Both them cots sleep good, son, so take yore pick.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I was getting further and further from sleep. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell he was tired, eager to head upstairs and get some needed sleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A breeze lifts the light material, and I glimpse three babies sleeping side by side on a bamboo cot. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I wish you could sleep in my room, but it’s not big enough.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I am sleeping I can see their faces, and I wish I knew their names. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

In the bed, Percy muttered deliriously in his sleep, “Ha, ha, ha.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All I want to do is go to sleep. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep so I'm writing that silly woman, Eunice,” she said. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

When night came I had to sleep under the seat, but I didn’t mind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Make sure he drinks something in the morning and check his pupils. I had to give him a powerful sleeping draft.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I haven’t slept in days but I don’t feel tired, not in the way I normally do, though my body aches as I walk. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I don’t think any of us had slept well in the demon ranch house, but Nico looked worse than anybody else. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I slept restlessly and woke several hours before dawn. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

From one I can hear the murmuring ruckus of sleeping men’s Noise. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He barely slept, he was so delirious with fever and pain. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The roustabouts, having spent much of the day sleeping in whatever corner they could find, are dismantling the great canvas city as efficiently as they put it up. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The sound of a party spills out into the sleeping neighborhood. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kaede crawled into the one the Huntsman told her was hers, and she slept as soon as she lay down on the fur-covered pallet. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The little boy slept in a bundle under my good arm. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Plum on the rim of a warm light sleep was still chuckling. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

When their bellies were full and their eyes grew heavy, the wild boar covered them with blankets made of leaves stitched together with vines and watched over them while they slept. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

She slept out Sunday mornings and forced herself up for dinner, which she ate, as she ate all her meals now, automatically and without conversation. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It cut into his sleep until he opened one eye, closed it, shook his head and came more fully awake. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slept in hooches that were surrounded by sandbags. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning I woke up later than usual, probably because I hadn't gone to sleep until four in the morning. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

Later that evening, after the bus had dropped the boys off at their apartments around Clarkston, Grace lay in bed, sleeping, when he was startled awake: gunshots—fired just below his second-story bedroom window. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Dreams of drowning in warm turquoise water; dreams of abandoned cats walking across her body as she slept; dreams of strangulation by serpent. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was so peaceful there, all her trouble left her and she slept. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘She wouldn't let anybody move her; said she wanted to sleep and she would be all right. Said she’d go to the hospital in the morning: “Don’t let them call nobody,” she said. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’ve nowhere to sleep, it can be your bed and blanket. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The baboons did not sleep much in the night, as they were happy to sit in the shade of the trees in the day and sleep then. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes that was all it took to lull him back to sleep. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

She paused and scratched her head, then added, “Or perhaps not. It was still dark, and I had sleep in my eyes.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Will and Lyra lifted the sleeping dragonflies up to a shelf in a dark corner, where Tialys said they would rest till daylight, and then the Gallivespians joined them on the table. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They don’t look very good, but the boy hasn’t eaten, and hasn’t slept, in more than a day. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tell her all about the day and what happened, and by the time we are finished, she is on the brink of sleeping, so that’s probably around eleven-fifteen. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

Most of the time since Momma died, if someone even walks close to where I’m sleeping I’m up in a flash, my eyes fly open and I’m looking right at them. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then he saw Julie sleeping in the easy chair in the living room and it came back to him. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Momma’s voice called up the few memories I had of her—singing me to sleep, planting together with Nan in her old garden, the two of us driving in the car. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

Sam and I were supposed to sleep in the living room until Lynn got better. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

You make a sleep mask out of one of your dad’s ties. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s their faces I kept seeing every time I closed my eyes to sleep. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

In his sleep he squirms and groans as though he’s already discovered that there is pleasure in touching himself. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I slept very little that night, kept awake by my longing for my home and by Hari’s coughing in the next room. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

He’s delighted when the Germans come over with the bombs so that he can sleep while the pub is closed. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My family lives on this side so you three sleep in that corner over there.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A baby sleeps shaded inside his cradleboard, hanging from a tree. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But it made sleep easy, and in no time I drifted away. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Mother was sleeping in the middle of the day. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a long time going to sleep. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Some of the folk returning from exile were surprised to find strangers had taken over their houses and were sleeping in their beds and wearing the clothes they left behind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But tired as I was, I couldn’t sleep. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I blink the sleep out of my eyes and look at my mother. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

She never sleeps faceup because she believes the devil will take her soul. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The otter likes to lie on its back in the kelp beds, floating up and down to the motion of the waves, sunning itself or sleeping. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed into her parents’ bed, and, after a while she went to sleep. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

She had reopened the budget spreadsheet and put the monitor back to sleep, and when Elizabeth sat down again at her desk that afternoon, she would notice nothing amiss. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He did not know which was more painful, the waking or the sleeping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When I go back into our bedroom, I find Helena awake, in my spot in the chair, watching Max sleep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

My bed still needs to be changed for Bubbe to sleep in. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He had nothing against the squires, but it troubled him to see Robert surrounded by the queen's kin, waking and sleeping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like sleeping outside, even with a crowd of people. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why does she have to cry all the timel She must have slept, though she never remembered closing her eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They felt like they had been cut off in my sleep, stuffed with dynamite and hot peppers, and then reattached. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

It was the third day in a row that Fig had slept past his breakfast head bump. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He slept flat on his back, his hands resting against the soft flannel of his shirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Over and over, he saw himself doing what he should have: rising from his sleeping bag, finding a rock, and hurling it. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“You sure? I can sleep in my truck.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Ama, the herdsman’s daughter, carried the image of the sleeping girl in her memory: she could not stop thinking about her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I did not sleep well that night; I tossed around so often that I woke Amaka up. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone knows Sunday mornings are for sleeping in. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Butterscotch slept nearby, and Dad’s favorite jazz station played a saxophone snoozer. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I won’t be able to get rid of her, she’ll follow me back to the studio, throw up in the bathtub, sleep on the futon. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how long she’s been standing there, watching me sleep. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It must have been half past five in the morning, well after several delirious games of cards and charades that had been brought on by too much candy and too little sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After two hours of half sleeping and half reading, I roll out of bed and shower. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

The pair made their way quickly down the flight of stairs and to the door of the room where Jo slept. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey, Quito’s not far at all. Just a bus ride away. Now, why don’t you get a good night’s sleep and tomorrow you can call your sister.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years stuck in Ojo de Agua, and I was like that princess put to sleep in the fairy tale. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air carried the hushed sound of stirring straw, and the horses shook the sleep from their bodies. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawled onto the couch downstairs about nine o’clock but I couldn’t sleep. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I even insist she take my sleeping bag, in case it's not possible to rendezvous by nightfall. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He recalls sleeping for maybe twelve hours, then stirring and trying to sit. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She had said, You drool when you sleep. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He just wanted to sleep and never wake up again. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wonder what the girls who’ve slept in my future dorm room over the years are doing with their lives right now. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

A line from the prophecy rang in my ears: And see the world m endless sleep. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Faro came in with me, lay down, and went to sleep immediately. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was a hammock stretched across one end and a couch lumpy with a sleeping body. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I imagined how it would feel to creep up to his bed while he was sleeping and put the shotgun barrel right in his nose. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I hardly slept, and when dawn came, I knew I needed to make a plan. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You go on back to sleep if you want, Ob. I’ll put some coffee on the stove. And I’ll fix you some eggs and cocoa when you get up.” Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a loft. See? Up there—it’s kind of open to everything down below. I hope you don’t mind. All our kids slept up there together. I’m sorry we don’t have separate rooms for you.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“If you want to dream, go back to sleep,” he told her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Outer City was still sleeping; the stands were bare and the umbrellas were closed. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He slept heavily for several hours on the bus, woke and daydreamed, napped a little more, woke again at a rest stop and ate a bowl of pea soup. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

This room only feels like a place to sleep. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Salvador found a gully off the road for them to sleep in, and the next evening they began their climb up the winding mountain road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

He had slept for who knew how long, with a fox nearby—and he had survived! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

When I went to sleep the night before the trip, Mom came over to my bed to tuck me in. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It kept him safe, and it will keep whoever sleeps in it safe, too.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Their disappointment at not having found Minli forced them to admit their exhaustion, and they had slept under the canopy of tree branches during the day, leaving their silver goldfish as a guardian. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

My hard night’s sleep must have shown on my face. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

They all slept a lot, not only Bran. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ranofer had no food to bring, no coppers to buy wine, no companion to talk to, and during his first few days he was too tired and sore to sleep or even rest. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Day ran into night, and still I slept, until finally the rush and rumble of a flushing toilet rolled me on my back and up from sleep. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

At night, when everyone was sleeping, her father used to take it out of the bottom drawer of his desk. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Under the tent of blanket, which was poled by my elbow and forearm, the baby slept touching my side. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time he had slept through the ringing of the triangle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t want to go to sleep, because then she wouldn’t be able to enjoy being comfortable. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neewo slept in his winter bed, a blanket fixed on the ropes so that he could gently rock to sleep. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Every night before I went to sleep, I read it again, and I tried to decide how to answer her. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

On the bed Rick, after a moment, slept. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

On the boys’ last night, while the children were sleeping, I got up because I had to go to the bathroom. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we put down the backseat of the Green Caboose, there was room for everyone to sleep, though sometimes someone’s feet would be sticking in my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t slept since the ache began, and I started skipping meals because chewing was unthinkable. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

"How many times did we sleep in the same bed before anything happened? Hundreds? I think we'll be okay tonight." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The angel appears to kneel on a mysterious oval cloud, which envelops the sleeping disciples. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sliding into my shoes, I sneak out of my room, heading down to the first floor, to the recovery room where Stella sleeps. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a long bottle and a long sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shackleton let the crew sleep until nine thirty the next morning. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

She drank it all right then and went back to sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

President Nixon made a speech outside our window, and so did the captain of the Hornet, and then we ate a huge steak and got a good night’s sleep. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A great deal of their money and perseverance and they found a place to sleep. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

We slept on five-foot-deep shelves all around the walls of the room in, two tiers. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Also, I should figure out where I’m going to sleep tonight. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

And when she woke up, Louisiana was still sleeping and Louisiana’s grandmother was still wearing her fur coat. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

But it was not a bad idea, sleep. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I’m sure he’s asleep, I slip out from beneath the blankets and walk down the hallway, past a dozen sleeping Dauntless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eating, sleeping, bathing, laughing, talking, helping, and tending to Pita’s every need, that is how we spent the next few days at Abuelita’s house. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He dropped the bill and leaped over to the cricket cage, where Tucker Mouse was sleeping peacefully. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Never mind. Go to sleep. I am going to sit here for a while and have another glass of tea.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Both Liam and I turned to look at Zu’s sleeping face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Soon he had enough money to buy a second hot dog cart, which Margaret often ran by herself, selling food and counting change while their daughter slept nearby in the car. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

I sit down across from her, for a moment watching her sleeping face and thinking of what we agreed, that night in Millennium Park: no more lies. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I can sleep in a hall, like I do now...” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Then I heard a motor approaching, and trying to get up found my feet were long gone in sleep in the cold water. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Poirot drank a glass of water and composed himself to sleep. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ruse worked, the hands slept again, but other parts of my body began to wake. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Lyra stirred and in her sleep uttered a little whimpering mew, which Alice quickly muffled. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

"Just rub it on your husband's head every night when he's sleeping, Mrs. Collingwood, and soon his hair will be as thick and as long as Mary Lou's tail." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

Kaede slid her arm across Taisin’s stomach and nestled her nose into the crook of her neck, and sleep overcame her moments after she lay down. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Yet he sleeps sound beside Calypso and when he wakes thinks only of Penelope. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m going to spend the day with my dad. Neither of us slept too well last night. Our air conditioning is broken.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Having blown out the light, she slept fitfully, holding her pillow like a man in her arms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I get into bed and lie still, but sleep is not happening. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When he did manage to nod off, his sleep was haunted by “disturbing and frightful dreams. The scenes of them were derived altogether from sick rooms and grave-yards.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“No. And no more of your drugs. I have slept long enough.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether I had broken his nose, but I wasn’t about to lose too much sleep over it. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She held him when he melted into a troubled sleep. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

After they had pitched their tent, fed the dogs, and passed around their own rations for the night, Kaede was so tired she only wanted to crawl into her furs and sleep. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I press my face into the pallet I’m sleeping on, so hard it hurts my forehead, just to force the memory out, out, out. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

That transfer is not at all surprising, considering that many peasant farmers live and sleep close to cows and their feces, urine, breath, sores, and blood. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night it was in an unfinished house, in a new development that they slept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes dropped down to Beau in my lap, his ribs rising and falling in his sleep. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Stanley tried to sleep, not knowing when he'd get the chance again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

They gave you a pill to help you sleep, then they woke you up all night. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were no tutorials here, no one losing sleep over the precise course of her intellectual development. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

But I would have given anything for a crowded bed with my brothers and sisters sleeping and breathing next to me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ess held up a worn and ragged book, with a picture on the front of a sleeping monster and a sailboat. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I did not sleep that night, but lay awake rebuking myself for running away in fear. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He wanted to get home and take his wet clothes off and sleep. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then, while our parents still slept, we tiptoed out of the house. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You two sleep in the living room tonight. Maybe it’s contagious;” I drew Sam a step back. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I sleep badly the last night on the train. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“It was not unusual, Monsieur. The gracious lady often required attention at night. She did not sleep well.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d taken to wearing socks on my hands for sleeping to cut back on bites and rashes, and as I peeled them off, I used one to wipe his nose. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

At home, I went straight to bed and slept through dinner. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“The same genius,” Mr. Muckle went on, “whose careless sleep habits resulted in a newspaper article that unfairly smeared the good name and reputation of Mother Paula? Was that you?” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The medicine put me to sleep, a sleep without dreams. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like the beginning of a deep and long sleep, and a warning that, after all, we were to spend the night in the car, in Mexico. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, the good cheer was short-lived when they went to sleep that night under soggy blankets. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

The hunger, the slush, the lack of sleep, the constant tension, the grime, the grief, and the cold were all exhausting. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Much like tonight, he had felt too worked up to sleep, and despite the late hour he had slipped quietly out of bed and crept down to Mr. Benedict’s study. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It's too close to dawn to bother trying to get back to sleep. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, the beach where the girls still slept was a series of undulating curves. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Months ago, not long after Christmas, she went into the library to wake him from an afternoon sleep and saw a file open upon the desk. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

It would be a long time, she knew, before she would sleep in a bed this comfortable again. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They asked her if it was true that she had decided to get married, and she answered, whimpering, that she only wanted them to let her sleep. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“There you are. Oh, hello, Sarai, hope you slept well. Feral, I need you for a second.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For a long time he lay there, too full of plans to go to sleep. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Sam lay beside her and rubbed her back for a long time before she went to sleep. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She snuffled, stretched her back legs, and kept on sleeping. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the next, she was pulling a blanket over her sleeping mother. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The animals were so disturbed that they could hardly sleep in their stalls. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

It grumbled as it slept, while heating geysers till they burst and restlessly worrying at fissures until they grew so deep that no one could find the bottom. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“You all must listen to everything I tell you now. Tonight we will sleep at Kazi’s, so it looks like we’re not here. The riots are getting closer.” The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Finally, my plea finished, and my handwriting a passionate scrawl, I fell down on my bed and went to sleep. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Though I had hardly slept, I couldn’t sleep any more that day. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

My head hurts maybe from sleeping too long—and my body aches. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The schoolmistress lay on the kitchen table, deep in sleep, and Xan kept both palms on the sides of the young woman’s face, concentrating hard. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When others tried to sleep there, I was not as generous as the elderly widow had been but selfishly chased them away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

My back ached as though someone had sat on me while I slept, and my throat was sore. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Too keyed up to sleep, Ellsberg pulled on his bathing suit, ran down the beach, and dove into the surf. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I switched off the lamp and turned over to go to sleep. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The first place we tried was the master bedroom—the room where Mr. Clutter slept. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The creatures of the tundra were going to sleep, as they did also at noon in the constant daylight. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rebuffed by the girls, Lloyd returned to his companions, stopping in front of Sasha’s sleeping form to shout an abrupt, parrotlike “Hey!” The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They slept in the same place that night and most of the following day, and the weather mercifully continued warm and sunny. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I never get that floppy, numb arm thing at night from sleeping on my arms. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I sleep in on Saturday morning, seeing as how I do not have to start working Saturdays until November. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

