Every morning he left Emma sleeping comfortably in their bed, to go “write about coral formations,” as he wrote to his sister Caroline. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

For just a moment, I let myself enjoy the fantasy, but then I looked down at my sleeping daughter and I knew that was all it was. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I removed the sleeping pills from my bag and rolled them out like dice onto a flat rock. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lived day and night in their company, warming himself against their skin as he wandered over the range, sleeping at their feet under the Colorado mountains. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vines grab the sleeping Princess Charlotte from her throne chair, lifting her high above us all. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“I’m taking the blankets out of the car and sleeping on the floor.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“We can use poison foxglove or sleeping tonics if I can manage to make it into an aerosol,” said Seven. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Or we stay in cabins belonging to other people or to the government, or we stay in abandoned logging camps, or we pitch two tents, one for sleeping and one for supplies. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He grabbed the handle, fearing the worst, that someone had taken her and left the seat, but when he turned it toward him, there was the tiny pink face of Nademah, scrunched and sleeping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Took even longer before I stopped sleeping outside in my tent. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I was so happy those first few nights, in this amusing house, sleeping in the big soft bed with my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Her parents were asleep; her mother had been taking sleeping pills at night to calm her nerves, and the crack beneath their bedroom door was dark. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the mornings, they would scratch across our sleeping faces as she smoothed our foreheads, our cheeks, and told us quietly, Wake up. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

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

One night, when the rest of the prisoners were sleeping, Blake approached the North Korean guardhouse, carrying a note written in Russian, asking for a meeting at the Russian embassy in Pyongyang. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were only eighteen sleeping bags, originally meant for the overland journey, and the men drew straws to see who would get them. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Dad pushed him out of the way and rushed into the bedroom, where his first son was sleeping in a by now battered bassinet, on a desk once again covered with galley proofs. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

Feared Him, loved Him, served Him, clamped my hands over my ears to stop His words that rang in my head even when He was far away, or sleeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I offer to take a bunk, but they make me keep to the floor mattress since I flail around so much when I’m sleeping. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

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

It was still a couple hours before dawn and the air was cold and calm, filled with the dreams of sleeping men. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

And so I am back to sleeping on the horse blanket in the corner. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

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

“He wanted to come to the airport, but he was too tired. He is sleeping more.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Ending each day in the bed of the pickup, sleeping under the stars. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Eventually that stopped, and then the woman did a curious thing: she took a pair of scissors and trimmed the girl’s hair, holding her sleeping head this way and that to see the best effect. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I woke at dawn as usual, moved my blanket and sleeping bag to the cave, and ate the rest of the fish for breakfast—cold, but cooked, not so bad. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As yet another silence engulfs us, it dawns on me that unless I want to try leaping across train cars drunk and in the dead of night, I’ll be sleeping right where I am. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The wolves had been sleeping all day—they could not have wakened the bear. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad took videos of me getting fed, getting changed, and even me sleeping. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

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

The twins are stealing sleeping pills and diamond earrings. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I look at Ruby, sleeping soundly, and suddenly I know she’ll never leave the Big Top Mall. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

I also had to swear that when his soul was sleeping I would never try to wake it, for the shock might make it go to sleep forever. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the old man, who had been sleeping, awoke, and they gave him a bowl and the four of them went out on the road to beg. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

He stopped sleeping, spending his nights pacing around and around his stall. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Peeta's stretched out on top of the sleeping bag in the shade of the rocks. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

It was a most uncomfortable, patently aggressive sleeping companion. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brain was reestablishing cycles of sleeping and waking, which meant a new level of consciousness. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered if her father was sleeping, wherever he was. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

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 will get you when you are sleeping,” he says, and puts two fingers to his eyes then points at me. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

The sailor was as I had left him, neither sleeping nor awake. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“He’s got a cold or something. Ali says he’s sleeping it off.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I found an unoccupied bunk on the upper level, shook as many fleas and lice as possible from the soiled mattress, and spread out my sleeping bag. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Glass’s perhaps most inspired coup as a decorator was manifest just behind and above the couch where young Franny Glass was now sleeping. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I see a man sleeping on the sidewalk. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sam picks up my sleeping bag and slaps it. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Salim shuffled into a sleeping bag without saying much. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You provide the kerosene and I’ve got the sleeping arrangements all worked out.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Since it was the day after people had stayed up to watch the New Year’s ball drop in Times Square, his brother figured everyone was sleeping late. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

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

I bought him a brand new sleeping bag. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two are sleeping, and one is playing with its own tail. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

All the other boats in Spinney Cove are sleeping at their moorings. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The fuzzy body rocked, the tail spread to steady it, and the little duck hawk almost sighed as she sank into the leaves, sleeping. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

He roared into battle, and in the bellowing thumping rough and tumble that followed, one sleeping giant after another either got stepped upon or kicked. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Working at your neighbors while he’s sleeping? That sounds illegal. Anyway, log on, Lauren’s posted you.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She realized that the porch was full of sleeping figures, and fled. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

He brought the two extra blankets into the bedroom and put them over his sisters’ sleeping bodies. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Carved into the wall are two bunks—one of us will be sleeping on the floor—and a ground-level cube space for storage. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Naomi took a step toward the sleeping dog, and for a moment she thought about stroking his floppy ears, but she did not want to disturb him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

As it was, I still had trouble sleeping. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

After sleeping on the floor of a Baton Rouge mosque for that first week, he and his wife had rented an apartment for the month, and were living there. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Mom spent the weekend at the hospital with Penny, sleeping on a cot in her room. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I did not like to think of Mrs. Baylor sleeping on the floor next to that sister in her nice bed. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

"I may be craven, but I'm not stupid. I'm sore and my back aches from riding and from sleeping on the ground, but I'm hardly scared at all. Look." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Scipio let the light of his flashlight wander over the others' sleeping faces. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a network of vaulted hallways, each lined with coffin-shaped sleeping capsules, row after row of them, stacked to the ceiling, ten high. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Nothing but the occasional gust of wind and the shuttered windows of our sleeping neighbors. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He imagined the shadowy face of a sleeping woman. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They would have to live well together in close quarters for weeks at a time—traveling, eating, sleeping, and racing without internal friction among them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance we could see that the open side faced into the wind and that the drifting snow was nearly up to the lip of the sleeping platform. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They went down a half flight of steps and across the hall of the keep to the winding stair, making their way quietly among the sleeping servants. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Joseph pulled the sleeping bag tightly around himself. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Okay, that was the precise moment the Wild Boy took complete charge of my sensibilities as the pacifist was sleeping off a binge. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bridge sat straight up, letting her sleeping bag slip from her shoulders. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Arguments about going hungry, dying, bombs, fire extinguishers, sleeping bags, identity cards, poison gas, etc., etc. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

The first task was to divide up what space we had for sleeping. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sleeping Princess Charlotte sits on her throne. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

It was nine in the morning, when all the world is sleeping. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

I stood watching the lighthouse beam wheel around and wash over everything—a million seabirds sleeping in the pitted cliffs; giant rocks exposed by the low tide; a rotted skiff drowning in the sand. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She was wrapped up in her coverlet and sleeping; the blankets barely moved when she took breath. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last few miles, while she was sleeping, I’d written her a little note. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Good news, my boy. We’ll leave in the morning. Now, you should get some sleep. I have some scotch in my room, if you need help sleeping. Yes?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Nina injected the prisoners with a sleeping solution to prolong their rest, and Wylan helped roll them into the gully behind the trees. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I slid out of my sleeping bag and checked the hall. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag was wedged between my legs in a sweaty twist of polyester and anxiety. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The prince lay abed, staring at his ceiling, dreaming without sleeping, remembering, imagining, twisting beneath his linen coverlet, his mind feverish with thoughts of fire and blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I know, Mom, I’m sorry. They were making me so dopey, and I was falling asleep in class and then not sleeping at night and I’d just be up for hours and it sucked.” Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Why isn’t Uncle Jet sleeping in the hogan?” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then I look to my side and see James sleeping there in his bed. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

It was a very hot night—Selvam and Ira were sleeping out in the open, in the small square in front of our hut which I had swept and washed with dung that morning. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of sitting on his bed grossed me out, but I could throw my sleeping bag on top of it. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

The stewardess smiled, then glanced down at my sleeping mother. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Then Jaime helped her to her feet, put her coat around her shoulders, and led her by the arm to the waiting room, where Nicolas had spent the night sleeping in a chair. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unconvinced, Doug retreated to our tent and pulled his sleeping bag over his head. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I looked out at the fires in Harlem, wondering how many sleeping mortals were in danger right now because of Luke’s bad choices. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Earl T. Askew stepped up and said into his ear, “O.B., let’s just let sleeping dogs lay. I pot tny hands full with Mrs. Askew as it is.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

And then he would find himself in his bedroom, with his wife sleeping beside him. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Then she set down her mug, slipped into her sleeping shift, and pulled back the blanket at the foot of the bed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

As I was sleeping, they shoved their way into our apartment and grabbed me out of bed by the hair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

Bathed in shadows, the traditional home structure resembled a sleeping monster. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Neel had been given the entire front half of the hut for sleeping and studying late into the night. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

People in Oklahoma think this must be how refugees are—never sitting, never sleeping, like they have no knees and no dreams. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

She slipped back into her sleeping bag and scooted down inside as far as she could. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

She carried the sleeping bird across the street in her hands. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He stopped reading when he thought she was sleeping, and he dozed in his chair beside the lamp. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I slept dreamlessly that night, exhausted from beginning my day so early, and sleeping so poorly the night before. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

No amount of standing and staring was going to change the amount of time that it takes to walk from the Free Cities to their home at the top of the sleeping volcano. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

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

“Imagine if I had been sleeping, what I would have missed. But then, always and forever, I have been an insomniac. You know what this is? Insomnia?” Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

He picked up Lila Goodchild, cradling her in her opaque bag like a sleeping child, and placed her carefully on the table in the chilly mortuary, as if he were afraid to wake her. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

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

“And you got a new sleeping bag, too, I hope.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His place was wearing dry clothes in a safe warm room, sleeping and eating without a care in the world. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Scurrying, echoing footsteps were growing louder from behind the door leading to the dormitories: Luna’s spell had woken Ravenclaws sleeping above. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He had started sleeping in his bedroom again. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“So be careful to check your sleeping bags before you get into them,” said Mrs. Sidman. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He leads me through two more sleeping cars. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

And how the dew was starting to soak my sleeping bag. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I snuggle down in my sleeping bag, hanging on to my water bottle for dear life, which, of course, it is. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A breeze picked up, the tall grass outside the barn tilting away from it, and I pulled my sleeping bag over my shoulders to stay warm. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You were sleeping half of the time,” Grandpa replied. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Mr. da Silva had felt this, waking up in his sleeping bag. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The child looked perfectly normal: a sleeping baby boy, fine new hair in a black cap over his head, a small nose, a bow of a mouth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Aretha, who smelled a little ripe, was sleeping in the back. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I confessed about the barefoot-discovered cat puke and a comatose Fig sleeping past his breakfast head bump. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

All of them, before sleeping, thanked Andeg, who, though he usually slept outside, was invited in that night. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

For a split second, I forget that I’m sharing my sleeping space with a dog. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

My brothers had spent the winter sleeping during the day and in town at night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s good I got the photo of Mateo sleeping when I did—yeah, yeah, creepy, we established that—because his face is shifting, his left eye twitching. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Just sleeping. Though I don’t know why a ghost needs to sleep. She could be sailing the seas. Or flying to Africa.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

I slipped out of my dewy sleeping bag and walked through the white and the gray to the water. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the closing decades of the nineteenth century the sleeping giant of Russia had awoken. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His eyes widen, and his face goes slack, and for a second he looks like another sleeping Dauntless soldier. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

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

The prisoners were all inside the hut, staying warm, I figured, although I didn’t think they would be doing much sleeping. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He'd been away for more than two years, and the guy sleeping across from me was a stranger. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

Well, her sleeping like an old maid did prove one thing: she and Grandpa hadn’t been sweet on each other before Granny died. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sometimes his arm felt numb, as if he had been sleeping on it. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

I always been tolt they ain’t the same as us, they don’t feel things like white people do, they don’t love their kids the same, they don’t love nothing but ducking work and sleeping. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

“That’ll be great” She wound up trading twelve packets of SpagBol for another sleeping bag, and six for a handmade sweater, which left her with eight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

A loud scream came from the corner where the boy was sleeping. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“When I was a little girl, I used to insist on sleeping under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve! I wanted to catch Father Christmas in the act. Wasn’t that ever so naughty of me?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

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

Byron even started sleeping on the couch at night. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a home in a land that might as well be in another galaxy to the people sleeping on the other side of the wall I leaned against. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In my room, there’s just a sleeping bag and some cardboard boxes for my clothes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Meggie was sleeping soundly, her face buried in a gray sweater, probably her father's. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Mostly there were people sleeping in sleeping bags all over the floor; some of them were squeezed onto the pullout couch. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Then she slipped into her sleeping bag, and I knew the conversation was over. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Desperate for something to do, for distraction, he slipped out of his sleeping bag, picked up his wand, and crept out of the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon had been lying at the foot of the front door in a sleeping bag, clearly making sure that Harry didn’t do exactly what he’d been trying to do. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I wonder if they’re actually cutting down trees and sleeping in tents at that forestry camp. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

I sat up and saw Amah was still asleep, lying askew on her sleeping mat. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had some explanatory pictures next to their glass cage that showed a couple of bats sucking the blood out of a horse’s neck while the horse was sleeping. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ear and Eye had sleeping bags, but Arm, in deference to his recent illness, was given the sofa. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

She can’t even imagine sleeping in her old bed in her old room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Here my father ran his hand along the length of a sleeping python as he hunted for morning eggs. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She kicks a chenille bunny who was sleeping in my robe on the floor. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I was dozing in my sleeping bag, watching the morning sun cast shadows across the walls of my tent, when Helen yelled, “Jon! Telephone! It’s Linda!” Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were probably sleeping off their first meal nearby. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a relief when six o’clock arrived and they could slip out of their sleeping bags, dress in the semidarkness, then creep out into the garden, where they were to meet Hermione and Griphook. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Only when he climbed into his sleeping bag under the stars had his disloyalty struck him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the sleeping cars, however, where the porter was already making up some of the berths, there was trouble. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the people in the line were sleeping. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“Young Master Sam and Master Oscar are probably sleeping off a mighty hangover. Yes, ma’am,” Mrs. Washburn adds, nodding at my mother. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

From time to time, however, he rose, walked to the door of the hut and listened to hear if the boy were sleeping. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before setting out, the hunters also instructed their wives to stay indoors until the hunt was over, preferably lying in bed and sleeping. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

The heat was almost gone out of the radiators: the cold iron fluting stem signal and admonition for sleeping, the little death, the renewal. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

But suddenly there was a movement from inside the booth, and the sleeping old man sprang to life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He gestured at the dark sleeping shapes all about them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But it won’t be easy. Everybody is very poor in Japan. While you were sleeping, your mother spoke with one of the soldiers. He said you can’t imagine how poor.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

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

The length of the boat and the sleeping Lyra lay between them, or otherwise, he felt, they would have embraced and wept together. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Oh, that reminds me. Fang called last night. He sounded awful. When I asked, he said he hasn’t been sleeping. So you two have something in common.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He thought of how long it had been since she looked into his eyes and smiled, or whispered his name on those rare occasions they still reached for each other’s bodies before sleeping. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Felt the roar of a shotgun blast flash into the night, a white explosion almost in his face that startled the sleeping gulls up into the air. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

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

Frightful rested, then darted around Cocos Island for three days, eating and sleeping and gaining weight. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

Every night I opened up my box and slipped my sleeping bag inside it. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I took some sleeping pills and went to the movies: Japanese film, I couldn’t seem to follow it. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

