Sleep Sentence Examples
Are you wiping the sleep from your eyes?
Even in sleep he was irresistible.
You'd better sleep in.
I went to sleep last night, almost as soon as my head hit the pillow.
Have a nice sleep.
But the nearer he drew to the house the more he felt the impossibility of going to sleep on such a night.
I don't sleep at night.
I'd love to sleep there.
The poor guy probably didn't sleep a wink.
Did you sleep alright?
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The medication they were giving her to clear up the congestion in her lungs was making her sleep a lot, but they thought that was better than having her upset all the time.
I can't sleep well here.
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She wasn't going to be able to sleep any more.
She was exhausted but sleep seemed unlikely.
When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again.
The old prince did not sleep either.
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Where did you plan to sleep tonight?
Sleep came without definition, as did the dream.
This isn't normal sleep.
Alex must have told the carpenters to stop working so she could sleep during the day.
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Couldn't sleep, so I decided to get up and fix breakfast.
The little man, having had a good sleep, felt rested and refreshed, and looking through the glass partition of the room he saw Zeb sitting up on his bench and yawning.
Karl Ivanich always says that sleep is more important than anything, whispered Princess Mary with a sigh.
The child moved slightly in his sleep, smiled, and rubbed his forehead against the pillow.
I won't, I can't sleep, what's the use?
All the activity and lack of sleep was catching up with her and she was exhausted.
Now, with only a few hours sleep, he was walking while she rode.
It seemed that she had barely dropped off to sleep, before someone was pounding on her door.
I think I'll sleep in tomorrow, so don't bother to get up early.
She murmured in her sleep when he bit her.
But it is a long time since I have had any sleep, and I'm tired.
She had to eat, sleep, think, speak, weep, work, give vent to her anger, and so on, merely because she had a stomach, a brain, muscles, nerves, and a liver.
I'll show you where you will sleep while Cynthia gets supper on the table.
I'd sleep a bit and then again go and kiss the relics, and there was such peace all around, such blessedness, that one don't want to come out, even into the light of heaven again.
It was much easier to sleep with his protective arm around her waist.
Where did you sleep?
Sleep seemed unlikely, but it must have happened shortly after her head hit the pillow.
You're not going to sleep a wink tonight.
I heard rhythmic breathing, signifying normal sleep.
Eventually, rain drumming on the porch roof lulled her back to sleep.
But her appetite, which left her a few weeks ago, has returned, and her sleep seems more quiet and natural.
It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually.
The countess did not sleep at night, or when she did fall asleep dreamed that she saw her sons lying dead.
Madame Schoss and the two girls were to sleep on some hay on the floor.
He smiled, and went and lay down to sleep beside his companions.
If you don't get some sleep when you go home, you won't be able to relieve me tonight.
She curled into a ball and tried to go back to sleep.
Was it possible for him to sleep through this weather?
I volunteer to sleep there tonight, if the love of my life is willing to come along.
When I sleep normally, it takes a lot more than that to rouse me.
I could easily tell from his breathing patterns sleep was illusive.
Once Howie succumbed to slumber, his sleep was anything but peaceful.
In spite of such worldly concerns I barely remember climbing beneath the covers sleep came so quickly.
I can't sleep thinking how we're wasting this incredible gift Howie has.
No sound disturbed Howie and with Martha able to use her special hypnotic-like tone, little time was wasted inducing Howie's sleep state.
It was difficult for all of us to maintain attention as Howie watched the child sleep.
God, you ought to hear him moaning in his sleep!
I must have fallen back to sleep because when I opened my eyes again, the room was nearly dark.
But you have one man you can sleep around with.
Sleep was as far from his mind as possible.
While sleep was only partially suspended and Dean's fantasy returned, morning brought the news that the noise had been real—Pumpkin Green had left in the night, bumping his shopping cart down the stairs to a clandestine exit.
The internet said that a coma was basically a sleep disorder.
Let him sleep by himself.
He.d decided to sleep in here last night, unable to sleep in his bedchamber with the thought of Iliana.s body in the trunk beside the bed.
I don't know how I got a wink of sleep.
I need some sleep too.
The four men were clean, neatly dressed, and without the signs of lack of sleep or food that Brady's men displayed.
Katie's eyes watered, and she squeezed him harder. The nightmares of the past few weeks seemed to fade away while she was in his arms. She'd been too afraid to think about what kind of life they might possibly have, but she found herself wondering how it would feel to wake up and go to sleep with Rhyn beside her.
Sleep came quickly, but so did the nightmares.
Get a good night's sleep tonight, boy.
I mean, you don't have to do anything—we can just sleep, if you want to.
We all need a good night's sleep.
I'll sleep with you again.
You are going to sleep with him.
It is best to begin with only one dose in the twenty-four hours, to be taken just before going to sleep, so that the patient is saved its unpleasant "repetition" from an unaccustomed stomach.
The nerve cell just prior to sleep is still well capable of response to stimuli, although perhaps the threshold-value of the stimulus has become rather high, whereas after entrance upon sleep and continuance of sleep for several hours, and more, when all spur to the dissimilation process has been long withheld, the threshold-value of the sensory stimulus becomes enormously higher than before.
The warders at an asylum have been hypnotized to sleep by the bedside of dangerous patients, and "suggested" to awake the instant the patients attempt to get out of bed, sounds which had no import for them being inhibited by suggestion.
He's one of those country fellows who can sleep in the haymow and eat with the horses.
She, seeing herself surrounded by such brilliant and polite young men, beamed with satisfaction, try as she might to hide it, and perturbed as she evidently was each time her husband moved in his sleep behind her.
When he had gone, taking his wife with him, and had settled down with her in their covered cart, the officers lay down in the tavern, covering themselves with their wet cloaks, but they did not sleep for a long time; now they exchanged remarks, recalling the doctor's uneasiness and his wife's delight, now they ran out into the porch and reported what was taking place in the covered trap.
