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1  It was hours before he got to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
2  Well, if I don't want you in the daytime, I'll let you sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
3  But at last she was still, only moaning a little in her sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  I went to sleep reading in bed and slept straight through all that noise.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
5  The marvel of Nature shaking off sleep and going to work unfolded itself to the musing boy.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
6  Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
7  The Terror of the Seas and the Black Avenger of the Spanish Main had more difficulty in getting to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
8  The pipe dropped from the fingers of the Red-Handed, and he slept the sleep of the conscience-free and the weary.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
9  Pap used to sleep there, sometimes, 'long with the hogs, but laws bless you, he just lifts things when he snores.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Then Tom hid himself away in a shady nook to sleep till noon, and the other pirates got ready to fish and explore.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair-trigger, on account of the exciting episode of the night.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  As the sun began to steal in upon the boys, drowsiness came over them, and they went out on the sandbar and lay down to sleep.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
13  Four times he had his hands on that rich treasure and four times it wasted to nothingness in his fingers as sleep forsook him and wakefulness brought back the hard reality of his misfortune.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
14  They dried their boiled ham and had a feast, and after that they sat by the fire and expanded and glorified their midnight adventure until morning, for there was not a dry spot to sleep on, anywhere around.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  I couldn't sleep, and so I come along upstreet 'bout midnight, a-turning it all over, and when I got to that old shackly brick store by the Temperance Tavern, I backed up agin the wall to have another think.'
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
16  Part of the little raft's belongings consisted of an old sail, and this they spread over a nook in the bushes for a tent to shelter their provisions; but they themselves would sleep in the open air in good weather, as became outlaws.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
17  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.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
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