rest on
verb- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see rest, on.
- To depend on.
From the library
In this perturbed state of mind, with thoughts that could rest on nothing, she walked on; but it would not do: in half a minute the letter was unfolded again; and collecting herself as well as she could, she again began the mortifying perusal of all that related to Wickham, and commanded herself so far as to examine the meaning of every sentence.
“Well, sir,” said the young girl, “do you understand now, and is your conscience perfectly at rest on the subject?”
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