fight against sleep

She told herself she should fight against sleep on the principle of having no choice as to when or how she took it.

He seemed unconsciously to fight against sleeping, but at last his lids sank and he lay still.

'Hilary's taking me home on Sunday,' said Pickerage, fighting against sleep.

Picture this now: an all-but-illiterate old man struggling with an enemy tongue, an all-but-exhausted young boy fighting against sleep.

Fighting against sleep, her last glimpse was the sight of the old crone laying a hand on Tarn's forehead.

But he fought against sleep, lest in moving when he woke he might reveal the trick, and be bound again.

He fought against sleep as long as he could, but in the end it took him as it always did.

If only there had been time for one more dream ... but despite his need for further guidance, Picard had fought against sleep.

It was very peaceful now, aboard _Selene_--so peaceful that one had to fight against sleep.

The film commences on Christmas Eve with a nameless boy (played by Tom Hanks) fidgeting and fighting against sleep.

I lay beside her, fighting against sleep, and the tenderness with which I clung to her was only a pretext, a way of avoiding the moment when I would be compelled to close my eyes.

Glimpses of bitter fights against sleep and always, always-a climb up and up along infinite distances of steps that led from Abaddon to a Paradise of blue sky and open world!

Cassie suffers from horrible nightmares, nightmares that keep her up at night, nightmares that have her fighting against sleep because they are so vivid and awful that she feels almost like she is remembering them.

The positive results of the 2001-2006 partnership between Sanofi-Aventis and the WHO in the fight against sleeping sickness motivated and justified the decision taken by the Sanofi-Aventis Group's senior management to continue supporting the WHO at the same level for another five years, 2006-2011.