Asleep in sentence

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The coachmen were asleep beside the vehicles, the horses were drowsing.

At the edge of the marsh the peasant boys and men who had pastured their horses in the night lay, covered with their coats, having fallen asleep at daybreak.

'When I think of it I cannot fall asleep without morphia.

Three months previously Levin would not have believed that he could quietly fall asleep under the circumstances in which he now found himself: that while leading an aimless, senseless life, one moreover that was above his means, after tippling (he could call what had happened in the club by no other name), after showing unsuitable friendship to the man with whom his wife had once been in love, and after a still more unsuitable visit to a woman who could only be called a fallen woman, and after being allured by her and having grieved his wife – that in such circumstances he could quietly fall asleep.

Though that quietness, as if she were holding her breath, and especially the peculiar tenderness and animation with which, returning from the other side of the partition, she had said: 'It's nothing!' seemed to him suspicious, yet he was so sleepy that he fell asleep at once.

She was not asleep, but was talking quietly with her mother, making plans for the christening.

He fell asleep in her arms.

'Evidently I have been asleep and have been forgotten!' thought Oblonsky.

In Moscow he sometimes noticed some grey hairs; fell asleep after dinner; stretched himself; walked slowly upstairs, breathing heavily; felt dull among young women, and did not dance at balls.

He fell asleep in the doctor's waiting-room, and while asleep began giving advice to all the patients, and very strange advice too.

'It seems to me he will fall asleep directly,' said Karenin in a significant whisper, approaching Lydia Ivanovna.

But then he felt himself falling asleep, and nearly snored.

The Frenchman had fallen asleep just as Oblonsky had done.

Oblonsky also rose and, opening his eyes wide to wake himself up in case he was asleep, looked first at one and then at the other.

He was so drunk that he could not get up the stairs, but on seeing Oblonsky he ordered the men to put him on his feet and, clinging to Stephen, he went with him to his room, began relating how he had spent the evening, and fell asleep there.

Oblonsky was in low spirits, a thing that rarely happened to him, and could not fall asleep for a long time.

Now, when he was asleep, she loved him so that she could not restrain tears of tenderness while looking at him; but she knew that if he were to wake he would look at her with a cold expression, conscious of his own integrity, and that before telling him of her love she must prove to him that he was to blame toward her.

In the bed on the left, Zacharie, the eldest, a youth of one-and-twenty, was asleep with his brother Jeanlin, who had completed his eleventh year; in the right-hand bed two urchins, Lénore and Henri, the first six years old, the second four, slept in each other's arms, while Catherine shared the third bed with her sister Alzire, so small for her nine years that Catherine would not have felt her near her if it were not for the little invalid's humpback, which pressed into her side.

It was stupid of her to get cold, since the porter at the pit-eye was certainly asleep, waiting to take his duties at six.

These children could never get on together; it was only when they were asleep that they put their arms round one another's necks.

"I can't leave mine for a moment, she screams directly," said Maheude, looking at Estelle, who was asleep in her arms.

The village was already asleep, and looked quite black in the night.

A crowd of obscure ideas, asleep within him, were stirring and expanding.

The children were asleep, she was quite willing; he was certain that she was waiting for him, stifling, and that she would close her arms round him in silence with clenched teeth.

She forgot herself in describing its horrors, in a mournful voice, her eyes lost in space, her breast open; while her infant, Estelle, without letting it go, had fallen asleep on her knees.

Everything was still asleep at Deneulin's; the old brick house stood mute and gloomy, with closed doors and windows, at the end of the large ill-kept garden which separated it from the Jean-Bart mine.

are you asleep?" said Chaval again, roughly, as soon as he no longer heard Catherine moving.

The estate seemed asleep, with its avenue of deserted limes, its kitchen garden and its orchard bared by the winter.

Maheude, who had arrived first with dishevelled hair beneath a handkerchief knotted on in haste, and having Estelle asleep in her arms, repeated in feverish tones:"Don't let any one in or any one out!

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