sleeps

• “‘How many sleeps is it until theatre class?’ says Tadpole innocently.”

  package

• “When a child sleeps is probably more important than how long he sleeps," he says.”

  Experts: Set good sleep habits early

• “Future events are always measured in sleeps in our household.”

  calling in favours

• “The dream that arises when Frankenstein sleeps, our principal focus here, is completely absent from Shelley's initial dream.”

  Hogle, Introduction, Frankenstein's Dream, Praxis Series, Romantic Circles

• “The Republicans sought for the spot, but it was preserved from their knowledge; and the high-spirited, pure-hearted Henri de la Rochejaquelein sleeps beside his enemy in the midst of the woodlands where be won for himself eternal honour.”

  A Book of Golden Deeds

• “– She was in a sad twitter when she know'd you had told me, and said it was impossible to do what you desired – for the room where she sleeps is a closet within Madam Lennard's, hardly big enough to hold a bed, by reason that her room doors are locked; and for the window, it is barred up with a long iron bar; so that if Miss had courage to get down a ladder, she could not get out – or if she did, she could never get back again.”

  The Old Manor House

• “Whenever I mention an activity any time in advance, whether it’s months or even years, my 5 year old boy will always say “how many sleeps is that”, with his favorite big number at the moment being sixty-four hundred.”

  red

• “I put Avery in the bed where Holly sleeps, which is the bed she and I shared.”

  Fictionaut: Second verse, same as the first

• “I much prefer the "Mafia" variation -- in which the killers do their work at "night" while everybody "sleeps" -- because there's much more room for analysis and argumentation.”

  Being It

• “It was an exhausting day and the Bad One sleeps, which is good.”

  Bizarro World | Her Bad Mother

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