Persons traveling with me refused to sleep in the next vacant room to me in Seattle, Washington, because the number of it was "thirteen.
Against wrecking fire of shot and steel, these Republican Irish Volunteers, with little food and no sleep for nearly a full week, fought against the British.
Asiatic voices and African persuade him to sleep in the tropical night.
The first smile (for the convulsive movement in sleep that is popularly adorned by that name is not a smile) is an uncertain sketch of a smile, unpractised but unmistakable.
But, meanwhile, the right thing is to put it to sleep and guard its slumbers.
If English children are not rocked to many such aged lullabies, some of them are put to sleep to strange cradle-songs.
See the habits in falling to sleep which have children in their thralldom.
The man with two heads had become his play, and so was perhaps bringing about his sleepby gentler means than the nurse had intended.
As to the length of a bad night, or of a mere time of wakefulness at night, adult words do not measure it; they hardly measure the time of merely waiting for sleep in childhood.
Our little boat is so crowded that the well sleep on the upper deck, all under cover being occupied by the wounded; and, the small outfit of china, etc.
So they took the dead man out, and put him to sleep in his coffin on deck.
I then went on board the Small to drop down, quite ill for the time from want of sleep and from fatigue.
We have a cold northeast storm and thick weather, and I conclude that his expedition is unable to get down, and I may go to sleep for the night.
There were only little oil lamps here, the electric lights not having been fixed yet, and when I piled all the bed clothes on the floor and rolled myself up in the quilt, I was off to sleep in a minute.
Tom says he can't sleep because the embroidered monograms on the pillows and things scratch his cheek, and the lace frills tickle his nose, while he catches his toes in the Venetian insertion in the sheets.
The train was very crowded, and they could only get two single berths--lower ones, but they are quite wide enough for two people to sleep in at a pinch.
If you haven't you'd better go to bed and sleep off your absurd suspicions.
A little sleep will do you all the good in the world.
It said that no Nationalist wanted to see Babberly and Lord Moyne put into prison; but that most Nationalists had been made to sleep on plank beds for utterances much less seditious than this advertisement of a review.
And Dante answered him, speaking very slowly, as a man might speak in some sweetsleep when he dreamed a dear dream, "She is the loveliest woman in the world.
But on this especial morning the town seemed to open its eyes earlier than usual, and shake itself clear of sleep more swiftly, and to bestir itself with an activity unfamiliar even to a town of so active a character.
But my pastimes had never cost me, and never did cost me, an hour's sleep for any cares that they brought me, and I never had to strive with the great ones of the earth for the smiles of any she.
As for me, I marvelled, and I cried, "A beatific disposition that can sleep in such a din.
But one craves a recreation, a rest which work nor sleep can give.
While you insist on staying here at the peril of our lives, I will sleepas well as I can with a dead woman laid forth on the bed next mine, and two murderers shut up in the shed across the way.
You haven't forgotten how I terrified you nearly to death by walking in my sleep to your room?
I shall ask you in your sleep and you will tell me all.
If you go on night-duty and do not sleep in the day you will be ill," said the doctor, gently.
It is always difficult for me tosleep in the daytime.
Then in an instant she flung off her sleep and was out of bed.
The two teachers were not to settle on shore, nor even to sleep there, but they were to visit Duaterra, reconnoitre the ground, and see whether it would be possible to settle there as they had at first proposed.
Indeed, there is no rest for such heads as these--none of their wearers dares to sleep without a little stool to support his neck, so as not to crush his chevelure against the ground.
His journey was made on horseback, and was no small undertaking, for even between Stockbridge and Kanaumeek he had once lost his way, and had to sleep a night in the woods.
What a happy boy it was that tumbled into the bed where the keeper told him he could sleep that night!
But speaking about daytime, one must make up then for the sleep he loses at night.
Dick thanked us for our timely assistance, and promised that he would never as long as he lived go to sleep away from the camp in a region infested by grizzlies.
We all then met round the camp fire, but we soon found that to sleep was impossible, for the wolves, having despatched their wounded companions, came back to feast on the others we had shot.
There was little sleep for any of the party that night.
I thought, however, that we had now done with them and should the next night be able to sleep in peace.
Old Ben, however, excused himself from watching, declaring that his mules never ran away and that as he should have to keep wide awake during most nights by and by, he should prefer a sound sleep while he could get it.
Fast following emotions caused the City to vibrate: the explosion of Courneuve, which had shaken Paris like an earthquake; the incessant air-bomb alarms which broke in on sleep and wore out nerves.
Pierre laid his head on Luce's knees in the hollow of her skirt like a child who goes to sleep with its face close couched against the warmth of the stomach.