She could not eat or sleep, grew visibly thinner, coughed, and, as the doctors made them feel, was in danger.
She could not sleep and several times went to the door and listened, wishing to enter but not deciding to do so.
He was so much interested in that task that he was unable to sleep, and in spite of his cold which had grown worse from the dampness of the evening, he went into the large division of the tent at three o'clock in the morning, loudly blowing his nose.
The one thing he now desired with his whole soul was to get away quickly from the terrible sensations amid which he had lived that day and return to ordinary conditions of life and sleep quietly in a room in his own bed.
When, awakened from his sleep, he received that cold, peremptory note from Kutuzov, he felt the more irritated the more he felt himself to blame.
Like a somnambulist aroused from her sleep Natasha went out of the room and, returning to her hut, fell sobbing on her bed.
What could he do about it but lose more sleep?
The nausea persisted for a while, but was eventually lost in sleep.
Destiny woke and ate a few bites before going back to sleep.
She fluffed the pillow and changed position, unable to sleep.
I've been through this so many times I could do it in my sleep.
She'd be willing to bet the woman was as hard nosed in her sleep.
Good. You can keep watch while I get some sleep.
Here, let me show you where you will sleep.
After all you've gone through, it's a shame you can't even get a decent night's sleep.
I wasn't as fearful I couldn't come back but I'm still concerned that it will happen every time I try to sleep.
Perhaps it's enough to put me to sleep.
If Betsy and I were forced to share it, we wouldn't get much sleep.
I'm surprised I didn't sleep too.
I couldn't sleep and went down to the kitchen for a drink.
Then you learned the truth when he talked in his sleep.
She can be the one to talk Howie to sleep too.
I didn't sleep well but the carpet was clean in the morning.
In Howie's exhausted state, inducing him to sleep was not difficult.
She'd helped her father sleep.
Good. Go to sleep, Bianca.
An hour of sleep was the longest he'd managed in over a week, and he felt more tired than when he lay down.
She was hungry and fatigued but too scared to sleep.
He'd gone a week with an hour of sleep.
If Darian lost his focus and disappeared again, he suspected it'd be another week before he had a chance to sleep.
The world can wait for you to sleep for a few hours.
I need some sleep.
His gaze lingered before he strode towards his bedroom, determined to get a few hours of sleep.
After a few solid hours of sleep, his sense of center was back, his mind clear.
She'd hoped sleep would remove some of her confusion from her night.
He was mumbling in his sleep.
Jenn heard Jonny's door close, and the sound woke her from her light sleep.
She rose, having slept fully clothed out of fear Xander would attack her in her sleep.
Jake gave her enough that she should sleep for another day or so, Han answered.
I don't sleep with random men, especially those who aren't … you're not even human, are you?
Fine. Let him sleep.
He rolled onto his side, watching her sleep.
Her voice, thick with sleep, ratcheted up his hormones another level.
Like the night before, he wasn't going to let her sleep.
I don't want to sleep with a bunch of men.
I would not sleep with her.
Pierre, you can sleep with whomever you want, really.
Her sleep was troubled.
He couldn't sleep when she cried.
Two sat down on his bed and stared into the darkness, unable to sleep when she cried.
When spent, she lay still, willing sleep or death to take her.
Deidre stopped fighting her body's cry for sleep and fell into a deep, dark slumber.
Her skin began to flush until it was pink enough to look human rather than the sleep of the dead.
She was red-eyed, as if sleep had eluded her.
Martha eventually slipped into a troubled sleep when Cynthia, with Dean by his side, again convinced the child they believed her, and promised to see the young girl's discovery reach daylight.
I just want to be alone—and get some sleep.
He also had little sleep, as much from partying with the temporarily affluent Mrs. Worthington as concern over Martha's cross country flight from the law.
The trio finally called it a night with the likely hood of restful sleep a pipe dream.
You won't sleep with me—at least so far.
The world faded into shadow and light then into an uncomfortable darkness, not quite sleep but not consciousness either.
Unable to sleep, Deidre paced, trying hard to shake the sensations clouding her head.
Her sleep was fitful, and he walked to the bed, standing beside it in the dark.
He used his power to soothe her sleep.
She moaned softly in her sleep and smiled, caressing his arm.
Alex was losing enough sleep over it for both of them.
Imagination could only go so far, though, and she ended up crying herself to sleep.
That night she went to bed exhausted, but sleep eluded her.
Sometimes at night she still hugged his pillow and cried herself to sleep.
One night he woke her out of a sound sleep by pushing at her.
Was something bothering him or was this new sleep pattern now the normal for him?
Maybe there would be residual problems, like his sleep pattern.
Where do I sleep tonight?
He had sex and went back to work, unable to sleep knowing all the issues he couldn't fix.
Deidre paced on the beach behind her bungalow, unable to do anything but lecture herself over and over about how stupid she was to sleep with some random stranger.
You sleep with a wacko, your boyfriend won't return your calls.
I'm used to the trees putting me to sleep at night.
It's hard to sleep in a forest that's not …alive.
The sounds of the ocean and the sea breeze lulled her to sleep last night and gently drew her awake before sunrise.
Deidre's eyes were puffy from crying herself to sleep.
After sobbing herself to sleep, she was almost too tired to appreciate the fact he was alive.
You mean sociopathic, indiscriminate killers who can't sleep a night in their own beds without someone trying to kill them.
Tell her to sleep on the couch.
The creature's third sip drove her into the darkness between consciousness and sleep.
It's how your mind wakes up from whatever sleep it went into.
She followed them and set her cocoa down on the counter, grabbing the whiskey and retreating with the intent of drinking herself to sleep.
Still, she couldn't sleep.
He smoothed out her hair and finally rested a feathery hand on her eyes, easing her into a restless sleep that didn't last long enough.
Now you'll just lay there and go to sleep?
She put on the jumpsuit she hated and emerged, expecting her first night of good sleep in a week.