They brought wet sleeping bags and clothes up on deck and hung them from the masts, halyards, and rigging. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He turned up the gas and found a radiant Lucia and a fat healthy baby sleeping contentedly at her side. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then I lay on her floor not sleeping because Sal wasn’t there to press his foot against mine. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“If this one may be so bold, ser, you should do the same. You do not sleep the whole night through.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The Mellower was so startled, he almost tripped over Eye’s sleeping bag. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Some of us are trying to get some sleep.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I can sleep tomorrow, being no more than luggage in a boat, as you might say.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I turned away and whimpered myself to sleep. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

But the night before, just as she was gliding to sleep, she’d had the vision of a hawk perched on a giant fence post. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

I thought I was too wired to sleep, but my eyes closed almost immediately. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Wouldn’t much happen if I didn’t get stronger, but I couldn’t do a bit that day except fall back into the bed and let sleep take me off. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I could just drift, he thought, and sleep and put a bight of line around my toe to wake me. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What you up to now? Walkin' in your royal sleep, are you?" The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s getting late, Sam. Put your light out and go to sleep.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then, after thirst and hunger, those besiegers, were turned away, they mourned for their companions plucked from the ship by Skylla and devoured, and sleep came soft upon them as they mourned. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

At midnight I took the manuscript to my room, intending to glance through it before sleeping. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

No rain came through the roof; it had the best bed I had ever slept on; and there was a shower in a building near the dormitory. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe we'll all be a bit more civil after a good night's sleep. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could sleep late—until late mass anyhow. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It contained a blanket, a sleeping bag, several old throw pillows, and one unmarked Mason jar filled with some sort of liquid. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I get up the next morning and the first thing I realize is that last night, I fell right to sleep. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the squad hunker down in their sleeping bags. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I went without sleep, without eating, even missed my father’s birthday to complete the tasks and please Dr. Lange. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In his dreams he heard again the voice saying, “I’ll be a friend to you. Go to sleep—you’ll see me in the morning.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Cal crept quietly down the dark hall and edged into the room where he and his brother slept. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Into my restless sleep a figure in white intrudes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Follow this medal with your eyes. Your eyes are getting very, very heavy. Soon you will be in a deep, deep sleep...” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Why shoud I tern on a TV before I go to sleep. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

But when I broached the idea of my working to Granny, she would have none of it; she laid down the injunction that I could not work on Saturdays while I slept under her roof. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know I should sleep, but I begrudge every second of waking time. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Give it to me, or so help me, I will kill you in your sleep.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was familiar; he had seen things like that when he was a little boy sleeping five in a room. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

When I was very little, I remember going to sleep, while my brother and sister and Aunt Helen watched Love Boat and Fantasy Island. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

She isn’t sleeping as well anymore, as she doesn’t have any Equanil left. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I’d rather stay home. You get to watch TV, sleep in your own bed. I always get stuck sharing a hotel room with my sisters. So gross.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The warmth of the fire made him realize how bone-tired he was, but he dared not sleep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This was why the meerkats slept in the trees. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I stay in Regency England as meals are served, while Ma sleeps on, and throughout Starry's chatting and laughter. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was the time of day when all of Spain slept during the summer. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cole clawed his way out of the sleeping bag and fumbled into his shirt and pants. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

But maybe God intended for me to sleep in that morning, needed me to stay home, as He counted on all of the day’s events spreading out just like He’d planned them. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of going up to the attic to sleep, he crossed into the kitchen and got an old mattress. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to explain, but the thought of Abby watching me sleep makes me want to throw up. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He’s been sleeping in his clothes since we came to the Bureau. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

‘You sleep for a bit Sam and take my blanket. I’ll walk up and down on sentry for a while.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Get in the front of the truck and go to sleep. Okay?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The trailer had some sort of malfunction involving a gas leak, and they all died in their sleep. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

At night, when the dragon slept, Minli missed Ma and Ba. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He trapped fireflies in matchboxes so he would not inhale them in his sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He was alone in the surgery and still sleeping. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t sleep, and sat outside in the bunker, trying to catch a little breeze. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It went like this: Rather than taking a nap in the dirt, the two young girls looked for a clean, quiet place to sleep. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

My gray choice, however, seemed rat-tight, and I abandoned my idea of taking another walk and decided to sit steady and wait for sleep. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sorry. I slept in after the mutilated-tongue nightmares kept me up half the night.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

And Thomas, Isaac, and I started to sleep less during the day, staying awake to whisper with one another. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

After getting off my shift, I would sleep in the back of the bus on my ride home. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

The horn had stirred the castle from sleep,- men were coming out into the ward to see what the commotion was about. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Ever since the first night I had slept at the Courters’, they had expected me to help in the kitchen. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Towards dawn, the boys went to their mother’s house where Johnny fell into a troubled sleep. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would not describe somebody who provides one bed for three people to sleep in, forces them to do horrible chores, and strikes them across the face. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

Rather than open it straight away, she undressed and prepared herself for sleep. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The only place I’m going is to sleep.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t going to let us sleep until this was decided. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

So can I go like back to sleep? Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on David’s bed and went to sleep. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The cowled figure perhaps surveyed us, or perhaps was hunched in sleep or even death. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Geography, he looks tired, like he hasn’t slept at all. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

A good night’s sleep had done its work. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed that sleep and night had resumed their empire. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she had made a complete circuit, she said, “You will report to me on waking, and before you go to sleep. I have rented a room in a house over there.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

By the time you read this, I’ll have taken an overdose of sleeping pills. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When we finally got a place to lay our things, we put all of our clothes on the ground to make a pallet for us to sleep on. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She slides out of bed; Jack senses the movement in his sleep and rolls into the open space, flinging one arm out across Mom’s pillow. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Everybody keeps telling me to sleep,” I grumbled. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

We slept in abandoned villages, where we lay on the bare ground and hoped that the following day we would be able to find something other than raw cassava to eat. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Some wolves or something must have drug it cause it was right in the mouth of the cave, laying up, sitting up almost, on that very rock we slept on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the pleasure of his revenge, he was unable to sleep. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bobby tried to keep himself fit by getting enough sleep, eating healthfully, and staying in his room as much as possible, away from the other players. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He settled down next to Trina and the little girl, thinking about the past, and drifted off to sleep, only for the darker memories to come and stamp out his foolish hopes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“That was yesterday. The electricity came on. It was on today, too, but you slept through it.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

When the company of this dreamer made her feel awake for the first time, even as she tried to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I would wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, and sit down at the typewriter in the same clothes I had slept in. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mangy dogs laying along the sides of stock-looking buildings, sleeping. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

All night I did not sleep, thinking of the man who once had called to me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Be glad to, Jeremie. But only if you go home and get some sleep first.” Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when at last he did sleep, he dreamt, and that was even worse. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was hard to see everybody, to see how desperately Redemption’s parents held on to Moss, fluttering and fussing over him, none of them looking as if they’d slept in days, which they probably hadn’t. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Most of the time I slept in my hideout. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had learned to play dice and chess, to watch dancers, to be carried in sedan chairs, to sleep on a soft bed. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe if he went to sleep, he would be home again when he woke up and he could do those three things. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Ernesto’s pallid skin mottled with excitement, his tentative hands that quickly became assured under her encouragement, the way he laid his downy head between her breasts and slept contentedly, like a well-fed baby. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad paused when he saw me and said, “How’d you sleep?” Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

They entered the church by the sanctuary door, startling the sacristan who slept and ate in a small room off the entrance porch. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

It roused the rest of me from its stubborn sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After six minutes she turned to face him, sighing and stretching, to test if he was really sleeping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Picking up some mud in his paws, he quickly made his way to the place where he knew Hyena would sleep at night. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I gave him a shove, trying to wake him up so Tiny Trucker would have someone else to harass, but Fang actually seemed to be sleeping. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Straight to Genie please be quiet and go to sleep town. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A tiny wizard in a nightcap at the rear of the bus muttered, “Not now, thanks, I’m pickling some slugs” and rolled over in his sleep. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She did not sleep on her next train ride. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“And we saw the town here, and came down, but there was no one here. At least there were things to eat and beds to sleep in. We didn’t know what to do next.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rafik had gone to sleep again with his head back against the seat. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He sat up and then he saw that Frodo was lying beside him, and slept peacefully, one hand behind his head, and the other resting upon the coverlet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Well, you see, Mr. Phillips, between school and therapy and not talking to my mom, and turning into a bird and not sleeping, gadolinium hasn’t been the first thing on my mind. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every night after that, my mom slept in the bed next to my grandma, knowing that each breath could be her last. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The blind innkeeper said that the Americans could sleep in his stable that night, and he gave them soup and ersatz coffee and a little beer. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tree-ear would accompany the child home, where the woman of the house always consented to let him sleep under the eaves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

He curled around his staff and went to sleep. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The faint dampness and confining cling of my sleeping-bag; the sound of the snow; barely audible, Estraven’s breathing as he sleeps; darkness. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I don't know if you can really call it waking up, since I never actually got to sleep. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The wings of birds that had been sleeping flapped in surprise. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I don’t blame you. Let’s all wait for Mom to tell us when we can go in to see Grandpa. Until then, try to go back to sleep. You’ll need your rest.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she had to sleep in her car. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

They might work sixteen hours a day without pay, expecting only the food they ate and the straw mats they slept on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The same gold earrings she never takes out, not even when she sleeps. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I slept an hour but awakened long before daylight. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had, somehow, never felt so secure in his life and was asleep, into deep sleep, within thirty seconds. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for some reason, I’m laughing too hard to get back to sleep. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Mr. Galanter called a few times today. He wanted to know how you were. I told him you were sleeping.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Herbie punched open his traps, wet his buttons, spread his powder, and snuggled down comfortably into his rancid sleeping bag, secure in the knowledge that tomorrow morning his ants would be extinct. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing us lolling our heads like droopy violets, Cecilia told us to go upstairs and pick out a bedroom to sleep in. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Get him a bed, get him to sleep.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He ate outside in the cage, and when night fell and the air cooled, he slept as Zeitoun’s cage mates slept, without blankets or pillows, on the filthy ground. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

She even slept and fasted in the woods for a name, but the spirits were stubborn. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The morning sunlight was already filtering through the cracks of the shutters, but it was as silent in the big house as if even the books on the shelves were sleeping. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ms. Byrd said firmly, “Tell yourself, ‘I must not sleep in class. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And literally, by the time I stood back up, he was already sleep, slumped in the chair, snoring. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The result: I sleep half the day and I’m up all night. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

So they slept through the night, Odysseus blissfully, on a couch soft and warm as he had not known since he left Calypso’s isle. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know if it was the emptiness, the stifling heat, or the fact it was only nine o’clock, but I couldn’t settle into sleep despite how tired I was. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw nurses alongside some of the beds, and I realized that everyone was preparing for sleep. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dawn comes before sleep does, and there’s Effie rapping on my door. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now they each had their own place to sleep. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I do not think you slept in poison ivy,” Werfel hinted. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

That night I stayed under the bridge, although you can be sure that 1 found no sleep. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

I couldn't wait to tell Mama, but she was sleeping peacefully, and I didn’t want to wake her. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when your stomach is empty and your mind is full, it’s always hard to sleep. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

In the gray dawn of the following morning, a noisy and riotous dream disturbed my sleep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

I stayed up all night and couldn’t sleep for a week. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Even here—running for our lives, sleeping exposed, facing death—even here, in her arms, I was able to find some measure of peace. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The orange-haired doctor returned, checked the pulse of the sleeping child, and sighed to the nurse. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At Warings, Hooper slept, flat on his belly, his mind blank, but on the floor below, his father moved and tossed, excited by dreams. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Look . . . right now, we need to leave. I put the guards to sleep, but it won’t last” I wanted to strangle him again. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They are comets and meteors burning past her little capsule; they scorch up her very skin as she tries to sleep. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“I told you it was a waste of time. Can’t you stay awake for five minutes? Must you go to sleep on me?” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

She turned away from him, dosed her eyes, and seemed to sleep. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In this way, wrapped in the colors of the nation that sought their death, they slept until well past dawn. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

I must have slept well, because she got away from me. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

I order him into the sleeping bag and set aside the rest of his food for when he wakes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She scrambled out of her sleeping bag and breathed deeply. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, to tie on your sleeping bag and lash things down.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was a warm dreamy sleep all about flying, about sailing high over the earth. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa tossed and turned, muttering in his sleep. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

Rosy and relaxed with sleep, eighty little boys and girls lay softly breathing. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her voice a little hard, she nodded towards the sleeping baby. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She was one of those people who can go to sleep at any hour and in any position. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

She thought she could close her eyes and sleep for two days. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed to reach the sleeping children, huddled on the old blankets in the comer, for they stirred in their sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doctor gives Captain Smith medicine to ease the terrible pain and it makes him sleep most of the day. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Grandma sleeps in a big bed upstairs with a picture of the Sacred Heart of Jesus over her head and a statue of the Sacred Heart on the mantelpiece. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Last night, after Hamilton came to relieve me of my shift, instead of heading down to the main cabin to sleep, I stayed put. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Lia needs to sleep for one hundred years in a locked glass box. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

On those nights it would take a very long time for Nate to fall back to sleep. I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 2017-08-01T00:00:00Z

I know most folks like to say a dead person looks like they’re sleeping, but I didn’t think so. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Sleep she did: Kate was so tired from her night’s exertions that she slept through the wake-up announcement and was late getting ready for breakfast. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had a gift for sleeping, he’d boasted, smiling in that cocksure way of his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Of my mother’s three huts, one was used for cooking, one for sleeping, and one for storage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He returned to the cow byre, took off his boots, and slept until he woke, when the sun was high in the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the night at Bernice State Park stretched out atop our sleeping bags in the mess of Cade’s camper shell. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Worrying about her redoubled his anxiety and pushed sleep even further away, so that he feared it would never come. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t slept well all night, waking up several times to see if the electricity had come back on or if Mami had returned. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

He scooches over as I climb under Gram’s sheets, still unmade from the last night she slept here before she went to the hospital. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Well, they took off—along with a lot of other things that came together while I was sleeping. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z

So saying, she wrapped her arms around the scabbard and dropped back to sleep. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

They went in a dream, unguided by owl’s hoot or bat’s squeak, but only kept together by the necessary pace which the sleeping forest imposed upon them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She swallowed dryly several times during the arduous trek up the stairs to her apartment, but she was sleeping soundly again by the time Nately undressed her and put her to bed. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

For two weeks, I've done nothing but sleep, eat and rehearse for my debut. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had at least two hours before the Master Librarian woke from his fitful sleep and came padding among the bookshelves to check a cross-reference, a footnote, a scribble in the margins. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He hid the books in the kitchen and moved from the house again to the alley and looked back and the house was still dark and quiet, sleeping. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not sleep much the night before I went to the place of the sea elephants. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Best put out the fire, Dr. Grumman,” he said, “sorry as I am to do without it. I think that canopy’s thick, but you never know. I’m going to sleep now, wet through or not.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay on the edge of the bed, stiff with fear, and vowed not to sleep all night long. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was warm enough to sleep on the beach at night. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the fact that I could have used up precious sleep time imagining I’d been stabbed in the back is alarming enough. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron’s ears went red, and thereafter, he reverted to the bewitched sleep version of events. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Standing outside in the rain, in the cold, wet light from the single streetlight, Velutha was suddenly overcome by sleep. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hardly slept, never smiled or combed her hair. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I slept beside her until I heard her calling my father. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Trying to reach sleep, any land of real sleep, was hard. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

After dinner, I try to go back to the dormitory where I’ve been sleeping, but I can’t quite walk through the door. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

She put it on, as she did always and only at night, tucked her hands under her cheek, and waited for sleep to take her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I had to share a room with Charlie, and his snoring kept me from sleeping. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Denna shifted in her sleep, then started to slide sideways and jerked awake. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But still sleep would not come, or came only in quick plunges from which he emerged, giddy with thoughts he could not choose or direct. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Through the thin walls, I hear Pop's snores, Nan shifting in her sleep, a mourning dove's croon. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And maybe sleep off the drinks he had at lunch. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“There is more I hev to tell you before we sleep,” he said. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jinny thought perhaps that was enough adventure for a few sleeps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

At last, however, she grew tired and decided that she had danced enough and that she would go to sleep. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

"Every morning the sun is darkened in my eyes, and every night my sleep is the less refreshing, because I remember that Narnia is still free." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

