One dark night in midsummer a man waking from a
dreamless sleep in a forest lifted his head from the earth, and staring a few moments into the blackness, said: "Catherine Larue." He said nothing more; no reason was known to him why he should have said so much.
I decided that at the first opportunity I would take Sola into my confidence and openly ask her to aid me, and with this resolution strong upon me I turned among my silks and furs and slept the
dreamless and refreshing sleep of Mars.
He took another whiskey and soda to steady himself, and going to bed sank into a
dreamless sleep till mid-day.
After I had fallen over eight or nine precipices and thus found out that one half of my brain had been asleep eight or nine times without the wide-awake, hard-working other half suspecting it, the periodical unconsciousnesses began to extend their spell gradually over more of my brain-territory, and at last I sank into a drowse which grew deeper and deeper and was doubtless just on the very point of being a solid, blessed
dreamless stupor, when--what was that?
He had not proceeded two miles from the point where he had had the interview with the Nez Perce chief, when he threw himself upon the earth, without the power or will to move a muscle, or exert a thought, and sank almost instantly into a profound and
dreamless sleep.
The first act of the Witch was to make the boy drink a potion which quickly sent him into a deep and
dreamless sleep.
I awoke, suddenly and unaccountably, from a deep and
dreamless sleep with an all-pervading sensation of nervous uneasiness which I had never felt before.
Worn out in body and mind, she slept from sheer exhaustion -- slept heavily and
dreamless for some hours.
Then, having eaten, too, I lay down with my back to that of my faithful hound, and dropped into a deep and
dreamless sleep.
They have made us weary, and in
dreamless sleep these two long centuries have we lain.
Sir Henry and I contented ourselves with rougher arrangements, and soon were curled up in our blankets, and dropping off into the
dreamless sleep that rewards the traveller.
She must have been very tired for she fell asleep at once, but after an hour or two of
dreamless sleep, she dreamt.