She'd cried herself senseless before falling into a sleep too heavy to bring her any real rest.
Suspecting you're in the women's wing to get something other than sleep, yes.
Though she fought sleep, it started to claim her anyway.
Gabriel's soft cluck of disapproval filled the air around him as Rhyn sat in the corner, watching the most vexing woman in the world --his mate --sleep.
Despite her efforts to stay awake, she fell into restless sleep again.
I.ll have this Lankha keep the Ancient in a deep sleep until you return.
He.s in a deep sleep, but his presence here is causing much unease among us.
He had to let her go, but the sense of yearning and pain was too strong for her to sleep.
Evelyn's happy response was lost as she faded into sleep.
Although she was exhausted, sleep didn't come.
She dozed as she drew, caught herself twice, then dropped into sleep, unaware that those who removed the boxes were coming next for her.
One placed a sleep patch on her ear to prevent her from waking and scooped her up while the other grabbed the last suitcase out of her bedroom.
One sat perched on Kiera's bed, watching her sleep.
Just as she drifted into sleep, the spaceship's internal communication system awoke her.
She couldn't sleep, even when the computer turned her lights out in the only sign it was bedtime.
Her translator had been lost during restless sleep then crushed in her pacing, and the cell was littered with several dozen pieces of colorful clothing.
Her body hurt, her head pulsed, and she wanted nothing more than to curl up on a warm rock outside and go to sleep.
Despite feeling tired, she couldn't sleep.
She fell into a restless sleep that was disturbed long before dawn.
It was the sound of something falling, a chair perhaps, that startled him in his winter sleep.
I had a bum night's sleep.
I can hardly wait to go to sleep!
Further speculation ended as they both drifted back to sleep.
The old man was as nattily attired in his customary fashion, but his eyes betrayed his lack of sleep.
Then she shuffled around with the computer, giggled, sighed, snorted, yawned and went back to sleep.
I was wondering if you'd let Donnie sleep down here with you tonight?
It wouldn't be any trouble and I'm sure he would sleep much better in a regular bed.
While Cynthia began serving breakfast, Edith Shipton emerged, looking as if she'd had little sleep.
I can't imagine trying to sleep with just a couple of little steel pegs hammered into the rock the only thing holding me from a couple of thousand foot drop!
That's where you go to sleep with someone else's wife.
Later, in that languid time between lovemaking and the usual surrender to sleep, Cynthia remained awake.
It was his turn to hear measured breathing beside him as Cynthia drifted off to sleep.
They hadn't, but as long as he was awake and unable to sleep, he went to the kitchen and poured himself a glass of milk.
Lack of a full night's sleep had put both Deans in less than top form as they readied breakfast.
She must have been desperate to make him sleep on his own.
Edith is still married to me, even if she sees fit to sleep....
Have a nice night's sleep, buddy?
Nothing like a restful stay in the sticks and a good night's sleep to freshen you up, eh?
He can sleep on the floor.
He wasn't quite ready for sleep so he wandered back to the parlor, sat in the back corner and picked up a biking magazine.
I can't sleep either.
Cynthia was troubled with a headache and tried to catch an extra half-hour of sleep as Dean served breakfast to the early risers, Penny, Mick and two of the other climbers.
Fred joined Dean in the dining room, taking up the duty of chatting with the guests, a task Dean was not yet ready to perform after a less-than-complete night's sleep.
I didn't sleep worth a damn last night, I got rapped in the head pretty good this morning, and I just drove a couple of hundred miles in a blizzard.
My heartless mind will not allow my aching body the sleep it so desperately craves and I wander this near-empty house throughout the night.
And she wants Donnie to sleep over with me and Janet for the night!
Nor had he made any sense of his deliberations but finally his mind quit the task and allowed his exhausted body to sink into a deep sleep.
Only silence remained as he lay there, wanting to escape from all that was happening, surrender in the peace of sleep, but even sleep eluded him.
But the peaceful sleep he'd assumed would come eluded him as his mind continued to trip over far too many loose ends in the recent happenings.
She confided it to her husband late one night, awakening him from his sleep as Edith Shipton had just awakened him but a week before.
She hadn't been able to sleep, she told him, wondering what his reaction would be, if in fact she might be pregnant.
Like I'm going to lose sleep over that one!
It pains and it heals, it wakens me while it lulls me to the most peaceful sleep imaginable.
Then put a movie in the DVD player and try to get some sleep.
No I think I'll be able to sleep.
He tried to shake the dream off and go back to sleep, yet couldn't.
You were supposed to come and get me if you couldn't sleep.
No, I'll take care of it, but do you mind if I just go home to sleep afterwards and see you tomorrow?
Hey, I was going to let you sleep.
Jackson didn't sleep all night.
He watched her sleep, wishing to know her dreams; wondering if he would ever see her face this serene again.
Because you sleep like the dead.
He lay on his side watching her sleep, wondering what dreams lived behind the sweet smile on her face.
I like watching you sleep.
You can't possibly sleep as soundly as you do when you're human.
Did you sleep well?
Did you sleep at all?
His voice was raspy from his own lack of sleep.
Rubbing the sleep from her eyes, Carmen trudged across the room and drew the curtains back from her window.
And propped against the wall, breathing softly in sleep, was Alex.
Shhh. Try to sleep.
She curled up on her bed and cried herself to sleep.
I was just getting off to sleep when you turned the light on.
No reason except the fact that she was losing a lot of sleep.
After chores, she went to bed and cried herself to sleep.
She woke abruptly, not knowing what had disturbed her sleep.
Home was in Arkansas now, over five hundred miles away, and he planned to sleep there tonight.
Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.
To an outsider, he appeared as confident and fresh as a man just starting a mission after a good night's sleep.
I don't think I'll get any real sleep for a long time.
Maybe she did need sleep.
She had too much to do to sleep!
You gotta tell him you need sleep.
I promise to sleep with you tonight.
