"sleep" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She put the instrument back in its case and stretched out herself, the blanket only across her waist as sleep slowly crept over her.
- And then he thought nothing more, for sleep crept up and ambushed him.
- She could feel the heaviness in her limbs, as sleep crept in to fill her up once more.
- Massacre, For this I prayed, would on thy sleep have crept, Treason and Slavery, Rapine, Fear, and Lust, And stifled thee, their minister.
- There for some time they sat huddled mournfully together in the cold stony night, while sleep crept upon them in spite of all they could do to hold it off.
- "I will, I swear..." Then he lay back on the cold pillow, and listened to the sound of rain until sleep crept over him.
- As sleep crept over her, she held a drowsy dialogue with herself.
- I knew I had Skilled briefly, but I thought that then sleep had crept upon me, and all that followed was a dream.
- The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.
- Justen was not certain whether he had spoken or Dayala had, but sleep crept over him before he could decide.
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