Lonely and
sleepless I think of my thankless Master, and vainly would Cradle my sorrow.
Until daylight the beast fed, while the black clung,
sleepless, to his perch, wondering what had become of his master and the two ponies.
Westwick's
sleepless nights; and he especially appealed to a grey-headed gentleman, a guest at the breakfast-table of an English traveller, to take the lead in the investigation.
Thou hast been where bell or diver never went; hast slept by many a sailor's side, where
sleepless mothers would give their lives to lay them down.
"To find the
sleepless princess," I added, thinking at the same time one of those irrelevant asides that will go through the brain of thirty, that the woman who would get her share of kisses nowadays must neither slumber nor sleep.
All night long the Martians were hammering and stirring,
sleepless, indefatigable, at work upon the machines they were making ready, and ever and again a puff of greenish- white smoke whirled up to the starlit sky.
Across the threshold lay stretched the
sleepless guardian brute, just as I had last seen him on the preceding day; apparently he had not moved a muscle; his eyes were fairly glued upon me, and I fell to wondering just what might befall me should I endeavor to escape.
I intended, while keeping a
sleepless eye out for privateers, to write poems.
But then did ye enemies steal my nights, and sold them to
sleepless torture: ah, whither hath that joyous wisdom now fled?
When he got out of the train at Petersburg, he felt after his
sleepless night as keen and fresh as after a cold bath.
Often when she woke Jo found Beth reading in her well-worn little book, heard her singing softly, to beguile the
sleepless night, or saw her lean her face upon her hands, while slow tears dropped through the transparent fingers, and Jo would lie watching her with thoughts too deep for tears, feeling that Beth, in her simple, unselfish way, was trying to wean herself from the dear old life, and fit herself for the life to come, by sacred words of comfort, quiet prayers, and the music she loved so well.
Meanwhile Robert, addressing Mrs Pontellier, continued to tell of his one time hopeless passion for Madame Ratignolle; of
sleepless nights, of consuming flames till the very sea sizzled when he took his daily plunge.