High up round the walls were hung boxes for nine cats; into these they ascended by ladders, and none of them ever attempted to sleep anywhere but in his own box, an example to the rest of the pension.
Michael was still sleeping; it seemed wise to blow out the candle and, although it was scarcely seven o'clock, to try to sleep herself.
I'm going to ask the Sister in charge to let me sleep in the bed next to yours," said Miss Savage.
I once did a tour in Germany, and a fellow with a mustache like a flying trapeze wanted to sleep with me for ten marks.
If I'm to get strong enough to resume work in November, I need all thesleep I can get.
For all Sylvia's exultation, the vision of enchanted space that seemed to forbid sleepon such a night soon faded from her consciousness, and she did not rouse herself from dreams until dawn was scattering its roses and violets to the wind.
I'm not like a child that can sleep through anything.
And she's a great small cat and will sing y'u to sleep o' nights.
The only ones to witness the screeching horror of this black night were two helpless old lumbermen, who had been roused from their sleep by the ship's signals of distress, and had run down from their camp to the pounding beach.
From the moment he leaves his bed with a whoop and a hurrah, until the evening when he sinks to sleep exhausted but happy, he has lived in a turmoil of adventure, wild dreams, and imaginings.
But suppose I tell you what I firmly believe--that you have seen him; that it was his face which bent over you in your half-sleep the other night, and his voice which you heard?
One of the maids should sleep in her room in case she awoke in fright during the night.
They did not return to the Stew-Kettle until dawn, and most of that day Jolly Roger spent in sleep between the two big rocks.
But Jolly Roger and Peter, deep in the sleep of exhaustion, knew nothing of the change.
Through this beginning of the barren-land day Jolly Roger set out in the direction of his cabin and in his blood was that new singing thing of fire and warmth that more than made up for the hours of sleep he had lost during the night.
Mebby it's a place to sleep in for the night you want, stranger?
With hope struck down the exhaustion of two nights and a day without sleep seized upon him and his feet plodded more and more slowly over the uneven ties of the road.
And the girl, nursing him night and day, with scarcely a wink of sleep between, came to believe they had been great comrades, and had been inseparable for a long time.
Half awake, and before he opened his eyes, life seized upon him where sleep had cut it off for a time last night.
Peter was glad when the camp roused itself out of sleep with waking voices, and laughter, and the building of fires.
It could not seem to sleep or rest until a man was hanged, or snugly put behind hard steel, no matter how well that man loved his human-kind--and the world.
She smiled, and her lips trembled, as if even in sleep she--was about to answer it.
His mind was a wild thing--wild as a Loup-Garou seeking out its ghostly trails; it passed beyond his mastery, keeping sleep away from him though he was dead tired.
And during these hours of sleep Peter was ready to rouse himself at the slightest sound of movement near them.
But as the night drew closer about him, and his eyes closed, and sleep came, there was a lightness in his heart which he had not known for many days.
The spirits had put a great burden upon the night so that it might drivesleep from her eyes.
He seemed to hate the very thought of having a roof over him, even to sleep under.
I fell into a good normal hard-workingman's sleep the moment the mosquito-net closed behind me.
Every town and hamlet, from Cairns to Hobart, from Perth to Woolongong, were dispatching telegrams of congratulation to a man who was still muttering in his drunken sleep behind the walls of the Townsville Quarantine Station.
I was horribly tired, both in mind and body, and hoped that, with a glass or two of absinthe to relax my nerves, I might be able to sleep at least through the heat of the noonday.
In response to my inquiry about Allen, Oakes said that he had been drugged to sleep early in the afternoon, and that there was no use trying to forecast what turn things would take until he came out.
For it was nothing less than a national hero that "Slant" Allen was becoming, even before he roused from the heavy sleep which had held him ever since he collapsed over the wheel as the Cora came to anchor.
Unspeakably tired physically, I dropped off to sleep almost as soon as the absinthe relaxed the tension on my nerves.
If not--then I would never know sleepnor peace while I continued to live.
It was a considerable overdose of the stuff I took one night that put me on to the fact that, after a short spell of rather pleasant mental stimulation, it would drug a man to sleep for an hour or two.
I'm going to sleep out of doors now, like the birds.
We gave you some hot milk and you went right to sleep again.
But it wasn't time tosleep in Washington Square yet.
Her sleep was deep and dreamless; but in her waking moments her thoughts pursued the same treadmill.
You make a lot of indigestible things to eat and then you go to sleep and dream of ghosts and goblins, and hear shivery noises and groans and such things--just what you want, on Hallowe'en!
For my part, I reckon to sleep here to-night and look after things till that fool Susannah comes to her senses.
