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1  I like for sleep there, she insisted eagerly.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
2  When it comes to one, it comes as naturally as sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
3  I told her I would like to sleep in the haymow, with the boys.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
4  I've got a good nose for directions, and I never did need much sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XIV
5  Everything was still, however, and I must have gone to sleep again immediately.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
6  Maybe Jim would be willing to go over there and sleep, and you could come here nights.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
7  Two of the boys sleep in the haymow till cold weather comes, but there's no need for it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I
8  I had been sleeping, curled up in a red plush seat, for a long while when we reached Black Hawk.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
9  I tried to go to sleep, but the jolting made me bite my tongue, and I soon began to ache all over.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
10  I hated to enter the still house when I went home from the dances, and it was long before I could get to sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XII
11  He made her promise that she would not sleep away from the house, or be out late in the evening, while he was gone.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
12  Fuchs had got a few hours' sleep at the livery barn in town, but he was afraid the grey gelding had strained himself.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XV
13  I found a shawl and an overcoat on the hat-rack, lay down on the parlour sofa, and in spite of my hurts, went to sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XV
14  The boys who brought her home after the dances sometimes laughed at the back gate and wakened Mr. Harling from his first sleep.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: X
15  At night, before I went to sleep, I often found myself in a sledge drawn by three horses, dashing through a country that looked something like Nebraska and something like Virginia.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
16  When Antonia and her father got into the wagon, I entreated grandmother to let me go with them: I would gladly go without my supper, I would sleep in the Shimerdas' barn and run home in the morning.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
17  After listening to her insinuations about his physical soundness, Cutter would resume his dumb-bell practice for a month, or rise daily at the hour when his wife most liked to sleep, dress noisily, and drive out to the track with his trotting-horse.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2. The Hired Girls: XI
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