He'd all but rejected her deal to sleep with him and wasn't about to hand her equipment over to her.
Yep. I can move the girls tonight so they're not stuck without a tent to sleep in.
Tim, on the other hand, looked as if he'd gotten some sleep since their last talk.
A while later, the sound of movement outside the bedroom door pulled her from her sleep.
Lana hadn't expected to sleep in so long but was grateful Elise had thought to leave her alone for the full night.
You think I'd sleep with someone I didn't care about?
She cried herself into a restless sleep.
You'll want to find a place to sleep where you can protect yourself.
Lana's a place to sleep and nothing more.
The ache of loss had faded a little over the past two weeks, but she still cried herself to sleep at night.
She didn't expect to sleep, not with the amount of anti-sleepers in her system.
She still gave him the look that said she thought he was a lesser being because of his status, but she'd refused to sleep until they found her friend.
Just … I think I need some sleep, Lana said, standing abruptly.
Lana rolled onto her side and listened, crying herself to sleep for a different reason this night.
Exhausted by thought and emotion, she drifted into sleep.
This place is creepy. I don't think I can sleep with bugs the size of my hand just waiting for me to fall asleep so they can crawl all over me.
Another small smile crossed her face, and she sat down. Gabe left her, knowing even if she did sleep, it wouldn't be long. Death may have ignored their presence in her domain for three days, but something had made her reach out to him now. He knew they'd have problems at some point and only hoped he could get Katie out of the underworld, before his own fate was sealed.
Then he said, "I'll tell Toby to leave you alone so you can get some sleep tonight."
He hadn't been able to sleep in two days but fell fast into a deep, peaceful slumber.
She took them and shivered in the chilly night. Food and sleep had become luxuries during their travel.
Shut up and go to sleep.
She needed sleep and real food. Her hand went instinctively to her stomach, and she couldn't help wondering if the food and water cubes were good for the baby.
Toby was wrestling with a bush and didn't respond. Katie breathed deeply and pushed forward, wanting very much to stop and sleep but suspecting she'd never awaken if she did. She didn't have enough food cubes to drive off more than one more demon attack. They'd have to find Rhyn and Gabe fast.
Dean began to float back to sleep, half content in the thought that the storm might wash out the steamy, unseasonable humidity.
I didn't get diddly-damn from a one of 'em. This guy Byrne was so ordinary, talking about him put me to sleep.
Do you sleep on the beach and leave in the morning?
He hoped he wouldn't put Rita to sleep transcribing it when he was finished.
Dean rubbed the sleep from his eyes.
Dean expected a spirited argument at the very least, but tomorrow was Wednesday, Atlantic City day, and Fred needed a good night's sleep.
She was truly beautiful, resting there, color beginning to return to her cheeks and a look of contentment that only sleep could bring, a look that would surely be absent in the morning.
Dean was surprised just how tired he was and happy to get a decent night's sleep before tackling the next day's 60-mile run to Pagosa Springs—leg two of the "Ride the Rockies Tour."
Dean figured with everything happening, sleep would be slow in coming.
He had risen to fear, heartache, anxiety, bliss, pain and a hundred other feelings that made you beg to be able to bury your head beneath the covers and stay in the warm cocoon of sleep forever.
And, of course the first winter she would have a warm body to sleep with.
Let him sleep it off.
Exhaustion worked faster than a sleeping pill and she fell quickly into a sound sleep.
No, I'll sleep in the recliner.
We'll get a bed out of your house and put it in one of the rooms here so you'll have a dry place to sleep.
She can put a bed in one of the other bedrooms and I'll sleep in mine.
I love having you there, but I don't sleep well knowing you're in the next room.
Then I'll sleep with you.
She crawled back into bed, but was too hungry to sleep.
Even so, she couldn't sleep.
It wasn't as if she hadn't gone to sleep nights without him.
Sleep finally came, though, and next morning she woke to the sound of birds outside her window.
It wasn't like she was getting much sleep there, anyway.
He was sleep deprived and not exactly in the mood.
He stayed up and she cried herself to sleep again.
How could they sleep together like this and feel so lonely?
Another woman lay on the ground near the youth named Damian, her shapely figure, porcelain complexion, and auburn hair indicating her beauty even in her sleep.
He armed himself and stopped to pet one of the cats that had wandered into his room to sleep on his bed.
Any hope of getting more sleep this night was gone.
Is this where you sleep?
I sleep on the floor.
I'm going to take a quick shower and catch some sleep.
She needed a little sleep while the vamps were out hunting.
Whether he used his magic to put her to sleep, or her body needed it, she instantly fell into a deep, dreamless slumber.
I think I just want to sleep off the cold.
I can't have you killing off sources I sleep with.
I'm not some source you're obligated to sleep with.
Darian didn't let her go even then, instead soothing her mind enough for her to sleep in peace.
She could not afford to sleep long after her misadventure in Corcoran so she let herself doze for a short time before seeking out Hilden with questions she should have asked long ago.
She wanted nothing more than to lie down and sleep, but she need to confirm what her instincts told her before she acted.
Too restless to sleep, he tossed the pillow across the bed and snatched another, his gaze settling on the book.
His gaze returned to the empty mug of cider and his uncontrollable urge to sleep.
On a night like this, she could think of little else she wanted but a cup of Sirian's cider and a hot bath followed by a good night of sleep.
No, it was darker than sleep.
I'll watch over you as you sleep, dark lady.
As she drifted into sleep, she was both comforted and tormented by memories of Taran's touch.
Her body was warm, unlike Memon's, her face contorted in pain even in sleep.
The sleeping bag was warm and cozy, but sleep didn't come easily.
A soft light was beginning to flood the bedroom when she finally fell into an exhausted sleep.
Sleep didn't come easily that night, and when it finally overtook her, it was filled with snakes and insects - and worse yet, Denton.
She splashed cool water over her face and washed the sleep from her body.
