Sleepless

Examples

• Hence his pallor and nervousness--his sleepless night and agitation in the morning. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then it was that in my despair and disappointment, after a sleepless night, I came straight to you by the early train. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It must be awful to be sleepless--everything stands by the bed and stares---- Miss Farish caught her straying hands. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• But nothing else happened, except that they both remained a long while sleepless, without speaking again. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Occupation alone, if I could deliver myself up to it, would be capable of affording an opiate to my sleepless sense of woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I am often sleepless when in high health. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Hour after hour passed away in sleepless pain and delirium on Marianne's side, and in the most cruel anxiety on Elinor's, before Mr. Harris appeared. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Every sleepless night leaves a new one--and how can I sleep, when I have such dreadful things to think about? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Some one told me my father used to lie sleepless and think of horrors. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The evening passed without a pause of misery, the night was totally sleepless. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• What little there was must at any rate be husbanded to the utmost; she could not trust herself again to the perils of a sleepless night. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He lay all that night sleepless, and yearning to go home. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Then the sleepless Boots went shirking round from door to door, gathering up at each the Bluchers, Wellingtons, Oxonians, which stood outside. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Gerty lifted an apprehensive look to her pale face, in which the eyes shone with a peculiar sleepless lustre. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You don't know the sleepless nights we've had in this house, and the almost bitter words that have passed between us since that Fifth of November. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Slight exertion at this time left me overcome with fatigue--sleepless nights entailed languid days. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• He was restless and sleepless, but still quailing and manageable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And she must spend them alone, shuddering sleepless on her bed. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It may give him a sleepless night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• They were all to me--the suns of my benighted soul--repose in my weariness--slumber in my sleepless woe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was seven o'clock when I awoke, and I set off at once for Phelps's room, to find him haggard and spent after a sleepless night. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• It would have spared her, she thought, one sleepless night out of two. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Your sleepless nights are accounted for, to my mind. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• And this night she was from the beginning sleepless, excited by resolves. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• You have not courage to confront the sleepless dragon; you have not craft to borrow the aid of Atlas. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Alexander