59 Metaphors for sleeping

Hence, that sleep is the most refreshing, which is undisturbed by dreams, or, at least, when we have the distinct recollection of them.

* Sleep is a marvelous mystery of Nature which renews all the powers of man, bodily and spiritual.

"And now, Mr. Montgomery, sir, you've done enough for this evenin', an' a nine-hours' sleep is the best trainin' before a battle.

"That sleep from which we are easily roused, is the healthiest," says Macnish.

She was glad that this girl who was sleeping as though sleep had been a treasure long withheld, was knowing to-night the balm of a good bed, glad that she could sink so unquestioningly into the lap of protection.

Modern psychological science has little to offer of a positive nature in answer to this world-old question, but it has at least effectively disposed of the absurd theories of the materialists who would have us believe that sleep is a mere matter of blood circulation or of intoxication by accumulation of waste products in the system.

C. B. Sleep, therefore, as the chief of all earthly blessings, is justly appropriated to induustry and temperance; the refreshing rest, and the peaceful night, are the portion only of him who lies down weary with honest labour, and free from the fumes of indigested luxury; it is the just doom of laziness and gluttony, to be inactive without ease, and drowsy without tranquillity.

Nothing but hunger and hard rocks can convert him, and then but his upper deck neither; for his hold neither fears nor hopes, his sleeps are but reprievals of his dangers, and when he wakes 'tis but next stage to dying.

Sleep is the interruption of our intercourse with the external world: it is the laying down of our arms in the struggle of life.

Her uncle said sleep was God's contrivance for giving man the help he could not get into him while he was awake.

"Enough sleep ain't such a bad cure for gaps," she said.

The so-called "sleep of plants" is another similar movement.

But sleep with such dreams was scarcely a restorer; and Wednesday morning, when Mrs. Griswold asked Lizzy if she had put up her carpet-bag to go to Coventry, she received for answer a flood of tears, and a very earnest petition to be left at home.

But, even without that slight evidence, it was clear that each recognised the gravity of the occasion, and understood that sleep was impossible and sentry duty was the order of the night.

And sleep is life to him, so wake him not.

Disturbed or insufficient sleep is a potent factor towards producing a fretful, irritable child.

A night's sleep and a new daythese are excellent things to look forward to when one is weary or in trouble.

Then there are the larger physiological cycles, like that wherein sleep is the alternation of waking.

On Sunday after workin' hard all de week dey would lay down to sleep and be so tired; soon ez yo' git sleep, de overseer would come an' wake you up an' make you go to church.

Sleep is the station grand Down which on either hand

Sleep is, first of all, a filter, or sieve.

Sleep is the only power that still has life in them.

And though she quickly slept again, her sleep was not as usual, dreamless.

Sleep is a truce with the world.

Sleep was an utter stranger to my eyes that night: yet nature, spent and tired, submitted to a silent repose the next morning, and then joining reason with fear, I considered that this delightful and pleasant island might not be to entirely forsaken as I might think; but that the inhabitants from the other shore might fail, either with design or from necessity, by cross winds; and if the latter circumstance.

59 Metaphors for  sleeping