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In all the higher animals, the central nervous system enters once at least in the twenty-four hours into the condition of rest which we call sleep.
A Practical Physiology Albert F. Blaisdell
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In other words, when the various functions have been more or less exercised for their daily allotted time — say seventeen hours — the respective organs need that profound rest which we know as sleep.
The Electric Bath George M. Schweig
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If in this state several of the exciting powers are withdrawn, particularly light and noise, and if we are laid in a posture which does not require much muscular exertion, we soon fall into that state which nature intended for the accumulation of the excitability, and which we call sleep.
Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease Thomas Garnett 1784
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Slowly but surely he was being lured by that all mighty conqueror which is commonly known as sleep.
The Forgotten Children... Muhammad Ali Zia 2010
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It is suspected, with a probability of 67. 45%, that about one-thousandth of the New Arkonides suffered brain damage as a result of the long-term sleep.
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A bed smoothly laid, and soft, that is, where the resistance is every way inconsiderable, is a great luxury, disposing to an universal relaxation, and inducing beyond anything else that species of it called sleep.
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A bed smoothly laid, and soft, that is, where the resistance is every way inconsiderable, is a great luxury, disposing to an universal relaxation, and inducing beyond anything else that species of it called sleep.
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A bed smoothly laid, and soft, that is, where the resistance is every way inconsiderable, is a great luxury, disposing to an universal relaxation, and inducing beyond anything else that species of it called sleep.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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I got into bed as quietly as I could and I soon joined all the others in sleep.
Work Camp 934 L 2010
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There were days and nights when Ernest never closed his eyes in sleep.
Chapter 16: The End 2010
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