They all sat around a roaring fire on blankets and sleeping bags and they seemed to all be Native, like me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t sleeping well and his grades, which were never very good, got even worse. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next night was the same; fear kept me from sleeping. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would also be useful; a pagne could be worn as clothing, tied to bundle a baby — or a bonobo — onto your back, or serve as a ground cloth for sleeping. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Biddy,” said I, when I talked with her after dinner, as her little girl lay sleeping in her lap, “you must give Pip to me one of these days; or lend him, at all events.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the nursery-school kids, huddled round Charles the next morning like Lilliputians round the sleeping Gulliver. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s from Ayesha. She knocked while you were sleeping but didn’t want to wake you. Her family caught an early transport out, but she said she’d see you soon.” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He’d wind up sleeping in Dad’s bed for three nights after. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his father’s nylon flight jacket and he was carrying the last two sleeping bags to the car. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cup my palm, imagining a butterfly landing in it, feeling the flutter and life, and I go to a sleeping, remembering, dreamworld. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Right after lunch, when it isn’t raining yet and all the women with their buckets and things have gone down to the river and the fields and the men are home sleeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dreading the thought of spending another night in some cheap hotel if I could not get a room at the Y, I considered hiding in the church and sleeping there in one of the pews. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t believe that the sweater, brown with bands of pale red and green highlights, cost half as much as the sleeping bag, which was threadbare and patched. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly my stillness led the Lethifold to believe that its potential victim was sleeping. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m tired of sleeping outdoors. I want to get a bath, a hot meal, and a real bed.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A tattooed man in jeans and a jean jacket—his legs outstretched, his ankles crossed—was sleeping a few seats down. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I’m a growing boy; I shouldn’t have trouble sleeping; I should be playing sports! It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

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

He could see the outline of the watcher, but the sleeping men were below his vision. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I look into a back room and see an old man sleeping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

I wipe my tears on my shoulders and throw an arm over my eyes so it looks like I’m sleeping. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

While Charlie’s still sleeping, me and Mama sit at the table and eat bread and bacon. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

It took us a while to straighten out our sleeping bags and put the stuffed animals back where they belonged. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Here he was, sleeping in a leaky tent in the drizzle and wind. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

For now, she busied herself with simply sleeping on silk, eating on gold and being the single most feared and admired woman in Florinese history. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

And if she stayed here in the Smoke, she’d be sleeping in an old sleeping bag and dreading the day her water purifier broke down. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Turns out sleeping on a beanbag chair isn’t all that comfortable. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Nobody felt like sleeping, either, and the survivors of the battle didn’t go back to their quarters after they landed. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“And many more will come now that Abakaliki has fallen. You know that since Enugu fell, accommodation has been a big problem. Some people who work in the directorates are even sleeping in their cars.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

These lines helped me from getting lost in between the spring and my sleeping place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

I dropped a potato through the open back window of the orphanage and returned to the room, stumbling over sleeping bodies on the stairway. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

‘Once I do get to sleep,’ said Sam, ‘I shall go on sleeping, whether I roll off or no. And the less said, the sooner I’ll drop off, if you take my meaning.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

With the first gray light he rose and left the boy sleeping and walked out to the road and squatted and studied the country to the south. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

He smiled and then stared back at the bedroom where Vera was sleeping. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Moss peered into the sack that contained my sleeping bag and dolls. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Somewhere I can relax while the batteries recharge; somewhere I can lie down comfortably while sleeping. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slammed the door open loud enough that even the aunties sleeping in the kitchen had heard the crash. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

He ended up in the San Francisco Bay Area, living out of his backpack, going to rock concerts, sleeping in local parks. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Harry woke early next morning, wrapped in a sleeping bag on the drawing room floor. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

But he was not sleeping; now and then a nervous tremor would pass over his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Right away I knew what had happened: I’d crashed into a sleeping manatee. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

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

She ran her tongue over her lips and looked at the sleeping tin soldier. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Eventually, she and the baby moved into the dining room, sleeping on a sagging foldout bed. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He tells her he spent the night safely sleeping in her car. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

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 know. I was sleeping overnight at somebody’s. My cousin’s. I wasn’t here.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t tell you about the sleeping pills because you’d fight them. It's only natural. And it was imperative to the plan that we all go to sleep immediately.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Three brothers, sleeping in one tent, were spared. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid of curses, ladders, or black cats, but he saw ghosts everywhere, and not just the ghost of the old woman now sleeping buried somewhere in the hard ground. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were nearly shut but not quite, as if she were just between sleeping and waking. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

I spend the rest of the afternoon watching TV and sleeping on and off. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She wished she could just stand there and take in the view of the neighborhood, the peacefulness of her sleeping abuelo, the new day. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“I’m Roland,’’ the man said in English as he unloaded his sleeping skins on the floor of the igloo and spread them out. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Has he been sleeping in her bed all this time? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Then she got her pot and sleeping skin, her ulo and man’s knife, the bones and her flowers. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

First I hauled the TV and VCR from my parents’ bedroom, where Ruth had been sleeping, up the steep stairs to my own. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

During the trek to Base Camp, a young Sherpa named Pemba rolled up her sleeping bag every morning and packed her rucksack for her. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now, into the silence, as they watched the sleeping puppy, he found himself simply blurting it out. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

But there was no sign of sleeping draughts or tablets. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

There was a kitchen, a room for sleeping, and a room in back to store cotton and weave cloth. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were supposed to be sleeping; we were supposed to have been sleeping for maybe an hour, but we weren’t at all. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

The suitcase blocked some of the airflow, but at least I knew it wouldn’t creep up on me while I was sleeping. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He touched the sleeping star on her shoulder. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

She could tell by the sound of his breathing that he was sleeping peacefully, deep in the straw. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her fingers strayed to the winding key on its bottom, but glancing at the sleeping Tuck, she shook her head, gave the little box a pat, and dropped it into her pocket. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the third night, as we were sleeping, some of us sitting, huddled against each other, some of us standing, a piercing cry broke the silence: “Fire! I see a fire! I see a fire!” Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I called Charles on the pay phone, but the hospital switchboard wouldn’t put me through: it was past visiting hours, she said, everyone was sleeping. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled the odor of a sleeping animal. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I want to talk to him, but his eyes are closed, and he seems to be sleeping. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Station employees brought a coarse mattress from a nearby sleeping car. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

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

In a dull, flat voice—to show I was not beguiled by his good looks or his family photograph—I told Doctor Gordon about not sleeping and not eating and not reading. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Shanti heads back to Harlem for weekends and holidays, but with both of her parents working at home, she likes studying and sleeping here better. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no! I already told you, I wasn’t sleeping! I was praying to Inti with my eyes closed. Why don’t you believe me?” The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

We grabbed our sleeping bags and got out of the way as a deathly white limousine slid to a stop in front of us. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Lying beside his sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then a high, beckoning whistle, then gone. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Though the mattress did little to smooth out the lumps on the ground, it was better than sleeping inside that oven of a house. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Muhammad is lying on top of a sleeping bag spread on the floor. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

So we zealously set to work to create an idyll—an idyll of eating and sleeping of course. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now no one dared leave their quarters at night, and King Claudius’s men watched like hawks, when they were not drinking or sleeping. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

Puffskein is a scavenger that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, but it has a particular preference for sticking its tongue up the nose of sleeping wizards and eating their bogies. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid that somehow the biscuits might disappear during the night, while I was sleeping. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, l’m lying in my sleeping bag thinking about the rabbit and the snake. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Bill was still sleeping, so I dressed, put on my shoes outside in the hall, and went down-stairs. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He had been sleeping in his shirt to keep warm, so he only had to pull on his overalls as he went. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time not a soul in sleeping Holcomb heard them—four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house went to the bank, and I lived with various friends for a few months at a time, sleeping on their couches or more often on the floor. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Morrie had canceled all of his appointments and had been sleeping much of the time, which was unlike him. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Put the booze under a blanket. If they stop you, just tell them you got a sleeping baby under there.” Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

I've rolled sideways off the fork and I'm facing the ground, held in place by the belt, one hand, and my feet straddling the pack inside my sleeping bag, braced against the trunk. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

On Friday morning, March 4, 1881, after sleeping only a few hours, Garfield awoke to sleet and snow. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

‘How is I possibly finding the one where the Queen is sleeping?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

One by one the kids left the table and carried their stones off to their sleeping cabins. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

We followed Dad to the lion’s den, but the lions were sleeping, so Dad said we should leave them alone. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At first she thought she was being selfish, taking the sleeping mat from Polly, but Polly actually seemed to prefer that lumpy, smelly mattress. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tally looked around, realizing that she was up on the cliffs, tangled in her sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“I guess I’ll be out pretty late at night, and I’ll probably have to do a lot of sleeping in the daytime.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She burst into warm afternoon sunlight and found that the street hadn’t changed — the crumbling pastel houses, the blue cobblestones, dozens of cats sleeping under cars or in the shade of banana trees. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I was curled up in an old sleeping bag in the corner of the trailer’s tiny laundry room, wedged into the gap between the wall and the dryer. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

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

Sophie, peeping out from her pocket, examined the nine sleeping giants. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

They had trouble sleeping in the intense, white moonlight, as did she. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you doing in my sleeping chamber?” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Eventually, though, Herbie had the presence of mind to drag his sleeping bag outside and shake it hard; he shuddered as four skinny little water snakes blinked puzzledly up into his flashlight beam. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few men were sitting on the steps, while others lay sprawled sleeping. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

And me not sleeping, tonight or tomorrow night or any night for a long while; now that this has started. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its legs curl in, fetal, like a baby sleeping. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

It’s early—before roll call—but the sun is bright and cresting over the lower peaks of the mountains, casting its rose-tipped glow across the sleeping camp. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

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

“I told her you were sleeping, and she said not to call her back because she was going to her grandparents’ cottage. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I shut my eyes like sleeping as they marched over to stare at the corpse. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

She rose slowly and opened her sleeping silks and let them fall to the ground. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I’m suddenly, fervently grateful that I was too exhausted from combat training to strip before sleeping. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had gone too early to the great house and the Old Lord was still sleeping. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“How long have I been sleeping?” he asked. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The lightning was so bright and near that it seemed to flash through the heavy canvas of the sail, the roaring and cracking enough to wake the dead sleeping in the depths of the water. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked in on Bri, lying in the sleeping bag, covered with blankets. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I really don’t get the coffee thing and I especially don’t get the coffee thing during the summer and I 100 percent don’t get the coffee thing when you’re already having a hard time sleeping. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Simon, a taller version of Trevor but with glasses, came out of the house and picked up the sleeping bag, tucking it under his arm. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

That means adequate covered sleeping space for just 2,500 hikers over 2,200 miles of trail. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

I wrap myself in a towel and crawl onto the chair, draping the sleeping bag around me. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

The Erudite dormitory is one of the larger sleeping rooms in Amity headquarters. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

People lie in sleeping bags, surrounded by car tires and orange life jackets, empty food packages, crumpled papers, water bottles and crushed cans. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I moved off over the black water, floating, sighing . . . sleeping invisibly. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Haas helped him into a sleeping bag, then stumbled on to the weather observatory a little over two miles away. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

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

She sipped slowly, thinking about the last six years, and how the boy sleeping in the next room had enriched her life with his laughter and energy. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I’m thinking about her.” The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a lightweight nylon-frame job, and all the necessities, from toilet paper to a flashlight and matches, extra socks, a plastic see-through poncho, and a lightweight sleeping bag were already in it. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when it rains, the rain comes through my window when I am sleeping. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually, I give in and slide into the sleeping bag with Peeta. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Kate dragged and strained and lifted the dead weight of the sleeping woman. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bri was huddled in the sleeping bag, but even though she had on two coats and several blankets, she was still shaking from cold. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

There are four Nazis sleeping in the bedroom. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

We wished one another a good night and went to our different sleeping places. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

When they got to the emergency room, the desk clerk declared that Roy was sleeping and couldn’t be disturbed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faintly he heard Hermione say, “I don’t want to be on my own. Could we use the sleeping bags I’ve brought and camp in here tonight?” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“There was a while there that you’d never take it off, even when you were sleeping or taking a bath.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s sleeping—feeling a little better at the moment,” Mama said. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

We both got up and kind of hopscotched over the kids who were sitting or lying down on the sleeping bags. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The blizzard continued for two days, and no one dared crawl from the protection of his sleeping bag or blanket. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

“The front door goes here, the ladder to the sleeping loft there, and this corner’s the special reading nook. I bet you didn’t know you could fit so much into the smallest space, huh?” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

When the shadows were gone, and the cliff rock began to get warm, the frogs came out from their sleeping places in small cracks and niches in the cliff above the pool. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Florida scooted out of her sleeping bag and started helping Dallas clear rocks. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The other Gladers settled themselves, turning in with their pillows and blankets for the impossible task of sleeping. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“If it’s got anything to do with Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes —” “Why don’t you show Harry where he’s sleeping, Ron?” said Hermione from the doorway. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was covered in twigs and leaves, like he’d been sleeping there a long time. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

His baby clambers over his sleeping mother to join in, crawling right over Otto’s face to get closer to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lay on her flat pallet in the servants’ quarters, exiled from her bedchamber, where several of the women of quality were sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Lucy is sleeping soundly; the reflex of the dawn is high and far over the sea.... Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He looked over at Zero sleeping near him. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

After twenty-five minutes, a drunk man sleeping on a bench woke up and began to sing loudly: Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Papi is sleeping in the sewing room over there to make sure Lolo is OK. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

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

As it was, the poor animals had to be given injections to treat animal sleeping sickness every few weeks. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

He helped me throw all of our drinking water, as well as all of our sodas, on the sleeping bag, which-sizzled and smoked. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mother went to the washbasket in which the baby was sleeping peacefully in spite of the bitter talking. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been sleeping up there every night. This the first time I fell out.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three men dragged an ammunition cart through the mob of bodies, hissing to waken the sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And anyway Estella never woke up at night, not now that the doctor had put her on sleeping pills to help her rest. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

Dr. Van Helsing is sleeping, Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and grey, but his mouth is set as firmly as a conqueror’s; even in his sleep he is instinct with resolution. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

"I can't believe how much happened while I was sleeping," I say. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

She sat leaning against the headboard, knowing she would have trouble sleeping. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

The next morning I was determined to find my way out of the forest, even though my back ached painfully from sleeping in the trees. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Powell’s job should be as simple as sneaking into the Seward home, shooting the sleeping secretary in his bed, then galloping away to join Booth for a life of sunshine and easy living in Mexico. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Some nonsense about a bachelor party. I just want to take a sleeping pill and go to bed.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Carlos was probably someplace warm, eating three meals a day and sleeping in a real bed. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

I unfurled the self-inflating sleeping pad and pushed it inside and followed that with my fluffy new sleeping bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

“When Ambrose broke your lute, it roused your sleeping mind. Like a great hibernating bear jabbed with a burning stick, it reared up and roared the name of the wind.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

I think I can hear Evie crying, but when I go through to check on her, she’s sleeping deeply, her blanket clutched tightly between closed fists. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shook my head no, gently, so the sleeping puppy wouldn’t wake up. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I wriggle out of my sleeping bag, roll it up, and place it in the pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

My neck hurt from sleeping on my suitcase. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

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

She shuffled along the parapets, but her hips were sore from sleeping on newspapers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“He probably caught cold sleeping out of doors. I’m sure he’ll be better in the morning.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Last night, after nearly two hours of listening to the preacher, I walked back to the sleeping spot with Ida. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“This place has been empty for months. You could freeze to death sleeping here.” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeping in the last room on the right upstairs, I’m now in the first room on the left after you come in the front door. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

But when she went to change into her sleeping shift, something rustled in her tunic pocket, and she remembered the packet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I might even ask them to let me spend the night sleeping on the floor there. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told Lori how lucky we were to be sleeping out under the sky like Indians. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Kind of feels like sleeping in someone else’s bed for a spell, but I always feel a debt of gratitude to whoever dug it. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“You got rocks under your sleeping bag? I’ve got rocks under mine,” Dallas said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Then my black sleeping bag will turn from camouflage to trouble. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Venkatesh would move from one family to the next, washing their dinner dishes and sleeping on the floor. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“I’m going back to sleep. It hurts less when I’m sleeping.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

In the back room a barefooted woman sat sleeping in a chair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

