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Example sentences for "sleepless night"

  • And laudanum is a miserable resource for one who dreads a sleepless night: it peoples slumber with hideous phantoms.

  • I have passed a wretched—a sleepless night: see—my pillow is still moist with the tears of anguish which I have shed; and it was but an hour ago that I fell into an uneasy slumber!

  • He had been engrossed by the same thoughts ever since the day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and had spent that first agonizing, sleepless night.

  • He is sleeping well as it is, after a sleepless night.

  • Edmond resigned the lugger to the master's care, and went and lay down in his hammock; but, in spite of a sleepless night, he could not close his eyes for a moment.

  • Thus I spoke to him: "The grief I experienced at your dreadful treason made me pass a sleepless night, as the letters might condemn me to spend here the remnant of my days.

  • The last day of September I passed a sleepless night, and was on thorns to see the dawn appear, so sure was I that that day would make me free.

  • I passed a sleepless night, as much from the heat as the change in my prospects.

  • Still in search of a means to undermine the confidence which united Ovid and Carmina, and still calling on her invention in vain, Mrs. Gallilee had passed a sleepless night.

  • After a sleepless night, he had taken a long walk before breakfast; and to these demands on his failing reserves of strength, he had now added the fatigue of dawdling about a garden.

  • His face showed the effect of a sleepless night, and wore an expression inimical to all mankind.

  • For your gratification I have spent a sleepless night in those cold, damp woods; and I warn you that practical joking can be carried too far.

  • 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.

  • The morning dawned after a sleepless night, and found the two old gentlemen sitting sorrowfully in Talander's closet, which was bomb-proof.

  • I did not awake till late the next morning, having passed a sleepless night.

  • I passed a sleepless night, and when morning came I had fully resolved to leave the hospital if in my power to do so.

  • I spent many a sleepless night trying to work out a good business scheme, so that no one should smell it out and stand in my way.

  • By six o'clock Arina Petrovna was already on her feet, tired out after a sleepless night.

  • There is something exceedingly dreary and oppressive in a sleepless night in the country.

  • Foolish as the boy was, this act of his had caused him many a sleepless night, and he had reflected very often how he could possibly escape from the consequence of his act of rashness.

  • He waited fully half an hour for Diana; and when she did appear, her pale face and the dark marks under her eyes showed that anxiety had caused her to pass a sleepless night.

  • Puymandour took absolute possession of him, and after the unhappy young man had passed a sleepless night, he was allowed no time for reflection.

  • Richard Jones spent a sleepless night, and took down his shutters as soon as a gray, dull light entered the street.

  • As she did so she observed that Sisily looked worn and fatigued, with black rings under her eyes, as though she, too, had passed a sleepless night.

  • Nevertheless he persevered fruitlessly until a late hour before returning to his hotel to pass a sleepless night in a fever of baffled excitement.

  • For herself, she returned to her hotel to pass a sleepless night, tossing by the side of her placidly unconscious husband as she passed the tragic events of the night in review and vainly sought for some clue to the mystery.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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