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Jordan: The Fire Next DoorJordanians are facing sleepless nights as the siege of Baghdad proceeds.
You spend sleepless nights wondering whether you should invest in a new product – that is, whether you should exploit your access to money to cause an array of others to work on your behalf.
And they will cause sleepless nights for producers of raw materials and businesses involved in world trade.
If we ignore the dangers of wealth disparities for much longer, the consequences will be far more distressing than a few sleepless nights.
Travail, suffering, monstrous suffering, and that final moment... then nursing, sleepless nights, and that awful pain!'Dolly shuddered at the mere thought of the pain she had endured from sore nipples, from which she had suffered with almost every baby.
But under the influence of weariness, a sleepless night, and the wine he had drunk, he slept soundly and peacefully.
So many sleepless nights!
When at last he had finished Bonaventure de Lapp's lids were drooping over his eyes, for I doubt that he had been sleepless as well as foodless for these three days.
Exasperated at anyone daring to interfere with her delectation, she passed a sleepless night, arranging extravagant plans for a meeting with her sweetheart.
"I did not marry for the purpose of passing sleepless nights.
All that night Don Quixote lay awake thinking of his lady Dulcinea, in order to conform to what he had read in his books, how many a night in the forests and deserts knights used to lie sleepless supported by the memory of their mistresses.
We have been informed that at the cost of many sleepless nights and much toil he has succeeded, and that he means to publish them in hopes of Don Quixote's third sally.
"It may give him a sleepless night.
Hour after hour passed away in sleepless pain and delirium on Marianne's side, and in the most cruel anxiety on Elinor's, before Mr. Harris appeared.
But the rest, which one night entirely sleepless, and many hours of the most wearing anxiety seemed to make requisite, was kept off by irritation of spirits.
The change which a few hours had wrought in the minds and the happiness of the Dashwoods, was such--so great--as promised them all, the satisfaction of a sleepless night.
In spite of a sleepless night she was looking very fresh and pretty in the white muslin frock which had replaced her travelling-dress, and when he found himself alone with her after breakfast on the veranda (Mrs.
But M. de Treville knew nothing, except that the last time he had seen the cardinal, the king, and the queen, the cardinal looked very thoughtful, the king uneasy, and the redness of the queen’s eyes donated that she had been sleepless or tearful.
Hans prepared some food, which I could not touch; and each of us, exhausted with three sleepless nights, fell into a broken and painful sleep.
"That night--I tell you now what it would be a bitter thing for me to tell in a court of law--I was restless and sleepless, as often happens when a man has kept awake over long.
It would have spared her, she thought, one sleepless night out of two.
He was wrapped in some sort of dark ulster or blanket, which left only his face exposed; but that face was enough to give a man a sleepless night.
When he got out of the train at Petersburg he felt, despite his sleepless night, as fresh and animated as after a cold bath.
All that had so disturbed Levin during the sleepless night and all his resolutions vanished suddenly.
'Yes, an izvoshchik.'Returning home after the three sleepless nights, Vronsky did not undress but lay down prone on a sofa, with his head on his folded arms.
In the morning several inhabitants of Sainte-Agathe appeared on their doorsteps with heavy eyes tired by a sleepless night.
Her grey hair was carelessly twisted up; wisps of it fell across her face; her regular features, under her old-fashioned cap, looked tired and her eyes heavy, as if after a sleepless night, and she kept her head lowered sadly in a dreamy way.
CHAPTER XVII both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye.
The sleepless night, the journey to Ostrianum, the flight from the Trans-Tiber, had wearied him exceedingly.
Under the influence of a sleepless night, mad riding, and impressions, a wonderful exaltation possessed the young tribune; in this exaltation all things seemed possible: Peter speaks to the flame, opens it with a word, and they pass uninjured through an alley of fire.
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