When the BFG came near to the sleeping giants, he slowed his pace. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody was sitting on sleeping bags, Alaska smoking with flagrant disregard for the overwhelming flammability of the structure, when the Colonel pulled out a single piece of computer paper and read from it. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

He’s probably inside, sleeping, Minli thought, wondering if the Goddess of Weaving had visited the previous night. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“We had only chocolate and crackers from the sup-sup van. My back still hurts from sleeping on the ground.” Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I am sleeping, and Alaska flies into the room. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

We eat in silence, and afterward, I find the sleeping pills in my mom’s medicine cabinet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Trying to make it look like he’s sleeping, maybe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

To the Incorrigibles, sleeping under a tree was not, as they say nowadays, a big deal. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

The vixen bent to lick more dried blood from her sleeping brother’s haunch. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Burrowed deep inside her sleeping bag, Florida wondered if it was morning yet. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

"These scars . . . they sent a man to cut Bran's throat as he lay sleeping. He would have died then, and me with him, but Bran's wolf tore out the man's throat." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Like eating or sleeping, or like seeking love or finding a job. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

He never thought he’d miss sleeping in a giant’s leather bed in a drakon-bone hut in a festering cesspool, but right now that sounded like Elysium. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Another time, sleeping in different quarters in Cange—the patriarch of the place was, after all, a priest—Ophelia was determined to rise early in the morning, ahead of Paul. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“Dung beetle! Dung beetle! Smelly old dung beetle sleeping in the dung.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You must also remember that I was not in my right mind. Much of me was still in shock, sleeping if you will. I needed something, or someone, to wake me up.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

I have a message on Instagram, and I swipe to see that it’s a reply from Michael that I got while I was sleeping. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I vote for the cat sleeping in the sun. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

At night, Shin again followed the homeless to semisheltered sleeping places they had found near buildings with central heating systems. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

When Chaol came to fetch her the next morning, he found her sleeping on the floor, wrapped in a blanket. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The story of the woman’s deception gave form and meaning to confused defensive feelings that had long been sleeping in me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I had no dry clothes, so I stripped to my boxer shorts and climbed into my sleeping bag. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

We had to pick our way over sleeping bodies. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

It's too warm for the sleeping bag now. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You look like you’ve been sleeping already,” I say, picking lint out of her hair. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Did you get my Precious Moments sleeping hag?” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

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

For me he was a conqueror, a sleeping knight, like in the stories Mama used to tell. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

While she was doing this, Cluny also pretended to take his sleeping medicine. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he draws me early in the morning when I’m still sleeping. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It’s very different from sleeping, no matter how much the undertaker has tried to make it look like sleeping. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

I notice a rolled-up sleeping bag in a corner along with an inflatable camping pillow. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

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

The day faded and now the sun is sleeping and the stars are awake and dancing above us. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was bad not because it brought growth, that was good, but because it raised from dark interiors the restless, wild urges that lay sleeping all winter. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The concavity in the center of the bed is rectified by sleeping on a folded-up towel, and so forth. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each kid layered on all their clothes at once—their pants and tunic and sleeping shift too. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“It wouldn’t be the sleeping sickness, do you think?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw more ’snappers sleeping in the slips where half a hundred ships might once have docked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Late at night, back at Uncle Thomas's house, both of us had a hard time sleeping, given the deep silence, which was punctuated only by cicadas throbbing in the trees. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

You children too big to be sleeping in the living room now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Never found out until, of course, being a young girl and very curious, I took my grandfather’s canoe out one day while he was sleeping. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

At lunchtime on January 15, fireman George Layhe had decided not to join the game and instead had gone up to the sleeping room on the third floor to take a short nap. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It looked like a sleeping giant covered with ants as the builders went about their task. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

Folks cradled sleeping infants in their arms and held youngsters by the hand or propped up on their shoulders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

She nods toward a pile of washed blankets and gestures for me to help her wrap one of the sleeping babies in a pink flannel. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Ophie gave one last look to the sleeping Mrs. Caruthers, then quietly stepped out of the room, closing the door softly behind her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed and peaceful, as if he might’ve just been sleeping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

"Clean clothes and medicine and a sleeping bag . . . and you." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

At around eight in the morning, I sat up and said, “I’m not sleeping.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Our sleeping bags are khaki and thick and lumpy, and always feel a little damp. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Rabbits do not line their sleeping places and a hard, almost rocky floor is uncomfortable for those not accustomed to it. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was always sleeping when we slipped quietly out of the room. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

They had trouble sleeping in the damp heat. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her body felt heavy and cold, as if she had been sleeping in snow. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The van Daans have been sleeping all winter long on the same flannel sheet, which can’t be washed because detergent is rationed and in short supply. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Afterward we lie on top of his sleeping bag, eating potato chips out of the bag and giggling about nothing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Had he been quarantined, infected with some sleeping sickness? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Hearing nothing but slow, measured breathing, the young man walked softly to stand beside the bed and bent over the sleeping man. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I thought, pretty soon I’m going to run out of sleeping space. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The rafters of the Zaal shook, and from their perches up in the dark a score of sleeping birds woke up in fear and flapped their wings, and little showers of dust drifted down. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Okay then, moving on,” she said, looking up at the three small buildings on the next ridge, just uphill from the sleeping cabins. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I once asked him when we were still little enough to be sleeping in the same bed. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The boys would roll out their sleeping bags in the Children’s Room, just off the rotunda; the girls would be upstairs on the third floor in the Board Room. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Matt ran a rope from the sleeping bag to a tree. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Miig and Wab made Minerva a nice bed that night, using two donated sleeping bags from the contented kids in the loft. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I stepped over the others’ sleeping bodies to get to the container. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they arrived back at their home nestled beneath the peaks and craters of the sleeping volcano and wrapped in the lush smell of the swamp, Glerk stood at his full height, waiting for them. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Thirty long minutes I could have been sleeping. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

While Dallas and Florida went back to get their sleeping bags, Tiller and Sairy packed up the breakfast things. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Since everyone else was sleeping, I brought a bowl of cereal into the family room and was watching TV while I ate it. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Not one without chaperones and sleeping bags, anyway. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

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 have worried, of course, that Mr. Loomis might use Faro to lead him to my new hiding place and trap me here while I was sleeping. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was nothing to say, and the littles were sleeping, but, oh, how she wanted to say something to someone. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

In the days that follow they adjust once again to sleeping under a mosquito net, bathing by pouring tin cups of water over their heads. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy is a long sleeping lump, his back to her. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a bit like sleeping in the engine room of Ladderal Mill—noisy beyond belief but stupefyingly rhythmic. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

We barely have any time left and we’ve spent some of it sleeping. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was afraid he might have chosen to let sleeping dogs lie. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

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

Or empty their bomb bays over a sleeping cottage by a railway, without knowing or caring who was there. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I am a new man this morning; and, as I sit here and watch him sleeping, I can do all that is necessary both as to minding the engine, steering, and keeping watch. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He sang all the revolutionary songs, usually loudly and out of tune, until Mam would tell him to be quiet, that the babies were sleeping. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I was used to sleeping on a pallet. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“Don’t be surprised if he’s sleeping,” the doctor whispered, gently pulling the curtain away. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe sleeping on the fairy’s island meant you never needed to sleep again. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

Rémy sets a sleeping Amber on the floor and hoists it out. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"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

One of Bo's kittens was sleeping on Hornet's pillow, its head hidden in her brown hair. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Twice he walked in his muddy boots across Cole’s sleeping bag. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

“Bri used to thaw our suppers in the microwave when we were in school. Now we keep the cans in our sleeping bag.” The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

It’s true that Anna was sleeping on the sofa. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He knows where he’s sleeping,” said Ron, “in my room, he slept there last —” “We can all go,” said Hermione pointedly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

You can’t say, “Your mother lives on the street, in a hole in the wall, sleeping on park benches next to winos.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

With both girls in one bag, sleeping in coats and scarves and with extra blankets piled on them, they should be okay. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

A ladder leads to the sleeping loft, and I climb up, crawl in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

At our house, Chong held her baby and talked to him as if he weren’t dying, just sleeping. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was tempted to squander two more of my sleeping pills to buy myself relief. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

Tally pulled her shirt and jacket on before daring to emerge from the sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

They stepped over a Navajo sleeping on the shady side of the wooden steps. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It could get so cold in these dugouts that sometimes your hair would freeze to the wooden planks of your bunk while you were sleeping. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

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

The golden monkey was tenderly smoothing the fur between the sleeping dæmon’s ears, and as Ama looked, the mongoose creature stirred uneasily and uttered a hoarse little mew. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Finally arrived, he was shown to the basement of a small boarding house, where he was to share sleeping space on the floor with three other boarders. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I drift away from the fire to find a place to throw down my sleeping bag, the first faint smear of dawn is already bleaching the rim of the northeastern sky. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My family was growing concerned about my haunted look; I was having trouble sleeping. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unleash dust and a mustiness scents the air, but my thread count options are limited, so I unzip the sleeping bag, spread it over the chair, and then inflate the camping pillow. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Listen, you can sleep on the couch. It’s comfortable and much better than sleeping in your car. Okay?” We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Fearing that I’d suffered some sort of stroke, I staggered away in midconversation, retreated to my sleeping bag, and pulled my hat over my eyes. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

She and her kids put away their sleeping bags and pillows and left in the Odyssey, intending to drive around most of the day, going to malls or restaurants—anything to kill time. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The weather began to turn colder, and from her bed at night Tessie listened to the wind and the rustling leaves, wondering where I was sleeping and if I was safe. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As March continued, the weather turned to rain and then to snow, and the men crawled into their damp sleeping bags in complete, wretched misery. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

He brought out woolen gear and a few silvery sleeping bags. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I spent the night sleeping outside the city limits of Imre in a soft bed of heather. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I kept very still, not to waken my sleeping daughter, while the thoughts went galloping through my head, and question after question, unanswered. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

It spread quickly, and two boys who were sleeping in the home died from smoke asphyxiation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My eyes are open, so I can see the black spidery eyelashes sleeping on her cheeks. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

You just didn't end up homeless, hung over, sleeping in your car with all your worldly possessions because you had control of your life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Grumbling, Cole crawled stiffly from his warm sleeping bag. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

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

When I heard that we would be sleeping on the ground for three days, outside, under a tent, I thought that was insane. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Stealing quietly past her sleeping brothers and parents, she crept into Pearl’s room. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They just not sleeping on the street or going hungry in this neighborhood. Plenty of hungry people here. And they don't know where they gonna get their next meal. You put your mind on that.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

When he was sleeping, he was like a rag doll. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Really really lucky When David dropped me off at home, Mother was still sleeping. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She doesn’t say a word and I wonder if she’s going to the post office to denounce me for sleeping in my grandmother’s bed and wearing her black dress. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Smith issued orders that the horse never be disturbed while sleeping, for any reason. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

But four kids sleeping in an unfinished house—that would be police business. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Katie got the patient sleeping baby out of her crib and carried her into the warm kitchen. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Also that she would not say she had volunteered to put the sleeping powder into Dragon’s bowl. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A girl like me simply shouldn’t be touching these luxury linens, eating this expensive food, sleeping in this room larger than any home I’ve ever been in. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wind gusted; Miyax scrambled through the low door and slid into her sleeping skin. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

They sat against the attic door with the sleeping bags pulled up to their necks. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

Francie saw her mother’s still fumbling hands take the sleeping child from the basket. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarai dispatched her moths to the guildhall, where most of the delegates were sleeping soundly, and to the homes of city leaders, and some of the Tizerkane, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Mam is sleeping up in Italy with Alphie and there’s a coat over the window to keep the room dark. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was able to discern that you are now sleeping in barracks at your new camp instead of tents. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When even those who went to work the earliest were still sleeping behind their second-story shades. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Joan had been a champion horse-jumper at the annual college gymkhana, and I wondered if she had been sleeping in a stable. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A strong faction believed and hinted that he had been murdered, sleeping, by the Orkneys, and had been buried under a pile of leaves. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She explained to the child that it was a sleeping light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As they neared Hagrid’s cabin on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, the mystery of the Beauxbatons’ sleeping quarters was solved. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

And the boys from Washington were having a hard time sleeping. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They terrorized Rondon and his men, attacking them at night when the men were sleeping in their hammocks, and stealing their food and killing their pack animals. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Keep your voice down, Anthony,” I say, “the neighbors are probably sleeping.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

She could tell that I was zipping up the sleeping bag of myself, and I could tell that she didn’t really love me. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at the table one day, having a cup of tea with a friend, Corky sleeping in my lap. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if I could catch something just by sleeping on used mattresses, and I wasn’t ready to find out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He began to walk slowly to his sleeping room. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

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

Tree-ear’s sleeping mat was rolled up and set to one side. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

The girl always was sleeping soundly and alone when her husband sneaked into their flat. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is not one first-class sleeping berth to be had on the train.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Judith leads us to a room that looks like a traditional hospital nursery, bassinets filled with sleeping or fussing babies. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

But the wood had a sleeping, otherworld appearance that made you want to speak in whispers. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our parents are sleeping in, so it’s just my sisters and me, and were wedged against the wall waiting for a table. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

There was a child, not much older than a baby, sleeping in a nest of blankets like a puppy beside an old lady dozing in her kerchief. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

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

I told her, “If I don’t answer, I’m probably sleeping or going to the bathroom.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

He left the storeroom, banging the door behind him, and started for his sleeping mat under the tree. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

“Say something,” Chuck said for the fifth time since they’d set out their sleeping bags. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When I crawled into my sleeping bag, Lumpy hopped up next to me and nuzzled a wet nose against my cheek. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

By then Bibi was sleeping downstairs again, though they kept her camp cot in the corridor, and would not let her touch the child directly. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

“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

Her bangs were a perfect line across her forehead, even after sleeping. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She was sleeping—he’d relented eventually—but still shivered with fever. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“We shall see,” said the Professor, and with one impulse we took our way out of the churchyard, he carrying the sleeping child. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Then it was that Mr. Malloy took to renting the larger pipes as sleeping quarters for single men at a very nominal fee. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Or if he just made the whole thing up to get us to go on the run with him so he can stab me in the back when I’m sleeping. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Hammer was sleeping off a drunk when they reached the forge, just as Kem had prophesied, but Nail had no objection to the two dwarfs clambering through the wagons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I heard nothing, Monsieur. You see, I had taken a sleeping draught.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Surely monks sleeping in other cells, their bodies exhausted from work in the fields and hours of prayers, heard me and lay awake wondering. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new Khmer have better words for eating, sleeping, working, stranger; all designed to make us equal. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

No hard whispers in the night after they thought me and Jay were sleeping. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Merritt worked as a pediatric nurse some nights, so we had to be quiet during the day if she was sleeping. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Self-conscious, as always, I sat down on my sleeping bag and slipped off my shoes and socks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Reyna was sleeping curled up, with her two metal dogs at her feet. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

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

The strange way he felt had little to do with the strange place in which they were sleeping. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited without sleeping, listening to the aroused crickets in the endless hours of early morning and the implacable telling of time by the curlews, more and more convinced that he had been deceived. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I cover the floor of the cave with a layer of pine needles, unroll my sleeping bag, and tuck him into it. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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 don’t know how long I was sleeping, but when I woke up, there was a full moon outside the car window. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

‘Human bean babies and little chiddlers is spending half their time sleeping, so you is only four.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a back room Robert Cohn was sleeping quietly on some wine-casks. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“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

