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Many are so upset check this out, some are finding it hard to sleep,
Rape, murder and general violence in ‘peaceful’ military occupations « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog 2009
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His wife, she had a nightmare while walking in her sleep,
On the Making of Sausage eddvick 2007
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By his eyebrows which deny that she who looks on them should sleep,
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I spend the night with lids of eye that never close in sleep,
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“What, Conachar!” he replied, as he started from sleep,
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Which, for these fourteen years, we have let sleep,
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All heaven and earth are still — though not in sleep,
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Then would Mr Perch relate to gaping listeners, in a low voice, as if the corpse of the deceased House were lying unburied in the next room, how Mrs Perch had first come to surmise that things was going wrong by hearing him (Perch) moaning in his sleep,
Dombey and Son 2007
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"Ida B," Mama said to me on one of those days that start right and just keep heading toward perfect until you go to sleep,
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This Ayrton resolved to learn at any cost, and as an hour after his arrival the vociferations had begun to die away, and as a large number of the convicts were already buried in a drunken sleep,
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