"Sleep over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the first thing Aunt Melissy wondered, too. She generally knit a little, after supper, and went to sleep over it, and would wake up suddenly and look at the clock and begin to knit as fast as she could, so we would not think she had been asleep. But one night she slept a long time, and when she looked at the clock it was so late that she said, 'Land's sakes, it's bedtime!' and she went over and ...
— Hollow Tree Nights and Days • Albert Bigelow Paine
... the point. No, I can't say I expect to lose sleep over it. I hope you will dismiss anything I may ...
— Her Prairie Knight • B.M. Sinclair, AKA B. M. Bower
... to sleep over it, and by morning he found himself not only disinclined to the business, but firmly resolved to let it drop. Things were well enough as they were. The woman in the case was making good. Jud was making good. And nothing would restore Howard Lucas to that small theatrical world ...
— The Breaking Point • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... of the fair Agitha—it had brought a sleep over her senses. The enchantress grasped her hand. She threw her arm ...
— Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI • Various
... the end, he compromised with his conscience, and wrote her a briefer letter than usual. Possibly, he might have been surprised had he known that Lalage cried herself to sleep over that same letter, though next day, and for many days after, until she heard again, she carried it in her dress through the long hours of drudgery in the little shop, and slept with it under her pillow at night. Jimmy's hand had ...
— People of Position • Stanley Portal Hyatt
|
