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Sentences starting with sleep

Sleep with Herodotus, whose name and praise Have reached the isles of earth's remotest sea. [6]
Sleep had not touched Orlando's eyes when, sitting down by the stones which were to mark his resting-place, he waited for Louise to wake. [11]
Sleep is more to thee now than aught thou mayst hear from any man. [11]
Sleep also deserted the Emperor's couch. [10]
Sleep is better than pain. [11]
Sleep had long since overpowered her husband, while Maria lay gazing at the glimmering dawn, as wakeful as if it were broad day. [10]
Sleep fails to perform its office--she weeps while the nocturnal shades of the night triumph in the stillness. [5]
Sleep was quite out of the question, with so much to distract our attention. [4]
Sleep had settled on it long before midnight, for, on the morrow, its master and mistress hoped to make a journey to the valley of the Chaudiere, where the Passion Play was being performed by habitants and Indians. [11]
Sleep he did not want. [13]

Sentences ending with sleep

Come, now, calm yourselves, and let me go on with my story; or it will be morning before Bartja gets to sleep. [10]
If you shut your eyes, perhaps you'll go to sleep. [12]
It is peace you want, my mother, peace and solitude, in which the soul goes to sleep. [11]
Take it with you and read it before you sleep. [6]
It was only yesterday, surely but yesterday, since I rocked her to sleep. [11]
And afterwards we would watch the lonesomeness of the river, and kind of lazy along, and by and by lazy off to sleep. [5]
To govern the world one must have less need of sleep. [10]
Half undressed, and with her hair in wild disorder, she flew to the old man's bedside, clasped him by the wrist, and roused him from his sleep. [12]
And Caracalla yielded, while her hand moved as lightly over the brow of the terrible man as when years ago it had soothed her mother to sleep. [10]
And the rascals were well content to sleep. [9]

Short sentences using sleep

Went to sleep without whisky. [5]
Should he try to sleep? [5]
I couldn't get to sleep. [5]
It was impossible to sleep. [11]
He never seems to sleep. [11]
Only leave him to sleep. [10]
He'll not sleep to- night. [11]
As you sleep, something comes. [11]
I could not sleep. [5]
You must have sleep. [11]

Sentences containing sleep two or more times

I must take what is left of this wreck and run out of your presence and carry it away to my home and spread it out there and sleep the sleep of the righteous. [5]
When the work was over, and every stain or sign of surgery removed, sleep came down on the bed--a deep and saturating sleep, which seemed to fill the room with peace. [11]
Detricand lifted him up, and buttoning the shirt and straightening the coat again, he said: "Now, you're to go home and sleep the sleep of the unjust, and you're to keep the sixth commandment, and you're to tell no more lies. [11]
When Philip went to sleep at night--he was in the front chamber reserved for guests--the loud murmur of the Deerfield was in his ears, like a current bearing him away into sweet sleep and dreams in a land of pleasant adventures. [4]
They have nothing to do but eat and sleep and sleep and eat, and toil a little when they can get a friend to stand by and keep them awake. [5]
Sleep, Blessed abundant sleep, Is all that he needs. [5]
Twichell went to sleep, but then he had his conscience loaded and it was easy for him to get to sleep. [5]
It was a sleep seething and teeming with a weird and distressful confusion of shreds and fag-ends of dreams--a sleep that was a chaos. [5]
This mental and physical strain for sixteen consecutive hours, with scant sleep, so demoralized him that he was obliged once in two or three months to hire a substitute and go away to sleep. [4]
Of course he oughtn't to go to sleep, because it's shabby; but the finer a person talks the certainer it is to make you sleep, and so when you come to look at it it ain't nobody's fault in particular; both of them's to blame. [5]