But they left me alone with her, and the pig sat right there on top of the dresser as she slept. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The glazed look was completely gone from her eyes, as if she’d gone to sleep last night expecting to be rescued this morning. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I go to sleep early, and when I wake, it is full dark. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He had slept the night away, and the grey of morning was dim among the bare branches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She slept through them all, from sunrise nearly till sunset, and it always felt as though she were opening her eyes only a moment after closing them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The truth was that mandragora, made from the juice of the mandrake, brought a profound sleep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Maybe he just sees me as I really am. I have to get some sleep.” Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Longstreet said softly, “You go to sleep now, Sam. Tell you all about it tomorrow.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Go to sleep, Widge. We have to haul scenery first thing in the morning." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

"We'd better go now so that you can get some sleep," he said, draining his glass. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the high-speed chases and mandatory shoot-outs become too repetitive, I head over to the revival houses and watch gentler movies in which the couples sleep in separate beds and everyone wears a hat. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag, my clothes, even the box I used as a table and the board I had for a bench, all were cinders. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t direct me to do anything differently; he leads me home to catch scraps of sleep just after dawn. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I found I was quite drunk but went to sleep. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Not now in the sleeping bag with his fever, and during the day, if I'm not there to remove it, he'll be roasting in it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Once Jay’s light snores started, I kept ignoring sleep, instead trying and trying to lift out of my body again, but I couldn’t. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You wouldn’t believe how she takes care of that dog. Feeds him. Walks him. Lets him sleep right on her pillow every night.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I don’t know how she sleeps in those hard curlers. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

He was away some time, and Frodo after a few mouthfuls of lembas settled deep into the brown fern and went to sleep. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They settle onto their blue berths, the top two swinging down from the walls when it is time to sleep and held in place by sliding latches during the day. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

So when she asks me if there’s anything else she can do, I tell her I just want to sleep. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep, so he had eased a hand between his legs and imagined the septa atop him, breasts bouncing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The table held more pill bottles than ever—Selestone for his asthma, Ativan to help him sleep, naproxen for pain—along with a powdered milk mix and laxatives. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, we slept in the van, each sprawled out on a seat. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Crack—crack—snap—as the golden monkey pulled the little thing apart limb by limb, and the woman lay moodily on her sleeping bag by the fire and slowly ate a bar of chocolate. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The foot soldiers could sleep in the mud. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duuzuu was so full, he promptly went back to sleep on my pillow, his belly swollen. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You better give me one, too, Jan. It’ll make me sleep,” Mary said. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Right after his breakfast he goes back to sleep. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shook out his sleeping bag and grit pattered over the floor. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Our honeymoon was meant to be restful, a low-key road trip in Northern California, involving wine, sleep, mud baths, and good food. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I followed him through the guardroom, where men slept, talked idly, or played at dice. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He had just slept badly, he told himself. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Then, with barely enough room to turn around, they wormed themselves into the sleeping bags and attempted to sleep as the boat bucked up and down through the heavy swell. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Lucinda is still sleeping her beauty sleep that will last all morning long. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

His horse had been chased away while he slept. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I’ve slept in my famous female filmmakers T-shirt every night this week to get into the mind-set of a butt-kicking female director. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He spent every minute with the horse, sleeping in the barn, watching him eat, personally wrapping his legs in stall bandages, but he wouldn’t let him out to work. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

After many nights without sleep, we have given the original letter to our lawyer, who is instigating a libel suit for $500,000. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lie down and pretend to sleep, because I don’t want to lose those kids any more than the knights do. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The best time to see them was at dawn because after the sun came up they would be hiding or sleeping inside shelters of old tin, cardboard, and scrap wood. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He might have been able to pass as a twenty-year-old with his facial scruff and solid build, but he didn’t fool anyone while tucked away in sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Heather’s sofa pulled out into a bed, and they agreed he could sleep there until Vivi found a job and they were able to afford a larger apartment. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“When he sleeps he wraps that tail around him to keep warm.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

At night they slept in a haystack, so grateful for open air even the field mice and the ticks were welcome bedmates. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

How their parents could sleep through this was beyond me. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“We have food and a place to sleep.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I decided the safe thing to do would be to sleep in a tree. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie asked on their second night, when she sensed that, yet again, he couldn’t sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to have our lights off, but I couldn’t sleep and Jay was awake too, picking something from his teeth with a fingernail, then looking at it. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She knew and liked the damp earthy smell of the dirt floor, even though they slept on the floor, huddled under thin ragged blankets, aware of the chill. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was awake when she was trying to sleep, and he slept when she was awake. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I washed my hands there, and made supplication to the gods who own Olympos, all the gods— but they, for answer, only closed my eyes under slow drops of sleep. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleeping face of Gaea appeared on the side of Half-Blood Hill—her massive features formed from the shadows on the grassy slopes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He says, Go to sleep, boys, because holy God is watching you and He always knows if you’re not good. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All of his nightmares, and they were never far from him when he slept, dealt with falling. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was blowing so hard that the drifting boats would not be going out and the boy had slept late and then come to the old man’s shack as he had come each morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slept in goat- hair tents that protected us from the harsh conditions in the vast wasteland. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

I want my brother’s last memory going into centuries of sleep to be something good. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He mounted the steps and saw her peering at him through the door with eyes red from sleep and alcohol. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Did ghosts sleep on clean sheets that smelled of mint? Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t sleep too well that night, for a couple of reasons. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Chester was asleep on his brown velvet chair, shedding in his sleep, still worn out from the previous night’s activities. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

The window opened onto the world into which he had escaped with Baruch and Balthamos, and where he’d slept safely: the warm endless beach with the fernlike trees behind the dunes. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The young, raging one, growled in her sleep, “Leave me alone.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the marten had disappeared, probably to catch up on his long-overdue daytime sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

My two sisters shared one bedroom, while I alternated between sharing a room with my two older brothers and sleeping in a single bed in my parents’ room. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

She took note of his unnatural stillness, recognizing it as restrained restlessness, and waited impatiently for it to soften into sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It would not be a good idea for me to be outside my territory, sleeping and defenceless on the ground, the one time he decided to go for a midnight stroll. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Between the four of us, we had three sleeping bags. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And then his eyes slid back in his head, his body swiveled, and his legs walked his sleeping brain from the kitchen. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I brought the shoemaker and the wandering boy up to the projection room to sleep. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He had not slept since the battle on the day before, yet he did not look weary. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Mama and Jay sleeping in bed, or maybe now up making breakfast. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He slept, his head in the shoe poet’s lap. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Though I had not slept, I felt lighthearted and fresh. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t yet six o’clock but my eyes were fully open, my mind too far from dreaminess to be pulled back into sleep. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Let’s just walk to the Greek place. Mom can sleep it off. We’ll bring her back something.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

I have this halfway place, a rest stop on the road to sleep, where I can stay for hours. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she went back to bed, and to sleep, or so we thought. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His father was one of the few people Ben had ever met who could wake from a deep sleep fully refreshed. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We used to meet secretly in my father’s apple orchards, always after midnight when everyone had gone to sleep. We’d walk under the trees and I’d hold her hand.. .Am I embarrassing you, Amir jan?” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“What would happen,” Zeitoun asked the captain, “if you and I went below the deck, and just went to our bedrooms and went to sleep?” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The monster closed its hands and the mist descended again as the prince approached the sleeping farmer’s daughter, his knife at the ready. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The night before I was so excited I couldn’t sleep till dawn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He promptly rolled over and drifted back to sleep, returning to the clear creek he’d left when Florida had woken him. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The houses beside her and across the river from her slept. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl seemed to be sleeping peacefully, like she’d wake up at any minute. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes the little apartment we lived in would be so hot you couldn’t sleep for days.” Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They knew that she didn’t sleep alone nights as they were forced to do. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought we would have been farther by then, but perhaps the driver had pulled over the truck for a time to sleep himself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

But what this girl really needs is a story so she can go to sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I went up a few steps and heard Pa snoring, they were sleeping for sure. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

They seemed like a good thing to think about before you went to sleep. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Now ’twas lit with torches, and sentries stood outside the front doors, jealously protecting the officers who slept within. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“He said the police come there so often to inspect that he found it hard to sleep at all.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

She was frozen in the moment she’d been dreading for hundreds of sleeps. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But Emma was right—Rocket loved sleeping on Mom’s cushioned window seat, especially on sunny afternoons. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was the sound of water that Merry heard falling into his quiet sleep: water streaming down gently, and then spreading, spreading irresistibly all round the house into a dark shoreless pool. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Enough to sleep for days, but I cannot. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I shuddered to think of John’s sisters, who slept three to a bed, jumping from a window, their nightshirts billowing up around them as they fell. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

We swallowed a spoonful in the morning to wake us up and one at night to put us to sleep. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you stretch out right here? I’ll make sure nothing harms you while you sleep.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each bush contained a few sleeping bags; you chose whichever one happened to be empty when you wanted to sleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, there’s nothing but my sleeping bag and trash. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Maggie got five bottles of nail polish, a dress for her voice recital, a sleeping bag for arts camp this summer, and a new phone from her parents. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

In a loud voice that swept through the sleeping neighborhood, he called to his family, “Stand by for a fighter pilot.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes homeless people sleep under the bridges, but they usually don’t bother anybody. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

To one side was a man named Callas with a snore like a miniature foghorn itself; on the other was Dr. Philobosian, who wept in his sleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Then in the afternoon of the eighth of October there was a sudden cry of pain from the room where they slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Curling up in a ball close to me, he went to sleep. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron had had a fit of gallantry and insisted that Hermione sleep on the cushions from the sofa, so that her silhouette was raised above his. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

For the first time, I realized how exhausted he looked, that he must not have slept well for days. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He came back the next morning, looking tired and weary, like he had not slept all night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Gunners sleep, nuns in a crypt beneath the cathedral sleep, children in old corsairs’ cellars sleep in the laps of sleeping mothers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A few pieces of clothing had been thrown haphazardly on my bed—a tank top and shorts I’d worn to sleep. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

The sexers worked for twelve hours in a row, and then they slept while a new batch of eggs warmed. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He rubs some warmth back into my feet and wraps them in his jacket before tucking the sleeping bag back up around my chin. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep, and, seeing, me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He managed to get some breakfast and sleep, but was back at the scene of that fire to supervise the mopping up of embers in the early afternoon. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Sam had shared Deen’s sleeping cabin and been always underfoot, learning the island from the tall boy who would be leaving now, so suddenly. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After dinner, they made sure all the coals were burned out before they washed up and went to sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

I sat there a long time waiting and dreaming, but she never came, finally I walked home and went to bed, but I didn’t sleep much. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Tally felt strangely exposed without her sleeping bag, lying there in her clothes, but the warm sun and the long night’s travel put her quickly to sleep. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Is not his fear evident? He will run distracted. He cannot sleep.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Pa saying, “There’s so much blood,” like he spoke from his sleep. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Then she would bustle around the engine,” Kaleriya said, “quietly tapping her wrenches, so as not to disturb the sleeping crew.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The skin on her face looked heavy, and Genie wondered if she had slept at all during the ride. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I don’t even know if I can sleep, period. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But the wind was sleeping tonight, and the still air filled the alleyways like warm water in a bucket. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure where that swell of desperation came from, but now that I’ve acknowledged it, it’s impossible to ignore, like a living thing has awakened from a long sleep inside me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

But I must try to get a few hours’ sleep, as Van Helsing is to call for me at noon. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“So when everyone is sleeping,” he said, “we’ll have to creep out of here to the soldiers’ camp and sneak around to look for Amah.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Have some of the gentlemen decided they need houses instead of tents to sleep in? Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Did your master ever take a sleeping draught?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay in that mahogany bed, tossing this way and that, unable to sleep. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It must be true because Uncle Herman use to sleep in our house all the time when he was out of werk on the old sofa in the par- ler. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I had been sleeping heavily and I woke feeling I was too late. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Then after another hour of crying and hiccoughing he went to sleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The girls had brought Taylor into her hut and placed her on the palm fronds like a sleeping princess. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He reeled unsteadily, took a wider stance, and looked down at his sleeping sister. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn't sleep too long, because I think it was only around ten o'clock when I woke up. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

That night I was fast asleep on my shelf, slotted in with all the other prisoners in my barrack, when shouts startled me out of my sleep. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I only just got Beto to sleep. He wouldn’t leave her.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl outside has black curly hair that’s flat on one side, as if she slept on it. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

While we waited for the radiator to cool, some players sat in the bus and slept, some of us went out and played catch on the highway. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lefty comforted her and apologized, but as he turned over to go to sleep he felt himself being enclosed in the loneliness of fatherhood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He opened his door and was surprised to see Jordan leaving the small room near the kitchen where Angel slept. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb is alone in the dormitory, his hair tousled and his eyes red from sleep. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Even though she was on the floor of the garden pagoda, she had slept comfortably, and as she sat up she realized that was probably due to the silk pillows she had been lying on. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I would have worked, eaten, and slept alongside the other Oranges, or at least stepped out of the shadow of the Yellows and Reds. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Anyway, I’m only three miles from my house, and if I get home now, Dad will be sleeping and won’t know I’m drunk. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

That spring Vivian, a foster child who was slightly younger than me, moved in and slept on a cot in Mrs. Chavez’s room. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Since Harriet had married and moved out, Cora, Molly, and Sybil were the only inhabitants of their cabin, sleeping in the two rooms off the main living area. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

"I only have a passing memory of what sleep is," Bruce said. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He went to sleep right after you left,” Teresa said. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ajima showed him to a small narrow room with a sleeping mat already unrolled, then left him alone. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then heavy footsteps that ran from Pa’s bedroom into the parlor room where Uncle Darnell slept. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before Fiver slept, however, he talked again to Hazel about the raid. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw people at their most vulnerable, both alone and together, sleeping or else doing the other things that are done in the dark. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Are you comfortable here? You slept well? They brought your food? It was good?” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She’s been using it for a couple of weeks. Sometimes at night she coughs and she doesn’t use it and I think she’ll die right then in the sleeping bag.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They did not hurry to bed afterwards, for they expected to have all the night to sleep in, and they did not mean to go on again until the evening of the next day. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I longed for nighttime, and the blessed relief sleep brought. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

They find less difficulty from the want of beds, than from the want of time to sleep. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His shirt was dirty and the stolen clothes were wrinkled and soiled from having been slept in for a week. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were nights when I couldn’t sleep but stared into the darkest night until my eyes could see clearly through it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It had never occurred to him until now that a hero would sleep on the ground. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I swim up from sinking down to sleep. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

He slept beside me all night and was sick in the morning. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Frodo lay and slept away the night on the deep mould beneath an ancient tree. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

They look past, at nothing, or they pretend sleep. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later, after I've forced food down my throat and pretended to sleep on a rock-hard bunk, after the stars have faded and the sun has risen, one of the cavern doors swings open. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Personal calls happened usually at home, at night, when you were dog tired and in need of sleep. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Dolores insisted that Alaska and I share the bed, and she slept on the pull-out while the Colonel was out in his tent. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He goes back to his own bed, and I am left to try to find a comfortable way to sleep in my chains, between two crates. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Soon I heard her quiet, even breathing, but I still couldn’t sleep, not until the sky began to lighten and I heard Pretty Boy stir under his cover. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know how your mama looks at you just before you go to sleep? That worried look when you stay out with Hushpuppy too long?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aside from that we were both covered in bruises from sleeping on stones and being too exhausted to get up and rearrange things once we were lying down. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The sweet milk Madam made up? I figure it contained a sleep potion, knocked you out cold so they could spirit her away. I am dreadful, powerful sorry, but they sold her away from you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing else to do but go to sleep. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

However, I must try to sleep; for there is to-morrow to think of, and there is no rest for me until.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

If birth was a sleep and a forgetting, what was death? The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Use this on your blisters before going to sleep. And make sure you put a tarp over the firewood or it will be waterlogged by morning.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Being unable to sleep in bed, I got up and opened the window. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Do we go to sleep now?” he asked. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry looked as if he hadn’t slept since I’d seen him last. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She spread coats and rags on the floor of the little back room and we slept there with the bicycle. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then she asked, “Where shall we stop tonight to sleep? Can we find a place that will be safe?” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

I picked up Zu’s notebook again in an attempt to avoid being lulled to sleep by Chubs’s rhythmic snores, and added a few clouds and stars to the first page of doodles. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He had called her at night to say he couldn’t sleep. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

For a time, he had tried to convince himself that Fudge had indeed been a hallucination brought on by lack of sleep during his grueling election campaign. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

We exchanged a few pleasantries as we climbed a narrow road between tall trees, he inquiring after how I had slept at the Taylors and so forth. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Abbot Mortimer shuffled up in his nightshirt, rubbing sleep from his eyes. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

