"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
... is distinctly happy—this night at home, in the chamber after the music, with Davy to sleep over here, too. ...
— David Lockwin—The People's Idol • John McGovern
... catching. Caught it from Gearson. I guess it won't be much of a war, and I guess Gearson don't think so, either. The other fellows will back down as soon as they see we mean it. I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'm going ...
— Between The Dark And The Daylight • William Dean Howells
... of a plan," said Ruth, gaily. "I for one shall not lose any sleep over it. But if you want to pay them off by showing how much we disapprove of their actions, and have nothing to do with their ...
— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson
... blockheads! Wake up! You rest on a volcano about to break out! You sleep over a mine about to be exploded! Wake up!—sluggards that you are! Your town is taken! Your castle is stormed! The enemy is at your throats with drawn swords! Ah, brutes, will you wake, then, or shall I have to ...
— Hidden Hand • Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
... Burd or woollen plaids."[FN48] "I am not of them." "Then whence art thou, O young man?" "I am from Meccah." "Then art thou from a mine of captious carping and ignorance and lack of wits and of sleep over-abundant, whereto Allah commissioned a noble Prophet, and him they belied and they rejected: so he went forth unto a folk which loved him and honoured him and made him a conqueror despite the nose of the Meccan churls." ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... love of art, of the finer things of life. I made enemies, of course, in consequence. Your racing friends——" He paused. "Milly Splay, who would have matched you with some dull, tiresome squire accustomed to sleep over his port after dinner, the sort of man you are drawing so brilliantly in your wonderful book." A movement of impatience on Joan's part perplexed him. Authors! You can generally lay your praise on with a trowel. What in the world was the matter with Joan? ...
— The Summons • A.E.W. Mason
... chairman replied: "We do not consider ourselves in safety in an assemblage controlled and overawed by bullies, imported for that purpose." The Barnburners laughed, but in order to give the Hunkers time to sleep over it John Van Buren opposed further proceedings until the next day. In the evening, Horatio Seymour, now the Governor, met the convention leaders and with them laid out ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... the Senate not being in session, she dropped into a gallery seat and tried to imagine the famous scenes enacted there. They spent the better part of a day at the Capitol, and saw practically everything in the buildings. They were so tired that night that Libbie went to sleep over her dessert, and Betty dreamed all night of defending the city with a shotgun from the great gilded dome. But she and Libbie agreed that they would not have ...
— Betty Gordon in Washington • Alice B. Emerson
... we must admit that you do keep us guessing, though we do not sit up nights nor lose much sleep over your ...
— Threads of Grey and Gold • Myrtle Reed |