More example sentences with the word sleep in them

Even a jolly young Irishman of Plaster Cove, whose nature it is to sleep under whatever discouragement, is beaten by these circumstances. [4]
A minute and you'll have a back-hander that'll put you to sleep, Maitre Dormy. [11]
Last Easter day you were in a drunken sleep while Mass was being said; after the funeral of your own father you were drunk again. [11]
The sleep that you know so well how to give to others, you scarcely allow to visit you. [10]
Briefly, then, if you are here for Countess Cordula von Montfort's sake, your errand is vain; she will sleep at Kadolzburg to-night. [10]
I shall give you a sleep to-night like a balmy eve. [11]
Perhaps she might yet succeed in repairing the mischief she had done when she had allowed the emperor to sleep without giving one thought to her father. [10]
You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
The poet who wrote so prettily of him that his little life was rounded with a sleep, understated his felicity; it was rounded with a good many. [4]
That was very wrong, and when he stretched himself out to sleep, the image of the valiant smith stood with tangible distinctness before his soul. [10]
He said he would sleep himself fresh, and then see what he could do with this riddle. [5]
Chapter 8 Sleep would not come. [5]
Tom and I would have preferred to sleep in the woods near by, with our feet to the blaze; this was partly from motives of economy, and partly because Tom, in common with other pioneers, held an inn in contempt. [9]
It was a wonderfully still place to sleep in. [5]
I do not wonder that the tropical people, where Nature never goes to sleep, give it up, and sit in lazy acquiescence. [4]
I no longer wonder at the number of feather-beds at the inns, under which we are apparently expected to sleep even in the warmest nights. [4]
You can't play with yourself here as you can on the high veld, where an hour or two of sleep a day will do. [11]
To sleep there with them, and awake in the night and hear the wind in the trees, and see the sparks fly up to the sky, is a perfect realization of all the stories of adventures he has ever read. [4]
If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy--if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places. [5]
Truly (I thought with remorse) she had been more industrious than I. I fell at length into a fevered sleep, and awoke, athirst, with the light trickling through my lattices. [9]
The architect himself wished to take advantage of this time to refresh himself by a short sleep, for the exertions of the morrow, but between this intention and its fulfilment an obstacle was interposed, the preposterous dimensions namely of his guest. [10]
Sergeant Gellatly there will wish he went to sleep forever in the snow, if Little Hammer come to the rope. [11]
Rest and sleep will fetch you out all right, I hope. [5]
But the sleep will do him good just the same, Jen Galbraith. [11]
Gentlemen and ladies who were sick, or were taking a siesta, or had dissipated till a late hour and were making up lost sleep, thronged into the public streets in all sorts of queer apparel, and some without any at all. [5]
Blessed are those who can sleep quietly in times like these! [6]
They were always whispering around my bed and plotting against me, and it broke my sleep and kept me fagged out, because I got no good rest. [5]
Was it worth while living, only to grow older and older, and, coming, heavy with sleep, to the Homestead of the Ages, enter a door that only opened inwards, and be swallowed up in the twilight? [11]
The terror with which this spectacle had disturbed her sleep could not be banished during the morning. [10]
Nobody could sleep where that man--and his family--was. [5]
There were times when I went to bed and, unable to sleep, I would get up at two o'clock or three o'clock in the morning and write till breakfast time. [11]
I sleep here; when I lie down on my couch take your place on the divan yonder. [10]
The insurrectionary troop were locked into an open court upon bread and water, and as the usual room of detention of the establishment was too small for them all, for two nights they had had to sleep in a loft on thin straw mats. [10]
Orion exclaimed: "Very well, very well: go back to your own room and sleep. [10]
We shall sleep well to-night; but let us sit awhile with nubiferous, or, if we may coin a word, nepheligenous accompaniment, such as shall gently narcotize the over-wearied brain and fold its convolutions for slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall. [6]
The magistrate was well known here, and the doorkeeper, roused from his sleep, hastened to light the way for him and his wife with a lantern. [10]
He would sleep well and sound, having seen Pretty Pierre for the last time. [11]
The first night we were there, we went to bed and to sleep early; but I awoke at the end of two or three hours, and lay a comfortable while listening to the soothing patter of the rain against the balcony windows. [5]
You remember when we sleep on the ledge of the Voshti mountain--so narrow that we were tied together? [11]
It is because we go to sleep in my hut at Plemont where She live so long. [11]
You, and Josh way, an' Will, an' Sam, an' the Cap'n, an' the four Beaver brothers, will all sleep in number ten. [9]
My first thought was, that war was declared; but, as I should never pay much attention to war declared at that time in the morning, I went to sleep again. [4]
For herself, she was to sleep in Mrs Jarley's own travelling-carriage, as a signal mark of that lady's favour and confidence. [12]
What he wanted was to be free of mules and burros and steers, to roll in dust-patches, and then to run down the wide, open, windy sage-plains, and at night browse and sleep in the cool wet grass of a springhole. [13]
Soon after, he was standing in the spacious room in which he was accustomed to sit and to sleep when he was in Thebes. [10]
The late evening was spent in gaiety with her grandfather and the Chevalier; but at night when she went to bed she could not sleep. [11]
That dying pillow was softened by the sweetest domestic affection; and as he lay down to the sleep which the Lord giveth his beloved, his face was as the face of an angel, and his smile seemed to give a glimpse of the opening heavens. [6]