Obviously. Do you always sleep this late?
I had a bad night and I didn't get to sleep until daylight.
Did he think she couldn't sleep because he wasn't there?
Do you want to sleep here tonight?
He drifted into restless sleep, praying his unusual visitor was wrong.
His black cat leapt from the ottoman onto her chest, content to curl up and sleep.
Now, she never wanted to sleep again.
She was too aware of that body, of the open offer to sleep with him.
I don't want to sleep with some sadistic man-whore, and I don't want rabies.
Jessi shook her as the woman faded into sleep again.
Sleeping with you is not a way out, and involving my seventeen-year-old cousin will not make me more likely to sleep with you!
Chances were high that he'd sleep with her and discard her.
Or at least, she needed a plan, if she was going to sleep with him, grab the necklace and run.
In the end, everyone hated him, and he lost no sleep over it.
Sleep with you, and you'll have someone show me the door in the morning.
Not only had he given her the power over the world, but he'd decided he wanted to sleep with her twice.
It's one thing, when you can put someone yelling at you to sleep.
By command of Zeus she carries in a ewer water from the Styx, with which she puts to sleep all who perjure themselves.
And the body, indeed, is subject to the powerful influence of death; but a shadow of vitality is still left alive, and this alone is of divine origin; while our limbs are in activity it sleeps; but, when we sleep, it discloses to the mind in many dreams the future judgment with regard to happiness and misery."
A terrible struggle took place for the possession of his body, until Apollo rescued it from the Greeks, and by the command of Zeus washed and cleansed it, anointed it with ambrosia, and handed it over to Sleep and Death, by whom it was conveyed for burial to Lycia, where a sanctuary (Sarpedoneum) was erected in honour of the fallen hero.
He refused medicine to induce sleep, declaring "it is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone."
To secure fairly uniform efficiency in the various corps, and also as a means of unifying Italy, Piedmontese, Umbrians and Neapolitans are mixed in the same corps and sleep in the same barrack room.
The dvornik is on duty for sixteen hours at a stretch, during which he is not allowed to sleep or even to shelter in the porch.
Sleep may overtake the patient in the midst of the sweating stage, and he awakes, not without some feeling of what he has passed through, but on the whole well, with the temperature fallen almost or altogether to the normal, or it may be even below the normal; the pulse moderate and full; the spleen again of its ordinary size; the urine that is passed after the paroxysm deposits a thick brick-red sediment of urates.
Thrice Samson scoffingly told her how he might be bound, and thrice he readily broke the bonds with which she had fettered him in his sleep; seven green bow-strings, new ropes, and even the braiding of his hair into the frame of the loom failed to secure him.
Delilah put him to sleep upon her lap, called in a man to shave off his seven locks, and this time he was easily captured.
Another class of nocturnal demons are the incubi and succubi, who are said to consort with human beings in their sleep; in the Antilles these were the ghosts of the dead; in New Zealand likewise ancestral deities formed liaisons with females; in the Samoan Islands the inferior gods were regarded as the fathers of children otherwise unaccounted for; the Hindus have rites prescribed by which a companion nymph may be secured.
In some districts the young men and boys sleep in the skull-chambers, in order that they may be inspired with courage.
The dying Siegfried calls on Briinnhilde to awaken, and asks " Who hath locked thee again in sleep?"
In keeping with this, her festivals at Naxos present a double character; the one, full of mourning and sadness, represents her death or abandonment by Theseus, the other, full of joy and revelry, celebrates her awakening from sleep and marriage with Dionysus.
Here the invalids used to sleep when consulting the god, and the inscriptions found here record not only the method of consulting the god, but the manner of his cures.
The separate existence of Aimer, who refused to sleep under a roof, and spent his whole life in warring against the infidel, is proved.
The sick person, or his representative, after ablution, prayer and sacrifice, was made to sleep on the hide of the sacrificed animal, or at the feet of the statue of the god, while sacred rites were performed.
In his sleep (incubatio, 1yuou / 7 ra) the appropriate remedy was indicated by a dream.
According to native report, the gorillas sleep on these beds, which are of sufficient thickness to raise them a foot or two above the ground, in a sitting posture, with the head inclined forwards on the breast.
Spent with weakness and fatigue he asked leave to rest his head on his companion's lap, and quickly fell into a quiet sleep. As Niccolini tells us, the martyr's face became serene and smiling as a child's.
They feed on herbage, shrubs and leaves of trees, and, like so many other large animals which inhabit hot countries, sleep the greater part of the day, and are most active in the cool of the evening or even during the night.
First faintness and irresistible desire to sleep. Then alarming prostration and vomiting.
The writer has no experience of trance, sleep or auto-hypnotization produced in such experiments; scryers have always seemed to retain their full normal consciousness.
He was then attacked by a complaint at first apparently trifling; but his strength daily and rapidly declined till the 1st of January 1748, when he died peacefully in his sleep.
Another legend states that Arthur and his knights sleep in a vault beneath the Eildons.
His monks were allowed proper clothes, sufficient food, ample sleep. The only bodily austerities were the abstinence from flesh meat and the unbroken fast till mid-day or even 3 P.M., but neither would appear so onerous in Italy even now, as to us in northern climes.
Returning from his campaign tour, he went immediately to the bedside of his dying wife, and for some weeks had practically no sleep at all.
Presently a maid appeared and said that the Princess Victoria was "in a sweet sleep and could not be disturbed."
Dr Howley, who was nothing if not pompous, answered that he had come on state business, to which everything, even sleep, must give place.
He was present at evening in the church, and when the midnight bell sounded for the nocturnal office early on Sunday morning he again went thither unsupported, but sank down before the altar and passed away as in a gentle sleep.
When used to hunt rabbits it is provided with a muzzle, or, better and more usual, a cope, made by looping and knotting twine about the head and snout, in order to prevent it killing its quarry, in which case it would gorge itself and go to sleep in the hole.