She and Carole spent most of the next two weeks in John’s room, taking turns sleeping there on a cot. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And the yew tree hovering over the graveyard like a sleeping giant. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Kino raised the sleeping mat and dug up his pearl and put it in front of him and stared at it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went into the sitting room and pulled a chair near to the sleeping Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Excusing himself to Cornflower, he deposited the sleeping Tess gently upon his chair and went across to him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I had French at two, but after Greek I went straight back to my room and took a sleeping pill and went to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The girl was sleeping on her side, snoring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Robert had not asked any questions then, about why Tayo was sleeping out there when he could have stayed over at the ranch. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“My wife always takes a sleeping draught when travelling by train. She took her usual dose of trional.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When they did not come to get me the first day, I suspected, and spent the whole morning sleeping—just like a holiday. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Francie, after a brief glance at the sleeping baby, undressed and got into bed. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In the wash,” said Enoch, covering his head with the sleeping roll. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Which is how the thought of Aunt Gloria coming and Salim sleeping in my room made me feel. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without a word, the rest of us moved to our sleeping spots and tried to go to sleep. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment she was sleeping peacefully, having swallowed the sleeping pill that Juliet had left on her tray. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, campfires dwindling, they laid out sleeping rolls for us and sang a lullaby in a lilting foreign language, and I felt pleasantly like a child. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Before I knew it, she had slid into her sleeping bag and was lying right beside me. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

This Sarai knew from years of perching on sleeping faces, and not from Feral who, though he had begun to shave, could go days between with no one the wiser. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I didn’t cry at first, and then, I don’t know why, but I fell apart when I thought of Mother in bed sleeping. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s still dream Noise I’m hearing but the word repeats thru the sleeping men like echoes down a valley. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

It was a good honeymoon, Grace always said, two weeks picking hops with her husbands family, and sleeping in a gypsy caravan parked in a farmyard. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

She hugs the dog and says, “Oh, Mason. I thought your house was still sleeping.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

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

“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

“Adria, my teacher’s sleeping,” I said to my sister in the backseat. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Now then, where did I leave off? Oh, yes, Constance. I take it you didn’t find her answers as amusing as I do. I’m not sure, however—perhaps you laughed while I was sleeping?” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

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 found out he was sleeping in hallways or in Morningside Park. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The sleeping bags and clothing didn’t dry, but they were reduced from soaking wet to merely damp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The interior was dark and leaky, with a mud floor like chocolate pudding, a cramped and filthy sleeping platform, and scraps of wet litter everywhere. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She finally got the zipper to unstick and pulled it up all the way to close her sleeping bag. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

Runt was safe and sleeping inside the abandoned groundhog’s den that Bristle had enlarged for him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

And it always slides off my bed in the middle of the night, just when I’m sleeping too hard to know it’s gone. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Panting with the exertion of slashing through an old man’s rib cage, Macon ran back to get the blanket the man had been sleeping on. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the bedside table were sixteen empty packets of sleeping pills and a note: “I forgive everyone and ask forgiveness of everyone. OK? Not too much gossip, please.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You bum,” he said, “you dirty bum. I’m sick of you guys sleeping everywhere. This ain’t no motel.” The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

What if we get too cold while sleeping and don't wake up in time to save ourselves? We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I felt weird, kind of guilty, sleeping in every morning, and all day long I kept checking my watch, as if I had a yard to get to. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, my room number—seven—told me nothing, but I think I’d already guessed where I would be sleeping. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Propped against the rock, wrapped in her sleeping bag, she ate some of the rough bread and the goat’s cheese, and then fell deeply asleep. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He and Mama were sleeping on a futon. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Laura and Mary did not say anything because they were very tired, and Ma sat silently holding Baby Carrie, sleeping in her arms. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In the silent street of the sleeping city, Lazlo’s feet slowed to a stop. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The Bomb is lying on a cot in the sleeping room. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

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

"Why don't I keep sleeping for a little while longer and forget all this foolishness," he thought. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

“Listen, I was sleeping over Chris’s that night. And, y’know, after dinner, his mom sent us to bed, and all of a sudden we hear all this noise coming from the hallway.” The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I slipped out of Daddy’s arms and checked all of Dismay’s usual sleeping places, just to make sure he hadn’t found his way home somehow and gone to sleep not wanting to disturb us. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

I was used to sleeping outside, and I knew I would need to save my three talents for clothes, food, paper, and next term’s tuition. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It definitely didn’t look like a person was sleeping under there, but it would have to do. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She barely heard the other girls’ voices, and as soon as possible she stretched out on a sleeping mat. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was like the sleeping prince in a fairy tale, and she had the urge to kiss him. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

That night at my house, I pulled the sleeping bag out of the closet and spread it on the floor. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

On certain nights the moonlight had flooded through his dormer window and bathed everything in blue, beguiling shadows that prevented him from sleeping. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

When at last he lay sleeping quietly, she summoned all her courage and lit the lamp. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“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

He began to breathe in unison with the sleeping boy—so slowly, so softly. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t find out till night that Miss Love sleeping in the company room just wasn’t news anymore. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Seriously though, sleeping in is the best part about Christmas. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“No! I’m just here because it helps me sleep. Don’t you remember when you were a little kid, sleeping in your parents’ bed was like, such a treat?” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

To his credit, he only yelled at us for a short time about burning the sleeping bag. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

“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

We have to stay in the playground because the twins are sleeping and my mother says she’s worn out. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

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

I watch Helena sleeping that night, but what I see is the pistol of the demented SS man, pointing at Mr. Schwarzer. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The Colonel, Takumi, and I got there first, setting up our sleeping bags on the softest bales of hay. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“I don't know. We were sleeping,” the man said hoarsely. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

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

These refugees had terrible stories to tell: houses destroyed, people sleeping in the streets, children dying, water running low, disease spreading. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The flashlight beam fell on a teddy bear, a stuffed toy rabbit, fishing rods, a toolbox, piles of books, and a plastic sword that stuck out of a sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

I finished with Alice and gave her, not aspirins, but sleeping pills. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Sorcerers existed, beyond a doubt, and it was only too likely that they would cast sleeping spells, and that a mother would care for her daughter in that fierce and tender way. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I heard yer Noise yesterday morning coming down the river but it was feverish and sleeping. I been waiting here ever since. I was worried something was really wrong.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The fact that sleeping in the living room also allowed her to avoid the haunted bedroom she’d once shared with my father was never mentioned. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

We both now see Dell stuffing an oily-looking sleeping bag into a nylon sack. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Tally awoke, an hour before sunset as usual, feeling sticky inside the sleeping bag. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I was sleeping on the rooftops, snugged tightly into my secret place where three roofs met. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed as though he were sleeping lightly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the day we would search for food and take turns sleeping. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It was lonely sleeping without that fool doll. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Quite a few were still sleeping in their bunks in the warships, gently swaying in the harbor. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I said you can go, but we will pick you up around eight-thirty, so no sleeping over.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The two children sleeping peacefully in the bed above her gave no particular cause for alarm, and yet, as Jinny piled her cushions and slipped into her clothes every day, she couldn’t shake her worry. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Matt laid out a sleeping bag under the grape arbor and used a rolled-up blanket for a pillow. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without even thinking about what I was doing, I butted in on Miss Thomas and said, “That means that’s not some little dead girl’s room I’m sleeping in, that’s my momma’s room!” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

They all burst from their sleeping cabins and dashed for the cove, but halted on the path when it became clear that the shouting was only excitement. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Had I not been able to get this bill passed,” he joked to reporters, “I would be sleeping on the couch.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

In the days that follow, it’s movement, not stillness, that helps to keep the grief at bay, so I walk the compound halls instead of sleeping. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

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

Such an incredible gift, and yet here the boy lay, a runaway sleeping in a stranger’s house. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fie took to sleeping at his friends’ houses occasionally just in case he was being followed. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Sometimes Jon lives in this apartment by himself; sometimes another person will be there, sometimes two, camping out on the floor in sleeping bags. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Alex struggled to free his arms from the wet and smelly sleeping bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The six men spread their remaining sodden sleeping bags on the pebbles and fell down, huddling against one another for warmth. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

The deeply wrinkled face of a sleeping woman looks back at me, alongside her grace, fragility, and her sadness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But wherever he was sleeping, wherever he stayed at night, she never could find him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“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

But I don't dare leave the jacket, scorched and smoldering as it is, I take the risk of shoving it in my sleeping bag, hoping the lack of air will quell what I haven't extinguished. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al had the good fortune to be in the vicinity and was able to score a sleeping car and two flats for a song from railroad officials desperate to free up their siding. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He cast a wary eye around the sleeping witches and wizards on the walls. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“If it’s typhus or cholera or any number of other things, these may help. If it’s malaria or sleeping sickness, I’m afraid they won’t. In any case we will pray for your Ruth.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the unsuspecting sentries on the wall the bundles looked like sleeping forms: they sensed nothing amiss. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

I saw the villain pour the potion in the sleeping player king’s ear and heard the gasps around me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

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

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

There must have been a finch around, because one morning as we were sleeping in the hayloft, the door flew open and voices shouted. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The upswing is that, having eliminated the need for both eating and sleeping, you have a full twenty-four hours a day to spread your charm and talent. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“It lifted my sleeping bag right off the ground and up into the blades. It was totally shredded.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His sleeping shift, hung on a nail by the door. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

My parents were busy, and Sam was sleeping. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Her house was crushed in and her sleeping skins were torn and strewn over the grass. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

In reality he was sleeping in the room, and in the dream he was standing in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It so happened that a sleeping hedgehog was the first thing which came in the Wart’s way. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would not creep into bed until she thought that he was sleeping. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I didn’t realize how exhausted I was until I collapsed on my borrowed sleeping bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

She was fidgeting with the zipper of her sleeping bag as she talked, not looking at us. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

As usual, I waited until I heard everyone sleeping. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

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

George and Aunt Daisy squeezed through the crowd, weaving around trunks and stepping over sleeping children. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because of this, the female leader gets the best food and the preferred sleeping area. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Assuming her mom planned on sleeping through the rest of the week’s dinners, she and Lauren could eat out at least four more times. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The star sat beside the sleeping man, who had once been her captor and had become her companion on the road, and she wondered where her hatred had gone. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Jack is stretched out on the other bed, his eyelids hooded, his breathing so slow and so deep, you’d almost think he’s sleeping. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

We're sitting huddled together wrapped in the sleeping bag, yes, but mostly to keep warm. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

I was getting tired of Lucas Cader sleeping on my floor. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Especially since Uncle Max is sleeping across the hall from me, I want to add. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That dumb gray cat was sleeping in her bed again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

She looked at her grandmother, who was sleeping in the chair beside the bed. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

After that was a picture of someone sleeping on the floor. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hagen helped stuff my clothes, dolls, and sleeping bag into large plastic garbage bags. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He’d packed a sleeping bag and a small suitcase with a change of clothes, toiletries, and yes, as requested, an extra pair of underpants. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

“Sirs,” came a cry from the other room, “we are sleeping.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Since Mrs. Caruthers’s fit, Ophie had taken to leaving it open; the old woman couldn’t complain of an imaginary draft when she was sleeping most of the time. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I had my flashlight on under the sleeping bag, and maybe the light was why I couldn’t sleep, but I was too afraid to turn it off. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It’s pleasant to imagine the brothers becoming reacquainted, hunting, sleeping, and playing together as they roamed free across those stony, broken hills and warm, sheltered valleys. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

She spent much of the day sleeping in a kanga on her mother’s back as Generose worked in the apartment, cleaning or cooking. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

‘Giants is only sleeping every then and now,’ he said. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I pulled out my desk drawer and counted the rest of the sleeping pills: candy-colored pretties, bright on a sheet of typing paper. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Never thought I’d be in a sleeping bag on the ground,” chortles Kelvin. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Thomas stood and started folding up his sleeping gear. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Then, to keep at a distance dogs or men, he took a sharpened lance, and went to rest under a hollow rock where swine were sleeping out of the w ind and rain. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights of a sleeping town were drifting by. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The sound of the cannon startles me, although it makes little impression on my sleeping companions. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She waved until they were lost in the darkness, then rushed into her house, rolled up her sleeping skins, and loaded her sled. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The British are not about to offer their excuses; true, they were sleeping during the years Germany was rearming itself, but all the other countries, especially those bordering on Germany, were asleep too. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

I looked at Dismay, so happy to be on top of Listening Rock, sleeping. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

But as we spoke, I caught his eyes drifting again and again to Sohrab sleeping on the couch. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But what unnerved him more was that sleeping woman’s face in the hills. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I dropped my sleeping bag next to Summer’s and pulled off my UGGs. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He wondered how old his cousins were, and which rooms they were sleeping in, and whether they had red hair, too. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

In a quiet voice, for folks were sleeping, I said, “Sure, help yourself. Ain’t nobody sitting there.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stupefied by soma, and exhausted by a long- drawn frenzy of sensuality, the Savage lay sleeping in the heather. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, creeping up to Hyena, he smeared the mud all over the sleeping creature’s legs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

She says it's God's day, even though she spends most of it sleeping, not praying. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

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

She put me to bed in a room where other small children were sleeping in a crib, playpen, and bunk beds. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“It must be a grippe, a sleeping sickness.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had that boy sleeping in the lean-to like a dog. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

The evening's rain had woken a hundred sleeping smells and made them ripe and strong again. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

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

And then she leads me to Jaimito, who is sleeping peacefully in his crib as she spews out more rules that I mostly ignore. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1966, he left a steady sales job in Massachusetts and moved everyone to Birmingham, Alabama, because someone had told him, “Alabama is a sleeping giant.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

As Xan’s health began to fail more rapidly, Luna informed her mother and her hosts that she would be sleeping in the Tower. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was getting harder to creep down the stairs in the dark now, as people were sleeping there. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

As I walked back through the town, past sleeping houses and dark inns, my mood swung from elation to doubt in the space of three brief breaths. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

What with that, and the whispering that still filled the hall, Harry felt as though he were sleeping outdoors in a light wind. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

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

I’m nestling down in the sleeping bag when something crinkles under my hand. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I imagined that my whole body could fit inside, as if I were sliding into a sleeping bag, the jaws opening around my hips. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then she went back to the hotel with Aaron, leaving Ivy to eat a picnic dinner with her sister and a sleeping Evan. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

The sleeping form next to him is less and less his sister every night and more and more his wife. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She had trouble sleeping, so she walked Cuttyhunk at all hours, visiting her sheep and cattle, which roamed the island freely everywhere except the gated places where most of the people lived. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I looked at the top of Jeffrey’s sleeping head, and even in the dim school hallway lights I could see that his hair was all matted with sweat. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stayed at a doctor’s house in Johannesburg, sleeping in the servants’ quarters at night, and working in the doctor’s study during the day. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hopping onto her furry sleeping skin, he puffed his feathers, stood on one foot, and went to sleep. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few times I play it over in the morning to find out what I lerned before I fell asleep and while I was sleeping and I dont even know the words. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

The quarters he shared with Ser Jorah were a cabin only by courtesy; the dank, dark, foul-smelling closet had barely enough space to hang a pair of sleeping hammocks, one above the other. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Or snuck into your bedroom while you were sleeping and taken your car key? Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“I don’t mind sleeping on the floor,” I said. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Besides,” said Michel, “no one could get on to the sleeping car without my seeing them.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three hours later, when I crawled into my sleeping bag, the doctors were still gingerly thawing Beck’s frozen limbs in a pot of lukewarm water, working by the glow of their headlamps. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

“I saw a place like that when I was coming to find you. Men sleeping in one place, women in another.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ramona was sleeping far over on one side of the bed, her right buttock off the edge. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Xan settled herself cross-legged on the ground and laid the sleeping child in the crook of her knee. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

As I followed Margo’s directions through the maze of oneway streets, we saw a few people sleeping on the sidewalk or sitting on benches, but nobody was moving. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

This was not surprising as Mum had said she’d had a sleeping pill. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scoop up the sleeping pills and hold them in my palm. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It had been a long time since I’d seen her sleeping, though. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We squeezed into a space with other relocated workers from Ghetto B, sleeping in rows on the floor. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

British officers were sleeping in chairs, on benches, on the floors, but he remembered that one of the tavern-keepers was a prominent Son of Liberty. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

And worse because it’s in the middle of nowhere and we have to camp and I didn’t even bring a tent or a sleeping bag. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was sitting, cross-legged, on the ground, and the living child was sleeping in her lap. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Uncle stamped on the dirt over the sleeping bag until finally the smoke stopped. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I am not sure how long I was sleeping. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Before she can change her mind, she crawls over to her sleeping laptop, propped open on her bed, and taps the keyboard to nudge it awake. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Mismatched candles burn merrily on every available surface, illuminating the sleeping doves in their cages hanging amongst sweeping curtains of richly colored tapestries. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A few dozen scratches wouldn’t keep her from sleeping today. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

