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1  In short, she could not sleep till she had examined it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
2  Sleep, or repose that deserved the name of sleep, was out of the question.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 28
3  To close her eyes in sleep that night, she felt must be entirely out of the question.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
4  Murder was not tolerated, servants were not slaves, and neither poison nor sleeping potions to be procured, like rhubarb, from every druggist.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 25
5  To retire to bed, however, unsatisfied on such a point, would be vain, since sleep must be impossible with the consciousness of a cabinet so mysteriously closed in her immediate vicinity.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 21
6  I remember too, Miss Andrews drank tea with us that evening, and wore her puce-coloured sarsenet; and she looked so heavenly that I thought your brother must certainly fall in love with her; I could not sleep a wink all night for thinking of it.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15
7  This, on arriving in Pulteney Street, took the direction of extraordinary hunger, and when that was appeased, changed into an earnest longing to be in bed; such was the extreme point of her distress; for when there she immediately fell into a sound sleep which lasted nine hours, and from which she awoke perfectly revived, in excellent spirits, with fresh hopes and fresh schemes.
Northanger Abbey By Jane Austen
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9