The cocoon didn’t move for two whole weeks while Petey went about the slow, magical business of rearranging his parts in his sleep. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the city, we three youngest girls slept on mattresses in the same bed. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both of us depended upon public charity to eat and for a place to sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mister Muqtada, you are the next: how come you are always sleeping sleeping sleeping?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Anyway, your dad pulled the cap back over your head while you and your mom kept on sleeping. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Maybe Jesus was talkin’ in His sleep, son, or folks heard Him wrong. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Pull you out of sleep and you wake up on the ground under a tree you’ll never locate again because you’re lost. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

People naturally let their guard down when they slept, so much so that sometimes, if the dream was frightening enough, I didn’t even need a touch to be drawn into it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Maybe you can get some sleep. It’ll be gone in the morning. The salts will do the job.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Retired worn out; slept soundly; awaked by mate telling me that both man of watch and steersman missing. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Now say your prayers and go to sleep. I'm sure you’ll feel better in the morning.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Watching him sleep under the tarp, I had a good picture of how he would die. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m obviously aware that they share a bed when he sleeps over here, but the more often I sleep over here, the more I get the impression that he’s here on nights when I’m not. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Doctor Copeland’s head rested on his chest as though he slept. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

He gets out of bed, convinced that it’s his parents calling to wish him a happy birthday, mortified that it will wake Gerald and Lydia from sleep. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

‘That one said oink-oink and then went to sleep in its own filth!” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

In the morning, I woke up more tired than when I went to sleep. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I quickly get back in bed and pretend to sleep until Effie Trinket comes to alert me to the start of another "big, big, big day!" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We just sort of drifted back and forth between our two apartments and I got less sleep than ever. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

I went back to sleep and was awakened by the ringing of the doorbell. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was either sleeping in the shade of the canoe or running up and down the sandspit chasing the pelicans that roost there in great numbers because there are numerous fish nearby. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Have I been talking in my sleep?” was all she said. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was this real fat guy sleeping in it and he didn’t have a thing on but sneakers and a doo-rag. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t care that we had to sleep on the streets because he couldn’t pay rent for the hotels we were living out of. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew by now not to touch his legs or head when he was sleeping, as that would wake him. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He slept in my bed, which my mother fixed up with a new nubby beige bedspread, and I slept on a cot next to him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She was not even going to buy Caroline a special sleeping gown for her “first” sexual act with her husband. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Matty dreamed of vague, frightening things connected to pain, and his body was tense even as he slept. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They quit talking then, and drifted off to sleep, and I tiptoed out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

We showed her how to feed him, and bathe him, and lull him to sleep. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The dance never ended that night and we had to leave early the next day, so we left as most of the villagers slept. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

We all had mud up to our knees, and most of us had draped our sleeping bags on pine branches above us; water dripped from their corners. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“If I were home, I’d still be sleeping. So keep quiet. I need a nap.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

From then on, I went to sleep every night. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mostly 1 slept in the mornings, and in the afternoons, sometimes, I went to the races, and late to the mechanotherapy treatments. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He still looked as if he had slept for the last week in his clothes; but his beard had been trimmed, or at least washed. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

There in her arms I cried myself to sleep, and I dreamed of the courtier and the pink-cheeked maiden. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Jesse called it one of the most exhausting nights of his life—they didn’t sleep at all—but it meant paying for only one day’s truck rental. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I slept, Mom. But I think I’m coming down with a cold.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to sleep instead and keeled over sideways into a dead faint. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

I hear Didu sneak out of her sleeping bag, tiptoe into her bedroom, and settle into her own bed with a sigh. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And the door took her place like a sheet of blank paper, and then a larger sheet of paper took the place of the door, and I drifted toward it and smiled myself to sleep. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Just a sea of blackness surrounded by the tears that continued to fall even as I slept. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She gave Jabir’s hand another squeeze before turning back to Mama’s sleeping form. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

But there is no Ernst; the men in the cots do not reply; the American soldier at the door of the tent sleeps. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She pulled a torn sleeping shift from the ragbag and, using her teeth to start, she ripped it into several strips. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

‘It’s tomorrow,’ said Gollum, ‘or this was tomorrow when hobbits went to sleep. Very foolish, very dangerous — if poor Sméagol wasn’t sneaking about to watch.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I’d just sit there on the balcony at night while everyone slept and cry and watch the moon. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put me to sleep. This is a kill shelter, after all.” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

"Let's talk about that tomorrow. Today was a lot for us, and I feel almost like I'm walking around in my sleep, scared this is just a dream." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

In my dream, they told me okay, go back to sleep. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Papa had pulled the car off the road so we could catch a few hours of sleep. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo had slept at home because the rain had caught him there and at three in the afternoon he was still waiting for it to clear. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

On this holiday, people slept late, and because the stores were closed, the streets were nearly empty. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After that night Jody moved his things and slept in a room downstairs. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He ran his fingers over the sleeve of my shirt, then let his hand rest on top of mine as he drifted off to sleep. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

As always, she slept out upon the grass in the Abbey grounds. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

There was no one there and they lay down and slept. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll both sleep, and dream of sweeter days. Close your eyes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know you will, child. Now get some sleep.” Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was wet and scorched and bedraggled. My clothes were burnt full of holes on my arms and shoulders and back. ... I fell down in the hallway and went to sleep.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

There was a platform bed against the far wall, its blankets mussed as though someone had slept there recently. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I awoke from a deep sleep to the sound of harsh laughter and pounding feet in the alley below me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I sleep and wake up, sleep and wake up again, listen to the cars coming and going, watch the silhouettes move past my window. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t get to sleep on the plane yesterday, and I can’t keep my eyes open. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I know. He is standing on one foot as he does in sleep. I can feel it in the way he grips my shoulder. He is very still.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

I am left with a little water and the cold dirt floor to sleep on. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her cries angered the sleeping demons of the deep and they sent a wall of water to quiet the intruder.... In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

As soon as they went to sleep, I took her out by the pool so we could talk some more. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But Nina was sleeping in a sling around Aunt Ophelia, so I couldn’t see her face. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was such a happy evening that she could hardly sleep later that night. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had to sleep on the wall of the rover. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can’t half sleep for him raving bout clubs and clothes and forty- nine brands of beer. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told stories learned from Don Berto or made up some of my own, none so scary as to chase away sleep. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He lay in bed, drifting in and out of sleep. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

We slept on mattresses stuffed with the soft seed-heads of dandelions. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I wipe the sleep out of my eye with my finger. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He laid the dead moth on the bedside table and fell back to sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep at night, thinking about the flower and what he had done to his wife. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d noticed that the rebels tended to sleep in, only emerging from the main building a few hours after daybreak. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes closed almost at once, although the lid of his going-blind eye remained slightly open, as if he were stealing a peek at all of us from the land of tired, ill sleep. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

He went to bed there early and slept alone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It hurt too much to do anything, so I just went to my room, and cried myself to sleep. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even so, he slept fitfully, tossing for hours before sliding down into a nightmare. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I fell off to sleep wondering when Amaka would come in, if her lips would turn down at the corners in a sneer when she looked at me sleeping. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“And I don’t need your permission to sleep here. It’s not like you inherited this from your dad.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I got up stiffly, painfully, and went to find something that would make me sleep again quickly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Lori and I slept in the same bed, and I thought maybe she was moving in her sleep. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She stepped over the two children who slept nearest to me and made her way over to my comer. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She said that Bill had often muttered names in his feverish sleep, but she had been unable to make them out. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She saw that Laura and Mary were still awake, and she said to them: “Go to sleep, girls. Everything is all right. Pa will be here in the morning.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He must have been thrashing in his sleep. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He’s tired, but not the kind of tired that sleeping can fix. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Just a walk through miles of snow and ice and glaciers and boulders and crevasses to the towering top of a sleeping volcano. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The next night she simply refused to go to sleep. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Her children slept peacefully beside her; Timothy’s breathing was quiet and easy. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

On the contrary, they were happy at not sleeping because there was so much to do in Macondo in those days that there was barely enough time. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

He says each time I sleep, I will remember, and when I wake, I must tell everything to the man that brings the tape recorder. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d still be sleeping if my grandmother hadn’t come banging at the door. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then they flew back to their places in the trees and slept until the next morning. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And so, the next night—it was dark as pitch—I burst the meadhall door, killed men, and stormed directly to the door behind which lay the sleeping queen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not grouchy. I’m just tired. Go to sleep.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione’s eyes were puffy and red; she looked as if she had not slept. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

My father sings all four stanzas of “The Hanging Tree” and reminds me that my mother—who sleeps in a chair between shifts — isn’t to know about it. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Mother warned of illnesses that befell children who did not eat their lentils and of ghosts that stalked them in their sleep. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Tonight, at least, all we have to do is eat and sleep,” Kaede said. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then he would return home and go to sleep as soon as humanly possible, so that he wouldn’t have to interact with his mother. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Something woke me up from a deep sleep. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

There was only one other woman: less young, less slender, sleeping beside a stocky man. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A large green tarp served as its roof, and we slept on the cement floor on tiny blankets that two people shared. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I would like to rest, go to sleep, but I’m too tired, at the same time too excited, my eyes won’t close. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mama had let me sleep in rag rollers the night before, so I had big corkscrew curls instead of my usual pigtails, and she put bobby pins in my hair, crisscrossing two on each side. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The girl soon cried herself to sleep, but the strange animal nosed about the hut looking for things to eat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Kevin had gotten a prescription for some pills once when he was having trouble sleeping. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He gave them the address of two homeless shelters where people can sleep at night. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Drink twelve cups at about eleven P.M., and you’ll really notice the difference between going to bed and going to sleep. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Maybe I drift off to sleep, and maybe I don’t. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

I learned that in the truck parks there are showers and soap and towels—that I could park and sleep the night if I wished. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I say, "Well, I'm going to try to get some sleep, Dad." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water ran down the inside of the walls and trickled into pools on the sleeping ledge. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Will slept deeply through the rest of the night. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My medicine chest was not designed for general practice, but I did have a bottle of sleeping pills—seconal, one and a half grains. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were two Biggers: one was determined to get rest and sleep at any cost; and the other shrank from images charged with terror. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after he went to sleep that night, Billy traveled in time to another moment which was quite nice, his wedding night with the former Valencia Merble. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel’s dæmon, the powerful snow leopard, wanted to see her, and Lord Asriel crouched down to let her put her face next to the sleeping child. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they came after me, waking me up from my sleep when they tried to jam their rough hands in my pajamas. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He looked down at his grandmother, sleeping peacefully. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At the first, I tell Madam Mina to sleep; she try, and she succeed. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

But what he didn’t see was that, curled up right in front of the first step, was a little round man in a frock coat, sleeping peacefully on a very large and well-worn ledger. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The villages that we captured and turned into our bases as we went along and the forests that we slept in became my home. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

That night they set a watch, and Strider, it seemed, did not sleep at all. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The boy had shiny black hair that poked up at the back of his head as if he’d slept on it funny. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

One man had him sleep in his chainmail to make him more martial. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But they could never manage to do things sensibly if that meant acting independently, and since staying awake all night was impossible, they had both gone to sleep. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He watched a huge black man, drunk and bleeding from a cut on his head, sprawl out in the middle of the car and go to sleep. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes—‘after life’s fitful fever they sleep well,’” I muttered. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“After the phone call, I could not get back to sleep,” he said to me. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looks as if she hasn’t slept in weeks. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

And that’s if I didn’t have to travel from one lock to the next, and if I didn’t eat, and didn’t sleep, which is an OK if, because I didn’t actually sleep, anyway. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But at that touch Frodo stirred and cried out softly in his sleep, and immediately Sam was wide awake. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Instead he said, “Did you think of me at all, Nina? Did I trouble your sleep?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Wherever they went and wherever they slept, the east wind whistled in the reeds, and the geese went over high in the starlight, honking at the stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You knew you would be sleeping in the same house as a heathen?” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

A loud rumble woke Cole from his sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He pulled the blanket over his shoulders and then over his back and legs and he slept face down on the newspapers with his arms out straight and the palms of his hands up. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, she did as she was told and went to sleep determined to remember any dream she might have. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Sleeping pills make your brain waves calm down into a sleep pattern. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But first, I slept for a long time, days it seemed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My weariness fell away, as if I’d just gotten a good night’s sleep. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

There were also several distinct disadvantages: I had no food, no water, no place to relieve myself, and no bed to sleep in. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shae had kicked off her blankets and sheets as she slept. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man in black quickly tied Inigo’s hands around a tree and left him there, for the moment, sleeping and helpless. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

‘I did use the word, waking up out of my sleep sudden and all and finding him at hand. I said I was sorry, but I soon shan’t be.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might sleep downstairs on the couch. People usually try to make their guests comfortable.” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

Most of the windows were dark: everyone sleeping, early to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Men who usually skipped church to go fishing, and men who stayed late at the local bar and slept in on Sunday mornings, squeezed themselves in with the rest of the community. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Early on the day after Christmas, Rall and his men were sleeping off a long night of celebrating. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

From inside the tower, the Roman numerals were reversed; the huge bells responsible for hourly gongs were giant sleeping bats in the gloomy rafters above. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I said, “Won’t the girl get mad if she comes back in here and I’m sleeping in her bed?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

He lay down beside them and slept under the pine trees. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She looks just like a sleeping princess in a fairy tale,” said Louisiana. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

Otherwise, Ezzo warns, sleep deprivation might “negatively impact an infant’s developing central nervous system” and lead to learning disabilities. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Oh, if only he could go to sleep! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

And the one detail I can neither fathom nor shake, the one that haunts me into sleep: the feel of her fingertips tracing the outline of my face. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Janie dozed off to sleep but she woke up in time to see the sun sending up spies ahead of him to mark out the road through the dark. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

“No one would blame me if I smothered you both in your sleep.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I want nothing more than to curl into a ball in the corner of my cell and sleep. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Then, as I lay on the rooftops in my secret place where three roofs met, it came to me just as I was about to drift off to sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And since the bed was now too crowded, I had to sleep on a pile of blankets on the floor. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to sleep when you know the next day you’re fourteen and starting your first job as a man. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Despite the excitement of a rare overnight gathering, the boys dropped off to sleep one by one. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Matt had been sleeping in a hollow formed by his body. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doubt if he slept at all. He’s gone over to speak with General Lee.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

For over a month Quang-ha had been sleeping in the same room with a complete stranger. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I nodded and sank into an aqueous sleep. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

They sensed somehow that in her sleep she had traveled away from them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meggie sighed and moved until her sleeping face was turned his way. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He also had this awesome collection of Roman armor and weapons, so he was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Over the sleeping giant of the Malvern Hills, a double rainbow linked the Worcestershire Beacon with the British Camp. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

I wonder if she smiles in her sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Maybe one day you will remember some tea that tasted bitter. You took my medicine by mistake—remember? Slept as you had never slept before and awakened late—thick-headed?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I figured the only way to keep her overnight was to pitch our old tent and sleep outside, which I did. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

She flung her cloak in front of her and fell on the explosive arrow, determined to shield Blackjack and the other pegasi and hopefully protect the mortals sleeping belowdecks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

My brother could slip into a whole other universe in his sleep. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Elinor was sleeping not far away and smiling in her sleep. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The night before the hunt there was no sleep at all. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

When she awakened, she had no idea how long she had slept. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

So her sleep was broken and shallow, on the floor of the shack with all the other sleepers, and her death sat watchfully beside her. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

JoJo was supposed to relieve me but I let him sleep. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

No wonder my parents don't sleep in the same bedroom. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

For long hours she was suspended between sleep and wakefulness. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He even slept by Robin’s bed instead of near the fire in the Hall with the other dogs, and followed him everywhere. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“But I did not sleep. I remained awake, eyes open, and I watched.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

His hair was tousled and his eyes were still dim with sleep. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“His teeth are worn off. I have to feed him warm mash with my fingers. And he has bad dreams. He shivers and cries sometimes in his sleep.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Me, I no sleep on the ground. Centipedes crawl up my nose and make nest.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You do not want to go to sleep?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“Change the oil and check the differential. Fill it up and then get some sleep.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

The men slept on the mud, with no protection against the elements, bugs, or each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Through the blast of the gun and the picking of his pocket he slept like a baby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t had enough sleep, and when she stumbled outside after her mother, it was to find that the sun was already up. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He hasn't shaved in days, and his eyes are bloodshot, like he hasn't slept all night. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Winston had occasionally slept in one in his boyhood; Julia had never been in one before, so far as she could remember. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Now get out. I’m going to celebrate by sleeping for another five hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

