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And Jeanlin, who just then ran up from Réquillart still half asleep, kicking about in the midst of the smoke, saw him embrace his little wife and die.
All were asleep, but they had to cross the narrow passage where the mother slept.
And Maheude fell asleep again.
As soon as she had eaten she fell asleep from weariness, on the cold earth.
He would arouse her, but she stammered a few words and at once fell asleep again without even raising her eyelids; and fearing lest she should be drowned, he put his arm round her waist.
Was it asleep perhaps, weary from its workday, just riding with the waves?
In midocean it's not unusual to encounter whales so sound asleep they can successfully be attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one in its slumber.
On January 16 the Nautilus seemed to have fallen asleep just a few meters beneath the surface of the water.
When they were captured, some hawksbills were still asleep inside their carapaces, a refuge from other marine animals.
I fell asleep with the firm intention of waking up in just a few hours.
Conseil, whom nothing could startle, saw it as a perfectly natural thing to fall asleep under the waves and wake up under a mountain.
Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his work.
It was close, the child fell asleep, and the good man, beginning to doze with his hands on his stomach, was soon snoring with his mouth wide open.
The children had fallen asleep under the seats.
Charles was half asleep, his back propped against a door.
No birds were to be heard; everything seemed asleep, the espalier covered with straw, and the vine, like a great sick serpent under the coping of the wall, along which, on drawing hear, one saw the many-footed woodlice crawling.
Madame Lefrancois was asleep near the cinders, while the stable-boy, lantern in hand, was waiting to show Monsieur and Madame Bovary the way home.
"Go in," she said; "your little one is there asleep."
Emma's child was asleep in a wicker-cradle.
"I'm that worn out sometimes as I drop asleep on my chair.
On Sunday, for example, one could not get him out of the drawing-room, whither Madame Homais had called him to fetch the children, who were falling asleep in the arm-chairs, and dragging down with their backs calico chair-covers that were too large.
She could not help smiling, and she fell asleep, her soul filled with a new delight.
He declaimed—"This is no longer the time, gentlemen, when civil discord ensanguined our public places, when the landlord, the business-man, the working-man himself, falling asleep at night, lying down to peaceful sleep, trembled lest he should be awakened suddenly by the noise of incendiary tocsins, when the most subversive doctrines audaciously sapped foundations."
But the child began to cough in her cot or Bovary snored more loudly, and Emma did not fall asleep till morning, when the dawn whitened the windows, and when little Justin was already in the square taking down the shutters of the chemist's shop.
Then the passengers in the "Hirondelle" ended by falling asleep, some with open mouths, others with lowered chins, leaning against their neighbour's shoulder, or with their arm passed through the strap, oscillating regularly with the jolting of the carriage; and the reflection of the lantern swinging without, on the crupper of the wheeler; penetrating into the interior through the chocolate calico curtains, threw sanguineous shadows over all these motionless people.
She revived, and began thinking of Berthe asleep yonder in the servant's room.
"I shall fall asleep and all will be over."
He saw three black hens asleep in a tree.
As one o'clock struck, he slipped quietly from his room, made sure that the master of the house was sound asleep, and appeared before Madame de Renal.
This letter written, he sent to awaken Julien who, at eight o'clock in the evening, was already asleep, as were all the seminarists.
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