1 A native warrior fights as he sleeps, without the protection of anything defensive.
2 I never abide in any place, sleeping or waking, without an example of this gifted work.
3 An Indian seldom sleeps in war, and plunder may keep a Huron here after his tribe has departed.
4 By this time Duncan was thoroughly awake, and he immediately lifted the shawl from the sleeping females.
5 I could sleep in peace," whispered Alice, in reply, "with such a fearless and generous-looking youth for my sentinel.
6 The boys were already buried in sleep, and all the women, and most of the warriors, had retired to their lodges for the night.
7 You have driven their tribes from the seashore, and would now believe what their enemies say, that you may sleep at night upon an easy pillow.
8 Hawkeye, without looking round to read his triumph in applauding eyes, very composedly stretched his tall frame before the dying embers, and closed his own organs in sleep.
9 After an hour had passed in the indulgence of their better feelings, Chingachgook abruptly announced his desire to sleep, by wrapping his head in his blanket and stretching his form on the naked earth.
10 At such moments, it seemed as if a vast range of country lay buried in eternal sleep; not the least sound arising from the forest, unless it was the distant and scarcely audible rippling of a water-course.
11 It would be a change, indeed, for a man who has passed his days in the open air," returned the single-minded scout; "and who has so often broken his fast on the head waters of the Hudson, to sleep within sound of the roaring Mohawk.
12 Cora may submit to the justice of your opinion though she cannot put it in practice," returned the elder sister, who had placed herself by the side of Alice, on a couch of sassafras; "there would be other causes to chase away sleep, though we had been spared the shock of this mysterious noise.
13 According to the orders of the preceding night, the heavy sleep of the army was broken by the rolling of the warning drums, whose rattling echoes were heard issuing, on the damp morning air, out of every vista of the woods, just as day began to draw the shaggy outlines of some tall pines of the vicinity, on the opening brightness of a soft and cloudless eastern sky.