Farther down on the right a few steps, whose railing supports a Greek vase with jasmine, lead through a chapel to the sleeping apartments.
The interior of the Hall is the same; only the divan is placed to the front and left, the lectern near the balcony leading to the sleeping apartments and to the chapel.
He looked behind at the dark and silent city, and felt a new affection for it, as he reflected that she was sleeping there.
Travelling by night and sleeping in secluded spots by day, he reached the city in three days.
You'll be sleeping in your watch if you don't sleep now.
It was at first quite dark in the cabin, but as the visitor's eyes became accustomed to it, she could just discern the outlines of a small table, while a steady breathing assured her that somebody was sleeping close by.
In the fullness of this new certainty of self that was setting his pulses hammering, he even turned toward the sleeping town, thickly blanketed by the shadows in the valley, in a sudden boyish burst of generosity.
Generations hence, when its illustrious founder shall be sleeping with the fathers, Brigham City will be an unique, interesting subject for the study of the sociologist, and the review of the historian.
Now they speak as if the soul were sleeping with the body in the grave; again they appear to imply that it is detained in an intermediate state; and a moment afterwards they say it has already entered upon its final reward or doom.
The want of sleeping cells long continued a crying need.
The sleeping accommodation was still altogether contrary to the latest ideas.
In the press-yard, the press-room and ward above it were parcelled out into nine separate sleeping cells; each was provided with an iron bedstead, and a small desk at which the condemned man might read or write.
The old wards, day rooms and sleeping rooms combined, of which the reader has already heard so much, now seldom contained more than ten or a dozen each.
The sleeping accommodation in the chapel-yard wards, and indeed throughout the prison, consisted of a barrack bed, which was a wooden flooring on a slightly inclined plane, with a beam running across the top to serve as a pillow.
The provision of separate sleeping cells was still quite inadequate.
No sleeping cells were provided, and, as we know, the prisoners passed the night associated together in crowded rooms.
Having explored the yards and adjacent day rooms, and sleeping cells, a door was unlocked, the visitors were furnished with candles, and they descended eighteen long steps into a vault.
There was the same crowding in the sleepingarrangements as on the male side; the same scarcity of bedding.
Four years later the Prison Society reported that in four prisons, which at one time of the year contained 1308 prisoners, there were only sixty-eight sleeping rooms or cells, making an average of nineteen persons occupying each room.
A seventh remembers that "while yet a boy, before the age of puberty, sleeping in the company of a male agitated him to such an extent that he lay for hours awake.
Nor was the suggestion of sleeping that night on the Classic side hailed with enthusiasm by either party.
Wally, who put his chair out again in the passage, had most of his time occupied in making pantomimic appeals for silence from passers-by, to whom he pointed out the figure of the sleeping Mr Rollitt as a justification.
Whether in the sleeping or waking stage there are times when mortal men gain, as it were, chance glimpses behind the veil which conceals the future.
Day and night, sleeping and waking, the white knights of life are constantly on the alert, for on their vigilance hangs our existence.
As her husband at that time was sleeping beside her she dismissed the matter as a mere dream.
One night in the early part of that month, suddenly awaking to consciousness, she felt herself as if standing by the bedside and looking down upon her own body, which lay there by the side of her sleeping husband.
These words were addressed to Antinous, who had been going from cage to cage contemplating the feathered pets, all sleeping snugly, with much curiosity and pleasure.
At Nine Wood all was quiet--except for the unearthly sounds emanating from the nostrils of one Tich sleeping in the reserve troughs with one side of his features buried in an inch of brown mud.
Rats and mice make their way interestedly in and out of sleeping forms, investigate with deliberate intent the contents of your pack, or perchance make a tentative nibble at an odd toe or so.
Daybreak had long since passed and still no sound of movement from the rows of tangled sleeping MEN.
On this particular afternoon, the old man had taken up his place on the curb; and a big black cat had taken advantage of the warmth offered by the charcoal fire and was curled up, sleeping peacefully in the pan nearest the fire.
The other floors were given over to living and sleeping rooms, of which there were more than 200.
The engine was located forward, where there was a sleeping room for the engineer, who could steer from a small pilot house.
Adjoining the kitchen was the dining cabin, which had folding seats that could be used for berths when more than could be accommodated in the regular sleeping spaces were aboard.
Fifteen minutes later the four friends were sleeping soundly, with never a care in the world, for it had been long since they had closed their eyes and they were completely worn out.
They bedded down together, covered by the same sleeping robes.
When it was almost too dark to go farther, he suddenly found himself on level snow, and here he made camp, digging a hole and lining it with the sleeping robes.
The lady hasn't been sleeping well through the heat.
Indeed, it was very comforting, and he might have missed it if it had not happened, even though he was supposed to be in the field and sleeping upon his arms.
I found Peters sleeping soundly, and Bainbridge dozing in a chair.
In the night between February 16th and 17th, Peters, who was in the habit in Hili-li of sleeping in puris naturalibus, awoke in a shiver.
With horror's thrill, I start, This sleeping snake to see, Uncoil within my heart.
Hallevi, the honey-tongued poet, wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion the sleeping lyre of David; 3.
A Prophet with four eyes; wide gazed the orbs of the spirit above the sleeping eyelids of the senses.
Fortunately we had billets in the village, and thereafter always were billeted in towns, though sometimes our sleeping quarters were only barns and hay mows, not remarkable for either comfort or shelter.
The two men, Noy and Barren, fairly represented the opposite views of life each entertained, and Joan felt the new music wake a thousand sleeping echoes in her heart while the old grew more harsh and unlovely as she considered it.
So the men scattered into a starry night, and went, each his way, through the streets of the sleeping village.
It was half-past four o'clock when she trudged through Madron to see the gray church and the little gray houses all sleeping under the gray sky.
It was now after ten o'clock; most of the men, rolled in their blankets, were sleeping on the scant turf that could be found at intervals in the half-sandy soil below the corrals and stables.
When Sergeant Wells reached Farron's ranch that evening little Jessie was peacefully sleeping in the room that had been her mother's.
He was more than half disposed to adopt Wells's plan and let him take Jessie down to the safer station at Phillips's, but she looked so peaceful and bonny, sleeping there in her little bed, that he could not bear to disturb her.
With one exception every bed has had its apparently soundly sleeping occupant.
Give me such kisses as the Queen of shadows Gave to the sleeping boy she stole on Latmus; Look round about in snakie wreathes close folded, Those rosie arms about my neck, O!
The sentiment of the majority in Springfield tended in the other direction, and, thus environed, Lincoln lay down like the sleeping lion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleeping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