More important perhaps than all these phenomena, because more regular and normal, was the daily period of sleep with its frequent concomitant of fitful and incoherent ideas and images.
The mere immobility of the body was sufficient to show that its state was not identical with that of waking; when, in addition, the sleeper awoke to give an account of visits to distant lands, from which, as modern psychical investigations suggest, he may even have brought back veridical details, the conclusion must have been irresistible that in sleep something journeyed forth, which was not the body.
In a minor degree revival of memory during sleep and similar phenomena of the sub-conscious life may have contributed to the same result.
A second smaller dormitory runs from east to west for the accommodation of the conventual officers, who were bound to sleep in the dormitory.
Other kinds of repetition are Shelley's Witch of Atlas, 6 i i seq., "Like one asleep in a green hermitage, I With gentle sleep about its eyelids playing" (sleep for smiles has come from the previous line); Revolt of Islam, 4749, "Where" for "When" appears to have come from "Where" in 4750 or 4751.
Often the word thus extruded is irrecoverable; Ginevra, 125 sqq., "The matin winds from the expanded flowers I Scatter their hoarded incense and awaken I The earth, until the dewy sleep is shaken From every living heart which it possesses I Through seas and winds, cities and wildernesses"; the second "winds" is a repetition of the first, but what should stand in its place, - "lands" or "strands" or "waves" or something else - no one can say.
By the time of the VIth Dynasty it was usual to lay the corpse on its left side in the attitude of sleep, and a wooden coffin was often provided upon which were inscribed magic formulae that had already been employed for ages in ritual.
He wore a sharp shirt of hair next his skin, scourged himself every Friday and other fasting days, lay upon the bare ground with a log under his head, and allowed himself but four or five hours' sleep. This access of the ascetic malady lasted but a short time, and More recovered to all outward appearance his balance of mind.
No sooner is he overcome with sleep than Judith, seizing his sword, strikes off his head and gives it to her maid; both now leave the camp (as they had previously been accustomed to do, ostensibly for prayer) and return to Bethulia, where the trophy is displayed amid great rejoicings and thanksgivings.
This miniature man is the savage's conception of the soul; sleep and trance being regarded as the temporary, death as the permanent, absence of the soul.
That night the whole city was shaken out of sleep by an explosion of gunpowder which shattered to fragments the building in which he should have slept and perished;and the next morning the bodies of Darnley and a page were found strangled in a garden adjoining it, whither they had apparently escaped over a wall, to be despatched by the hands of Bothwell's attendant confederates.
Mary fled 60 miles from the field of her last battle before she halted at Sanquhar, and for three days of flight, according to her own account, had to sleep on the hard ground, live on oatmeal and sour milk, and fare at night like the owls, in hunger, cold and fear.
The tail is capable of free vertical motion, and controlled by strong muscles, so that, at least in the true toucans, when the bird is preparing to sleep it is reverted and lies almost flat on the back, on which also the huge bill reposes, pointing in the opposite direction.
In connexion with this controversy Lessing wrote his brilliant little treatise, Wie die Alten den Tod gebildet (1769), contrasting the medieval representation of death as a skeleton with the Greek conception of death as the twin-brother of sleep.
In sleep the jerk is diminished, in deep sleep quite abolished.
The more obvious of the characters of sleep (q.v.) are essentially nervous.
In deep sleep the threshold-value of the stimuli for the various senses is very greatly raised, rising rapidly during the first hour and a half of sleep, and then declining with gradually decreasing decrements.
It has been suggested that the gradual cumulative result of the activity of the nerve cells during the waking day is to load the brain tissue with "fatigue-substances" Theories of which clog the action of the cells, and thus periodi cally produce that loss of consciousness, &c., which is sleep. Such a drugging of tissue by its own excreta is known in muscular fatigue, but the fact that the depth of sleep progressively increases for an hour and more after its onset prevents complete explanation of sleep on similar lines.
Sleep is not exhaustion of the neuron in the sense that prolonged activity has reduced its excitability to zero.
The exciting cause of sleep is therefore no complete exhaustion of the available material of the cells, nor is it entirely any paralysing of them by their excreta.
If natural sleep is the expression of a phase of decreased excitability due to the setting in of a tide of anabolism in the cells of the nervous system, what is the action of narcotics ?
They lower the external activities of the cells, but do they not at the same time lower the internal, reparative, assimilative activity of the cell that in natural sleep goes vigorously forward preparing the system for the next day's drain on energy?
Hence it is not surprising that often the refreshment, the recuperation, obtained from and felt after sleep induced by a drug amounts to nothing, or to worse than nothing.
Symptoms attendant on the hypnotic state are closure of the eyelids by the hypnotizer without subsequent attempt to open them by the hypnotized subject; the pupils, instead of being constricted, as for near vision, dilate, and there sets in a condition superficially resembling sleep. But in natural sleep the action of all parts of the nervous system is subdued, whereas in the hypnotic the reactions of the lower, and some even of the higher, parts are exalted.
Considering that his legal reforms are those by which his name is mainly known to posterity, it is curious that we should have hardly any information as to his legal knowledge, or the share which he took in those reforms. In person he was somewhat above the middle height, well-shaped, with plenty of fresh colour in his cheeks, and an extraordinary power of doing without food and sleep. He spent most of the night in reading or writing, and would sometimes go for a day with no food but a few green herbs.
At the beginning of the Mahommedan period, then, we meet with the most influential and the most curious .of these prophetic books, the Pseudo-Methodius, 1 which prophesied of the emperor who would awake from his sleep and conquer Islam.
No store of food is accumulated, and the winter sleep is probably unbroken.
On His arrival He had carefully observed the condition of the Temple, Entry and had retired to sleep outside the city.
In 1897 he published a volume entitled The Mystery of Sleep (2nd ed., 1903).
In Kabul the snow lies for two or three months; the people seldom leave their houses, and sleep close to stoves.
