Word: sleeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ibis," he moaned, "give me something to put me to sleep before the next one; Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup - or something - Will...
...breeches, white stockings, top boots, and a cocked hat." This company continued to rejoice the hearts of the students, and win the smiles of the Cambridge maidens for twenty years, till finally, indifference caused its death. Its last captain was a member of the class of 1787. After a sleep of twenty-one years, it was (in 1811) reorganized by Gov. Gerry, and then received the name of the "Harvard Washington Corps," which name it bore during the remainder of its existence. Arms were furnished by the State. The uniform was changed from the "Continental" style worn by the first...
...have hinted that dreams may be valuable to the literary guild. Some great Frenchman used to solve his mathematical problems in his sleep. Tartini wrote the Devil's Sonata in the presence of his majesty, who appeared before him, as he slept. This must have been very soon after that feast in the lower world, reported by Lamb, where
...seemed to my self to be wakened from a deep sleep. A being not of this world stood by my bedside. "Come," he said, "I am to show you all classes and conditions of men tonight." I followed him and he kept his word; but the knowledge of only one class remains fixed indelibly upon my memory, and this alone I can describe. We were in the vicinity of a great university. We entered an old-fashioned hedge-surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite...
...goes to college, and during his absence his fears are lulled to sleep. Occasionally his opinions clash with those of his father in regard to pecuniary arrangements, or he is interfered with respecting the method which he has decided to be most advantageous for the promotion of his studies. These are but passing clouds, but they presage the storm to come...