The time Hildebrand was so low with the pneumonia Emmeline and me were all, alone with him most of the time and we never took a minute's sleep for as much as two days, and nights. [5]
Her uneasiness, however, was nothing, weighed against her fatigue; and she soon forgot it in sleep. [12]
Oh, no, sleep was not for him; his trouble was too haunting, too afflicting for that. [5]
As yet there was no hope of sleep, inasmuch as that the noise made, by the gentlemen at their carouse came up loud and clear through the open window and, the later it grew, the louder waxed Herdegen's voice and the Junker's, above all others. [10]
That night talk was long and sleep short, and work was on again at sunrise. [11]
At sunrise, Mandane was kneeling by her mistress's couch, weeping bitterly and wondering that Nitetis could sleep so calmly. [10]
And though I was free, and not a bondswoman, he broke upon my sleep. [11]
After the toast was finished, with an emphasised assumption of weariness, and a hint of a long yarn on the morrow, he picked up his blanket and started for the room where all were to sleep. [11]
When the sermon was finished, Judge Thatcher's wife dropped alongside of Mrs. Harper as she moved down the aisle with the crowd and said: "Is my Becky going to sleep all day? [5]
I say: 'Papa wants to sleep! [2]
Rostov no longer wanted to sleep. [2]
We passed the Walnut Hills, the Nogales, the moans of the alligators broke our sleep by night, and at length we came to Natchez, ruled over now by that watch-dog of the Spanish King, Gayoso de Lemos. [9]
After a long wakefulness, I dozed away into that disturbed vestibule of sleep where the world's happenings mingle with the visions of unconsciousness. [11]
Towards morning Margot waked out of a brief sleep, and found the Cure and his sister and others about her bed. [11]
He could not wait to turn the insult over in his mind, to weigh the exact amount of affront in each question, to take counsel, to sleep over it, and reply to it with diplomatic measure and suavity. [6]
These two had vowed never to let each other sleep, that so their time for repentance might be doubled, and their bliss in the next world enhanced in proportion to their mortifications in this. [10]
Even then sleep visited us not, and that which had been doing below was as great a distress to me as my fears for my lover. [10]
The man stirred violently in his sleep, cried out, and started up. [11]
The stranger that ventures to sleep there takes a permanent contract. [5]
At first I usen't to sleep at nights, thinkin' of Clint, an' missin' him, an' I got shaky and no good. [11]
They have made us weary, and in dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain. [5]
Here Madame Marie urged Madelinette to stay and sleep, but this she refused to do, if horses could be got to go forward. [11]
One can sleep upright, but not when his head is every moment knocked against the framework of a wagon-cover. [4]
I like sitting up, and I've often had a sleep, bless you, in one of them chairs. [12]
She would sit up there, with her paws curved under her breast, and sleep in the sun half the afternoon. [5]
I presently climbed up on the bench; I did not think it was safe to go to sleep while this lunatic was on watch. [5]
When we woke up next morning we was feeling a little cheerfuller, and had had a most powerful good sleep, because sand is the comfortablest bed there is, and I don't see why people that can afford it don't have it more. [5]
Sellers were both up early, for neither of them could sleep. [5]
She was gone until late at night; and when Old Sophy, who had watched for her, bound up her long hair for her sleep, it was damp with the cold dews. [6]
It was eagerly, unsatisfiably interested; it rioted in the combinations; you implored it to drop the game and let you get some sleep? [5]
And in this unhopeful frame of mind he dropped off in sleep. [4]
I could not understand this extraordinary procedure; so I presently gave up trying to, and dozed off to sleep. [5]
There Sir Launcelot unarmed him, and set his harness by him, and went to bed, and anon he fell on sleep. [5]
Suppose one or two of them, as the handsomest people sometimes will, should go to sleep! [4]
No sleep since twelve o'clock last night, you say? [6]
He will not trust that secret with any one; he will reflect that it could be revealed in sleep, in the hearing of some Portuguese guest's servant some time or other. [5]
I had another trifling interval of sleep, and then got up, by request, and constructed a flax-seed poultice. [5]
In vain she tried devices to produce that monotony of thought which sometimes brings sleep. [11]
The party of travellers went to the commandant's magnificent palace to rest, and Hermon also retired to his room, but sleep fled from his couch. [10]
The storm subsided toward daybreak, and I dozed gradually to sleep with a sense of obligation to Lem Hackett for going to eternal suffering in that abrupt way, and thus preventing a far more dreadful disaster--my own loss. [5]
In India the tourist's servant does not sleep in a room in the hotel, but rolls himself up head and ears in his blanket and stretches himself on the veranda, across the front of his master's door, and spends the night there. [5]
Was it a tortured conscience that drove him hither and thither, or was he as innocent as she was, and was it longing, love, and anxiety that bereft him of sleep? [10]
Like Iras, he, too, could find no rest upon his couch, and when she heard his step she called to him and asked why he did not recover the sleep which he had lost. [10]
Yet she remembered too that her father had appeared the more anxious of the two about the Sergeant's sleep. [11]
Weary, and yet too excited to find sleep, Hermon at last went to rest. [10]
He would sleep to-night, not at Spilsby, but at Sutterby. [11]
Behind us little Tom stirred in his sleep and startled us. [9]
The high-priest has told me that you did not sleep beneath the same roof as I. [10]
We will sleep together in the same bed. [5]
At mid-day go to your own little room, and try to sleep. [10]
He felt tempted to throw himself down in the road and sleep, but remembered the frozen people of whom he had heard, and dragged himself on to the nearest village. [10]
At night, trying to sleep, she had heard the ghostly footsteps in the church, which had sent her flying homeward. [11]
If they wanted to sleep, I rather guess he would worry 'em! [6]

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