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As it happened, however, both giants
slept
on – until the 1980’s in China and the early 1990’s in India – mainly because both countries embraced a counter-productive policy framework that crippled the productivity of their investment efforts.
One thing, however, is already clear: the era when this vast region
slept
while others modernized has ended.
Outsiders know only that one of the women’s allegations that Assange had non-consensual sex with her while she
slept
could be characterized as rape under Swedish criminal law – as in most advanced countries.
While Britain slept, the Aussies played in the sunshine.
More precisely, it comes from three vehement guard dogs – oil prices, long-term US interest rates, and currencies – that
slept
peacefully through the commotion on Wall Street.
Yet they could use their Google location history to show authorities that for the last five years they had
slept
in the very spot on which the home had stood.
Along with his staff of dedicated doctors and nurses, he had not
slept
the previous night, which he evocatively described as “our Night of St. Bartholomew.”
Although his artistic perceptions never slept, and although he was growing more and more excited as the moment approached when his picture was to be criticized, he quickly and shrewdly, from imperceptible data, formed his opinion of these three persons.
'Have you
slept
well?''Like the dead!
She
slept
badly and is terribly capricious this morning,' said Dolly.
But under the influence of weariness, a sleepless night, and the wine he had drunk, he
slept
soundly and peacefully.
She took his hand and asked whether he had
slept.
The Frenchman
slept
or pretended to sleep, leaning his head against the back of the chair, and his moist hand lying on his knee moved feebly, as if catching something.
Mitya was safe and dry and
slept
undisturbed.
Part 1Chapter 2IN the middle of the fields of wheat and beetroot, the Deux-Cent-Quarante settlement
slept
beneath the black night.
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.
The old man was the grandfather, Bonneinort, who, as he worked during the night,
slept
by day, so that the bed was never cold; there was always someone snoring there.
And there was another dispute: he leant out to watch if he could not see, coming out of Pierron's opposite, the captain of the Voreux, who was accused of sleeping with the Pierron woman, while his sister called to him that since the day before the husband had taken day duty at the pit-eye, and that certainly Dansaert could not have
slept
there that night.
The children slept; even Alzire's eyelids were closed; but the mother now remained with her eyes open in the darkness, while, pulling at her breast, the pendent breast of an exhausted woman, Estelle was purring like a kitten.
On the double way of a shunting line a long, black serpent slept, a train at standstill, with a snorting horse, whose crupper looked like a block fallen from the roof.
"If she has not
slept
we must leave her sleeping."
In two days he had not
slept
four hours.
Not a gleam shone from the closed shutters, the house fronts slept, with the heavy sleep of snoring barracks.
Alzire
slept
lightly, and Lénore and Henri were found in the morning, in each other's arms, exactly as they had gone to sleep.
When Sunday came one
slept
from weariness.
This girl, of whom he was already growing tired, had become precious to him now that a man
slept
near her and could take her at night.
Certain instincts of refinement and comfort which had
slept
during his poverty were now revealed.
The lack of harmony had only increased, aggravated by one of those curious misunderstandings of the flesh which freeze the most ardent; he adored his wife, she had the sensuality of a greedy blonde, and already they
slept
apart, ill at ease and wounded.
The men, to avoid going to the public-house,
slept
all day long; the women while dividing the coffee became reasonable, less anxious to gossip and quarrel; and even the troops of children seemed to understand it all, and were so good that they ran about with naked feet, smacking each other silently.
Yesterday, too, he
slept
out.
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