At the end of that dreadful period old Misery entered and aroused the sleeper without ceremony.

Above, the golden fountain bubbles clear, Whose water, sprinkled o'er these dead black stones, Will wake the sleepers from their chilly sleep.

It did not rouse the sleepers from the bench; neither did the new-comer's remark that it was a "deuce of a night" bring forth any argumentwe were one on that point.

We should be able to do that without awakening the sleepers.

He did not waken the sleepers.

It was too sweetsuch dreams do ever fade When Sorrow shakes the sleeper from his rest Life still to me hath been a masquerade, Woe in Mirth's wildest, gayest mantle drest, With the heart hiddenbut the face display'd.

"Get up at once, lieutenant, and report at headquarters," said a voice I recognized as Waggoner's, and as I sat upright with a jerk, he passed on to awake another sleeper.

In the dim light his lean arms and frail body, coated with black hair, gave him the look of a puny ape robbing a sleeper.

We paced to and fro in front of the barracks, taking good care not to disturb the sleepers, until perhaps half an hour before midnight, and then the sergeant came up, looking much like a man who has just settled a very disagreeable question.

To his straining eyes, nothing but the silvery line of the starlit sea was on that distant horizon; but his heart's vision pierced farther, and he beheld the sleepers in that home;no, not the sleepers!

It may also be worthy of mention that we saw fewer sleepers at St. Saviour's than in any other place of worship yet visited by us.

He seizes the nearest sleeper, crushes his "bone case" with a bite, tears him limb from limb, and swallows him.

This mule, by-the-bye, is one of the five favoured beasts which the Mohammedans believe destined to immortality; the others are (1) Abraham's Ram, (2) Balaam's Ass, (3) the one upon which Christ rode on Palm Sunday, and (4) the dog which guarded the seven sleepers.

All the rest of the travellers still slumbered; and, arising without noise, they passed the silent and insensible sleepers, the quiet mules which had stretched themselves near the entrance of the place, and quitted the hut.

Now, Pink, you an' me'll keep a runnin' account, you a-chargin' for reg'lar bo'd, an' I a'lowin' to myself credics for my absentees, accordin' to transion customers an' singuil mealers an' sleepers.

You see, it 'ud do away with the present system of putting wooden blocks in the chairs now usedthis would fasten the sleepers and rails together automatically.

Indeed, looking through a mass of Canadian journals is like trying to find one's own sleeper in a corridor train.

The whole body advanced noiselessly along the shore, and seized and gagged the sleepers without the least difficulty or noise.

Great was the surprise of Edith when Miss Harson gave the little sleeper a gentle shake and told her that it was time to be up.

"To make a long and tragic story short, they sent for the watchman, whistled for a policeman, telephoned for the hurry-up wagon, and haled the sleeper away to prisonwhere he is now, waiting to be tried.

He heeded them notthat weary sleeper, tired of looking upon the world, with all its changes.

But if this dreary bond I may not break, help Thou thy helpless sleeper; Resting in Thee, my sleep will sink the deeper, All evil dreams beyond.

On every bench, crowded together, huddled the sleepers.

This done he replenished the little pile of fuel with an armful of bark and pine cones, cast an approving glance about him, which included the sleeper, and silently departed.

Robert might have joined the sleepers, as he was detached from immediate duty, but his brain was still too much heated to admit it.