happiness and rest
Example Sentences
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And when thy youthful beauty leaves, And youthful thoughts thy breast, May thou in calm old age still live, In happiness and rest.
From Canada and Other Poems by Young, T. F. (Thomas Frederick)
Take our loves instead— Most freely, truly, and devoutly given; Our prayer for blessings on that gentle head, For earthly happiness and rest in Heaven!
From Roundabout Papers by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Merely to touch that ivory knob, and then by the lightest pressure of the finger tips a whole world of love and happiness and rest might open for her, and life would be changed forever.
From We Two, a novel by Lyall, Edna
But that old Molimo had promised her that she was safe from death, that she should find here happiness and rest, though not that of the grave.
From Benita, an African romance by Haggard, Henry Rider
"Grind gold and happiness and rest for my people," cried the king gladly.
From The Book of Nature Myths by Holbrook, Florence
