The remaining hours of the night, of course, were sleepless ones for me.
An icy northeast wind whistled its wild song through the streets, fit accompaniment to the thoughts of the sleepless man.
He had been sleeplessand talkative, telling me many things about his life.
Early in the morning they were again mounted, and on the road to Edinburgh, though the pallid visages of some of the troop betrayed that they had spent a night of sleepless debauchery.
After a sleepless night, the first dawn of morning found Waverley on the esplanade in front of the old Gothic gate of Carlisle Castle.
One can imagine the horror of that tragic time: the criminal flame of sleepless nights, the blood-charged atmosphere of guilty despair, the moans of agony that had to be throttled behind closed doors.
A wandering sunbeam glided over the firm, short curve of her cheek, which was of almost milky whiteness, save for the faint redness of those veins which sleepless nights bring out upon the pallid faces of full-blooded blondes.
The Trojans spend the night sleeping on their oars; the queen, in sleepless torment.
I did not see how the state of affairs could be any worse, and I spent a sleepless night in thinking over the situation and trying to decide upon some plan of operations.
Having put her travelling-box of matches and the guide-book near the candle, in case she might be sleepless and might want to read, she blew out the light, and laid her head on the pillow.
You have not courage to confront the sleepless dragon; you have not craft to borrow the aid of Atlas.
Brown instantly started from the hut and came out to the fire: but he was not the only one; for Lena's sleepless ear had caught the tidings, and she too rushed out, with many others that the noise had awakened.
Alone you must bear the qualms of sleepless nights.
The ministers and rulers were pale, haggard, exhausted by sleepless nights and endless speeches at meetings and councils, by addresses to various delegations and to the mob.
Night fell, a long, sleepless night, full of anxious waiting and oppressive thoughts.
Edwin who was sitting beside the lamp, dozing a little after his sleepless night, instantly started up.
And I confess the bare thought cost me severalsleepless nights--until about midnight.
If she had suspected that he would return to her to-day, how desolate the lonely house would seem, how sleepless the night would be--perhaps she would have remained.
This deep wound that bleeds and aches, This long pain, a sleepless pain-- When the Father my spirit takes, I shall feel it no more again.
Then the snow-maiden raised a wailing cry, Such as the dweller in some lonely wild, Sleepless through all the long December night, Hears when the mournful East begins to blow.
So that when he knocked at the door of the little room--after a sleepless night in which he had pondered long how he should act at the coming interview--he had some hopes.
Having started sinking all round, I dare not go in for anything without a sleepless night.
But she spent a sleepless night; for again and again the dead child's image appeared vividly before her.
This was all the nourishment he took during this long series of sleeplessnights and fatigues.
Any man who drinks it for the first time is almost sure to pass a sleepless night.
This may somewhat shorten some of their sleepless hours, and ensure them a few siestas during the day.
In the language of the prophets we still hear the echo of the fears which they excited by their swift, unfaltering marches, their sleepless vigilance, their girded loins, stout sandals, and barbed arrows.
When they had lain sleepless for nearly an hour, voices were heard and out of the darkness appeared human forms.
We reached the Agency buildings in safety, and took possession of a log house, where we remained several days in a state of sleepless anxiety, until relieved by Major Sherman with the famous old Buena Vista battery.
Sleepless nights, families deprived of bread, want of tools and materials for experiments, this is the history of nearly all those who have enriched industry with inventions which are the truly legitimate pride of our civilization.
They know that the woman who suckles her infant and spends sleepless nights at its bedside, cannot do as much work as the man who has slept peacefully.
He entered the bank after a sleepless night, fearing that the people might in some way learn of the bank's responsibility.
President Lincoln had a sleepless night--it looked like defeat and disunion.