During the procession a chant (also called eiresione) was sung, the text of which has been preserved in Plutarch (Theseus, '22) "Eiresione carries figs and rich cakes; Honey and oil in a jar to anoint the limbs; And pure wine, that she may be drunken and go to sleep."
Morphine is an analgesic and hypnotic, relieving pain and producing deep sleep. As contrasted with opium it differs in being less astringent and constipating.
In the dyspnoea of advanced valvular disease of the heart morphine relieves the distress and restlessness, and induces sleep. It should however be withheld if the heart has undergone fatty degeneration.
Soon after daybreak fighting was renewed along the whole line; but Napoleon lay down to sleep until the time appointed for Ney's attack.
I believe sleep was never more welcome to a weary traveller than death was to her."
On this the principal people sleep, and it serves as a storehouse inaccessible to rats, which infest all the islands.
They sleep during the day, but wander forth at night in search of food, and are shy and gentle, though they can bite strongly when provoked.
It is spoken of in the Iliad as the stormy abode of Selli who sleep on the ground and wash not their feet, and in the Odyssey an imaginary visit of Odysseus to the oracle is referred to.
France had suddenly grown to her full stature; like the contemporary England of John Milton, she was become a " noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep."
He must eat only the morsels he gets by begging; must dress in such rags as he can pick up; must sleep under trees.
There is a thin close-woven cloth made and used as garments among the females of the aboriginal tribes near the foot of the Himalayas, and in various localities a cloth of pure jute or of jute mixed with cotton is used as a sheet to sleep on, as well as for wearing purposes.
Paraldehyde is a powerful hypnotic, giving a refreshing quiet sleep which is not followed by unpleasant after effects.
It is much used to produce sleep in the insane.
The restraint which it imposes and the equal distribution of heat over the surface frequently cause sleep quickly in patients who have previously been wildly delirious and entirely sleepless.
It sometimes happens, however, that people cannot sleep at the seaside itself, although they do so perfectly well a mile or two inland.
During his residence there, Christabel, written many years before, and known to a favoured few, was first published in a volume with Kubla Khan and the Pains of Sleep in 1816.
Accompanying the pain there is more or less of nausea, and when the attack reaches its height vomiting may occur, after which relief comes, especially if sleep supervene.
They sleep during the greater part of the day, searching for food in the clearer light of morning and evening.
Finally, the same cause, a relaxation of tension, accounts for sleep, decay and death of man and for the dissolution of the world; after death the disembodied soul can only maintain its separate existence, even for a limited time, by mounting to that region of the universe which is akin to its nature.
Peter and Paul, August 1-15 preceding the Feast of the Sleep of the Theotokos, and the six weeks before Christmas.
Ten grains taken at bedtime will often give sleep, cause free diaphoresis and quieten the entire nervous system in such cases.
Intense drowsiness yields to sleep and coma which ends in death from failure of the respiration.
Klostermann, however, takes the ch to be part of the Aramaic root demach, " to sleep "; the word would then mean " field of sleep " or cemetery (Probleme im Aposteltexte, 1-8, 1883), an explanation which fits in well with the account in Matthew xxvii.
In other cases the impression is involuntary or less consciously sought, as in dreams, which, however, are sometimes induced, for purposes of divination, by the process known as incubation or temple sleep. Dreams are sometimes regarded as visits to or from gods or the souls of the dead, sometimes as signs to be interpreted symbolically by means of dream-books, which are found not only in Europe but in less cultured countries like Siam.
Where the body of a person who has died of an infectious disease is retained in a room where persons live or sleep, or the retention of any dead body may endanger health, any justice on the certificate of a medical practitioner may order the removal of a body to a mortuary and direct the body to be buried within a time limited by the friends of the deceased or in their default by the relieving officer.
We see him full of tenderness to animals, a virtue not common in Italy in spite of the example of St Francis; open-handed in giving, not eager in getting- "poor," he says, "is the man of many wants"; not prone to resentment - "the best shield against injustice is to double the cloak of long-suffering"; zealous in labour above all men - "as a day well spent gives joyful sleep, so does a life well spent give joyful death."
Aphasia due to the local trouble and general decay then progressed rapidly together, and even then at 76, two more years were still to elapse before "he exchanged the sleep of idiocy for the sleep of death."
Before he was ten his sports were interrupted by fits of remorse and despair; and his sleep was disturbed by dreams of fiends trying to fly away with him.
To the morning Azan are added the words, "Prayer is better than sleep!"
The loss of sleep to a person of Newton's temperament, whose mind was never fiat rest, and at times so wholly engrossed in his scientific pursuits that he even neglected to take food, must necessarily have led to a very great deal of nervous excitability.
It has even been said to sleep on the wing, and Moore alludes to this fanciful "cloudrocked slumbering" in his Fire Worshippers.
But their dress is still black with the exception of red slippers, and the veil is never abandoned, not even, it is said, during sleep. An English lady, who has been much among them, states that the Druse women of the Hauran never unveiled before her.
The work is hard, and, as there are few amusements on the farm, the men spend their resting periods in sleep. Their dormitories are usually comfortably furnished, their dining-halls clean.
All Papuans believe that within them resides an invisible other self, or spirit, which may occasionally leave the body in the hours of sleep and after death hovers for some period at least round the scenes of its embodied life.
In acute mania it acts like hyoscyamine in producing sleep. In large doses stramonium is a narcotic poison producing the wellmarked stages of exaltation of function, diminution of functional activity, and later loss of function, sinking into coma and paralysis.
Among other notions which they had imbibed was that of a sleep of the soul after death.
When I have settled my usual business, I have so many letters to write, so many questions to answer, that many a night is spent without any offering of sleep being brought to nature."
He was sparing in his food and simple in his dress; he took but little sleep, and was capable of extraordinary efforts of intellectual toil.
The sisters were not to be literally shoeless, but to wear sandals of rope; they were to sleep on straw, to eat no meat, to be strictly confined to the cloister, and to live on alms without regular endowment.
