The flowers upclose, the birds are fed, The night comes down upon the grass, The child sleeps warmly in his bed.
The Pillar still broods o'er the fields Which border Ennerdale Lake, And Egremont sleeps by the sea.
Of one, too, I have heard, A brother--sleeps he here?
Now has Regnfred, the King’s son, O’ercome his dire distress; He sleeps each night so joyously In the arms of his princess.
And now is Damsel Swanelill To kith and kin restored; So joyously shesleeps each night With Regnfred her wedded lord.
She sleeps uncommon sound," he said, "As if in that eternal sleep, Where cool and watered willows sweep.
At any moment she might open that door and enter the kitchen, and her temper was always terrible when she would first awaken from those long sleeps which followed a carousal.
A mother yields herself to enter Her child, who nestles close and sleeps With all his wisdom pressed For comfort to her breast.
Every one sleeps with a gas mask at the head of his bed in these parts.
The Hampshire youth sleeps soundly, dreaming of a ship manned by women, with a pretty childlike girl among the crew.
Nature here sleeps all through the summer under the scorching sun.
He sleeps in the house, of course," replied Frank.
One of them is--Ludwig, who sleeps soundly, and to all appearance peacefully.
The childsleeps soundly; He sits genteelly; They live contentedly and happily together.
He covers his heart with a smile, but revenge never sleeps in his bosom; His tongue--it is soft to beguile; but beware of the pur of the panther!
Where sleeps the modest bard in Quaker gray Who blew the pibroch ere the battle lowered, Then pitched his tent upon the balmy beach?
For her mother sleeps long in the mound, and a step-mother rules in the teepee, And her father, once strong and renowned, is bent with the weight of his winters.
On the bloody field of Fair Oaks Sleeps the soldier tried and true.
What to him are the years who sleeps in her bosom there?
Lo he laughs along the highlands, leaping o'er the granite walls; Lo he sleeps among the islands, where the loon her lover calls.
Merry is the life of the gay voyageur, His couch is as downy as a couch can be, For he sleeps on the feathers of the green fir-tree.
No one who is accustomed to early rising ever sleeps so late in the morning.
And Kunigunda says she is almost always up until morning, and scarcely sleeps at all.
I can assure you, Fraeulein Gleissert," said Hilsborn quietly, "that your father sleeps peacefully.
A good, devoted churchman, he is a regular attendant; and he never sleeps nor slumbers, no matter how long and how old the sermon be.
He sleeps now in a lonely grave in the Jewish cemetery at Denver, Colorado, by the side of the fence, for he was a delinquent in Israel.
The infant is restless, fretful, constantly uncomfortable, sleeps badly, and stops gaining and may even lose in weight.
If the infant sleeps with the mother, there is always the temptation to frequent nursing at night, which is injurious to both mother and child.
The child grows very pale, loses appetite and weight, and sleeps badly.
Each mail-clad image of the noble house, With sword and crested head, Sleeps proudly in the purple gloom By the stained window shed.
She had resolution enough to maintain the attitude and manner of one who sleeps profoundly, and to regulate even her breathing, notwithstanding the agitation of instant terror, so as to correspond with her attitude.
Hand in hand with the earthly darkness came in to us that Night of Time which neither sleeps nor dies, and like a remembered dream up stole our inextinguishable Past.
What sleeps in the vegetable, dreams in the animal, wakes in the man,” I said, remembering Leibnitz.
KEATS The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep; The shepherd-boy whose tale was left half told!
Safely concealed there from all mortal eyes Forever sleeps the secret of the Gods.
On the leaves is a sound of falling rain; A bird, awakened in its nest, Gives a faint twitter of unrest, Then smooths its plumes and sleeps again.
When men are old, the incessant thought of Death Follows them like their shadow; sits with them At every meal; sleeps with them when they sleep; And when they wake already is awake, And standing by their bedside.
The governorsleeps up in the room, and she has a lodging at the turnkey's.
Nor day nor night shall interrupt my care; No future story shall with truth upbraid The cold indifference of the nut-brown maid; Nor to hard banishment shall Henry run While careless Emma sleeps on beds of down.
He sleeps with his loved Galbina at the noise of the sounding surge.
In doing so you will pass by the door of a servant who sleeps so lightly that the chances are that he will hear you; he is armed with a blunderbuss, and with pistols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleeps" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
