SLEEP in Classic Quotes

1  And then she had gone to sleep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII

2  She could lie down and sleep for days.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

3  I have enough to eat and occasionally a bed to sleep in.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

4  The Confederates marched in their sleep, too tired to think for the most part.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  You need sleep and Katie Scarlett is here, so you need not worry about anything.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

6  Men lay down to sleep where they could see the rails gleaming faintly in the starlight.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

7  She had said: "There isn't any," and gone to sleep before the words were out of her mouth.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  Yes, put you to bed," she added lightly, "and give you another drink--maybe all the dipper and make you go to sleep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

9  She liked this position, for she seldom failed to go to sleep during prayers and, in this postures it escaped her mother's notice.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

10  Melanie and Pittypat had gone to sleep hours before, but Scarlett lay awake in the warm darkness, her heart heavy and frightened in her breast.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

11  She heard sounds of moving feet upstairs and thought "May the Lord damn Prissy," before her eyes closed and something like sleep descended upon her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII

12  They had come without food or sleep, without their horses, ambulances or supply trains and, without waiting for the rest, they had leaped from the trains and into the battle.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

13  He was afraid to go to bed at night, afraid of the dark, afraid to sleep lest the Yankees should come and get him, and the sound of his soft nervous whimpering in the night grated unendurably on her nerves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

14  In the silence that fell, Scarlett saw her mother as she must have been in those last days, a thin power of strength in Tara, nursing, working, doing without sleep and food that the others might rest and eat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

15  Again the gray lines were summoned swiftly from their red ditches to defend the railroad, and, weary for sleep, exhausted from marching and fighting, and hungry, always hungry, they made another rapid march down the valley.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

16  The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sank down, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gaunt and yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers as possible.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

17  But when the dancing and toasting were finally ended and the dawn was coming, when all the Atlanta guests who could be crowded into Tara and the overseer's house had gone to sleep on beds, sofas and pallets on the floor and all the neighbors had gone home to rest in preparation for the wedding at Twelve Oaks the next day, then the dreamlike trance shattered like crystal before reality.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII