Word: asleep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instant after, I saw what I had done. I had taken laudanum enough to kill three men. I rushed to my bell and rang it; but the whole household - consisting of the landlord, the landlady, and a deaf and dumb attendant, - were fast asleep, well out of hearing. How to reach them I did not know; what to do I could not tell; a horrible drowsy feeling began to creep over me; I knew that the poison was beginning to work...
...bell; I began to swing to and fro, and to ring loudly. At the same time footsteps and voices were heard in the entry. I started up; the bell was ringing for recitation, the students were rushing down stairs, and I found to my astonishment that I had fallen asleep while reading that charming subject, Political Economy...
Like huge leviathans asleep...
...best ways of seeing what Durer really did when he exerted his earnest efforts to reproduce natural objects. But the amusing feature in Behau's Melancholy is the figure itself. For Durer's powerful presence, longing for she knows not what, we have a fat woman nearly asleep, who looks as if she had been emptied into her present position and could not wake up to move a muscle...
Read and yet not fall asleep...