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1  Mrs. Yeobright spoke to him as one in a mesmeric sleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
2  He changed them, spread them before the fire, and lay down to sleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
3  Venn, thoroughly weary, then shut his door and flung himself down to sleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 8 A New Force Disturbs the Current
4  He in the meantime had aroused himself from sleep, sat up, and looked around.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
5  They have carried 'em off to men's houses; but I shouldn't like to sleep where they will bide.'
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama
6  To her astonishment Clym lay precisely as Wildeve and herself had left him, his sleep apparently unbroken.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
7  He journeyed onward, not quickly or decisively, but in the slow walk of one who has been awakened from a stupefying sleep.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
8  As nobody in the house had any more sleep that night, except the two who slept for ever, there was no reason why he should not remain.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
9  The place became full of a watchful intentness now; for when other things sank blooding to sleep the heath appeared slowly to awake and listen.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: 1 A Face on Which Time Makes but Little Impression
10  Thomasin then, as always, was glad to see Clym, and took him to inspect the sleeping baby, carefully screening the candlelight from the infant's eyes with her hand.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 6 Thomasin Argues with Her Cousin, and He Writes a Letter
11  His sleep, however, was not very sound, by reason of the expectancy he had given way to, and he was easily awakened by a knocking which began at the door about an hour after.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
12  The woman who had been shaken out of her sleep by Thomasin had hastily dressed herself and lighted a fire, the other servant being left to snore on in peace at the back of the house.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together
13  And while she looked the carmine flush with which warmth and sound sleep had suffused her cheeks and neck dissolved from view, and the deathlike pallor in his face flew across into hers.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 3 Eustacia Dresses Herself on a Black Morning
14  She did not reply, and they stood looking musingly at Clym as he slept on in that profound sleep which is the result of physical labour carried on in circumstances that wake no nervous fear.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
15  His custom was to work from four o'clock in the morning till noon; then, when the heat of the day was at its highest, to go home and sleep for an hour or two; afterwards coming out again and working till dusk at nine.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 2 He Is Set upon by Adversities but He Sings a Song
16  Sometimes furze-cutters had been known to sleep out of doors at these times, to save a long journey homeward and back again; but Clym remembered the moan and looked closer, and saw that the form was feminine; and a distress came over him like cold air from a cave.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: 7 The Tragic Meeting of Two Old Friends
17  I was lying down here asleep about five minutes ago, with the door shut to keep out the weather, when the brushing of a woman's clothes over the heath-bushes just outside woke me up, for I don't sleep heavy, and at the same time I heard a sobbing or crying from the same woman.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: 8 Rain, Darkness, and Anxious Wanderers
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