From under her sleeping shelf, Rivka pulled out a pile of shoes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tessie made Chapter Eleven and Meg sleep in separate bedrooms, but in the middle of the night there was a lot of tiptoeing and giggling in the dark. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“Do you forget,” he said, with actually a smile, “that last night he banqueted heavily, and will sleep late?” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mosca's bed could easily be spotted by his toolbox and fishing rods, which he liked to sleep next to. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

When a rowdy crowd circled Henry Kissinger’s apartment, he moved into the White House basement to get some sleep. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

If they didn’t have wood or kindling, they curled against one another, barely touching, but by morning, they’d be pressed together, breathing in tandem, cocooned in muzzy sleep, a single crescent moon. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t need sleep. Failures don’t need sleep. Anyway, I slept yesterday.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was sleeping in the living room while Nattie and I sat there, looking at his abandoned things. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The girl is in front of me, planting her fist in her eye to wrestle out the sleep that has lodged there. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He lay down, and Frodo sat up, huddled in his blankets, and fought off his sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When we were kids, Constantine used to sleep out here with Carlton and me in the summer, when Mama and Daddy went to out-of-town weddings. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“That’s what I want for Christmas. All I want. To wrap this up. Wrap it up and sleep till New Year’s. Wouldn’t that be one hell of a present?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stacked in the comer was everything you could want for a campout—sleeping bags, blankets, an ice chest, and a kerosene lamp. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the time the sound of someone else going from sleep breathing to awake breathing in the same room as me is enough to get me up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Then the fresh soft strains of jazz blues, like waking up from a long sleep. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red and blurry around the edges, as if she’d been sleeping for a thousand years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes were slightly purple beneath—hadn’t he gotten any sleep in the three weeks since Xavier had died? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Our golden agouti and spotted paca got along very well, contentedly huddling together and sleeping against each other until the first was stolen. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

But I couldn’t go to sleep, even after I knew she had fallen asleep. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

When darkness had fallen over everything, and the stars burned bright in a moonless sky, they went to sleep. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, I’m not surprised,’ and then I went to sleep again, and I’m sure I should never have mentioned anything of the kind to three strange gentlemen if you hadn’t dragged it out of me.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle stamped on the dirt over the sleeping bag until finally the smoke stopped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He lay on a sleeping bag, partly covered, his eyes closed, his head in a mess where he had been sick. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

She did not want to sleep under the same roof as her other mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t slept well the night before, even after a full day of work in the Garden. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She sleeps in the cat box and does her business in the wood shavings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“What am I doing? I was trying to sleep.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I vote for the cat sleeping in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I had lost track of when I last ate or slept. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pulled her hand up and slipped it into the cool under her pillow, sleep diving over her like a wave. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the wagon of sleeping babies. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

He smelled the tar and oakum of the deck as he slept and he smelled the smell of Africa that the land breeze brought at morning. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Benji insisted on the backseat of the Range Rover so he could sleep an extra hour as they drove to Saratoga to buy racehorses. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time sleeping the night before because I was worried about the test. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Help me get him to bed and I can promise you he’ll sleep till morning,” she whispered. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Once he started driving to school, he could listen to whatever he wanted or nothing at all, and he'd get to sleep in an extra twenty minutes. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The tent grew dimmer, and sleep took her again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The moon had been up for a long time but he slept on and the fish pulled on steadily and the boat moved into the tunnel of clouds. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

No food, no sleep, no meds: Perfect recipe for a seizure. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

The flock drank and ate and bathed and slept and stayed out of the way. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I walk around the house; I can’t settle, I feel as though someone else has been here while I was sleeping. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night in the field, we all slept outside on the ground, a bunch of displaced, frazzled families, uncertain of what was to come. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The old people ate and then went off to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in her family had gone to sleep. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

So peaceful, but what dreams they might stir up in her if she slept, all throbbing, and sliding. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

All night they had raced the Iowa Chevrolet through thick rain, stopping twice to siphon gas, both times from vehicles parked on the empty streets of small sleeping towns. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to sleep again, it was in another room. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father lay down on the sofa and fell right to sleep. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He learns that she is prone to snoring, ever so faintly, sounding like a lawn mower that will not start, and to gnashing her jaws, which he massages for her as she sleeps. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing haystacks in a nearby field, Jinjoo suggested they sleep hidden behind them for the night. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The night after I saw them frozen, even though they were okay, I couldn’t sleep at all. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Less than twenty-four hours before, I had been sleeping on the bathroom floor, so I didn’t have the highest of expectations, but it was moments like these that I had trained for. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

On the third floor, Mother gaggles over a canopy bed where Robert E. Lee slept. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was as though he were taking turns visiting us in our sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Viserys told her tales of knights so poor that they had to sleep beneath the ancient hedges that grew along the byways of the Seven Kingdoms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They slept there every night from the beginning of May to the end of September. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I got up in the night, left Scott sleeping and sneaked down to the terrace. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an old cat, she slept more and more, some days awakening only to move into a new patch of sun and fall asleep again. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He plummeted into sleep, the only place he could pretend he wasn’t blind, the only place he could pretend he still had everything he’d lost. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

That night I slept on the rock and the next day I began the search. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You and your numbers! Look, Nat! We have to get up early tomorrow! Mr. Baker’ll be here before sunup to help us move back to Salem. Now settle down and go to sleep!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe waited there, till his listening made him drowsy and he slept for an hour or more. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the room was practically empty; the wooden pallet on which she’d once slept was piled with trunks and old bedding. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Florah was singing lullabies to Merriam; Maria was playing placidly with her frayed rag doll; and George huddled near the brazier, sleeping. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His gray suit is wrinkled and he’s got bags under his eyes like he hasn’t slept in days. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Some fish sleep, others got to keep moving. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Even so, when the stout little woman offered them the clearing behind her cart to sleep in, Tristran was sleeping drunkenly in moments. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“The nurses let her sleep in a chair.” A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Grandma still slept at the coldest end of the loft, only now in her thick rabbit-fur blanket. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“A little sleep might do me good,” she said out loud. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Thanks, Mom. Actually, I’m kind of tired. I didn’t sleep too good last night.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The sound of it grew so loud and jubilant it roused Malia from sleep in her bedroom, audible even through the ballistic glass windows meant to shut everything out. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“Sort of. I sleep in this one,” I say, pointing, “but the rest is sort of flexible.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes at night when he couldn’t sleep, he lit a flickering candle and counted his tattoos. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The last few miles, while she was sleeping, I’d written her a little note. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Sometimes I would go with Deborah and my mom; other times I would sleep in, waking to people singing and clapping—happy sounds. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

That was why none of them slept at the house when they visited the town and the four who had stayed lived in rented rooms at Úrsula’s insistence. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Buddy slept in the bed from which he had just arisen. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve got a little sleep in your eyes, my dear,” I say in a fake deep voice. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A sleeping Princess Charlotte sits on her throne. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He was not able to gauge the effect of the mild pills he took occasionally to help him sleep and felt guilty about for days afterward. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

There were people sleeping under the bushes near the bus stop. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Leo slept outside on a bed of drop cloths under the stars. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

When the final section of the train pulls out, I’m crouched under a bunk in a sleeping car wedged against another man. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I have a pickup truck. I have a tent and sleeping bags. I am thinking nights like this.” A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It went there early in the morning to sleep after it had spent the night prowling. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to sleep. Anyway, it’s the middle of the night.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first performance of the day goes surprisingly smoothly, though most of the seniors use it as an opportunity to sleep in an extra two hours. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

She wondered how much longer she would have to include Weese in her prayer, and drifted off to sleep dreaming that on the morrow, when she woke, he'd be dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Cecile went through the kitchen to avoid everyone sleeping in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Miranda watched him sleep, the comforter rising and falling as he breathed. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Late that night they settled in at the Alpha Delta Phi Club for one last night’s sleep before their even grander adventure commenced the following morning. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Be-fore I went to sleep I went over all the things I wished I had said to that immigration man, and some of them were incredibly clever and cutting. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The days were long, Jem was eleven, and the pattern was set: They were on the sleeping porch, the coolest part of the house. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Katz went to get a shirt from the line and reported that our six friends were sleeping heavily. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"I never walked the whole time. A farmer brought me half that way on his cart. I even slept a bit on his load of straw." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Sister Betty, generally friendly enough on the phone with me, sometimes would exclaim in spontaneous indignation, “The man never gets any sleep!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His few hours’ sleep had not been nearly enough; he was tired and rather dismal. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It soothed her to sleep “out under the stars,” to row over flooded farmland, and to paddle a canoe. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I try to ignore it, but there’s no going back to sleep. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

The ache in the middle of my left shin bone came to life, and I abandoned any hope of sleep before seven, when my radio-alarm clock would rouse me with its hearty renderings of Sousa. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“All right, all right. We don’t need no one screaming out in their sleep now. Let’s call it a night.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Helena played on the stairs and in the street with the children who had moved into our building, and we saw Emilika most days, though she had stopped sleeping in my room. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You slept a long time. How are you feeling?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

This gave me a new meaning of the saying “to sleep under the stars.” The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She lets me sleep there when I’m feeling bad, even though I’m too old—Dad’ll sleep in the living room. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

After he left, I couldn’t sleep for thinking about him. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rose sat back down, and we slowly placed our limbs into sleep positions under the wide, wide sky. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He slept badly and his body ached like a tooth in the morning. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prisoners follow, carrying suitcases, disheveled and tired like they haven't slept in days. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When I was small, Mama used to say a prayer with me before I went to sleep. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return for food and a place to sleep, the six of us were appointed watchmen. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Amelia murmured something in reply, which Lyddie was too near sleep to make out. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he woke up, he seemed worried that he might have said something in his sleep—something that he shouldn’t have. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She slipped into her bedroom and made believe she was sleeping. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

His grandma had finally gotten his mum to bed and then had gone into Conor’s bedroom and shut the door, not asking if he wanted anything out of it before she went to sleep herself. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

It hurt my heart to see that for most of the kids in the classroom, reading meant playing with their cell phones or sleeping on their desks. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

“The bigger the spell, the easier it is to resist. If you want to sleep millions of mortals, you’ve got to cast a very thin layer of magic. Sleeping demigods is much harder.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I slept and the house turned dark and silent, but Mom lay next to me, refusing to leave my side. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Back inside, I tried to sleep again, but I couldn’t even close my eyes. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

"With all the crazy clothes they wear here. Couldn't sleep, either?" The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The interior of his house was always lined with strung skins, hung with lush furs made up into sleeping robes, and red-and-white-point blankets. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“He was talking to me before lunch, and he noticed my sweater and asked if I got a sleeping bag. And he figured that after nine days getting here I had too much SpagBol left.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A ghost wraps herself around me, strokes my hair, and puts me to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape’s Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

What little sleep I got was sabotaged by a familiar nightmare, one in which I wander through a stinking, body-strewn battlefield. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

At last, however, the narcotic began to manifest its potency; and she fell into a deep sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Though his head felt fine, he didn’t sleep well either Saturday night or Sunday night. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subjects will be allowed one full night’s sleep before Stage 2 implementation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“The report will keep,” Kate said with a yawn, “and in the meantime we’ll sleep. You boys have a good night.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We stayed out to listen for a little while longer before Aunty Ifeoma said we had to go in and sleep. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t sleep much, and when I did, I dreamed evil. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was pale as though he had not slept, and his eyes had the look of a weary buzzard’s. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

If I know where they slept the night before, I get up very early, in the dark, and arrive at their nests just as it gets light. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The hobbits felt refreshed, as if they had had a night of unbroken sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I have been ever since everyone went to sleep, and everyone went to sleep hours ago. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

I never knew what time he went to bed, though his tired, stooped body and his haggard face made it clear that he was sleeping very little. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

I got almost all of them to myself when Leah and them all went to sleep on the airplane. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A lump of sleeping bag was curled up on one of the benches, its dark form bold against the white fog. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I arrange my face in the middle of the book, my hair spread like seaweed floating in the current of the story that sweeps me under and away to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

“You may sleep in the shed tonight, my chickens,” said Orddu. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Kehaar’ll fly you up to the moon, Hlao-roo,” said Bluebell, “and you can come down on Bigwig’s head like a birch branch in the frost. But there’s time to go to sleep first.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each morning there was a delicate period, between six and six-thirty, when there was a chance, however remote, that they could steal another ten or fifteen minutes of sleep. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The soldiers didn’t sleep much that night, and neither did Gene Johnson. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

How do we tie our shoes, brush our hair, drink coffee, wash the dishes, and go to sleep, pretending everything is fine? I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

"He has tried, Illyrio, I promise you that. His hired knives follow us everywhere. I am the last dragon, and he will not sleep easy while I live." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia for dreams, tried all kinds of methods of exhausting themselves. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Conditions below were almost unbearable: the stinking, rotting sleeping bags made the air putrid, and the molting hairs choked the men as they tried to gasp for breath. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

How much juice did I need to procure a deathlike sleep? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The snake’s eyes were not shut but filmed over in sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

That night, when Septa Unella came to wrench her out of sleep, she found the queen waiting on her knees. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When she was displeased she made me sleep on the edge of the bed and that night I knew I needed to be close to her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vixen bent to lick more dried blood from her sleeping brother’s haunch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He hoped she had taken the opportunity to sleep late. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I thought she would just cry herself to sleep and then drive to visit her mom the next day or something. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

His night’s sleep refreshed Taran but little and hardly blunted the edge of his weariness. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

That was just the magic that had happened to him during his sleep and the Om in him —he loved everything, he was full of joyous love towards everything that he saw. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d actually been operating on about two hours of sleep a night for the past week, and it was beginning to take its toll on me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They lived in the house because they had nowhere more suitable to eat and sleep, but they came and went like indifferent shadows, never stopping to notice the destruction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe it’s a scientist thing because my mom is all about sleeping late. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

He didn’t sleep if he could help it. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Before drifting back to sleep, I made sure to give my mother Ms. Lansing’s card. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The music always went on past dark—sometimes I wouldn’t remember going to sleep, I’d just wake up the next morning in bed, still in my folk-dance costume. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Wear this around your head when you sleep. It knocks me out pretty fast.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Not knowing when the rats were going to stop fighting, and realizing that they might not, the kindly Abbot advised those who had been relieved to try and get some sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Squealing hysterically, he grappled clear of the sleeping bag, crashed blindly into the wall and bounced onto the floor, almost fainted, and started to cry. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those moments when we suddenly recall a dream that we’ve unaccountably forgotten, and back in a flood comes all the emotion we felt in our sleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

That night, a clean, well-fed Jack slept for the first time in three years in a bed with sheets, a feather pillow cradling his head. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

The reek was so great that the other servants slept on the floor in the house rather than endure the miasma near their pallets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

My little sister, Nadia, eager to pounce me into wakefulness on the morning of my seventeenth birthday, discovered my bed had not been slept in. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look at my brother and sister sleeping, their toes poking out from the blanket that barely covers them. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael went up the wom-out stairs to the room he’d slept in for so many years and dug the book on boatmanship out of its box in the closet. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants now, empty of dreams. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The attic where the boys commonly slept looked strange enough with those chairs pulled out and arranged for the meeting. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They seemed hardly to have closed their eyes when Glorfindel, who had set himself to watch while they slept, awoke them again. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She drew the curtains around her bed, slept, woke weeping, and slept again. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In the shed the companions tried to sleep, knowing the night to come would be one of hard and dangerous labor. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

While they slept, Naomi listened for Henry’s truck, but he did not return. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger knew Basta would have slept on the threshold of Capricorn’s room if he had been allowed to, but none of the men lived in the main house. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I stuffed the picture into my pocket while Rosaleen slept on, blowing puffs of air that vibrated her lips. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I kept waking up in a kind of terror and then falling to sleep again and having the same dream. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

And both of those tired, little monkeys sleep through the night—without waking up from a nightmare once. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

I felt her sight warm each of my bony elbows, and I flopped about in my fake sleep to hide them from her criticism. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her arms are wrapped around her head and her wool blanket is twisted around her midsection and her pillow is jammed into the crack between mattress and wall—even in sleep, a tableau of friction. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That might make his little cubbyhole more comfy, though I certainly wouldn’t like to sleep there. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“There is nothing more, Monsieur. I returned to my carriage and went to sleep.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

