The last person who ever slept in it is said to have been George IV.
It was really sublime to see that ignorant, passionate, beautiful Pierina thus overwhelmed below the nuptial couch on which the lovers slept for all eternity.
That tragic afternoon which he had spent in the chamber of death, where Dario and Benedetta now slept the eternal sleep in one another's arms, had left him very weary.
But, indeed, he slept very little, his brain ever being at work, ever scheming out the realisation of some former ideas.
She slept badly and was afraid of sleep, for always the whole spring of her love, with its entrancing charm and perfume of flowers, arose in her dreams again.
His travelling companions all slept now; their heads on their breasts, only the pretty red-haired head of the Zingarelli lay on Lensky's shoulder.
In one corner slept Morinsky, his fur collar drawn up over his ears, his head covered with a fez, whose blue tassel waved to and fro over his left ear, which lent his sharp yellow face a diabolical expression.
He bent over the cradle; the little patient slept calmly and sweetly, her little fist against her cheek.
We cooked our tasajo on the embers, and after smoking the calumet of peace, rolled ourselves in our cobijas, laid our heads on our saddles, and slept the sleep of the just.
My wife and I slept in our tent, Kidd and Yawl on the sloop.
The danger was all the greater, as, when the weather was mild, Mr. Fortescue always slept with the window open.
For twenty years I have not slept more than one or two hours a night.
Although he had been getting only about half an hour's sleep a night, he went to sleep in his chair the first evening, and then went upstairs and slept all night.
So after dinner to the French church, but came too late, and so back to our owne church, where I slept all the sermon the Scott preaching, and so home, and in the evening Sir J.
I, "you slept all night, and I am here to prove it.
Sometimes I slept indeed; but the court-house of Inverary and the prisoner glancing on all sides to find his missing witness, followed me in slumber; and I would wake again with a start to darkness of spirit and distress of body.
I had no sooner finished than I got to horse, used what remained of daylight to the best purpose, and being at last fairly benighted, slept in a house by Almond Waterside.
The hunter was curious and followed the bear to his den, where he slept all winter, gradually growing thick black hair over his whole body.
The girls were more deeply offended by her words than by the blows she had given the elder, and that night when their mother slept they ran off into the woods.
After some weeks, they discovered the lost one's bow and arrows, hanging on the branch of the tree under which he had slept after shooting the doe.
A storm arose, the sky was black, the billows were mountain high, the winds roared fearfully; yet through it all the child sleptsoundly in his mother's arms.
But the third, who lay between them, slept with her face turned up towards the sky; and Perseus knew that she was Medusa.
But although he slept hard no dreams came and morning found him no nearer the answer than he had been before.
He had not slept there for many minutes, before there was heard a most curious noise under the floor of his prison.
You have fought in the same field, and slept in the same tent with me oftentimes, and you know that I have laid the sod upon my companion's breast without a murmur, without a complaint; but this business is too much for me!
Poor cowey died of her strange sickness, and poor Marion died of a worse disease--the rope and the faggot: and then the neighbourhood slept in peace.
So this bit of cruelty was put a stop to, and the poor old creature, with a boil on her back, slept her last sleep unhastened by the hangman.
The monks and the nuns did as they were desired; and, on the first night, though the demons kept up a loud howling and wailing outside the church, the priests conquered, and the old witch slept undisturbed.
Peter slept a long time, for no one came to disturb him.
She hadn't slept a wink, and she was still too frightened to even go look for her breakfast.
Then, one evening as he arrived home from Hackney where he hadslept the previous night; he found a messenger waiting for him.
Her face was steady and resolute, but there were dark patches under her eyes, for she had not slept for two nights.
We slept as we could, some in houses, some in churchyards and by the wayside, and as many of us as could get into the churches heard mass each day.
He had sat heavily all the evening by himself, brooding and miserable, and had not slept all night, but waking visions had moved continually before his eyes, as he turned to and fro on his narrow bed in the unfamiliar room.
Ralph slept that night in the guest-house, in the same room that Chris had occupied on his first coming.
I heard a fine tale," he said, "do you know that the woman is in the very room where she slept the night before the crowning?
On they hurried in the darkness, which was now at the very deepest of the night; now and then a torch was borne across the street, and most of the houses had lights in the upper windows, for few Londoners slept on that strange night.
They slept in the hostel at Dogmersfield where the Dragon mark and the badge of the Armourers' Company had first appeared before them.
Brother Shoveller likewise had a cell to himself but the lay brethrenslept promiscuously among their sheep-dogs on the floor of the refectory.
And I'm stiffer in the joints and weightier in the heft than I was in those days when I slept in the fields, and fasted more than ever Holy Church meant; But, heigh ho!
I threw a log upon the fire carelessly and with noise, to see if it would awake him; but he only muttered a word or two that sounded like Latin, and slept on.
As I could only work during the night, I affected illness as a reason for keeping my bed during the day, when I sleptprofoundly and refreshingly.
There was the fireside, where, with naked feet roasting before the blazing turf, I had sat and slept full many an hour, dreaming of adventures which were as nothing to those my real life had met with.
Several of "the boys," meaning the sons of the host, slept at houses in the neighborhood; we actually bivouacked in a little temple in the garden.
Lucretia had not been made aware of the seizure; for Sir Miles had previously told his valet (who of late slept in the same room) never to alarm Miss Clavering if he was taken ill.
The next morning, when the servant (who slept in the same room) awoke, to his surprise the glare of a candle streamed on his eyes.
Most of themslept even through the work of getting the train back on the rails.
On the road, of course, the performers and helpersslept in the circus sleeping cars.
My fatherslept in the cabin; and I lay on the deck, looking at the stars, and listening to the dashing of the waves.
Clouds hid the moon, every thing was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat, as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.
Oppressed by the recollection of my various misfortunes, I now took a double dose, and soonslept profoundly.
But it was in vain: I slept indeed, but I was disturbed by the wildest dreams.
He seems to have slept here," remarked one of the policeman, pointing to the bed.
He did not feel obliged to take any extra precautions, but slept peacefully and long.
He slept on for hours, he slept the morning through; but for the obvious evidences of perfect normal health, it might have been a state of coma.
Fillery rose quietly, and performed his toilet in his own quarters, but on returning after a hurried breakfast, the patient still slept soundly.
LeVallon was quite docile, ordinary; he needed no watching; he slept well, ate well, spent his leisure with his books and in the garden.
He was active all through the darkness and cannot have slept at all.
That night the relieved British slept secure in Quebec, while the bedraggled American force was making its distressful way towards Montreal.
But all was in vain; Martha slept heavily, her breathing sounding regular and deep.
I slept at one night was not comfortable; it was grubby, and oh, those fleas!
As he slepton a bear-skin on the ground, he was roused by their noisy intrusion, and thirty daggers glittered before his eyes.
Encompassed on all sides by the enemies of their religion, the Aethiopians slept near a thousand years, forgetful of the world, by whom they were forgotten.
In the field he slept in the sun or in the snow, tired in the longest marches the strength of his men and horses, and shared with a smile the abstinence or diet of the camp.
I was mad as hornets at first, but since I've slept on the idea, I rather like it.
He replaced the earth in the sack and dragged it away, then plunged into the lake, and afterward went to bed, where he slept soundly until dawn.
So when she slept the unwaking sleep, Ruth, I came here and made her bed with my own hands, and then carried her to it, covered her, and she sleeps well.
With short intervals for food and dips in the lake the Harvester very nearly slept the week.
There were many things he could do, and one after another he finished them, until completely worn out; and then he slept the deep sleep of weariness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slept" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
