Sleeping

Examples

• He had left his sleeping wife; and wanted, as Margaret saw, to be amused and interested by something that she was to tell him. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• What was there in this simple and somewhat pretty sleeping-closet to startle the most timid? Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Lily took no sleeping-drops that night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I grasped it firmly, rose softly from the bed, and leaned over my sleeping wife. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Instead her eyes warned me to beware the sleeping figures that surrounded her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There she lay, unconscious that I was looking at her--quiet, more quiet than I had dared to hope, but not sleeping. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We have all heard of certain animals sleeping through the long winter months and most of us have probably wondered what happens to them when they do this. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Robert Jordan lay in the robe beside the girl Maria who was still sleeping. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• One of his maxims was that when a slave was not sleeping he should be working. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• See, I have it here, and as she spoke she drew Tan Gama's short-sword from beneath her sleeping silks and furs. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I'll be sleeping outside. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• George Pullman, who then had a small shop at Detroit and was working on his sleeping-car, made Edison a lot of wooden apparatus for his chemicals, to the boy's delight. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Twice had he entered huts at night while the inmates lay sleeping upon their mats, and stolen the arrows from the very sides of the warriors. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Gerald went past the dark shops and houses, most of them sleeping now, and twisted round to the little blind road that ended on a field of darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

Editor: Wendell