward discovered, and contemplated with tender emotion, the small bower under which he was fain to believe that Cora and Alice had reposed

    21. I reposed complete confidence in no one but Biddy; but I told poor Biddy everything


    22. Fro, to: to, fro: over the polished knob (she knows his eyes, my eyes, her eyes) her thumb and finger passed in pity: passed, reposed and, gently touching, then slid so smoothly, slowly down, a cool firm white enamel baton protruding through their sliding ring


    23. A couched spear of acuminated granite rested by him while at his feet reposed a savage animal of the canine tribe whose stertorous gasps announced that he was sunk in uneasy slumber, a supposition confirmed by hoarse growls and spasmodic movements which his master repressed from time to time by tranquilising blows of a mighty cudgel rudely fashioned out of paleolithic stone


    24. "Had treated with the Serasker [*] Koorshid, who had been sent by the sultan to gain possession of the person of my father; it was then that Ali Tepelini—after having sent to the sultan a French officer in whom he reposed great confidence—resolved to retire to the asylum which he had long before prepared for himself, and which he called kataphygion, or the refuge


    25. ignored all things contrary to her ideas of propriety and tried to teach Scarlett to do the Ellen had stepped to the mantel to take her rosary beads from the small inlaid casket in which they always reposed when Mammy spoke up with firmness


    26. Sleep, however, he could not—so near her, yet so far from her—and he continually lifted the window-blind and regarded the backs of the opposite houses, and wondered behind which of the sashes she reposed at that moment


    27. Resting my head on Helen’s shoulder, I put my arms round her waist; she drew me to her, and we reposed in silence


    28. 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


    29. As night approached I found myself at the entrance of the cemetery where William, Elizabeth, and my father reposed


    30. She locked the story away in the garret trunk where the old Story Club tales reposed; but first she yielded to Diana's entreaties and gave her a copy

    31. On chairs in the saloon reposed,


    32. Then he locked his store door and stumped away across the field to the big barn, where the remains of Buck’s Leviathan Circus reposed in isolated state


    33. This was the automobile which had frightened her horses and set her nerves twittering; and now it reposed by the roadside helpless


    34. What was their doctrine in 1798-'9, when the command of the army—that highest of all possible trusts in any Government, be the form what it may—was reposed in the bosom of the Father of his Country, the sanctuary of a nation's love, the only hope that never came in vain! When other worthies of the Revolution—Hamilton, Pinckney, and the younger Washington—men of tried patriotism, of approved conduct and valor, of untarnished honor, held subordinate command under him! Republicans were then unwilling to trust a standing army, even to his hands who had given proof that he was above all human temptation


    35. Our citizens, with their usual industry and enterprise, had embarked in it a vast proportion of their shipping and of their capital, which were at sea under no other protection than the law of nations, and the confidence which they reposed in the justice and friendship of the British nation


    36. In communicating to you these sentiments of the Executive on the measures you have lately adopted for taking possession of East Florida, I add, with pleasure, that the utmost confidence is reposed in your integrity and zeal to promote the welfare of your country


    37. Mary's, where you had arrived in discharge of the trust reposed in you by the President, in relation to East Florida


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