They kept their laughter low, and after a while they lay back on the grassy bank and slept, close together. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He slept in my tent as my guest all that day.” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I know. I’ve found a place where we can sleep safely for as long as we like.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, I listened with care to his breathing as he slept; and I thought on final words, and that he did not believe he had a soul that would survive his decease. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

They slept in a parked car beneath an overpass with the suitcoats and the blanket piled over them. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He was talking in his sleep, or something very near it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quickly, then, I’d say the Prayer to My Guardian Angel, which would enable me to fall back to sleep. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Get some sleep. Whatever’s on your mind, it’ll look clearer in the morning.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while somewhere out there my dearest friends are dropping from exhaustion or being knocked to the ground. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The thing was, I had gotten plenty of rest on the flight over from the States and had a good night’s sleep the night before. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Every day, she would wake the rooster who slept by the fountain in the courtyard. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

We dried our hands, only to find Mom lingering behind us, bouncing Susie to sleep. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Let me sleep, Chas. I’m sick. I don’t mind if you guys go ahead and play.” Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I remember the many nights of being lulled to sleep by the hypnotizing rhythms of hip-hop and salsa hovering over Grafton Hill. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

She was unable to move when she went into that curious trancelike sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

An American Army captain and an interpreter also sat in the wooden chairs arranged beneath the couple’s sleeping loft. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Some days, Sefia ran through the steps so often that she dreamed of them when she slept. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Never once did I go to sleep looking away from my family. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afraid to go back to sleep lest I have another nightmare, I stayed awake, peering at the quivering blackness through the hole. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very well, she thought as she silently followed Mo through the sleeping village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The straw they had given him seemed even moldier than the pile on which Meggie had slept, but the boy looked as if he hadn’t closed his eyes since Flatnose had locked him in anyway. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“You are a beastly little brute and I will not tolerate even one night with you under my roof. Who knows what you would be capable of while we slept?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

I say, “I couldn’t sleep. Just can’t believe...well...about the lieutenant. And all that.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

Especially since it feels like I didn’t sleep a wink the whole night. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

Apart from food and sleep, they found time for play, aimless and trivial, in the white sand by the bright water. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Day after tomorrow, after the dinner. I shall sleep there.” The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drifting off to sleep, I thought about her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They slaved fourteen hours a day, from six o’clock in the morning until eight or nine o’clock at night, with starvation-level rations, little sleep, beatings and other forms of torture, and daily executions. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

On that occasion, too, my father was sleeping when I entered. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

My father got to sleep for only four hours before it was time to go back to work. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He came out of his long sleep needing to do something. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Baba was impossible to ignore, even in his sleep. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear,” cried Rhonda just then, for Mr. Benedict, awash in strong emotion, had gone to sleep. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother left Gabi’s older brother in charge and asked the children to pray three times a day: before they ate, slept, or went outside. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

"You couldn't have. I was in bed. I was sleeping." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Vincent sleeps in the study, and behind that is the room he uses as his studio—a room with a window, though not a very large one. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Across the aisle a woman sleeps, her head thrown back, her mouth open. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

That’s why I ended up sleeping only a little bit during the day and then, all night long, waited patiendy for the first light to show on the pane of sky. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Often now, Dedd slept over at Mama’s with the two younger boys. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I climb back into my sleeping bag and pull it way over my head. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

They just walked over the mountains and showed up to sleep in the town squares of Italian villages, washing their clothes in the fountains and begging up and down the porticoes. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

My body begged for sleep but my mind warned me not to trust these people. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When evening finally comes and the Girl has dozed off into a fitful sleep, I ask Tess to stay with her so I can sneak away to check on my family. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Bloomberg just then stood up in her lap and, more like a dog than a cat, began to circle around to find a sleeping position he liked better. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

He could not sleep and he held a debate with himself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

On the morning of the day we were supposed to arrive in Tientsin, she went into our sleeping cabin wearing her white Chinese mourning dress. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, unless it rained, everyone had his own private sleeping accommodations. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sleeps in a new bed, which his mother had insisted on making before she left. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman said, “This poor child must be dead, I hate getting him up. I wish he could stay with us for a while, at least until he’s had his sleep.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Their coachman ate his bowl of stew, and drank two pots of ale, and went to sleep in the stables. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“If we have to, we can sleep in the back. We have plenty of beer and food.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Far away, just singing. Besides, wolves don’t bother you. You can go back to sleep.” The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Coulter dipped a flannel in a basin of cold water and mopped Lyra’s face, and then unfastened the sleeping bag and washed Lyra’s arms and neck and shoulders, for Lyra was hot. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We drift off to sleep curled around each other, neither of us talking, just letting the world make some noise for us for a while because all the other words don’t matter right now. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She got into bed as well, but she couldn’t sleep, and after lying uncomfortably still for too long, she decided it was better to leave Gwen in peace. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The free ride may be provided by mosquitoes, fleas, lice, or tsetse flies that spread malaria, plague, typhus, or sleeping sickness, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He told them that he didn’t care where they slept, as long as it was on the pavement, where he could see them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Unclouded by passion or desire—that pair of dogs that sleep so soundly inside children, waiting for them to grow up. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nights without sleep tore at him, and the raft seemed bolted down as he tried to get it along the edge of the lake to where the river moved again. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

"But they say it's very healthy to sleep on a hard surface." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The answer to his problem had come to him while he slept. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z

They’re steady as can be, and I look around me, at the starry sky and the fields, and the dark, sleeping houses, and I’m here, motherf-—s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“I thought you might sleep in those beds. Well, not all of them. Two of them. I hope that’s okay,” Sairy said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t object because I do need to sleep if I’m to be of any use keeping him alive. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

They lay down on it together and tried to sleep, but they got very little rest. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

They washed each other afterward, taking their time about it in the friendly way of certain married people, and then Carl got into bed and slept until one in the afternoon. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

But what if she wrinkled it when she slept? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Squelch showed me the head of a sleeping kitten. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Time enough later for talking. Go to sleep.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The baby, full to bursting with magic, was a bit like a sleeping volcano—internal energy and heat and power can build over time, and erupt without warning. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Now Papa can sleep,” I said, deeply satisfied. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, indeed. Now you’d best get some sleep. Difficult day ahead of you tomorrow.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Big Ma always told them he was sleeping but she’d let him know they stopped by. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Eventually, we spread out on the ground to sleep. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The morning of April 25, Booth slept in. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Thanks for asking him. Should be fun sleeping on this cold floor.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He saw at once from the mere look of the room—the lights and shadows all looked different—that he must have slept for several hours. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

As Crean crawled out of his sleeping bag and began wriggling out from under the decking, his shoulder knocked against a pin that held the mast clamp in place. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“How can anybody sleep?” she asked, giving the last nail a terrific bang. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the lions, but they were just lying there, sleeping. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farid muttered something in his sleep, put his hand nervously to the bandage around his head, then turned over. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Instead, she reached across Tristran's sleeping form to touch the silver chain which circled the woman's wrist and ankle and led off into the bushes and beyond. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The men heard it grinding while they slept, while they ate or played cards, while they stoked the engines or read the charts. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

I pause in the act of rising to study him, his sharp ears and fox-fur hair, the softness of his mouth, his long limbs spread out in sleep. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He leads me through two more sleeping cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At some point, I’d obviously managed to drift off to sleep. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

A week after the Bay Meadows Handicap, Seabiscuit and Pumpkin walked up the ramp of the Pullman car and settled into the straw to sleep. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She motioned for me to follow her down the hall to the tiny spare room where I’d been sleeping. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

So I need to spend more time in the treetops, and sleep up there and observe at night. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You want to go to bed now and sleep on all this, talk about the rest in the morning?” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was too much for me to figure out, so I went to sleep on the nice, warm kitchen floor. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes shut and I feel the pull of sleep, but every time I come close, I hear Al again. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Jeth realized he was not going to be able to go to sleep. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slept hard, waking only to shift positions on the rocky ground. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She did not want to speak to him, to sleep beside him. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I know. I was sleeping overnight at somebody’s. My cousin’s. I wasn’t here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Finally, he slept, then sat up, half-awake, following an unconscious prompting of fear. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

All evening she has been marching her fingers around the model, waiting for her great-uncle Etienne, who owns this house, who went out the previous night while she slept, and who has not returned. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to do but rub the sleep from his eyes, dress, and mount up. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She studied her sleeping grandfather’s withered face, his gaping toothless mouth and flaring nostrils bathed in the warm glow of the reading lamp. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I screamed in the dark, then I felt Ultima’s hand on my forehead and I could sleep again. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a back room Robert Cohn was sleeping quietly on some wine-casks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Perhaps he’s actually thinking about Eduardo, as I suddenly am, the bitter sleep he must have had. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry woke at five o’clock the next morning and was too excited and nervous to go back to sleep. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Let her sleep, he decided, and he moved silently about the room, listening at the door, watching out of the window, awake and alert. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For all she knew, she was drooling as badly as Percy did when he slept. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“All he does in his sleep is quit and surrender and apologize and ask to be left alone.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sleep on a small divan, which is only five feet long, so we have to add a few chairs to make it longer. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

“Peggy, this is Bigger. He’s going to drive for us. Give him something to eat, and show him where he’s to sleep and where the car is.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Locking my arms together across my chest, I close my eyes and try to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t you think you’ve slept long enough?” he huffed, crossing his arms over his chest. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

No adult would be going back to sleep that morning. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He usually sleeps at the foot of my bed on my old Winnie-the-Pooh baby blanket, completely covering the faded Pooh and Piglet walking into the sunset. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle pointed to a corner in the living room where I could sleep, and then gave me detailed instructions on how to get to the bank, to meet Alois, my cousin’s husband. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“The sleeping pills should wear off before the alarm goes,” said Miles. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

"Good night. Go right to sleep now. I have a splitting headache," my mother said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

I knew I was wearing it when I went to sleep. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Might it not be possible to walk boldly into the fort, say-"I've got pax," laugh lightly and sleep among the others? Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

He told us about how the sailors had slept upside down on top of their heads with knives between their teeth, and so on. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tomorrow I'll have to do a million equipment checks and try to figure out what exploded, but for now I just want to sleep. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Duke, wearing a sleep mask, was sprawled out in his dog bed. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At last numbness began to overtake her, and she felt sleep begin to envelop her like quicksand…. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

“Why on earth are you sleeping in a kennel filled with background dogs, old bean? Have you been demoted?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

His head seemed sunk in sleep on his breast, and a fold of his dark cloak was drawn over his face. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like John and his group of Lost Boys, we went to bed hungry again, finding a place to lie down on the rocky red soil of Ethiopia to sleep. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the dead hours Frodo came out of a deep dark sleep to find Sam shaking him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I imagined we would go to the woods and hike and swim, then go to sleep in a bed in a house. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I pull myself up and lean against the wall, thinking it’s a good time for hair ruffling and sleep tight, kid and don’t stay up too late. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Barbarossa refused to sleep in the same room as the other children. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even after I climbed in bed I’d sleep lightly enough to hear my father’s keys jingling at the door around midnight, and I’d go warm up his food. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Why had his master let him sleep on out of turn, right on till evening? The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I ask, waking up from my sleep when he comes in late that night. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nightmares—images of his mother’s hanging—continued to haunt his sleep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“If I can get a good night’s sleep,” I said, “and a couple of meals under my belt, I can do a lot of chopping.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad glanced at Laleh’s sleeping face for a moment and then back at me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

We had just awakened from a short sleep and were sucking lukewarm coffee out of plastic tubes and munching on bacon which had been squeezed into little cubes, like lumps of sugar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She hates returning in the evenings to a dark, empty house, going to sleep on one side of the bed and waking up on an-other. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deborah dropped him on the ground in front of the house without a coat, slammed the door, and went upstairs to sleep. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I slept the whole way down, so I can take over if he gets tired.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Lucky for me the overcast morn caused the other servants to sleep past their normal time. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often I would creep into his room while he slept and stare at the big shining revolver that lay near his head, within quick reach of his hand. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how exhausted I was until I collapsed on my borrowed sleeping bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

They believe it is the only way to catch sleep and not miss the next train—they trust that the vibrations from the locomotive will wake them. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like to sleep in my bed because it was too far from Lynnie, several feet away. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Every time I start to drift off to sleep, I remember. And it jerks me awake.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

She said he was still asleep but that she hadn’t slept all night. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doha, your sister and I have to go back to the hospital, but Halmoni will look after you. All you have to do is sleep, all right?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

He ran to the barracks door and flung it open, frantically shining his light on the bunk where he’d last seen Trina sleeping. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Wow, this is beautiful,” said Summer, looking around as she dropped her sleeping bag in the hallway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

“Do you want to talk or sleep?” he asked when he returned to the bed. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she leans into my shoulder and I let her stay there and sleep for a little longer, dream for a little longer. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I will sleep beneath the notes and study them every morning. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

He woke up my mother, who lay sleeping beside him, and said, “My wife, today I’m turning to God. I’ve seen the signs, and now it’s time to change.” The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

From her parents’ bedroom came a low snoring—that was her father—and an occasional sleeping mutter—that was her mother. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“I can feel just how much you hate sleeping next to me. I feel it every morning.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“But in this country, nobody’s sleeping on the street or going hungry.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“There’s the nursery—that’s where the little ones sleep and get looked after. That’s upstairs near where the nuns have their cells.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Despite the tumult of the times, I was a happy, chubby baby who slept through the night and was loved by an extended family full of aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandmas. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

He has to wake up and beat her up and then when he goes back to sleep she hits him again. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He worked there almost every day for the next three years, and often slept there, too. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

But there is no answer, and when Ashoke lifts his gaze from his son’s face he sees that she, too, is sleeping. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had slept since they’d rescued her from the stone-throwing children, and now that she was awake again she was reluctant to leave them, as if she thought that wherever they were, she was safe. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cricks and creaks came from nearby and distant quarters, as if the house were twitching in a sleep of its own. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was tired of sleeping in a box. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One hot night our father was staying overnight at the hatchery, which he did sometimes to save driving time and get more sleep. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He must have slept through the bell that was to ring at two. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

An instant later he was safe on his mat under the acacia tree, breathless and panting but lying in an attitude of sleep. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Tayo felt as if he could sleep, and maybe make up for the bad night before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Waking up my mother was out of the question, and Charlie would sleep through the end of the world, so I knew he wouldn’t answer his phone. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Yawning, I head to the recliner, placing the lantern at my feet and pulling the sleeping bag around me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

This my bedtime, she says, Mexico people sleep in the day, take me. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Below, the Caird was dragged down to the surf and loaded with the bags of ballast, boxes of stores, a hand pump, a cook pot, six reindeer-skin sleeping bags, and the rest of the provisions. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

As Smith read on, the horse sank down into the bedding and slept. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But it can also be performed by a charlatan! A trickster! I bet that jongleur sleeping out in the barn could dazzle our eyes if we let him." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It smelled like T. P. “You all shut up now, till he get to sleep.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

His first bed was a mattress on the floor, with an old sleeping bag on top of it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I remember looking at my brother’s face peeking out of his sleeping bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I walk over to the cradle where baby Virginia is sleeping. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Edwin Stanton continued his investigation as Abraham Lincoln slept his last, deep sleep at the Petersen house. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The phone rang at four o’clock in the morning, startling Fadi out of his sleep. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I slipped inside and in one motion pulled the hanging string switch for the overhead light as I trotted around the sleeping J-3 and over to the chest where the souvenirs were kept. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

After all that, they were supposed to go back to sleep. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

She holds out a black blindfold, the velvety kind that people sleep in, and slides it down my head to cover my eyes. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At night, they slept on the ground, under the stars. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I’m sleeping on an air mattress now and there’s plush beige carpeting underneath. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Derby patted the baby, held her close as she slept, and brushed away tears. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, Klaus was the Baudelaire orphan sleeping fitfully in the bed, and Violet was the Baudelaire orphan staying up, working by the light of the moon. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“The oldest goddess of all. She’s in a deep sleep most of the time, but she hates the gods and their children.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Your husband will sleep on his right side. This will help the back pain. Be sure he takes the medicines.” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“Seeds. Seeds everywhere,” Seed Collector mumbled, still deep in sleep. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As usual, I waited until I heard everyone sleeping. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

All he wanted was a hot shower and four more hours’ sleep. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Fourth Aunt picked up her sons, one under each arm, and hid in the pig house, where they slept that night in cotton clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Jaime slept fitfully and uneasily, uncomfortable in his sleeping bag as he listened to his niece breathing close beside him. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m going to look at the place where you sleep and eat and live and wish I’d known just a little sooner that you were right here.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Come, let me show you where you’ll sleep,” she said as she led me to the back of the house. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It made Thomas feel off-kilter, as if the urge to sleep that grew steadily with every passing minute were somehow unnatural. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

