She evidently had in view the dreadful sleeplessness, to which she had been so in bondage for a quarter of a century, whose grasp had become more and more relentless, and the effects of which upon her nervous system were such as words can hardly describe.

His passion for work, his days of voluntary fatigue, led to terrible nights, nights of feverish sleeplessness, in which he would stuff the bedclothes into his mouth to keep from crying out Clotilde's name.

An infamous sleeplessness reigned there.

All at once his nearly perpetual sleeplessness since coming to the Cedars had recorded itself in his face.

It came to him after a period of great wretchedness, of torture with doubt and despair, andwhat is significant"during three weeks of total sleeplessness."