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eternal sleep

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Noun1.eternal sleep - euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
eternal rest, quietus, sleep, rest
death - the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"


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Those were the words which it seemed to me would have made me spring up from eternal sleep.
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