He loved stewed eels, pate chaud pastries, and of course his children, so much that he grew teary watching us sleep. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Inside, I try not to take up too much space or make any noise, because if I do, I may wake up the darkness, and I want the darkness to sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It’s getting dark and I don’t know where I’m going to sleep. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Our next stop was Osaka, Japan, and I slept most of the way. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

And if he could hold that image of the deer in his mind long enough, his stomach might shiver less and let him sleep for a while. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only after he was starving and sleeping in flophouses did he tell them, “I’ve got no money and noplace to go,” and they were angry with him. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I go to my tent, just fall asleep, sleep like dead person.” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Even in its stillness, a roll heaves beneath its vast surface like a giant turning over in his sleep. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

So when the wild boar said, Freedom is inside that thicket of branches where I sleep, they followed him. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Her mind floated lazily between reality and sleep, taking in the intermingling smells of smoke, ponya seed paste, and the surrounding trees as they creaked and rustled in the darkness. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

As everyone stirred in their sleeping shelves, we looked around at one another, wondering where our jailers were. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

That night I slept by myself, leaning on a tree. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

One evening, as I searched for a tree with a forked branch to sleep in, I heard grunts. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

What can I do—I can scarcely sleep. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I remember the way Halmoni would sing me to sleep, beating the soothing rhythm of a song on the wing of my shoulder blade. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But the material P. D. had placed on the two bed tables fascinated me so that I studied it and made notes without sleeping until dawn. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could hear Daddy sleeping, too, and I imagined I could hear Via sleeping down the hallway in her room. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The window of the room where Resa slept was open, as usual. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

But a belly rub made him sigh contentedly in his sleep. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So I offer to let him sleep in the stables. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Oppenheimer’s teams were working through the night, grabbing a few hours of sleep in their Tech Area offices. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She felt drowsy now, as though she could easily go to sleep. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The tragedy is that as I sleep, I believe it. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

“It could be malaria. Could be typhus. Not sleeping sickness, I don’t think. Let me get you something that might help.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I crawl back there, but I don't sleep at first. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

I also stayed away from the woodpiles, for on cold nights, the rattlers slept in them. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of sleeping in the near open bolstered my sense of freedom. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Or maybe Morpheus had the power to put engines to sleep as well. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I slept too late and Papa was already gone. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Ob behind me all alone in that old trailer full of sleeping whirligigs, and me on this black road, and both of us needing May so much. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

She did not resemble the patients in the doctor’s office, those who came glassy-eyed and desperate, unable to sleep or breathe or urinate with ease, unable, above all, to give words to their pains. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Well, now he'd have to sleep in his pants because he wasn't letting the girl see the robots. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Now that he was awake, he couldn’t understand how he could have slept through the racket the birds were making. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

She decided to repack her knapsack before she went to sleep, so she could bolt at a moment’s notice. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then he offered to keep watch himself until the evening and Hazel, greatly relieved, at once told the rabbits to sleep. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few cups of wine might be just the thing to help him sleep, but he would need his wits about him when Galazza Galare returned from treating with the foe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He listened at the door, but could hear nothing but a rhythmic breathing and, once in a while, a sleeping grunt. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Underground, pale seeds roll over in their sleep. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

And sleep we did, the deep sleep of those who being tired have fed well and rested well. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m used to no sleep. I don’t sleep now.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your parents sleep upstairs and go to bed early. Mine are in the next room and stay up late.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t awaken until late the next morning after long hours of deep, unbroken sleep. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Trying to make it look like he’s sleeping, maybe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Before I went to sleep, I lay on my back and just watched one mountain after another. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But with the schedule of twelve-hour workdays six days a week, she was assured she wouldn’t do anything more than eat and sleep during her time off. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Who cares about the money or where it comes from? The point is that any one of us could be a dopey and sleeping upstairs.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night Matthias slept inside a long hollow log with both ends disguised to make it appear solid. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Then they rested and slept without fear upon the ground; for their guides would not permit them to unbind their eyes, and they could not climb. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Fiona stayed behind to watch Claire, who was still sleeping, and with Grunt and the emu-raffe loping after us, we crossed the plateau to the little patch of woods that grew at the far edge. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

My camera bag banged on my hip as I walked past Oso, who was curled up on the couch—sleeping on sentry duty. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

At first he thought that he had slept late, after a long unpleasant dream that still hovered on the edge of memory. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The routine of the house flowed on as usual; for me there was sleep, mush, greens, school, study, loneliness, yearning, and then sleep again. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No. 13. We played picquet together. About eleven o’clock my wife retired for the night. The conductor made up my compartment and I also went to bed. I slept soundly until morning.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I heard Greg and his pals stir in their tents next to ours, I finally gave up all pretense of sleep. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

You must go to sleep, like good children. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes I don’t go to sleep when I’m supposed to,” Marita continued. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a spot behind the door and pulled a rolled-up sleeping bag from beneath her bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was up at seven but Johnny was still sleeping soundly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Saturday she slept badly and awoke screaming in the middle of the night. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom mirror, her hair had startled her, dull and shrunken from sleep, like a mop of wool sitting on her head. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He also assigned him less arduous work and made certain that Shin had a warm place to sleep on the floor of the student dormitory. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Soon after that he went to sleep, and a little later, when we were alarmed by some noise or other, we tried to wake him and realized he was dead. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Junior considered the playground his own, and the schoolchildren coveted his freedom to sleep late, go home for lunch, and dominate the playground after school. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Is hibernation just sleeping for a long time?” Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you turn in? Get you some sleep.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Usually, I just bottle up all of my feelings and wait until my parents go to sleep so I can cry, which I know is totally pathetic. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The Jackdaw became so embarrassed that it hid its head under its wing as if it were going to sleep. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He had slept poorly because he had considered making a canoe instead of a totem. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I am sleeping, and Alaska flies into the room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I hope you don’t mind. I’m accustomed to sleeping alone.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I wouldn’t eat or sleep at a friend’s house if it weren’t prearranged. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They would sleep on piles of clean straw, with fires blazing to keep the chill of night at bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This sleeping bag, radiating back and preserving my body heat, will be invaluable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Men and boys, looking for a place to sleep, prowled all night. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

As the world darkened, Dany settled in and closed her eyes, but sleep refused to come. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The word sleeping was layered with a thousand different meanings, and I was pretty sure I would never understand half of them, but I knew the most important one. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

My cultural sensitivity quotient was going to have to drastically increase if 1 was going to share a sleeping bag with Lara anytime soon. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She was a good actress, too, and at times I wondered if maybe she really had been sleeping through the whole thing. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I sit up and rub the sleep from my eyes. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Everyone is quiet, breathing softly, some even trying to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re working for me now, and nobody on my payroll sleeps late.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But even when I lay down, I hovered at the line between sleep and waking. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a long shirt to sleep even on stifling midsummer nights. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He rifled the house while the family slept on. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

More than two score of rodents carrying a strong rope net between them had stolen up on the sleeping badger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just had eighty years of pleasantly boring days,” she said, raising up on one elbow from the shady spot where she’d been sleeping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

He slept at last, miserable, aching, and lonely. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Big Henryk, are we going to sleep in a castle tonight in big soft beds and eat all the chocolates we want and the Jackboots will be our servants?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The worst part was dragging Mother from her fitful sleep and getting her to sit in the water. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bedroom was dark and she whispered quietly, as if she might wake up her sleeping stuffed animals, each one from another time in her life, when things were less confusing. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

"Now, daughter, you may sleep when you wish," said the Hermit. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

“We need to get some sleep now, before the storm comes.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Time enough for that tomorrow. Go to sleep.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

"Sorry. I didn't mean it's not nice here. It's just—I'm still scared to sleep out in the open." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“You knew she wasn’t going back to sleep at the house with us,” I said to Ma. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It is narrow, with two windows, a dresser, and a giant TV cabinet that looks as if it might fall on you and crush you while you sleep. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sam spread his deerskin sleeping bag on the big stone table and, after completing his chores and writing in his journal, he lay down and watched the stars come out. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“The one where the cows and pigs have slept the years?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She takes my hand and I think how otters sleep floating on their backs in water, holding hands exactly like this, so they don’t drift apart in the night. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I figured out later that he must have carved it late at night when the others had gone to sleep. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even break to eat or sleep or use the bathroom. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she woke, she came bleary-eyed into the kitchen, then into the living room, where Mrs. Delaney sat in a pool of lamplight rocking a sleeping Pearl. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“And be mindful of snakes, boy. They like to sleep up under them logs. You wake ’em up, they ain’t gonna be happy!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Happily Van Helsing has not summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Men sat in quiet groups, talking the long slow talk of night in camp at war; many had gone to sleep. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They snuck their way through the tightly strewn pack of sleeping bodies, Thomas almost tripping several times. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I have spent the past few days somewhere between sleeping and waking, not quite able to manage either extreme. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wanted his parents to think he’d gone to sleep early. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The matter ended in one of them always sleeping on the floor, where he frequently caught cold. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still planning his escape, Cole again drifted off to sleep. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

After all, Mudd and Booth had met on several occasions, in broad daylight, and Booth had slept at Mudd’s farm in the past. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only was music viewed as frivolous on this side of the river, but I would only make more enemies by playing while my bunkmates tried to sleep or study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"Did Sam sleep in the hall last night?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

It’s like I cain’t go to sleep until I say my words out loud on the tape. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t sleep too sound, kid, if you know what I mean.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

“The boys all sleep in. Except Vosya, and this one, apparently.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked like he hadn’t slept in days. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A few times we slept overnight at the hatchery. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Just when it’s us, okay? Go to sleep now.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

In no time at all they came around a clump of tangled bushes and found themselves in the place where the storehouse peered down at the sleeping cabins below. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

After staying up all night to help with the orbs, he had slept for a few hours. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

He resisted it for three quarters of an hour before his breathing slowed and he went to sleep. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thomas stood and started folding up his sleeping gear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

They slept through the day in the shadows of my branches, and night fell once again. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

That night the Company slept upon the ground, much to the satisfaction of the hobbits. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I kiss her once, then we drift into each other, close our eyes, drift into sleep. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

That night, in a deep but restless sleep, a dream came to him and the position appeared over and over again—seemingly hundreds of times. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She stretched out on a mat by the bed and, worn out by fear and misery, sank into a dreamless sleep. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep,” I confessed, automatically swinging my hair around my shoulder to provide some measure of cover. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Some of them looked into our sleeping places, and the others took off their jackets and played hand-wrestling games and tug-of-war with boys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Seriously though, sleeping in is the best part about Christmas. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It is too dangerous to rig the oars as a drag if you must sleep. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the night once, Shackleton woke them all by shouting in his sleep, “Look out, boys! Look out! Hold on!” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

At least I won’t have to actually “listen” to the lectures, since the En Cognito device that puts us to sleep is also programmed to embed those topics directly into our brains. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pike lips, broken nose, rhino cheeks, red eyes ’cause he never sleeps. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The good come here as well as the wicked, and all of us languish in this gloom forever, with no hope of freedom, or joy, or sleep, or rest, or peace. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Ai-ya!” she cried, because there it was, the same black mole, the size of a fingertip, just as I had always seen it these past five months of sleeping as sister and brother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, I enjoyed every bite and went back to sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Luckily I had that good long sleep today. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You are all welcome to stay here as long as you like,” said the robot as the animals rubbed sleep from their eyes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Axel will have to sleep in the teacup room, without the teacup sheet, tonight. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Most nights we slept on a blanket on the floor of her hospital room. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Later, she didn’t know how long she had slept. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Because it had been the harvest festival, no one had been caught sleeping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to sleep here, but it’s better than sharing the couch with Mr. Grote. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

But you know how prisons are on TV, all metal and gray and filled with angry people eating slop and sleeping on concrete slabs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You know, how I have a hard time sleeping sometimes. I thought it might help with that.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I think maybe if I sleep again, we can start by going dancing. We better wait for the weekend to go to the mountains. I have School™. You don’t.” Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He explained that he had been sleeping in the nude when the killers attacked his tent, and he took off running, naked. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

So I rolled over, tried to find the salty smell Marie’s hair had left on the pillow, and slept until ten. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

She’d been so upset, she still made little gasping sounds in her sleep, Gregor turned and placed a kiss on her curly head. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But it was no use, and now she could not sleep, and the wind was buffeting the walls of their tent, keening like an army of ghosts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Couldn’t focus. Didn’t sleep well the night before, and I felt tired and couldn’t get any energy. So yeah, I lost.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

I preferred this blanket for sleeping, but at some point during the day I had realized I would not be sleeping this night. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Others, a bit older, struggle to hold on to memories: One has slept in her mother’s bed; another has smelled her perfume, put on her deodorant, her clothes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But while I’m working on the computer, he prefers to sleep on my lap, which is gross and adorable. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

He has his own room, where he can work, dream, think and sleep. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

That night I am carried off into a deep sleep, lost in dreams about Mama. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

On her rooftop I placed a sleeping frog. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

The sound pushed adrenaline into my thighs and knocked sleep out of my head. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The bay slept well in the woodland nest where he had laid himself down, in that kind of thin but refreshing sleep which people have when they begin to lie out of doors. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two nights of little sleep, Harry’s senses seemed more alert than usual. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Just because it was summer didn’t mean she could sleep all day. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His nephew Tim, the cook, leans against the wall and wipes sleep from his eyes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I seize up a sleeping man, tear at him hungrily, bite through his bone-locks and suck hot, slippery blood. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why don’t you let me sleep there?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I lay awake longer than even Chi-Boy that night, long enough to see him slip the white trapper hat under Wab’s pillow and linger to touch her long hair as she slept. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Your little brother is going to sleep a while. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“There isn’t a sink, a table, or a wardrobe. Is that where she sleeps?” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

They returned down a different hole and soon found a dry, empty burrow, where they curled up together and slept in the warmth of their own tired bodies. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He built quarters within the park where they received three large meals a day and slept in clean beds and well-heated rooms. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

“I told you I couldn’t sleep, and you didn’t finish the happier cuento about the ant,” his words echo. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sleeping cabins sat on the curved sandy path that ran along the ridge above the dunes that fringed the beach. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

But when I got bigger, I just never felt like sleeping anywhere else. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

He still felt guilty because he had slept through his watch. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard nothing, Monsieur. You see, I had taken a sleeping draught.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

He can see getting a mattress and sleeping on the floor in the studio, but he isn’t going to live the way he had in the Borinage. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I did not like how persistent he was in want ing no one to sleep past the time he was up. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

For instance, I had testified: “I was sleeping on a top bunk and I can recall a couple of occasions when I was taken by my hair and just thrown on the floor.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The sleeping pills that had been for the plane were still in their plastic cylinder, and also in the duffel I had a liter of pond water and a handful of foraged nuts. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The robot stood out of the way and quietly tended to the fire as her guests slept through the night. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever she dropped off to sleep, I would steal as many sentences as I could. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if Aunt Pearl had slept in it, or stayed up all night. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight I could look up the length of the bed and see Dad still awake and when Oliver cried in his sleep Dad reached for him and held him. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then we found a good spot among some sand dunes at the lonely end of the beach, and there we settled down to sleep for the night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our house had a roof made of dried, thatched grasses and three rooms—a kitchen and two small rooms where we slept and, during the long rainy season, where we played. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bo was still sleeping in the chair, right where Victor had put him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This way, I can’t open the bottle without breaking it. When you pay off your debt, you get it back intact and can sleep safe knowing I haven’t kept any for myself.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And in the moment before I fell off into sleep, I remembered the way it had been between Fay and myself, and I smiled. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Where were the initiated who, attaining Atman in sleep, could retain it in consciousness, in life, everywhere, in speech and in action? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

So while my roommate grinned and mumbled unaware in his sleep I packed my bags. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Often, between train rides, Enrique prefers to sleep alone in a tall clump of grass, away from other migrants, knowing it will make him less of a target. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

In the well-appointed living room, Hassan's mom sat in an easy chair, sleeping. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

He was sleeping well and soundly, and what was there now to disturb his sleep? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

When we finally got back I went to sleep under a fan. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I took off my shorts and T-shirt and wriggled into my sleeping bag. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I look down and find Madam Mina still sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Cornflower, along with other woodland creatures granted sanctuary, was sleeping in makeshift quarters provided by the good mice of Redwall. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“So you can sleep next to my sisters?!” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She’s almost never there, taking her meals and sleeping at work. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I don’t even blink, just step carefully through the room trying to get to the open window, making all attempts to keep my feet away from sleeping forms. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“It was probably just a Wino Ghost or a Hobo Ghost looking for a place to sleep.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sails hanging limply from the gaffs like sleeping bats. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