I returned to the hotel room and found Sohrab lying on the bed, curled up in a big C. His eyes were closed but I couldn’t tell if he was sleeping. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I still go over to his long white and black apartment, still end up on top of his sleeping bag, although haphazardly: Jon isn’t big on planning in advance, or on remembering. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He stares at my sleeping bag, blinking, like he doesn’t know what to say. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Then I stopped, for I could make out the form of a man stretched be-tween the sleeping house and the store tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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 teases me about the bed, but he likes sleeping in it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I was having trouble sleeping, so I heard clearly the whine or whistle as it grew louder. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably shouldn’t wake a sleeping grandma unless there’s a tried-and-true emergency. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

She gently laid the sleeping Fyrian into one of the pockets, careful not to wake him up. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

When it was done, the men took their sodden sleeping bags and crawled into their new hut. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

To the west, along the crescent of the Gulf of Naples, the lights of sleeping cities glittered in the predawn gloom. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I wanted to say, You can, as I’d seen her sleeping that day outside the Frogmore Stew General Store and Restaurant, and it had been at least this hot. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That night, after you fell asleep, I got out of my sleeping bag and walked around. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I could feel a cold presence in the room, like a coiled sleeping snake. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

“I haven’t been sleeping that well since...well...I could do with some sleep.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I felt nervous about the sleeping arrangements, though, and doing things such as dressing and undressing, or going to the bathroom. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

On her rooftop I placed a sleeping frog. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He wondered where Uncle Jet was sleeping and if he was eating. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we'd be sleeping and Momma would be fixing some popcorn. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

I sat beside him to wait with him, and death was not long in coming, taking him by surprise as he lay sleeping peacefully. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

We looked a sight, dirty, uncombed, bruised from sleeping on the hard floor. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But walking through the Kingdom of Death, she felt a drowsy sort of peacefulness, like balancing on the border of sleeping and waking. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Nothing could have been further from the long, low dwellings where the eejits lived—that is, when they weren’t sleeping in the fields to keep from being gassed. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Christmas, I received a pink Barbie radio and a Precious Moments sleeping bag. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

There are rows of operating rooms, all full of sleeping people. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was usually too tired to stumble back to the cabin after his shift, and spent most of his days sleeping in the tents they had set up near that entrance. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

There were simple sleeping quarters at the top of the building, where students traveling from other towns could stay during competitions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Still, he didn’t seem to notice when Julia slipped over and snuggled against me inside my sleeping bag. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

She cries as she feeds him, and as she pats him to sleep, and as he cries between sleeping and feeding. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Reggie’s probably going to have trouble sleeping. Can you get him something to help, if he needs it?” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

People stopped sleeping in their houses, terrified at the thought that such a disaster could recur, improvising tents in open spaces or sleeping in the middle of squares and streets. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could no longer tell the difference between waking and sleeping. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I remembered about old logs and all the sleeping stages of insects that are in it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Cade got up from his sleeping bag and pulled two beers from the cooler. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That was to wake you if you were still sleeping.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It would destroy everything: buildings, trees, sleeping mortals. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

In the end he had to find what he wanted for himself; but he did not have to go far, not out of sight of the place where his master lay, still sleeping. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“Or Wart sleeping in the grass with the wild geese.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Delilah was sleeping on our old sofa, the way she did most of the time these days. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

Apparently sleeping in isn’t part of that schedule. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Since our evacuation of the town onto the ships and transports of this fleet, there has been little employment for us; and having nought to engage us, we spend much time sleeping. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

The sun filled the car and the children, sleeping in the back, began to stir heavily against the new day. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t answer, and I saw he was sleeping. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He took her hand and they ran together, lightly, down the road, past other sleeping cottages, into the dim and empty center of the village. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

It feels special to be up when everyone else is sleeping—like they’re missing out and I’m—what? Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Suddenly Jennifer was coming out of her house burdened with a rolled sleeping bag and duffle that looked stuffed and heavy. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

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

My hips and back ached from sleeping on the cold stone floor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

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

“Maria spilled her Dr. Pepper on my sleeping bag,” Pauline wailed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw the cat sleeping in the yard.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

She wore a kimono, and her hair was frizzy, like she’d been sleeping. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Now African-American and white soldiers shared things like sleeping quarters, meals, equipment, foxholes, trains, planes, and cars. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

And though she didn’t dare look at him while she told him her truth, her moth watched his sleeping face for any flicker of expression that might betray disgust. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Remember when Joon fell out of the tree she was sleeping in that time and bent her finger back so far it didn’t work for a while?” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Impertinent,” said a soft voice from one of the portraits on the wall, and Phineas Nigellus Black, Sirius’s great-great-grandfather, raised his head from his arms where he had appeared to be sleeping. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

This is no gay tryst, though, because they seem to take turns in the bed, one sleeping in the room and the other one napping in their van outside. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the night before the migration, and Brightbill was sleeping fitfully. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

I burrow down in the sleeping bag next to him, pulling my hood up over my face to hide it from the cameras. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

He ran to Riccio’s mattress and pulled open the sleeping bag. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

If you come upon a sleeping three-toed sloth in the wild, two or three nudges should suffice to awaken it; it will then look sleepily in every direction but yours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a futile spread of pink rocks sleeping on a rise of sand, a few tumbled pillars, one lonely shrine, and then the sweep of sand again. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I found her sleeping soundly on the sofa. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see them through the cracks between the walls, their houses not much more than a pile of food and supplies on one side and sleeping mats on the other. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Matty saw a fat spotted dog sleeping on the porch, but it appeared that no one was at home. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In some areas they can give you sleeping sickness. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag is rolled neatly in Rue's pack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She brushed her hair and put it up and covered it with a sleeping cap, and she sponged her face with Florida water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

He pulled it from his sleeping spot under the tarp. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

By day they still hid as best they could, sleeping under the wagon and praying they would not be discovered. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Stuffing the sleeping skin into her pack, she tied the caribou hide to the bottom and shouldered her load. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept to her sleeping alcove, as though she were hiding from the ghost guards. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He spread the blankets he was carrying on the floor, and while Asta carefully lifted the sleeping Pan away, he bent and picked up the child, feeling a little surprised at her solidity. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“No one wants to sit next to me if I’m sleeping.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was still a beautiful, mild night, and sleeping under the trees would be quite comfortable. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Uncle Shepsel, propped on his elbow, was pointing at me and saying, “Why is he sleeping here? He smells.” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Dragging the sleepy boy behind her, she ran down the sandy path to the fire circle, still in her sleeping shift. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Jinny looked around her as she walked back to the sleeping cabin, and it brought tears to her eyes to see how normal everything seemed. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I ain’t no fool, so I let that sleeping dog lay. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

We were all sleeping over at Rachel’s house. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a large man who’s been sleeping for several centuries framed in the doorway. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Uh, to the community center. I didn’t want to disturb you. I thought you were sleeping.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gabriel was sleeping soundly, strapped into the seat. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

At her feet, the snails go about their work: chewing, scavenging, sleeping. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“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

Turtle tiptoed through the sleeping apartment to retrieve it and climbed back into bed, the dead man staring at her from the front page. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never attempt to stay in my bedroom, on the same floor where the guys are sleeping. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

How in the world could she ever manage to reach the sleeping girl? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The farm where he's taken her is crowded, he says, and it has six people hiding there already, sleeping in a barn. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

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

He didn’t have much of a routine be­yond eating, drinking and sleeping, but there were times when he stirred from his lethargy and rambled about his territory, making noises and being cranky. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A couple of hours later, Thomas was lying in a soft sleeping bag next to Chuck on a bed of grass near the gardens. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I could go without sleeping, he told himself. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a while Leslie had been able to keep two sleeping bags in the stronghold, but around the first of December her father noticed their absence, and she had to take them back. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z

We didn’t have a tent, we just lay under the stars, nestled inside the Millers’ fluffy sleeping bags, serenaded by frogs, the fire we’d cooked the dogs on dying out by our feet. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

It was a reasonable suggestion, but when I went to bed, it kept me from sleeping. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

The brothers thought and thought about it and soon began to realize that the answer was sleeping between them every night. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you bought a sleeping bag, then you needed a stuff sack for it. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

"Now that he is here,” he said, "we shall have to leave. I shall tell your brother to collect his sleeping mat and get ready for us to go to some other place.” The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Travis shivered and thought about closing up shop, but he wasn’t sleepy yet, and sleeping was about all he could do when he sneaked into Dill’s house each night. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The group straggled along, stopping when it got dark, then sleeping wherever they could find a spot by the side of the road or in a field. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing for it but rest and sleeping pills. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Caesar scouted a promising spot and they climbed trees, sleeping like raccoons. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So when Dad said Mom’s sleeping, the word swallowed me whole and spat me back out. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Later, much later, after they had marched him back to his sleeping cell, Mormont came down to see him, raven on his shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then when they slept and Wang Lung still sat at the table dreaming she washed herself for sleeping and at last she went into her accustomed room and slept alone upon her bed. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

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

We dragged our sleeping bags out from the tent so we could lie on our backs and watch the atoms being freed in the knackery above us until we fell asleep. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Joseph jumped out of the sleeping bag, grabbed the box of cassettes, and followed Frankie down the stairs to the front room. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Cameos sit side by side, showing what she looked like before—big hazel eyes, a freckled nose and round face, a small forehead like her father's—and after the sleeping sickness. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

"If you are to rule in the north, you must think these things through, Robb. Answer your own question. Why would anyone want to kill a sleeping child?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sand wouldn't have seemed very comfortable to you, but Shasta had been sleeping on the ground for weeks and hardly noticed it. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

When she fell asleep, she was no sorceress or dark enthraller, but just a sleeping girl with no control over the terrors within her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I could feel it, although there were two sleeping bags between us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

People she would never know were sleeping in their beds and turning over. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

If she’s the thought, the hope, the concern underneath my every waking moment, then why wouldn’t she permeate my sleeping hours as well? Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

He glanced suspiciously at the sleeping man behind me. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Its light made a hemisphere of warmth across which Dicey looked to see her small sleeping brother. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

He came to feel derelict about sleeping at night, for the sake of all the books he’d miss reading in those hours. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hours later when Miyax crawled into her sleeping skin the wolves were so near that she could hear the pups scratching the snow as they made their beds. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood thoughtfully beside the bed, looking at the sleeping girl. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

‘I is sleeping only once in a blue baboon.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only knew that some deep urge made her take up her knife one morning and carve a small notch into the doorpost of her sleeping cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s eyes were closed; but for the strange angle of his arms and legs, he might have been sleeping. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

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

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

She’s sleeping, her great body still but for her slow, slumbered breathing. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Inside rests the sleeping Princess Charlotte on an embroidered pillow. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Its fires were now dimmed, and it stood in smouldering slumber, as threatening and dangerous as a sleeping beast. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Sat up in first class and stole food from people who were sleeping. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he asked his friend to go into the tent where Fatima was sleeping, and to awaken her and tell her that he was waiting outside. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aimee knew she was too old to want to be sleeping in the same room with her parents, but she couldn’t help it. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

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

She should still be sleeping, but my father’s wife drives her to school early four mornings a week for violin lessons and conversational French. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

But this was entirely impracdcal, for he was used to sleeping on his right side, and in his present state he couldn't get himself into this posidon. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

That boy was still not sleeping through the night. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We are told that while we were sleeping, one of the Vietnamese girls woke to some guy sitting on her stomach. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

An hour past dawn on the following Monday, a thick, grandly muscled woman arrived on the back steps of the Meecham house and waited for the sleeping house to stir. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later I unrolled my sleeping bag on her floor. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bri had spent the morning in the apartment without being able to use the electric heater or the electric blanket, stuck in the sleeping bag. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

She slid down from her bench and headed back for the sleeping cabin, her steps more determined and regular than usual. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Her nobleman husband lies sleeping in a nearby room, his head on his arm, as if listening to his heartbeat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the silence, then, I realized I wasn’t alone: There were inmates sprawled across the floor, sleeping. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was half reclined and it wasn’t long before he had drunk himself back into his deep slumber, trusting in the shackles and the sleeping forms of young people for his sense of security. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

They scan the beach, illuminating shells and sleeping gulls, then focus on her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“These pull out into sleeping bags. And they’re really warm inside.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

His sleeping comforts me, in spite of my thoughts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

We had fallen asleep with both twin beds pushed together—Cecile, Vonetta with her cast, Fern, and I. Somewhere in the shifting to get a better sleeping position I felt my mother’s absence. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“The hogan is still set up for his diagnosis. Not fit for sleeping in.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

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

Mrs. Coulter placed the beaker carefully on a low rock and knelt beside the sleeping Lyra. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

We’d stretched the tarp over the front half of the boat to make a sleeping tent. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His guardian looked almost heartbroken then, and Bod found himself scared, like a child who has woken a sleeping panther. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

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

The dead rodent reminds me that it’s a school night and I should be home by now, sleeping in my vanilla rotten-corpse room. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Even though I am supposed to be sleeping, my eyes are still open when Apa comes home from his night job cleaning the lawyers’ offices. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Good intention” is a hall pass through history, a sleeping pill that ensures the Dream. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“Heed my warning, Nathan. If you lie to us and this outhouse is short of miraculous, we will move into your sleeping quarters and bite you every time you sleep.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Riccio's mattress was covered with old comic books and his sleeping bag was stuffed with so many stuffed animals that there was hardly any space left for him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

It got to a point where I was afraid to go to sleep because I didn’t want to have another nightmare, so then I started sleeping in my parents’ bed. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

Her knapsack disappeared in the dust, and she saw clothing, the sleeping bag, and packets of SpagBol scattering in the machine’s wake. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“He loved sleeping on that blanket,” Dad says on his way out of my room. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The sleeping bags were so slimy and revolting that Shackleton had the two worst of them thrown overboard. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

They camped that night in a muddy field, sleeping on air mattresses resting on a thick bed of hay, which the tent crew had sprinkled on the oozing mud under the tents. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

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

It was during those days of sleeping that a dream began, a dream I have had many times since. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’d been sleeping in some type of vine, and wherever my body was exposed my skin had a sprinkling of pink rash. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We were going to let him finish dying in public, but he has no entertainment value. He’s spent days curled up sleeping. What sort of spectacle is that? Otis, tip over the jar.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sat in the window of Flora’s room and looked down at the sleeping Flora and then up and out, at the lighted windows of the other houses. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

We slept in the open when there was no barn or shed to be found, which was most nights, sleeping on top of one another like dogs for the warmth. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Finally she picked up her sleeping skin and tore a fiber from the new hide. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everything was in a state of disarray—sewing projects abandoned upon the spinnet, shutters drawn, dogs sleeping on the settee, dirty plates and platters still lain on the table, the food crusted to their rims. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

“Where are they sleeping, then?” said Ron, moving toward the front doors and staring after them. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were nights where we’d be sleeping and I would start to cry and he would just hold me and tell me he was there and that everything was going to be all right. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Of course she can talk. She’s doing great. But she’s sleeping now. Let me see if I can get her up.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I lie down, try to convince myself that I’m still sleeping, try to get the dream to come back. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

While he lay there by the fence sleeping, I thought of different names for him, trying first one and then another, saying them over to myself. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once her hair was set, she would not disturb it, and sate sleeping in a chair, that it might not muss. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Malaria and sleeping sickness are even more slippery customers in their ability rapidly to change their antigens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

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

Two women sat amongst four people who were covered as if sleeping. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Thomas shared a bunk with Minho, who insisted on sleeping up top; Newt and Frypan were right next to them. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When it got dark and a river of stars flowed overhead, we spread out our sleeping bags and laid down on them and talked. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

