"Sleepless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the dinner-party was a nearly sleepless one for Philip, although his father had so considerately regretted his wearied appearance, he could do nothing but walk, walk, walk, like some unquiet ghost, up and down his great, oak-panelled bedroom, till, ...
— Dawn • H. Rider Haggard
... death. I never went to see him, but he would groan and squeak like a chicken barely out of the shell: I considered that he might step into his coffin at any moment, and heaped gift upon gift, for fear of being outdone in generosity by my rivals; I passed anxious, sleepless nights, reckoning and arranging all; 'twas this, the sleeplessness and the anxiety, that brought me to my death. And he swallows my bait whole, and ...
— Works, V1 • Lucian of Samosata
... Emma; "I love the world too well, and have spent many wretched, sleepless nights because I was unwilling to leave it: but that time is passed. If I have any fear now, it is that my work on earth will not be well done before ...
— Be Courteous • Mrs. M. H. Maxwell
... or in tent. How oft of dole have I made moan for love and longing pain, What while my body for desire in mortal peril went! How oft I've waked, how many a cup of sorrow have I drained, Watching the stars of night go by, for sleepless languishment! It had sufficed me, had thy grace with verses come to me; My expectation still on thee in the foredawns was bent. Then was my heart by that which caused my agitation seared, And from mine eyelids still the tears poured ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... are ruined! He understood that in our time immense knowledge is the only foundation for pyramidal fortunes, and his memory alone knew the long series of nights which had passed above his head while it was sleepless in winning knowledge. ...
— The Argonauts • Eliza Orzeszko (AKA Orzeszkowa)
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