In the few seconds’ silence, the dog growled and twitched, but the moment Hermione began to play, it fell back into its deep sleep. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“Not if we leave now. Come on, come on, get on out here. We can sleep there.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The rat, surprised out of a sound sleep, looked first dazed then disgusted. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

After bandaging them neatly she had administered a potion that would deaden the pain and induce sleep. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Christopher Walken: I probably hadn’t slept much the night before I reminded someone of this gaunt actor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Kino’s brain burned, even during his sleep, and he dreamed that Coyotito could read, that one of his own people could tell him the truth of things. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-five years of sleep like death, and now the murdered land draws a breath, moves its fingers, takes up life through its rivers and forests. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleep had done what I promised him it would—it had given him the rest he needed to face a new day of marching. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then, they would hide by it until everyone went to sleep. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

“You look exhausted. Will you sleep at all tonight?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I usually couldn’t sleep after his calls, not so much from anything he would say. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t remember taking a sleeping pill, but there might well have been something in the drink she’d had. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

If anyone asks me where I am going, it is down to the library to get a book because I cannot sleep. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Coming in from his work, he gorged himself on fried food and went to bed and to sleep in the resulting torpor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She closes the door gently and sits down on my sleeping bag with me. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I buried it back in its hidey-hole and laid myself down to sleep. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You go to sleep now,” Prosper said to him, pushing him back down on to his pillow. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Curzon was spending most of his days sleeping, but he was not dead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dead man was sitting by the side of the trail, leaning against a coconut tree with his eyes closed as if he was sleeping. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wake Max before I go to work so he can watch the window and let Siunek get some sleep. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

His teachers say he’s very intelligent but maladjusted, that he cries every night and disturbs the other boys’ sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

At night she sleeps beside him, always rolling onto her stomach, waking up every morning with a pillow pressed over her head. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young, strong body, now helpless in sleep, awoke in him a pitying, protecting feeling. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Of course I was dead tired when I went to bed that night, and Mother let me sleep late in the morning. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Singer could ignore the situation no longer, so at last he asked Antonapoulos if his stomach pained him or if he perhaps felt bad and wished to go to sleep. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One day my mother found a young woman and her mother sleeping in the hallway. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

“After the sleep of death, we waken eternally,” Hamlet continued as if I had not spoken. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Then he went over to the bed where his wife lay sleeping and with infinite tenderness touched her forehead. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She can barely keep her eyes open, but she cannot sleep. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Burning the dead. Always some who go to sleep and don’t wake up. You find them in their tents, them as have tents, curled up and froze. Toregg knows what to do.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He rubbed the sleep from his eyes with the backs of his hands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Yes, he had the week off school, but there was the rescue and sleeping at Emmett and George’s and Frank coming back and so much more. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

I sometimes wonder if he makes all those noises and movements in his sleep. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

De son of a gun laid up in dat house and slept and de lake come moved de house way off somewhere and Motor didn’t know nothin’ ’bout it till de storm wuz ’bout over.” Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He began to walk slowly to his sleeping room. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You did, didn’t you. That time you said you slept over at Pearl’s.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t got much sleep, but it wasn’t jus’ worrying ’bout Ma and Stanky and Pap that had me tossing and kicking, it was thinking ’bout what was gonna happen today. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

When winter came, we fed the animals—we had an ox, and now and then a chicken—gathered wood and brush for heat, slept, and tried to stay alive. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The gods hauled the chains to where Fenrir slept. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

One of the women had taken to sleeping in Weese's bed, and she got a piece of ripe blue cheese as well, and a wing off the capon that Weese had spoken of that morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

‘It’s funny, but I been seeing that fellow in my sleep for the past three or four nights. He won’t leave me alone. If you ever noticed, he never seems to say anything.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

You don’t so much sleep as borrow eight hours from death. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The outlines of the huts are upon us in the dawn like a dark, deep sleep. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie hunkered, petrified, horrified, on his sleeping bag, watching them die like gas victims from the First World War, like Napoleonic soldiers on a Russian winter battlefield. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

His only kindness was for Snout, his bird dog, who slept in his bed and got her stomach scratched anytime she rolled onto her wiry back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

No more than two hours could I sleep, and then out into the bitter cold night and on and on. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several people standing near-by observed the white Communist trying to find a black Communist a place to sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Molly and Kimberly slept over last night. Your mother called my house this morning and told us what happened.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Byron even started sleeping on the couch at night. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And thankfully Frank kept sleeping through the whole thing. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

“I sleep very lightly. I am used to waking at a sound. I am sure if she had come down from the berth above I would have awakened.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did what I do every night before I go to sleep, I checked to make sure eveiything was there. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Sweet... warm... sleep Suddenly, falling, twisting, head hitting against the wall. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I just wanted to go home and sleep. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Tidbit fell into a fitful sleep in Amari’s arms, his face drawn. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night he couldn’t go to sleep at all, he said, he was so high. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went in, put newspapers over me like I was a bum, and went to sleep. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And perhaps that was why the second night, when the sky darkened and the moon rose, Dragon crept out from the shadows of the trees and approached the closed, sleeping city. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Three or four times, swimming up through thick layers of drug- induced sleep, she had actually sought Estha out and slapped him until someone calmed her down and led her away. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt himself grow tight inside, and for a long time he could not sleep at night. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

They did not sleep a minute, but the following day they felt so rested that they forgot about the bad night. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

She looked around, her eyes and mind still fuzzed with sleep. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first night I’d slept outside there was a lot of outside and not much sleeping. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The cold and wet had made his wound more painful than ever, and the ache and sense of deadly chill took away all sleep. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mom had serious bed head and her eyes were puffy with sleep. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

I should have remembered the plague they brought, because I had almost fallen back to sleep when the stabbing whistle of the volunteer fire department went off. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

That night little Willy couldn’t sleep—his eye was killing him. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I started batting them away, like I’d once have done, I wouldn’t sleep a wink. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

"The gods help me if I do not get some sleep tonight. Yoren is determined to ride at first light." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Annabeth wanted to curl up next to Percy and go to sleep. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

All I stood a chance of getting out of that sad night was a good sleep, and she had to wake me up and spoil it. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mollie—who, like her mother, then wore leggings, moccasins, a skirt, a blouse, and a blanket—slept on the floor in a corner of her family’s lodge and had to do many grueling chores. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Before they went to sleep, Edwin showed Cole how to suspend the coolers of fresh food from high branches in case bears visited during the night. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he talks a little bit in his sleep. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

Gaea rose over Camp Half-Blood—her sleeping face as large as a mountain. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

She said that Morrie was still sleeping, even though it was 10 a.m. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I memorized my speech so thoroughly that I could have recited it in my sleep. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must sleep nearly the whole way—a couple of days, anyway—for the next thing, the bus chuffs to a stop. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It framed my experience of eating and sleeping and washing; it named the season and the hour. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a time when she would sit beside Jam’s bed and read her N. K. Jemisin books until Jam drifted off, only leaving when sleep wrapped heavy around the room. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

That night, after our parents went to sleep, I went down to the car and got the pillow and blanket out of the trunk. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Along the back wall, near the Ping-Pong and pool tables, several army cots had been set up, and in the corner was a pile of sleeping bags. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

After my parents go to sleep, I go through Olga’s room to see if I can find any other clues. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Suddenly from under the bed a pug-faced twin popped up between John’s chair and the wall, and began peering into Linda’s sleeping face. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

She seemed never to sleep because if I listened long enough I could hear a swishing sound and then a humming as she worked with her herbs. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her parents had come in late and left a note on the counter saying they were sleeping in. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Let her sleep,” Mom said with mercy in her voice. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I felt my way through the sleeping bodies and waited in the shadows of the courtyard. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I felt sleep drawing itself over me like a thick blanket, like death. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It talks and makes picturs and I got to tern it on just before I go to sleep. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sure I can sleep,” Percy said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

From then on, he slept in a different backyard or back porch every night. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Can we go any faster? I don’t need much sleep.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was hungry for green vegetables, and that night as I went off to sleep, I thought of the pokeweeds, the dandelions, the spring beauties that would soon be pressing up from the earth. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t gonna say anything I wanted to finish my journal stuff so I could go to sleep too. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Once he got up completely and walked a few steps with outstretched hands and then lay down in a spot almost ten feet from where he had originally slept. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The boys have gone to their sleep, there in the dust.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All night—because feverish Mirabelle would not sleep except in motion—she cradled Mirabelle in her arms and paced the length of the room. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Almost at once sleep laid hold on them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He was breathless for sleep to come so that he could be with her, and tonight there was no euphoria keeping him awake. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It takes a week to get my sleeping and waking straight so that I’m not struggling through the day shift. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He should never have tried to sleep on an empty stomach, but weariness overcame his hunger. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“I think we could let them sleep, at least for a few more hours.” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor’s wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Ma stares off into the distance while Geak sleeps in her arms. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang it over and over and the stars came out — “Do not forsake me, my sister, my sheep, Slumber ye gently and heal in thy sleep.” Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

They dragged in their bedding and the tarp and after a while they slept again for all the bitter cold. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

And sometime eventually they’d have to find a place to sleep. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Caroline would probably have slept through the Last Trumpet. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn’t sleep indoors if I wanted to. I’ll meet you in the cemetery at sunup.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I slept on the floor of the corridor; first putting my pocket-book with my money and papers in it inside my shirt and trousers so that it was inside the leg of my breeches. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

He leaned his head on her shoulders and drifted off to sleep. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

It was no wonder, Ranofer thought disgustedly, that all his spying, and Heqet’s and the Ancient’s, had gained them nothing; everything was happening while they slept! The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Three or four hours of sleep a night was enough for me. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took turns sleeping in a white pine coffin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Birdie, whose smile never looked fake, who never wondered if anyone would show up at her academic decathlon, who never woke up in one house and went to sleep in another. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

We all slept on the floor in one room, my mom and me, my aunt and my cousins, my uncle and my grandmother and my great-grandmother. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I want to put it on and crawl under the white knobbly blanket and white sheets in one of those high-off-the-ground beds and sleep. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw on your chart. Why do you think you couldn’t sleep?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t matter what ought to be. Matters what is. Make him let you sleep in the attic again.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He’d go to sleep right here, right out on the fifty yard line, the hell with trying out for the team, screw everything, he was going to sleep, he didn’t care anymore . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Number nine was he liked to sit on couches and sleep in beds. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Conor’s house was still behind him, but the mist covered his backyard, replacing it with a field with a giant yew in the center and a man and a woman sleeping at its base. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

She heard a man’s voice saying, “You’ve got to trust her. When she has those sleeps you have to leave her alone till she wakes up, she’ll wake up pretty soon.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had dark circles around her eyes, a mix of runny makeup and no sleep. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

His middle daughter and the baby slept on his bunk, his oldest daughter manned the wheel. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I like you better when you don’t talk,” I said, pulled the deer hide over me, and fell into a deep sleep. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time I heard the approaching footsteps, I jumped into bed and feigned sleep. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably shouldn’t wake a sleeping grandma unless there’s a tried-and-true emergency. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He makes his way downstairs with the candle, sleeps on a chair, misses work in the morning, loses the job at the cement factory, and we’re back on the dole again. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

There upon the wicker bed the Obscure Object slept. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m a prisoner on this island, Gustavo, and I cannot sleep. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Momma had quit writing letters and I was done letting them follow me around, but I wasn’t sure I wanted to sleep under them every night. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

As Pa stepped outside, I heard Ma say, “He won’t be sleeping in this house.” Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed back into bed, rolled down the lamp, and quickly fell into a deep and peaceful sleep. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Exhausted, many sleep so soundly they do not hear the trains bearing down on them: the earsplitting horn, the screaming brakes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She has dark circles under her eyes from not enough sleep. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Why don’t you have a sleep? It’s still a few hours to Yazd.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I curled up at the foot of the bed, but I couldn’t sleep trying to figure out what a parrot was. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

When we finished eating, Slannen said that elves liked to sleep soon after nightfall. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He decided to climb up the bales, in the hope of getting near Captain Snow, who most probably would be sleeping perched in the rafters. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

“We thought she was sleeping,” Bitter whispered, her voice thick with frightened tears. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He finished as quickly as he could and was eager to get back to sleep. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I eat, sleep, and dream of the void, and whenever it calls my name, I’m there in the front row ready to answer. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

After a long mystical sleep in which the tools of scientific inquiry lay moldering, the Ionian approach, in some cases transmitted through scholars at the Alexandrian Library, was finally rediscovered. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beside the front door a dog lies in the dust, chin on its paws, and for a moment Werner thinks it is only sleeping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Boots murmured in her sleep but didn’t wake up. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Here it was as though the riot was gone and I felt the tug of sleep, seemed to move out upon black water. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for sure Martin had dropped right back off into sleep until he asked, “Where are we going after that?” The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

But me, I slept restlessly a lot, and sometimes it seemed I barely slept at all. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The navigator stirs in his sleep, and the parrot waits for him to be still, then leans closer to me. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Even in her sleep she took his hand and squeezed it gently. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Could I sleep in the park or on the sidewalk like some of the people I've passed by? The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Ya know, it was really stupid for us to sleep in here tonight. We should’ve been out in the Map Room, working.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I wrote about how hard it was to study or to sleep at night with the constant sounds of fighting in the hills outside town. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I got so little sleep that night that Mama had to shake me to get me out of bed the next morning. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

I try to focus on how crunchy and greasy-good those are, and think of how tonight I’ll be sleeping in a new room in a new house. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I had only murmured a few more when the inner door opened, and a Redcoat in his shirt, with his jacket hung about his shoulders, demanded, “We’re sleeping.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

When he was finished, the darkness had disintegrated somewhat, and he saw, some fifteen feet in front of him, a man stirring in his sleep. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Left him hanging there, all alone and dead and never to sing them to sleep again. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Maybe I can at least get an uneventful night’s sleep before I have to deal with him in the morning. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wanted to sit down and go to sleep. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, we slept so deeply, that we were shocked when we awakened to find the landscape outside the windows in complete darkness. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

As Joe drifted into sleep aboard the Manhattan, the first light of dawn crept over Berlin, revealing small groups of men, women, and children being marched through the streets at gunpoint. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Been sleeping really good. I should have cleaned out the hogan much earlier,” Uncle Jet said, pulling several bags of groceries from the back of the truck. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The valley behind them slept in darkness, but an unwelcome glow was descending. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

It had two sleeping cots, a wooden table, two straight-backed chairs, a window, and shelves nailed to the walls where Nana placed clay pots and her beloved Chinese tea set. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“The kind to make you sleep,” I answer. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Soon the nurses are joined by a bleary-eyed doctor, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes, which are ringed by deep circles. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But while Jones slept peacefully, John Wilkes Booth and David Herold were rowing in the wrong direction! Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve slept right through the late afternoon and night, and I’m starving. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

But at 4:50 in the morning, the tourists were sleeping. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Later than I'm usually allowed to sleep on Saturdays. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We sleep to time's hurdy-gurdy; we wake, if we ever wake, to the silence of God. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Pasqual turned his cell off during the day so he could sleep, and even if I could get to some of the sites and get the men they might not be able to help. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

After she has gone back to sleep, after Etienne has blown out his candle, he kneels for a long time beside his bed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

That idea sets me off, and over the next few days, whenever I'm not talking to my folks or Alicia or not eating or sleeping, I'm being a detective. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sat on the floor and rocked the cradle back and forth, back and forth, until the baby went to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have taken it, and am waiting for sleep, which still keeps aloof. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When I saw you were gone, I figured you must’ve decided to try out these sleeping bags and stuff. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

What was worse, she never knew at what moment she would suddenly go to sleep. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Emilika still slept in my room, though during the week she often stayed late at the photography shop, developing the film, sometimes breezing in only just before curfew. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He slept all that night and most of me next day. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

On January 6, 1919, nearly five years after his return from Brazil, Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

When he slept, he did not dream,- not of wolves, nor his brothers, nor anything. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she’d slip from the bed while he slept and would cross to the door and go out alone into the night. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The child always slept under a quilt, even in the terrible summer heat. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

As Helmuth drifts off to sleep, he wonders about his own future and what he has been put on this earth to do. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Carl would sleep until one o’clock in the afternoon, then eat again and go out to work on the property. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z