Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...least, that must have been our excuse, though the physical feeling of hunger was not a possibility to me just then. I made one discovery that troubled me. Bertha's eyes looked dull and heavy, with dark rings about them, as if she, too, had suffered from loss of sleep. I fancied that she seemed even more nervous than myself; she had a way of compressing her lips that I had never noticed before...
...following are the subjects for the Second Senior Forensic, which is due from the first half of the class on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1881: 1. Does the mind sleep? 2. Does the mind forget? 3. The subject for the first forensic that you have not written on; 4. Is falsehood ever justifiable...
...Imagine, if you can, the shock that the discovery gave me: it was the first time, to my knowledge, that I had ever been guilty of sleep-walking. I could hardly believe that I was yet awake. I hurried shivering back to the hotel, found the door of my bed-room open; else I might have had some trouble in re-entering it. I wrapped myself up in blankets, and tried to collect my scattered senses...
...wind is lulled to sleep...