For 28 intense days, they were crammed onto a small boat; Mr. Kelly, for example, recalls having had to sleep atop the stove.

Bear Tail staked the buffalo hide to the ground, and slept atop it, while Pretty Rose covered herself with leaves.

In the end, we did sleep a bit more, peacefully entangled on the floor, atop a hard but bugless bed composed of my cloak and Jamie's kilt.

Hallow, a very large gray tabby, slept atop it, oblivious to the noise.

Across from it a servant slept atop a lacquered chest, his knees up under his chin, his mouth open.

Each concubine slept on satin sheets and pillows atop feather beds and had little to do until summoned but play around with the luxury.

We endured an hour's wait beside a cement enclosure in which hundreds of captive alligators slept atop one another.

He'd slept atop the sheets, a drenched Turkish towel spread across his nakedness, and had risen every hour to dampen the towel again.

Among the many tenants crammed into the basement, one slept on a mattress atop a heating oil tank.

Dragons sleep atop every one of those pointed windows.