Wherever the noblest expressions of her mind are honoured, wherever the large conceptions of Pericles command the admiration of statesmen, wherever the architect and the sculptor love to dwell on the masterpieces of Ictinus and Pheidias, wherever the spell of ideal beauty or of lofty contemplation is exercised by the creations of Sophocles or of Plato, there it will be remembered that the spirit which wrought in all these would have passed sooner from among men, if it had not been recalled from a trance, which others were content to mistake for the last sleep, by the passionate breath of Demosthenes.
They pass the day in sleep, but are very active at night, feeding on fruits, insects and small birds.
While Death is cruel and merciless, and never lets go his prey once seized, Sleep is gentle and kindly, the bestower of rest and pleasant dreams, the soother of care and sorrow.
Even Zeus is unable to resist his influence, and on two occasions was put to sleep by him at the instance of Hera.
In like manner, Sleep came to be used as a euphemism for Death.
In art the representations of Sleep are numerous and varied.
On the chest of Cypselus, Night was depicted holding in her hands two sleeping children - one white (Sleep), the other black (Death).
Night is a person in Greek mythology, and in the fourteenth book of the Iliad we read that Zeus abstained from punishing Sleep " because he feared to offend swift Night."
Another time in the night I heard him above my cell walking on the cloister, but as I knew it was the devil I paid no attention to him and went to sleep."
On the summit of a fire-girt hill Sigurd found the Valkyrie Brunhild in an enchanted sleep, and ravished by her beauty awakened her; they plighted their troth to each other and, next morning, Sigurd left her to set out once more on his journey.
Before he was fifty years of age he became "fond of nothing but good cheer and sleep."
Following on a decided lowering of the pain and touch senses, which may even lead to complete loss of cutaneous sensation, there comes a sleep which is often accompanied by pleasant dreams. There appears to be no evidence in the case of either the lower animals or the human subject that the drug is an aphrodisiac. Excessive indulgence in cannabis indica is very rare, but may lead to general ill-health and occasionally to insanity.
But Francis would " sleep upon" a difficult problem; Nicholas never slept.
Sleep reclaimed her mind after a few minutes and the dream didn't return that night.
Now fully awake, the interruption of her sleep became a familiar stir of desire.
After considerable discussion, it was decided that Carmen would spend the night in the room with Destiny and Alex would take Jonathan home to get some sleep.
He didn't let go of the nipple, though, and when Carmen tried to remove it, he started suckling in his sleep.
Sleep meant one thing – nightmares.
Not until the early hours of morning did exhaustion take her into a sound sleep.
Then we sleep for three hours.
Because I'm still looking for a guy who doesn't make me feel like a tease when I won't sleep with him - or because you think I'll never find a man like that?
If you don't want to sleep with me, I don't want you to feel obligated to do so to keep your job.
In all honesty, I didn't think I'd sleep but I turned out the light, climbed onto the small bed and closed my eyes.
We remained in place, trying not to squirm, for nearly an hour before Howie surrendered to sleep.
He fell into his now familiar sleep immediately.
And she was so quiet when I plucked her from her sleep her mother didn't hear, at least at first I wonder if they've found her or her troublesome husband yet?
If Talon was planning to challenge Czerno to a showdown here in Miami, Dusty would never get another wink of sleep again.
The clang of steel and sound of jeering drew Sofia from her sleep to her window.
I don't sleep with random men, especially those who aren't … you're not even human, are you?
The sun peeked over the horizon, reminding her that she'd gotten only a few hours of bad sleep.
I just want to be alone—and get some sleep.
He's so pissed at me over sticking up for you at the debate, I'm not sure he'd sleep with me if I let him.
While sleep was only partially suspended and Dean's fantasy returned, morning brought the news that the noise had been real—Pumpkin Green had left in the night, bumping his shopping cart down the stairs to a clandestine exit.
Thus satiated, the Deans were early to bed as the weekend ended, not for sleep or sex, although the later thought crossed the Mr.'s mind, but more as a private escape from being nice to the guests.
The resolution of that sticky problem produced a solid, albeit abbreviated, night's sleep, surprisingly unfettered by dreams starring such names as Fitzgerald, Larkin, and Dawkins in imagined roles and sinister locations.
You won't sleep with me—at least so far.
Gabriel was envious of how refreshed the Immortal managed to appear without sleep.
I woke up because you were pushing on me, and then you said 'no'. Sometimes I hear you groan in your sleep too.
He wasn't feverish, but he was tossing in his sleep.
It's hard to sleep in a forest that's not …alive.
Stretching out on the bed, Deidre was tired but not ready to sleep yet.
I.m too excited to sleep, she admitted.
She didn.t want to sleep for fear of the demon from her nightmares—or Gabriel—coming for her.
Although tired, sleep didn't come.
She didn't think it was possible to sleep in such discomfort, but a stiff, hot breeze tossed hair into her face awhile later, tickling her awake.
Two straight days of vigorous outdoor activity coupled with a later-than-usual bedtime caused Dean to sleep through the six o'clock broadcast of Public Radio news, waking only when an extended arm felt an empty bed beside him.
Dean suggested Cynthia try to catch some sleep as it was nearly dark as they passed through Delta, Colorado and the open stretches of desert-like country beyond.
Computers hummed, the sound enough to lull Lana to sleep nearly every shift she spent alone in the vault despite the sleep replacement supplements—known as anti-sleepers—she took.
Just … I think I need some sleep, Lana said, standing abruptly.
The phantom stayed with Katie throughout the night and into the first light of morning. Katie didn't sleep, not with the creepy phantom and no sign of Gabriel. She huddled in the hollow of the tree by the lake, praying for Gabe to reappear.
Maybe the underworld was having some effect on her. She'd been fatigued since arriving, but she'd explained it away with the fact she'd had little sleep and an unexpected pregnancy.