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Example sentences for "sound sleep"

  • Fortunately exhaustion threw me again into a sound sleep, and I did not wake till the next morning.

  • We were glad to shelter ourselves under the bulwark, where we all lay huddled up together; before noon, most of the poor fellows had forgotten their sufferings in a sound sleep.

  • I made a supper off some raw ham, for the fire had been extinguished, and committing myself to the protection of Heaven, lay down as the sun set, and from the fatigue of the day was soon in a sound sleep.

  • He retired to bed soon after his arrival at the jail; but he was disturbed during the night, and had no sound sleep.

  • In this situation she soon appeared to have fallen into a sound sleep, until the women felt her hands colder than ordinary, and she was found to have expired.

  • Parker was awaked from a sound sleep on that morning, and after being shaved, he dressed himself in a suit of deep mourning.

  • A few minutes more and the man is in a deep, sound sleep, the old sailor keeping watch over him so kindly, so like a true friend.

  • Mr. Snivel drops into a sound sleep, his head resting on the marble.

  • I want you to meet me here this evening at seven, with your brain clear and your nerves restored by a good, sound sleep.

  • Having been so suddenly awakened from a sound sleep, and subsequently annoyed by the incident of the letter, it took me some moments to recognize these discrepancies in his appearance.

  • You will just be off, both of you, and get some hours of sound sleep.

  • William soon returned to his father, stating that his mother was in a sound sleep, and that Juno had got up without waking her or the two children.

  • By the united exertions of Ready and William the breakfast was prepared while Mrs. Seagrave still continued in a sound sleep.

  • I have been so frightened - I was in a sound sleep, and I was awakened with such a dreadful noise.

  • The captain of the West Indiaman was afraid that my shrieks would be heard, and he sent me down a tumbler of rum to drink off; this composed me, and at last I fell into a sound sleep.

  • The breathing is lighter, the circulation is slower and in sound sleep there is no thinking.

  • Coffee drinking is a destroyer of sound sleep.

  • Sound sleep is dependent on relaxation of mind and body.

  • The working classes in the country enjoy, we don't doubt it, sound sleep--but not plenty of it.

  • He attributes it to "their enjoying plenty of sound sleep.

  • As this timorous fawn with her fickle eyes, fell into a sound sleep at one time; she beheld herself transformed to a creeping plant (which she likes to browse upon so fondly in her pasture).

  • In that state of fearlessness, the Brahmavadi finds no difference in the states of waking, dreaming, sound sleep or the fourth stage of devotion; nor in his earthly bondage or liberation from it, all which are equal to him.

  • Knowing the instability of things, preserve the stability of thy mind, because the motionless mind perceives no fluctuation of its thoughts, nor the changes and motions of things (as in sound sleep).

  • He whose mind is as vacant as the empty air, is called a mahatma or great soul, and his mind resting in the state of unity, remains with the body in a state of sound sleep.

  • Charlotte was unable to take leave of me, being in a sound sleep, after a very indifferent night.

  • It was near two before I got home, and now I hear three strike; part of this hour has been consumed in a sound sleep by the fireside after putting on dry things.

  • Rose after a sound sleep, and here am I without bile or anything to perturb my inward man.

  • After a sound sleep, I was able the next day to get about, though I still remained somewhat sick and weak.

  • I heard no more; for after taking the food a drowsiness crept over me, and I fell into a sound sleep.

  • A little more will do him good, and then if he gets a sound sleep he'll come round, I have a notion.

  • The poor gentleman was lying on his side, in a sound sleep; with a steady hand I poured the liquid metal into his ear--it did not awake him!

  • Approaching the bed, I became convinced that the lady was in a sound sleep; this circumstance added greatly to my satisfaction.

  • Wake a man out of a sound sleep, and ask him what he was that moment thinking of.

  • The fisherman's wife went out grumbling, came and knocked at my door, and waked me out of a sound sleep.

  • I could not comprehend her design, but curiosity made me feign a sound sleep.

  • I had about me a certain powder, which immediately throws the person who takes it into a sound sleep for a certain time.

  • She replied that as my mother had seemed quite comfortable, she thought it best to let me enjoy a sound sleep.

  • I was weary both in body and mind, and, lying down upon my bed, I soon sank into a sound sleep.

  • Jack promised, that in the morning, at the risk of his life he would break the enchantment: and after a sound sleep he arose early, put on his invisible coat, and got ready for the attempt.

  • Contrary, however, to his expectation, the giant continued in a sound sleep, and the dog grew weary of barking.

  • The giant's soul was not attuned to harmony, and the music soon lulled him into a sound sleep.

  • Master Secundus," she replied, "just now fell into a sound sleep.

  • In this frame of mind, she continued straight up to the fourth watch, when she at last gradually dropped into a sound sleep.

  • In a sound sleep I fell; but so soon as the wild geese cried, they broke my rest.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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