sleeps

• But night comes; our Conscious Self sleeps, our Unconscious Housewife wakes, and turning over her stores produces the missing impression; and when our other self wakes it finds the mislaid memorandum, so to speak, ready to its hand. —  Real Ghost Stories
• Here he lay for many "sleeps," knowing not when the great sun rose and when he sank. —  Lords of the North
• He was founder of the medicine hunt in which after appropriate ceremonies and incantations the Indian sleeps, and Michabo appears to him in a dream, and tells him where he may readily kill game. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
• Only lately have we been able to give them blankets: as to square meals and soft sleeps, these are dreams of the past, they belonged to another state of being. —  Gallipoli Diary, Volume I
• Sometimes the body sleeps, the eyes do not see, the ears do not hear, the members cease to act, every function is as inactive as death; nevertheless, the spirit sees, hears and soars on high. —  The Promulgation of Universal Peace

Word Family