"They sleep like the dead," muttered Dyke.

" "I'll engage to sleep wherever there's room to lie down; and if there isn't I'll engage to sleep sitting or standing," said Willie, whose mother had often said she wished she could sleep like Willie.

Indeed he grew so strong and well, out-of-doors all day in the clear air and bright sunshine of the Alaskan June, that he could eat anything and tramp all day without being too tired to sleep like a top all night, and wake ready for a new day with a zest he never felt at home.

The dreadful night with darksomeness Had overspread the light, And sluggish sleep with drowsiness Had overpressed our might: A glass wherein you may behold Each storm that stops our breath, Our bed the grave, our clothes like mould, And sleep like dreadful death.

They pose in attitudes of sleep like a dormitory of small boys on the approach of a prefect.

I shall sleep like a hog after this.

I fell half-fainting upon my bed, and for the first time I slept, with a perfect sense of being all alone, a sleep like that of a beast or of an assassin, until evening came.

I cried, in my excitement, "the beast has been in your tent, here at your very throat while you sleep like the dead.

Why study at all, why not sleep like the others and trust to luck?

What potion has sleep like this crystalline air it almost takes one's breath to drink, of such a maddening chastity is its grot-cool sparkle?

There is not one man in a thousand who could do that work or could put out one-tenth part of that nervous energy and then sleep like that.

Hee speakes well, but I like not his dispraysing of drunkennes; tis Phisicke to me and it makes me to sleep like a horse with my nose in the manger.

She even moans in her sleep like she used to do.

When at last she sank into a sleep like that of death, produced by powerful opiates, he stole into the room, and gazed at her with feelings which those who watched his countenance did not envy.

He spent over arf an hour on his 'ands and knees looking for it, and Sam said when he was tired of playing bears p'r'aps he'd go to bed and get to sleep like a Christian.

As for me, I will wrap myself in my rug and lie down in a corner of the deck, and sleep like a sailor during his watch below.

Strange, she thought, that he could sleep like an exhausted child, while she, awake, was a mass of pain.

"We both sleep like tops," put in her husband, laughing.

To sleep like Endymion, to sleep long and soundly.

The table is good, and you can sleep like a top.

But let her talk, and, above all, cry, or, if she is one of the coarser-grained tribe, give her the run of all the red-hot expletives in the language, and let her blister her lips with them until she is tired, she will sleep like a lamb after it, and you may take a cup of coffee from her without stirring it up to look for its sediment.

dim Eden By Eve's nightingales; We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.

O for a sleep like music!

No, no; he must die!' "An' then he would sheath his knife, an' roll himself up in his blanket, an' cry himself to sleep like a child.

"Go to bed and sleep like other people," he said gruffly, yet kindly, when he had heard it all, "and hereafter study in the daytime;" and he not only gave him a key to his library, but took him to his own table after that.