“I only need enough for a week or so. But I need to borrow a sleeping skin and ground cloth. I’ll mail them back when I get where I’m going. “They’re a wedding present.’’ Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frantic, I tied my sleeping bag to the end of one of the curtain rods and waved it for all I was worth. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was not socializing or sleeping, he lay on his cot smoking or chewing gum and reading sports magazines or paperback thrillers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was terribly stiff from rowing and sleeping in the damp, but as she paddled, the soreness went away. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she added, “You’re sleeping in one of their rooms, you know. So I’ll bet they don’t like you much, either.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I’d like an orphan sleeping in my house and spending Christmas with me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spring, and lambing, wore on and on for two, three, four more weeks with no sleep and Louie watching and Louise sleeping on the herd and me moving animals from pen to pen. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He navigated the dark, silent mobile home, hoping not to disturb Uncle Jet, who was sleeping on the couch in the living room until the hogan was cleaned. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

I take the time to reorder my supplies, wad up the sleeping bag, and messily stuff everything into the backpack. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

A moment later the sleek black head appeared; two dense obsidian eyes stared at the sleeping mouse. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

They never knew about the two-room flats and sleeping rooms he rented, the weekly money orders sent home, the currency exchange. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was moved by the extreme poverty: the only furniture was a pine table, two crude chairs, and a bed on which several children were sleeping. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They passed over this field ere the sunrise, though few of the weary and sleeping were aware of them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d taken to sleeping on my mattress out in front of the cabin in the last week. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

So, one afternoon, while Grandmère was sleeping, I started thinking about sending him a precept from Paris. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

They all went in to see Akira, but he was sleeping. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I told her my mom was sleeping in the motel across the street, and she pulled a pen out of her hair and asked me what I wanted to eat. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Belet picked it up gently, as she might if it were a sleeping baby. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

My sister was now sleeping on his shoulder. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had nothing to put there to mark it as my own, no luggage, no clothes, no sleeping bag. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was obvious she had been sleeping just a few moments prior, but the sound of the stairs woke her. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Or no, he was home on the farm, in his bed, with Phoebe sleeping across the room and Papa sitting by the fire downstairs. I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912 2010-06-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clutter pointed out the rooms where the boy and girl were supposed to be sleeping, then opened his wife’s door. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks as if he hasn’t slept for weeks, although he’s been sleeping a lot, oversleeping. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The fact that we can't even slap skin after not seeing each other for better than a year, when we used to be so close we shared a sleeping bag. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had buried his pearl under a stone of the fire hole in his house, and he stared at the woven tules of his sleeping mat until the crossed design danced in his head. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You can have the good sleeping bag if you want,” I told him while we were setting up in the living room. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

The wondrous peace of that sleeping summer flowed through me like a tide. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

This awoke the dogs who were sleeping near the huts. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There were sick kids everywhere— walking with IV poles, playing games, lying in beds, watching TV, sleeping. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sleeping pill was an extraneous gesture; I didn’t need it, but the mere possibility of restlessness, of an afternoon full of bad dreams and distant plumbing noises, was too unpleasant to even contemplate. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She finds herself wondering, early in the morning and late at night and sometimes just while sitting with little Ahmad sleeping on her lap: Did all that really happen? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I felt very uncomfortable changing in front of them at first, especially sleeping in the same bed with an Asian girl. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And Tree- ear had settled down on his sleeping mat, wriggling around for the most comfortable position. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Uncle needed to walk back to the truck and drive into town to get us water, sodas, and a sleeping bag. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was supposed to be sleeping, but he just couldn’t. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We’ll spend the night at a motel, or, better, sleeping in the car on a side road so there will be no suspicious questions. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bunks were all pushed against one wall as if sleeping didn’t matter very much. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

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

He was allowed to go galloping off to any place in England on any night of the year to blow his splendid phizzwizards in through the windows to sleeping children. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lee looked for Hester in alarm, and found her sleeping, which never happened, for when he was awake, so was she. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m sleeping in Etienne’s room now—“hiding in plain sight” taken to extremes. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I actually laughed out loud, before I remembered that my parents were sleeping. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

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

Three hundred yards to the west I was shivering uncontrollably in my tent—even though I was zipped into my sleeping bag, and wearing my down suit and every other stitch of clothing I had. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And on still, breathless nights he was sleeping in the fields to keep from being suffocated by the bad air from the pits. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he was awake or still sleeping, still in the swift-moving dream in which he had been wrapped so long since the great ride began. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I think about telling Nora about my dad not sleeping at home on Friday night, but I don’t want to talk about that right now. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

“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

Very well, she thought as she silently followed Mo through the sleeping village. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Let sleeping dogs lie, he thought to himself, remembering the dinner. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

I told myself that the handsome young man was a sleeping knight. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

When the Ambien ran out, she stopped sleeping until she got more. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tar had been placed upstairs in a wire cage, and amazingly, she was sleeping soundly. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

I must’ve fallen asleep, because when I wake, Mama Ya-Ya has her hands thrown over her head and she is sleeping deeply. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There were different trees, too—more conifers at low levels and many more birches—and scattered through the undergrowth were large, rounded black boulders, like sleeping animals, which lent the still recesses a certain eerieness. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He was sleeping soundly, and his heart rose and fell with regular respiration. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The swirl of painkillers in my brain was making it hard to concentrate even now, though, apparently, I’d been sleeping for days. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Garrett, who had insisted he was okay sleeping in his room, had, at some point, surrendered all macho pretense and crawled in with me. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

I tell myself he must be sleeping or have his headphones on. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Now get out. I’m going to celebrate by sleeping for another five hours.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

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

When, after a thousand-year stupor, European thought shook off the effect of the sleeping powders so skilfully administered by the Christian Fathers, the problem of infinity was one of the first to be revived. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he could sense that she was sleeping. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And they all have something they love more than eating or sleeping or wine or friendly company. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

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

Abby spends half the night trying to talk me out of sleeping on the couch. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

At six o’clock we received sleeping mats and blankets. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see if we can dig out your sleeping bag,” he said, and I was jubilant. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Carefully, as if approaching a sleeping person, Celaena walked to the large instrument. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I break away and pull the edge of the sleeping bag up around him. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

After subtracting out the cost of the food and ignoring the cost of the ruined sleeping bags and the lost tools, we made a grand total of four dollars. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Amari and her mother scurried around their small dwelling, rolling up the sleeping mats and sweeping the dirt floor with a broom made of branches. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

When it’s my turn, I introduce myself as Josh Raymond, seventeen, no previous experience beyond my recent halfhearted experiment with sleeping pills. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She listened to the baboon troop returning to their sleeping cliff. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess not,” Stella said, thinking back to what Mama had said about her grandmother not sleeping for twenty years. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

When he finally managed to roll over on his stomach, the smell was so bad that he had to turn over again and try sleeping on his back. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

One hot afternoon Mr. Dawson caught me sleeping in the strawberry patch that I was supposed to be weeding and told Mrs. Dawson about it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The chance that Toby had left Annie’s apartment, grabbed a sleeping bag, and gone back to the plane was pretty good. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The last simulation bled into my life, waking and sleeping. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Now we are sleeping at your house instead. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

And Josiah—if only I had let him continue sleeping on the first day of training, perhaps he wouldn’t have gone to the front line in the first place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

As we line up our sleeping bags, my smile slides off my face. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

My sleeping bag was beginning to feel a bit confining, sort of tight at the bottom, having worked itself around my legs. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Shadows were shifting across the nearest mountain, forming the face of a sleeping woman. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Soon he found a place that smelled strongly of leopard, and there, in a small clearing, were two leopard cubs, sleeping up against one another for comfort and warmth. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“We only said that we were sleeping when it happened.” Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Conor watched as the young prince rose and looked down at the sleeping farmer’s daughter, who even Conor could see was a beauty. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

Harry stared, thunderstruck, between the sleeping Moody in the trunk and the unconscious Moody lying on the floor of the office. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

As a result, the vast majority of horses’ sleeping is done standing, which they can do thanks to ligaments that lock their leg joints in the extended position. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

This time I join him, and our voices drift together across the sleeping town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He went into the house to check on Calamity and the kittens, kittens he found sleeping in a messy, boneless heap at the bottom of his closet. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Inside the blankets and constructed walls, hidden deep inside my sleeping bag, I turn on a flashlight and hold Ford close. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

She saw the Giant straighten up again and she saw him poke the trumpet in through the open upstairs window of the room where the Goochey children were sleeping. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, there was no furniture, just mats on the ground for sleeping. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

In one tomb archaeologists had discovered soldiers, servants, and even dancing girls laid out as though they were sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back in their cabin the two girls slipped into their sleeping shifts. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He’s sleeping soundly, but has pressed himself tightly against the side of the couch. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I made an effort not to exhale near Lara as she groggily extricated herself from the sleeping bag. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You are weary with grief, my lord. Let me fix you a sleeping draught.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A man, snoring, is sleeping on the floor. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

He ran away and wandered around San Diego for days, sleeping under a highway overpass. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

One had stayed at the southern end of the camp where we were sleeping, while the other had gone to the northern end. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if Blake would still be upset that I was sleeping in his bed and if the food would be even weirder than at Thanksgiving. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He saw the girl bending down to the sleeping dog, who, at her touch, opened one liquid eye, matted in the corners with what looked like green glue. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they would leave gifts on my sleeping bag, like a pair of jelly sandals with silver sparkles that I thought were the greatest shoes I ever had. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

"Can we peek?" one woman asks, and Mina stops so they can coo at the sleeping baby. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Muck in the alleys, the hoarse shouts of work crews, the boys in their dormitory sleeping head to toe while their coats and trousers hang from hooks along the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

And she’d felt it so much it had become like a constant presence in her life, curled up against her like a sleeping cat. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I glanced to where Maribel lay, curled up in the sleeping bag, her hair spread like a veil over her face, then I turned back to Arturo. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I wonder about Dutchy—if he’s sleeping in a barn with animals, eating only pig slops. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Hush. Let’s fly to a place where we can talk,” she said, mindful of the sleeping villagers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Ann started losing her breakfast in the mornings and sleeping all afternoon, her father fretted about the mysterious illness that had swept over his youngest child. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The cat was sleeping, but she roused when they entered and sprang into the middle of the room. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Miss Ohio! This is not about you sleeping your way up the pathetic ladder of D-list celebrity. We have a situation here.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I zipped myself all the way into the sleeping bag of myself, not because I was hurt, and not because I had broken something, but because they were cracking up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered if people understood that some people have to live their lives sleeping on the ground in camps. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It was odd sleeping in the cellar with strangers. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I ... no. Not at all. I’m done sleeping for a bit. You want a turn?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In that foggy time between sleeping and being awake, before I even open my eyes, I already remember that I am class president. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had sought out prey that was small and motionless: Marial, sleeping. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even when they were sleeping, there was the constant background of street noise, cars driving by, honking horns, people laughing or shouting. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

They led us into the cafeteria, then into their sleeping area, with bunk beds in long rows. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

“I’m perfectly happy sleeping at home in my own bed with my own family.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The door to the sleeping room opened, and Mama peered out. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Gone hours ago. When they found that you were sleeping they thought it best not to awake you. Any way, I wouldn’t have let them. What was I here for?” The Awakening 1899-04-22T00:00:00Z

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

I moved up beside him, quietly, in case he was sleeping. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

The snow falls softly through the trees, closing up the foxes’ dens, burying the tracks of sleeping deer. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could just as easily have chosen the sleeping pills. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

She gave me some sleeping tablets, but I still couldn’t fall asleep, even after my migraine stopped. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

But at least I was sleeping through the night. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

And that’s pretty much what we all did for the rest of the night—hollered and wrung out sleeping bags and kept throwing wood onto the fire. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

We left the light off, in case someone came into the kitchen, but we were sure Granddad was the only one sleeping at Clairmont. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Then we snuggled into our sleeping bags and said good night—and after that, all we could hear was the loud screech of cicadas and crickets. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

For a while, I think about just sleeping here, like the kids in From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

I would be sleeping on the floor here or there, and at least for now I had the whole hall to myself. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was sleeping when they got in and her breathing was labored. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Lying there snoring and sleeping like a lazy little idiot, and all the while Redwall Abbey and his friends were under attack! Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

Ten people, five on each side, clean and fold sleeping blankets, sliding them into a bin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

As I passed the bedroom door where he was sleeping, I heard a shout, and then another. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

We smoothed out our pillows and lay down in our sleeping bags and zipped them up, and then we said good night to one another. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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 unrolled my sleeping bag on the bed and changed into baggy sweatpants and an oversize T-shirt with M&M’s candy printed on the front. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

When Turner and Willis weren’t lobstering, they were sleeping—even when they were trying to eat their supper. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

One naughty night, Dedd left Jaimito sleeping heavily after sex and stole out to the far end of the garden to the little shack where she kept the garden tools. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cats’ ears and tails may twitch as they sleep, and sleeping dogs may whine and growl and paw the air, as if they were having a fight. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

If we spent many more nights sleeping on the ground in the wet, I might not survive. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to Anorak's Almanac, I now thought of it as a normal bodily function, as necessary and natural as sleeping or eating. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Surely,” she says, “my great-uncle and I are not the only people sleeping beneath our own roof tonight.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning, they picked their way across an ice field splintered by jagged crevasses, keeping to the solid expanses between the deadly rifts, and arguing about Nina’s sleeping habits. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

It’s funny, I thought, how the routine of life goes on, whatever happens; we do the same things, go through the little performance of eating, sleeping, washing. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

I was given three rooms, and a separate toilet, with one room to be used for sleeping, one across the hall for studying, and another for exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instant silence fell on the gay throng, and not a sound, but the dash of fountains or the rustle of orange groves sleeping in the moonlight, broke the hush, as Count de Adelon spoke thus: Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was curling into myself, closing up like sleeping grass, and then someone shouted my name and it took me a second to place the voice, and then—and then. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

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

“I’m playing hooky to hang out with Isaac, but he’s sleeping, so I’m in the atrium doing geometry.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Francie spent her first night on earth sleeping snugly between her mother and Sissy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

They stayed away from the hospital and their sleeping place and stuck to the historic section on the map. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who needed a rooster in the morning when the Alabama sun rose early and bright to ruin my plans of sleeping until noon? Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

I let Dad hold me, like that tiny potato-sack version of myself, sleeping on his chest when I was a baby. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Like I’m not already having a hard time sleeping. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s a Tuesday in winter. We’re not sleeping in a nest house. We can go Saturday. If you wait for me after school, we can go somewhere a little closer than the Indiana-Kentucky border.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was tired of sleeping in a box. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

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

The little flare of the twig fire made the design on his sleeping mat jump before his entranced eyes. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I give up on the idea of sleeping and decide to rescue my painting before anyone else wakes up. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

So with this idle and luxurious living and rising when they would and sleeping when they would, he waited for his grandson. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

“Fever’s gone, but I hurt all over,” he said, squirming out of the sleeping bag. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Usually when my parents were home, they were eating or sleeping. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

What the hell is in those sleeping pills!? The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted to watch her eating breakfast, wrapping a gift, sleeping. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Her mother had taken them to visit relatives, and her brother was sleeping over at a friend’s house. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His shoulder had begun to throb and smart from the goldsmith’s touch, like a sleeping devil roused to angry wakefulness, but the greatest pain was in his mind. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

Some ghosts were sleeping in the boughs of the trees, while others looked at them curiously. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The illuminated castle rose from the sleeping city like a mound of ice and steam. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Imagine breaking into someone’s house, eating all their food, breaking all their furniture, and then sleeping in their bed. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“I remember when we snuck into his room and took that picture of him sleeping just so I’d have something besides your school picture to put on the fridge,” she said, laughing. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

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

I hadn’t slept much the night before, and Ruthanne’s lunch combined with the heavy afternoon air hit me like a sleeping drug. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Richard Parker’s nocturnal practice of sleeping in the lifeboat was never a law in my mind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“The monkeys tied me up while I was sleeping,” the dragon said. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Dicey looked in on the sleeping Maybeth before she made her final stop in the bathroom and lay down on her cot. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I guess she thinks I’m passed out but to tell you the truth I haven’t been sleeping all that well....Right,” he said, when I didn’t answer. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There was a cardboard box and I knew somebody was sleeping in it. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Continuing a Raj-era tradition established by expeditions of yore, every morning Chhongba and his cook boy, Tendi, came to each client’s tent to serve us steaming mugs of Sherpa tea in our sleeping bags. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

