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  • He had entered his death-sleep expecting to be Herdmaster again.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • Since his revival from the death-sleep, the priest's position had never been stronger.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • She dreaded, on his account, the subjection to strangers, and the death-sleep of the soul which is brought on by what she regarded as slavery.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • Unfortunately the doctor killed his patient, who counterfeited the death-sleep very effectively with her whitened face; and then followed the funeral and the mourning.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • But the increasing curve of wealth production had allowed the orthodox to reincarnate from death-sleep after a few decades, once the fundamental headaches of building settlements in chilly orbits around metal-deficient brown dwarf stars had been overcome.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Rahail collected me out of my death-sleep by jerking my headstall and striking me, while he shouted that we had lost our direction, and were wandering toward the Turkish lines at Aba el

    Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

  • It would take nothing more than the lights to be turned down, and I'd crawl unashamedly under my desk, curl into a fetal position, and sleep the death-sleep of someone who's been awake more hours than her body appreciates.

    overtaken Diary Entry overtaken 2003

  • Morth said, Yangin-Atep spends most of his time in a death-sleep, but a big fire wakes him.

    The Burning City Larry Niven 2000

  • That finished him, and now he is in the death-sleep.

    Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

  • Sometimes I could rouse him to take a drink of water; sometimes he seemed already in the death-sleep and would not stir for me; yet I felt his presence, and thought that he felt mine.

    The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972

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