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There's scarcely a pub. of any attractions within ten miles of London that she does not seem to have looked in at, or stopped at, or
slept
at, some time or other.
I
slept
through it for a while, dreaming that I had swallowed a sovereign, and that they were cutting a hole in my back with a gimlet, so as to try and get it out.
It seemed as if, in the silence and the hush, while we her children slept, they were talking with her, their sister - conversing of mighty mysteries in voices too vast and deep for childish human ears to catch the sound.
Had there been any particular reason why we should not have gone to sleep again, but have got up and dressed then and there, we should have dropped off while we were looking at our watches, and have
slept
till ten.
King John has
slept
at Duncroft Hall, and all the day before the little town of Staines has echoed to the clang of armed men, and the clatter of great horses over its rough stones, and the shouts of captains, and the grim oaths and surly jests of bearded bowmen, billmen, pikemen, and strange-speaking foreign spearmen.
truckle bed, and George and I
slept
in that, and kept in by tying ourselves together with a sheet; and the other was the little boy's bed, and Harris had that all to himself, and we found him, in the morning, with two feet of bare leg sticking out at the bottom, and George and I used it to hang the towels on while we bathed.
I
slept
well that night, and should have
slept
better if it had not been for Harris.
WE left Streatley early the next morning, and pulled up to Culham, and
slept
under the canvas, in the backwater there.
George told us about a man he had known, who had come up the river two years ago and who had
slept
out in a damp boat on just such another night as that was, and it had given him rheumatic fever, and nothing was able to save him, and he had died in great agony ten days afterwards.
And that put Harris in mind of a friend of his, who had been in the Volunteers, and who had
slept
out under canvas one wet night down at Aldershot, "on just such another night as this," said Harris; and he had woke up in the morning a cripple for life.
True, he had not
slept
peacefully, but probably all the more deeply because of that.
Gregor hardly
slept
at all, either night or day.
What a sight I missed!""You
slept
through it all."
The family at the Locusts had slept, or watched, through all the disturbances at the cottage of Birch, in perfect ignorance of their occurrence.
Occasionally he would pay a visit to the wounded Englishman, who, being more hurt in the spirit than in the flesh, tolerated the interruptions with a very ill grace; and once, for an instant, he ventured to steal softly to the bed of his obstinate comrade, and was near succeeding in obtaining a touch of his pulse, when a terrible oath, sworn by the trooper in a dream, startled the prudent surgeon, and warned him of a trite saying in the corps, "that Captain Lawton always
slept
with one eye open."
But Sid
slept
on unconscious.
He
slept
on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.
The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-Handed, and he
slept
the sleep of the conscience-free and the weary.
Joe and Huck still
slept.
He threaded his way back to the ferry landing, found nobody at large there, and walked boldly on board the boat, for he knew she was tenantless except that there was a watchman, who always turned in and
slept
like a graven image.
They had paddled over to the Missouri shore on a log, at dusk on Saturday, landing five or six miles below the village; they had
slept
in the woods at the edge of the town till nearly daylight, and had then crept through back lanes and alleys and finished their sleep in the gallery of the church among a chaos of invalided benches.
When all else had been learned, the widow said: "I went to sleep reading in bed and
slept
straight through all that noise.
"I'm glad you've slept, Becky; you'll feel rested, now, and we'll find the way out."
The weary time dragged on; they
slept
again, and awoke famished and woe-stricken.
Huck had
slept
there; he had just breakfasted upon some stolen odds and ends of food, and was lying off, now, in comfort, with his pipe.
Now the cot in which I always
slept
was so placed that my head was to the north of the line and my feet to the south of it.
Then in the night, when I slept, there came the wolves to eat the horse, and they had a little pinch of me also, as you can see; but after that I was on guard with my pistols, and they had no more of me.
We had a great deal of close conversation that night, for we neither of us
slept
much; he was as penitent for having put all those cheats upon me as if it had been felony, and that he was going to execution; he offered me again every shilling of the money he had about him, and said he would go into the army and seek the world for more.
We could not find in our hearts to stir the next day; for, in short, having been disturbed by the bells in the morning, and having perhaps not
slept
overmuch before, we were so sleepy afterwards that we lay in bed till almost twelve o'clock.
Well, I went to bed for that night, but
slept
little; the horror of the fact was upon my mind, and I knew not what I said or did all night, and all the next day.
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