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

Ernie fell asleep right after them, because, well, he just never had a problem sleeping. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I looked out of the wagon, where I was sleeping, and saw this...this man. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

While Lefty was still sleeping it off at the Cocoon Inn, she invited Lucille Kafkalis and Victoria Pappas over to the house. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He climbed down, slammed the door behind him, dove into his sleeping bag on the floor, and pulled the radio close. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Its sweetness comes from the seeds at the heart of the chinchontle plant. It is a sedative more potent than any sleeping pill you can buy at a farmacia.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

At dusk, Gramps placed three sleeping bags at the foot of the tree, and he, Gram, and I slept there all night. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I stepped between the sleeping bodies and pushed through the tall, heavy door. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He was far too drunk for sleeping pills. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Anyway, suffice it to say, the wall of the rover wasn't made for sleeping on. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

But my grandfather is sleeping when we come to his bedside, opens his eyes only to smile, turns so that my grandmother can press ice cubes against his lips. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Inside—I had never been allowed to enter, but I’d been told—was an arched hall with a long trestle table and benches, several sleeping rooms, and a chapel. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tally pulled out her sleeping bag, yanked it out of its pack, and wriggled inside, still in her clothes. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Pa and Grandpa were sleeping rolled up in blankets on the floor by the fireplace. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rue's pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

While I've been concealed by darkness and the sleeping bag and the willow branches, it has probably been difficult for the cameras to get a good shot of me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Mama was not in the sleeping cabin, in the bed, or under it. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He wondered if she were sleeping; somewhere deep in him he knew that he was lying here waiting for her to go to sleep. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

This sleeping bag, radiating back and preserving my body heat, will be invaluable. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

Finally, around three in the morning, Clarence and his twin brother, Clement, came to escort the kids to their sleeping quarters. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

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 can’t wrap my mind around the idea of stepping through our front door, sleeping in my own bed. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Mrs. Watson was on the sofa, sleeping. The baby was in the carry-cot and was crying—screaming, actually, red in the face, she’d obviously been crying for a while.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

McNeish wrote, “There is nothing for it but to get in our sleeping bags and smoke away the hunger.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

Little demons of red sand ran between the teeth of sleeping men. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Is he mad cause we’re sleeping in our vehicles, or is it something else? Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Katherine appears in the doorway to the sleeping chamber, clutching her wrap tightly. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Each unit had an outdoor grill and picnic table, and they shared a swing set; inside, I was told, there was a television, a kitchen, and separate sleeping areas for kids and adults. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought only of Lazlo, so that was where they flew, straight to the house and the window she knew so well, into the room where she hoped to find him sleeping. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We can get those three Hessians now, while they’re sleeping. Just three of them. We’ve got all of us, don’t we? Easy.” The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

There, huddled as close to Tansy as her calves, lay a sleeping boy, blue in his lips, frost in his hair, and tears frozen on his thin dirty cheeks. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I scratched at my hair, which was still messy from sleeping. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The bird had fallen right into the pink-fringed stroller where her baby was sleeping. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Gwin was sleeping close to it, curled up between the roots of a tree. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He left it and crossed the courtyard to the farthest corner where his sleeping mat was spread under a straggling acacia tree. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

"You can share my sleeping bag if you want. We'll both easily fit." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

And gathered in the sleeping Bloomberg somewhat closer to her, too. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

‘Sleeps four. It has a buffet table and sleeping bags inside. Whatever extra gear you put in it will collapse with the tent. Um, within reason . . . don’t try to stick your giant statue in there.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He was sleeping when Catelyn entered, his hair and beard as white as his featherbed, his once portly frame turned small and frail by the death that grew within him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it was sleeping soundly and nobody was paying any attention to it. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It takes some doing, but I arrange the sleeping bag in a relatively comfortable manner. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“Why are you sleeping on the floor?” she demanded. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What if I worked on her organs? Made them youthful again. Perhaps there's some failing within her body that keeps Charlotte in this sleeping sickness." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

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

I pretend to happily take the sleeping pill Crick offers me. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Nothing about sleeping in little more than a T-shirt and underwear on Millie’s floor while her parents check in on us every few hours appeals to me. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

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

Bridge was sleeping that night when a door slammed, waking her up. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

He had been sleeping calmly under the foiling snow. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“I give you my word of honour that last night Helena never left her compartment. She took a sleeping draught exactly as I said. She is utterly and entirely innocent.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No daughter of mine is going to be sleeping in the streets.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Mom started working less and sleeping more, and she wore pajamas around the house, which she’d never really done before. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then I took a stick and drew lines on the ground from my sleeping place to the spring where I had met my new neighbor, the snake. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Now here we were sleeping in the same room together again, Jackie in my bed and me in a sleeping bag on the floor with Wishbone. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

You give in on little things, and soon you’re serving in his government, marching in his parades, sleeping in his bed. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is late, and Caleb is nearly sleeping by his plate and Sarah is smiling at my father. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

Dark buds appeared on branches, and it seemed that the same sleeping sap that fed them began to chum through my brothers. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got really good at sleeping in cars. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She didn’t look back at the little fire in the wide darkness, at the sleeping children and her witch companions. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was on the tarpaulin, wrapped in a blanket, sleeping and dreaming and awakening and daydreaming and generally passing the time. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

"Accept our hospitality! I hope you won't mind sleeping on the floor." The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z

I was stiff from sleeping on the ground. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Those who weren’t sleeping rocked babies in their arms, read paperbacks, played cards, prayed. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

On the way, they passed the stables, where Tyson and Mrs. O’Leary were sleeping in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When it was truly black about them he unfastened the straps on the backpack and pulled out the blankets and spread them over the boy and soon the boy was sleeping. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Quickly, he looked round; his mother and sister were still sleeping. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A rolled-up sleeping bag and duffel bag were on the ground. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He went back to bed victorious and dreamed again that Huple’s cat was sleeping on his face, suffocating him. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The men gathered and unrolled their sleeping bags. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

With the weather turning colder we can’t keep sleeping in our rotting tents. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He was their property, heart and soul, body and blood; what they did claimed every atom of him, sleeping and waking; it colored life and dictated the terms of death. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at the boy’s face sleeping in the orange light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The tiny electric stings felt like a sleeping limb waking up. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

You might wonder why Mrs. Baker was going to take us camping when she thought that camping meant soggy ground, mosquitoes, sleeping on rocks, and dew. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

“It’ll be like camping, only nicer because there’s a roof. Well, except that we don’t have our sleeping bags. But we can make another nest with our clothes like we did in the barn.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Maybe that cloud messed with the solar- wind junk before it got to me sleeping in my bed. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were sleeping in the same room with Sitti, who took many minutes to unroll her gigantic pouchy belt, which doubled as a pocket. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

My brother hasn’t called home in a few weeks now, and Mom just keeps talking about his grades and sleeping habits and the foods he eats, and my dad keeps saying the same thing. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The mirror showed my sleeping space—a thick blanket and a pillow. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They were glad to be close to fire, sleeping on soft grassy earth, under leafy sky, and best of all, near water. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Advil, aspirin, some kind of over-the-counter sleeping pills I stole from Kate and then stored in an old prescription bottle of Mom’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Who was sleeping in his stall, the wind, for him, a lullaby. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

He wondered if he would have better luck sleeping in the emu pen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked back at my brother, who was sleeping peacefully. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t mind sleeping in the living room,” said Harry, who knew that Griphook would think poorly of having to sleep on the sofa; keeping Griphook happy was essential to their plans. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We kept sleeping over, and it kept being fun. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Shaking and unable to stand, he crawled back to his sleeping platform. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

"I don't want to go up yet. I fancy he's sleeping." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

As we descend, I stare right through her to the opposite side of the ship, where I know my parents are sleeping in their pods. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

So he spent the ten bucks on a big bag of hamburgers, and we drove around handing them out to smelly guys sleeping on grates. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My nose tickled from the dust in the sleeping bag, and the basement floor—which was poured concrete beneath a thin, comfortless layer of indoor-outdoor carpeting—made my bones ache whichever way I turned. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We go into the basement of this ramshackle combination motel and boardinghouse, where Earl indicates a closed door—the kitchen, he says—but we can’t go in now, because a guy is sleeping there. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mother explained that I was upset because I couldn’t do my maths A level so I hadn’t been eating properly or sleeping properly. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She had been sleeping in Flea Bottom, on rooftops and in stables, wher-ever she could find a place to lie down, and ,it hadn't taken her long to leam that the district was well named. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

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

In the beginning he had tried to count the days by making note of when he woke and slept, but down here sleeping and waking had a way of melting into one another. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

By the light of the street lamp, she saw her grandmother sitting at the window with Sissy’s sleeping baby in her lap and amber rosary beads dangling from her trembling fingers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the abbey, he was one more gray-clad figure going where he was told, working, praying, chanting, praying, working, praying, sleeping. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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 thought of him shuffling in his sleeping bag, sighing in his sleep. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You say it to him while he sleeping and I bet he hear you.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

The books depressed me, scared me, made me stuff Kevin’s sleeping pills into my bag. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

When at last Daenerys found the strength to raise her head, she saw the crowd dispersing, the Dothraki stealing silently back to their tents and sleeping mats. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They have a lot of nerve to come into my room while I’m sleeping. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

I hunkered down into my sleeping spot as soon as we finished our meal, before even the first stars ripped through the black. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

It's more than just the way Maxwell resembles him, Grim says that night in the kitchen, the boy is like him, we'd better watch out, you never know what he might do while we're sleeping. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

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

“You going to be okay without a sleeping bag, Dallas?” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

He chuckles, as if sleeping in kitchens is just another one of the eccentricities you have to put up with in the landlord business. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been too late for us to return home, so we all spent the night sleeping on the hard concrete classroom floors. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Isabella’s mom is dropping Isabella and Julia off so we can all go to the dance together, and afterward they’re both sleeping over. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Cecile went through the kitchen to avoid everyone sleeping in the living room. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

“Behind that screen, sleeping his sedative off. He lost it right after we knocked you out,” says Haymitch. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

When I look to the window, he’s resting his head on the kitchen table, sleeping. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Dallas had climbed out of his sleeping bag and was picking rocks out of the dirt and sailing them into the brush. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Here—it beats a hard floor. Use one of my blankets tonight. Tomorrow we’ll dry out your sleeping bag.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

At their backs rose a perpendicular wall of rock, and Perrault and François were compelled to make their fire and spread their sleeping robes on the ice of the lake itself. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z

I yell when I reach her old room, but there’s an old lady sleeping in the bed where my girlfriend should be. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

The second girl slept alone in her hut, sadly staring at the emptiness where the first girl had had her sleeping mat. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Before Amanda and I stopped being peripheral semi-friends, I remember sleeping over at her house and talking to her older brothers. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

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

He was still sleeping quietly, but Sam was now struck most by the leanness of his face and hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And as if sleeping wasn’t hard enough, the crickets and frogs were out too, and for the first time their chirping was annoying. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe she really was sleeping at Janet's, whoever that was—which would mean a lot of hiking for naught. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Eating and sleeping will do a body good. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Eye sighed and lay back down on his lumpy sleeping bag. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I guess when I flung it, it landed on a sleeping bag, because the next thing I knew, David was shouting, “Fire!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

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

‘Not nearly as much as human beans. Human beans is crazy for sleeping. Is it ever occurring to you that a human bean who is fifty is spending about twenty years sleeping fast?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They rode all night, with Tyrion sleeping fitfully, dozing against the pommel and waking suddenly. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“He drank my sleeping medicine by mistake. Move over a little.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Periodically, the queen releases a new portrait of her—sleeping soundly in a four-poster bed—to assure the kingdom that their heir is still alive. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleeping six to a room, as they had the year before, they now had to find places to stretch out eight or nine of their long frames in each room. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Kev walked over to an uneven patch of floorboards next to the fireplace, where a mangy dog lay sleeping. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

One was placed at the foot of his sleeping mat and another at the top. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sleeping much, and I was tired. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

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

She went back to bed after she saw the other mother’s hand, although there was not much time left for sleeping, and she rested her head back on that pillow. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

An owl hoots; a bird sleeping in a laurel bush awakes and flutters its wings. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He says he’s not sleeping,” I added feebly. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, if Sam was sleeping on the couch, that would leave the living-room floor for me. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar had had sleeping chambers built for the most important ones, far away from the smoke and bustle of the kitchens, with great curved couches comfortably heaped with skins. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Lucy was sleeping gently, but her breathing was stronger; I could see the counterpane move as her breast heaved. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Another reason we were lucky was because my sleeping box was just decoration. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Water on sun and her beneath it all, sliding and sleeping in between the lapping waves. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“This is it. Get your sleeping tonic ready, Seven. We flood the cave with tonic, then attack.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I slipped through the sleeping house as silently as a needle through lace. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Swaying in sleeping berths and dining cars, she had plenty of time for thought. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

And she didn’t need to spend her mornings watching trashy television when she could be sleeping. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Because he was a mouse, Ralph found sleeping at night almost impossible. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not sleeping near someone who tried to kill us,” Bushra says. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

Both women fell silent, and the quiet sound of Mirabelle’s sleeping breathing filled the kitchen. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

We crawl into the tent and take our clothes off inside our sleeping bags, the flashlight making a circle on the canvas, a light ring enclosing a darker one, like a target. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Those last few tortured nights before he left her, Chacko would slip out of bed with a torch and look at his sleeping child. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the first cell were mostly sleeping, or dying, or dead. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one with the flashlight shakes out the sleeping bags and searches my suitcase. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In a moment I built up an intense loathing for sleeping in the room where the boy had died. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the cliff’s top she saw the small campfire and the man in the sleeping bag. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“He's lying down sleeping. He will be here when he is needed.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wish I had wings so I could hide my head like Jay does when he's sleeping. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Lillian put a pillow over her head and tried to cut out the noise and light, tried to resume sleeping, although she knew it was hopeless. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I finally videotaped about fifteen minutes of him sleeping, which I thought would settle the issue. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four proper beds, with sheets, and towels, a great luxury for men who had spent much of the last eighteen years sleeping on thin mats on a stone floor. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the twins sleeping away as if they didn’t have a care and their poor little sister sick here in my arms. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The three of us were lying in our sleeping bags on the floor in Ximena’s bedroom. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

He accompanied me to the kitchen, the room farthest from the bedroom where Vera must have been sleeping. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

They were roaming around with backpacks and flip-flops or sitting on little grassy hills eating lunch or laying out in the sun on towels with books in their hands or sleeping. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

On the third floor were our sleeping quarters. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

After sleeping as late as I wanted all summer, it was hard to get out of bed at seven o’clock. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Joseph whispered as he climbed into the sleeping bag. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Maybe Miss Love and Grandpa were sleeping in here out of respect for the dead. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“I’m sleeping on money inside a palace,” he said. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I felt the sleeping body next to mine. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I mean, I know it's cold out here and not everybody has a sleeping bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“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

Alex reluctantly climbed out of the sleeping bag and walked to the window. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

The crowd cheered as they marched out of the ballroom, all toting their sleeping bags and suitcases. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

I had a hard time sleeping the night before because I was worried about the test. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“I want everyone in their sleeping bags and no more talking!” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

So after the movie was over, Mom and Augustus and I all took sleeping pills. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

One of the sleeping men moves, and I see him. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He’d wrap himself in a blanket inside the sleeping bag, and that would have to do. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

His friend was found the next day, “half out of his sleeping bag and frozen solid.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

For the Japanese, soaking in a bathtub was as important a daily activity as eating and sleeping, because it made you strong and healthy. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had my own room, and I folded my Precious Moments sleeping bag at the end of the bed. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He tiptoed from the room, looking over his shoulder at his mother and sister and brother sleeping. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A line of cribs along one wall, and small beds along the other, with an adult’s bed at the nearer end, where a nun was sleeping and, as he’d heard from outside, gently snoring. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The orphanage was not a bad place—better than sleeping on the streets. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

