Word: asleep
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flights; en route to Miami she piloted the plane for a five hour stretch. With her were Harry Rogers, President of the Rogers Air Line of Miami ; and Major M. K. Lee, business and sportsman. Said Miss Nichols: "Major Lee demonstrated his faith in my flying ability by falling asleep and remaining that way for practically the whole time I was in charge of the controls...
...makes one sluggish, drowsy, and totally incapable of his best work. Doubtless it explains why we see so many young men indolently gazing off into space while absorbed in the fascinating process of picking their noses; or why there is at every table at least one man quietly asleep...
...Room, and a few nights ago I had an opportunity of observing at least one gentleman who is evidently in the same unfortunate position: during the three quarters of an hour in which I strove to read, he slept soundly and somewhat heavily in his chair, and was still asleep when I finally gave up and left in disgust...
...gutter, drunk. A motorist, thinking him dead, picked up the rooster and carried him home. Inside the house, the rooster's owner looked at the bird with disgust. "He's always getting like that," she said. The rooster winked one red eye, croaked, fell fast asleep...
...falls: the snowstorm in which, after an accident to her sleigh, Anna meets Count Vronsky; the steeplechase in which he rides with the gay officers of his regiment; the moment when Anna Karenina, after she has gone away with her lover, creeps into the bedroom where her son is asleep; and the moment when, a vague figure in veils, she vanishes as silently as a bird's wing in the brightness of a locomotive's headlight...