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

“I can’t believe I’m leaving Kabul. I went to school here, got my first job here, became a father in this town. It’s strange to think that I’ll be sleeping beneath another city’s skies soon.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he crawled into the sleeping bag his mother had sewn for him and slipped into unconsciousness. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She opened the cage door, and picked out the sleeping dormouse with bony fingers. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

There were carnival rides lining the Pier, palm trees lining the sidewalks, homeless guys sleeping in the sand dunes, and surfer dudes waiting for the perfect wave. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the rooms were occupied by sleeping old men—he peeked carefully into each one—but most were empty, rooms that belonged to members of the order still enjoying the festivities. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

We were to be given free rations, sleeping quarters, and a small salary. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

It occurred to her that if she could get sick, too, no one would blame her for collapsing but, of course, she didn’t catch anything, except irritability from not sleeping properly and worrying. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

He remembered all the times the earth goddess Gaea had appeared to him in the ground—her sleeping face made of dust or sand or dirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her face was unmarred, and she looked as if she were still peacefully sleeping, in a dream. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We took turns sleeping, or at least pretended to. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Apparently he convinced himself that we were sleeping. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

So we made a little home of it for ourselves, spread out our sleeping pads and bags, put on all the extra clothes we could find, and fixed dinner from a reclining position. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

She was so sad that she started sleeping all the time and skipping garden club meetings. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Francie took the sleeping baby from him in order to let him smoke. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then right on to the room he had been sleeping in for two weeks all by himself waiting for her to come. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

In a sweet, cruel, beautiful moment of clarity, I smile, watch a crack in the cement, and speak to Audrey and the sleeping Doorman. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Now all three little girls, still in their sleeping garments, were giggling nervously in the small room where Bryn groaned and twisted on the bed. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I had been sleeping in and wearing my clothes for days. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow my fumbling fingers release the buckle and I fall to the ground in a heap, still snarled in my sleeping bag. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes are so deep-set that his eyelashes touch the skin under his eyebrows, and they are dark blue, a dreaming, sleeping, waiting color. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Then I walked over to the side of the bed where Mom was sleeping. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

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

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

So I began sleeping less to give her the time she needed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

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

The words are from a gangster sleeping next to him, on top of a mausoleum. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“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

I missed Delsa’s warmth, the secure feeling of sleeping in a room full of people. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s very lucky he picked tonight, you know,” said Hermione as they climbed fully dressed into their sleeping bags and propped themselves on their elbows to talk. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was not in a doorway, where I had often seen people sleeping. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I slid off of my chair and onto the floor, then curled up in my sleeping bag. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“If you will forgive my saying so, Your Radiance looks ... weary. Are you sleeping?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Boots, as he felt the dimness close around him, stopped and looked back once at the sleeping Julius. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Why is it you’re always sleeping when I come to see you?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The chore was her way of making up for sleeping in, an indulgence she allowed herself those mornings. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the blind of one of the sleeping car compartments was pushed aside and a young woman looked out. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

She left the stream and made for the barn, which sat right next to a peeling white house, now dark and sleeping. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was just down the street from Bubeh’s, but the schoolwork was hard and I struggled my entire junior year, sleeping on Bubeh’s couch and wrestling with algebra every night. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Herbie retreated; he huddled in a fetal position atop his sleeping bag. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We tossed mounds of dirt on that weird sleeping bag. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“You grandfather is sleeping at old man Carris’s house,” she explained. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Many others arrived before us and are living in green tents and sleeping on cots. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I come upon them as I move through sleeping streets to the meadhall, and though I know what they are, I pause and study them, picking at my lip. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Late one night she opened the door and found Maniac sleeping on the floor. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Jinny walked Ess past the sleeping cabins, down the path to the water’s edge, where the sand was hard and wet. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Nor would you know that inches below your feet, frogs are sleeping, their heartbeats down to once or twice per minute. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

As they paddled, they talked about what they had seen so far, what they had been eating, how they had been sleeping. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“We spent all day building our blockhouse, and Mom said Quentin was too tired to go home. He’s sleeping in my bed.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Baba and I look across the masses sleeping in the open air. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

“She was sleeping when I left. I didn’t want to wake her.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If you touch me when I’m sleeping, I’ll kill you,” I told her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He was supposed to keep watch but he's sleeping like a baby.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

We were so excited that we had difficulty sleeping. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then Vatete was laid down on her right side with her hand under her head as though she were sleeping. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He and Mom still had the white van they’d driven up from West Virginia, and he started sleeping in that. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

His eye fell on old Bob sleeping on the porch. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

After just a few months she was sleeping through the night and smiling through each day. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

I rolled my sleeping bag shakily, wondering how things had gotten so messed up. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

They asked how I was sleeping and I told them I was sleeping fine, which I hoped would be true tonight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Kaede found the stone floor as comfortable as a feather bed after days of sleeping on lumpy ground, and she fell asleep so quickly she barely had time to enjoy the flatness beneath her back. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Well, you drank my sleeping medicine. Maybe you wouldn’t wake up easily.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mom turns up her stereo even louder with her horrible eighties music, and I give up on sleeping. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

From under her sleeping shelf, Rivka pulled out a pile of shoes. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would be crowded, but there was no way a pregnant woman should be sleeping in a car when there was enough room at her family’s house. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But every morning the ever-optimistic Wild rolled up his sleeping bag and said to the men, “Get your things ready, boys. The Boss may come today.” Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

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

Not wanting to disturb the sleeping Hamlet, I stay. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

It brung back memories of them times when I was a baby and sleeping would sometimes jus’ come up real sneaky and quick and ease all the wakefulness clean outta me. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

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

But when I got bigger, I just never felt like sleeping anywhere else. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Another thought from the night before, one that must have come while he was sleeping. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He enjoyed sleeping in a bed with me, and his lingering cough finally cleared up. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

So Old Yeller and I took to sleeping in the corn patch every night. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting on my sleeping bag is a small plastic pot attached to a silver parachute. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

“You can’t stand out here all night. If you don’t mind sleeping on the floor, you’re welcome to come with me,” he said finally. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She found that she had thrown the quilt off during the night and had finished sleeping in her usual manner, with her head on the pillow. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The floor was made of warped planks lull of splinters, and his sleeping pallet smelled of mildew, but those discomforts were mild compared to what Davos had expected. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There are few people travelling this time of year,” he said, glancing up at the windows of the sleeping car above them. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost, she thought as she rolled a sleeping toddler back onto her own mat, as if they were expecting it to appear. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Advocates of “co-sleeping,” meanwhile, warn that sleeping alone is harmful to a baby’s psyche and that he should be brought into the “family bed.” Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

Dark air stabbed at them from all along the edges of the sleeping mats. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Remember, it was six o’clock in the morning, the neighbors sleeping…” He shook his head. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Izzie settles down and whispers in my ear, “It’s dumb to drive for an hour just to see a baby sleeping in a crib.” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

“Wait. That’s not what I meant. It’s not not what I mean. I think. But I wasn’t talking about that. Just talking about sleeping. In bunk beds. Nothing else.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Matter of fact, that summer, a little girl was hit by a bullet when she was sleeping. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he examined the layers of cloth on top of it, unsure whether to sleep on them or to remove them and put them away before sleeping. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

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

Jack told him the number, and within minutes he was on his sleeping platform. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

I prefer the top of his sleeping bag, which is less septic. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

One of the children, who had curly blond hair and eyes of pink glass like a rabbit, was accustomed to sleeping in the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

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

Baba asks for his brother, but he’s sleeping. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Not the witches, not those angel-beings, but that sleeping child: the final weapon in the war against the Authority. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every morning Cole hung his sleeping bag up in the cabin to dry off. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Now her rouged cheeks and her reddened lips made her seem alive and sleeping very lightly. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Tidings was sleeping in a sleeping bag by the front doors. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dragon, who had been admitted after she was safely caged, had eaten his bowl of catfood greedily, sleeping powder and all, purring as he licked the last scraps from the bottom. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

I took one last look up the stairs where the TV was still sleeping, and then followed Mamita outside into the bright morning light. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

After four years of eating bug-infested rations, sleeping in cold and damp tents, and slogging night and day through thickets and mud, American men had had enough of rough pursuits. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The good news is that there are still four days left of vacation, which should clearly be devoted exclusively to sleeping and writing to me. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Flora sat up and looked down at the sleeping squirrel. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

There is no sleeping, no resting to be had with all the noise in the village. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a good thing he’s on one of the other ships, or they’d have us sleeping four to a bed. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Most of the children were sleeping, though it wasn’t nighttime. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Among the things we could get fired for, Nigro advised, were arriving at the Academy late or drunk—once we were allowed to go out, that is—or, oddly enough, sleeping in class. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Without seeming to, Will was memorizing the exact layout of the cave: the shape and size of every rock, the slope of the floor, the exact height of the ceiling above the sleeping girl. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In his house Kino squatted on his sleeping mat, brooding. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could talk to him forever, never sleeping, never leaving his side. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But right now, my brain is dead set on reminding me how gross I look when I’m sleeping. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

"I thought you were a sleeping bag," she said. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

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

The Hulls believed in fresh air, so they had a sleeping porch where the whole family slept, winter and summer, with the windows wide open around three sides of the room. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the other bed I watched the play of these dark forces on my mother’s sleeping face. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Now she has to walk around all night, never sitting down, never sleeping. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were new to the city and had been sleeping on a cot at a friend’s house. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Seven years of drinking poison, of never sleeping, of living on high alert. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“They brought in a bunch of boxes while you were sleeping. Looks to me like they’re taking the whole lot of you,” he says casually, licking a paw. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

That night, she washed out her dress with the cup of water, hanging it like a curtain from her sleeping shelf. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

William winced as each book landed, as if each were a sleeping infant being dropped. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I tried to pretend she was taking a nap, her hands folded at her stomach, just sleeping away the afternoon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Men were sleeping on the floor all down the corridor. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

When Mackenzie drove into the farmyard later on in the afternoon he was surprised to see the two dogs sleeping in the sun by the shelter of the cattle trough. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

My plan, which struck me as very slick, was to pull my arm out of my sleeping bag and put it into hers, and then hold her hand. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

A soft, tidal snoring issues from the sleeping company. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

After spending two nights in their car, they had returned to the mosque, and had been sleeping on the floor there for the past week. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I started wishing I could just stay in Rhode Island for the whole summer, sleeping on the cot in Kevin’s room. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Look, it’d be better if you stayed down there. My friend’s sleeping over there, and he probably doesn’t want to get woke up.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Most nights he kept on working till long after I was home and sleeping, but this night we started walking together out of Mrs. Holton’s field. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Innumerable shops, millions sleeping in beds around them, and yet where are they all? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Inside the cave, the girl had settled herself to sleep on her sleeping mat when she heard her brother singing outside. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Even if he did, it was possible that the pursuit might follow him over the plank bridge and into the middle of his unprepared, sleeping friends. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally a car sputtered up the hill from downtown and detoured around the sleeping dogs before parking in front of Peerless Painless Dentist, its driver getting out and walking nervously into the office. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Others slept in sleeping bags in the backs of their Suburbans, and others just caught a few winks in lawn chairs. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

We spent the rest of the night sleeping on benches in the airport. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a week or so, everything would be sleeping under a thick comforter, but for now, the cabin stood out in all its sturdy homemade ugliness. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to leave them on for sleeping, anyway, to avoid bug bites, and figured I could tie them again come morning. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Beatrice’s stepbrother was in the back of the truck, zipped into a moldy sleeping bag. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened a door off the hallway and led us through a wrecked office where people lay sleeping on the floor and under desks. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I stare at her beautiful sleeping head and try to extract her reasoning. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

On hands and knees he drew the boy’s sleeping box out, making a scratching sound. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t help it if their sleeping bodies automatically turned over in the night. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

That night Baz moved his sleeping bag from across the loft where he’d been all along and laid it across our comer. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she fell through the gate, gasping for air, she was shocked to see Dragon lying in front of the stone lions, sleeping. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

He pulled Amari to a small room that held nothing but a box made of wood and a sleeping area that seemed to be elevated off the floor somehow. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look in the rearview mirror and see that Charlie is peacefully sleeping on María. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She’s sleeping and I feel bad making her get up to bring me the bedpan. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

I quit my internship and began sleeping through the days as well as the nights. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her lips, narrow and compressed when she was awake, were looser and fuller in sleep, and almost smiling, like her sleeping eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

When I finished, he pushed in his pad and sleeping bag and crawled in after. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of sleep I counted the stars and kept six on the individual breathing of each remaining member sleeping in their tents around me. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

By the late innings of the game the rest of the room—a few laggard coals glowed orange beneath the fireplace grate—lay sleeping in soft, quiescent shadows. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Two men in ballooning skirts and balding velvet blouses, vaulting over littered moons and mounds of dung, circling around the hulk of a sleeping elephant. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom finds me sleeping in my bedroom closet. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He gestured to the wagon of sleeping babies. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Dreams,’ he said, ‘is very mysterious things. They is floating around in the air like little wispy-misty bubbles. And all the time they is searching for sleeping people.’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look down at the sleeping soldiers, crew, and friends, and I wonder how many of us will ever see the sun again. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

“Gurgi hastens to obey, mighty lord. He will say no more, not even whisperings of what he saw. No, he will not disturb the sleepings of powerful heroes. See how he leaves, with tearful farewells.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Because it had been the harvest festival, no one had been caught sleeping. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I tossed a pillow up at the top of the sleeping bag, where my head would go. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

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

Angel just stared out of the window and stroked her sleeping cat. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Many victims tear off clothing, fling away their gloves, or crawl out of their sleeping bags. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Behind a fence of sharp black teeth he glimpsed the furnace glow, the shimmer of a sleeping fire a hundred times brighter than his torch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The government urged industries to provide sleeping accommodations for workers so that they would not have to return home during the strike. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we were bathed, our mama wrapped us in towels, led us into the sleeping room, and presented each of us with clean, sweet-smelling clothes. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the lions, but they were just lying there, sleeping. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though it had been closed for the winter, they could take sleeping bags, using only the living room and kitchen which could be warmed by the Quebec heater. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

Outside, I waved farewell to the sleeping topiary. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They just rolled over on their sides and continued sleeping. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

And I wondered if Daisy was sleeping in heaven right then. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

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

We were sleeping when Mr. Kendall found us. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

His parents told me he was still sleeping downstairs, so I knocked loudly on the basement door before entering, then asked, “Gus?” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s dark blue on the outside, cream and brown on the inside, and has my sleeping bag and pillows and a radio I’d listen to as I went to sleep at night. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Delia and Velia sat side by side in the backseat next to the “sleeping” drowned man while Pita wedged herself against the opposite car door trying to stay away from him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Were you sleeping? Sorry, I thought Penny would be awake by now.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

With visions of caribou stew in her head, she got out of her sleeping skin and reached for her clothes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach for my sleeping bag before I remember I left it with Rue. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

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

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

“One night—don’t tell him I told you this—one night he snuck into your room while you were sleeping and stood there with a flashlight at your closet looking at your pigeon.” Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was sleeping on his side, his back to the window. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

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

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

I think about all the strangeness of his being here, sleeping in homespun sheets, wearing the same clothes for days on end, eating bread and cheese, and not complaining about any of it. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The animals reassured him on this point immediately, and no more was said about the pigs sleeping in the farmhouse beds. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

He awoke minutes later only to laugh himself to sleep again, and so he continued, laughing and sleeping and laughing again, all afternoon, until at last he slipped into a prolonged slumber. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ground would soon become wet, and sleeping in a puddle would be a surefire path to pneumonia, without any hope of a doctor or medications. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

She stands up and walks over to where we were sleeping, to her backpack. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Where are we going to get sleeping pills?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He thought she was sleeping, so he touched her arm, saying, “Dale, time to get up.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Pilgrims seemed to be on top of each other, there were so many, lying, sitting, sleeping, praying, walking. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

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

“Thanks for asking him. Should be fun sleeping on this cold floor.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z