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    sleeplessness


    1. The involuntary twitch of sleeplessness starts


    2. The sleeplessness began to let up when he got to Collingston


    3. The walking, the scourging and sleeplessness had left Jesus incredibly weak


    4. Come morning her face was that of a sad older woman, with eyelids swollen from the crying and the sleeplessness


    5. I am proud to say that during this last bout of sleeplessness, I


    6. In his sleeplessness, he twisted and shifted his position to try and break the memory but it was no good


    7. Here and now in the loneliness of the night, he used them to distract his thoughts from his own sleeplessness and the dangers to come


    8. There is something sacred at the bottom of the bottle of this medicine Taken in short bursts it causes side effects of migraine & sleeplessness Hold it in, choke it down, & please look around for anyone who’s sleeping here I don’t have any sympathy for those not attuned to the radio’s buzz This shit makes your heart stop


    9. We ‘borrowed’ proper clothes from a house at the edge of Londal, and the starch wool isn’t helping my sleeplessness


    10. by meditating on a few of the reasons for sleeplessness:

    11. In conducting studies on sleep and the causes of sleeplessness, it has


    12. So far, this is the only constructive reason for sleeplessness


    13. Exhausted by his recent experience, Siri remained at the ruins overnight and endured a night of bad dreams interspersed with long periods of sleeplessness


    14. through the gates of sleeplessness


    15. Yes! That would do it; a tranquilizer of sorts, used to calm nerves or sometimes aid sleeplessness


    16. And his nights were spent in sweaty sleeplessness with no chance of rest


    17. Still, five years ago, even perhaps only a single year ago, no amount of blows and sleeplessness would have prevented her reflection from shining back at her with very nearly its usual loveliness


    18. The woman depicted here is suffering ‘Tormentum Insomniae’ or torture by sleeplessness


    19. Well, this was sleeplessness


    20. It also has been used in traditional medicine in aiding the sleeplessness caused by over

    21. It has been used as tea in some cultures to aid sleeplessness for women during menstrual


    22. production of certain hormones, resulting in highly active, sleeplessness and


    23. Dealing with your problem of sleeplessness doesn't have to lead to another more serious problem, such as in becoming addicted to a prescription drug


    24. and if so, you may dismount and safely reckon upon any quantity of sleeplessness under this roof for a twelvemonth, not to say for a single night


    25. The big trunk stood ready in the hall, Mother's cloak and bonnet lay on the sofa, and Mother herself sat trying to eat, but looking so pale and worn with sleeplessness and anxiety that the girls found it very hard to keep their resolution


    26. His forehead, that I once thought so manly, and that I now think so diabolical, was shaded with a heavy cloud; his basilisk eyes were nearly quenched by sleeplessness, and weeping, perhaps, for the lashes were wet then; his lips devoid of their ferocious sneer, were sealed in an expression of unspeakable sadness


    27. Under the strain of this continually impending doom and by the sleeplessness to which I now condemned myself, ay, even beyond what I had thought possible to man, I became, in my own person, a creature eaten up and emptied by fever, languidly weak both in body and mind, and solely occupied by one thought: the horror of my other self


    28. The velvety, caressing glance of his fine eyes seemed dead, and even decomposed; for these almond-shaped, languishing orbs had become inappropriately bloodshot with much sinister sleeplessness


    29. Sleeplessness had robbed his will of all energy, for he had not slept seven hours in the seven days


    30. The magnificent Capataz de Cargadores, victim of the disenchanted vanity which is the reward of audacious action, sat in the weary pose of a hunted outcast through a night of sleeplessness as tormenting as any known to Decoud, his companion in the most desperate affair of his life

    31. A swimming nausea compounded of hunger, sleeplessness, exhaustion and stunning “No wine,” she said dully, remembering the endless rows of bottles in the cellar


    32. The townspeople, heavy eyed from sleeplessness and anxious waiting, knew that Before dawn the news had trickled about that the military inquiry would take place that the safety of some of their most prominent citizens rested on three things—the ability of Ashley Wilkes to stand on his feet and appear before the military board, as though he suffered nothing more serious than a morning-after headache, the word of Belle Watling that these men had been in her house all evening and the word of Rhett Butler that he had been with them


    33. Casaubon was perhaps unusually silent; but there were hours of the night which might be counted on as opportunities of conversation; for Dorothea, when aware of her husband's sleeplessness, had established a habit of rising, lighting a candle, and reading him to sleep again


    34. He had a piercing headache from his recent sleeplessness and hyperactive mental activity


    35. Worn out by sleeplessness and anxiety they threw their burden of sorrow on one another and reproached and disputed with each other


    36. As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was seized by an unreasoning panic- it occurred to him that the child was dead


    37. Having lit his candle he sat up in bed, then got up, then lay down again not at all troubled by his sleeplessness: his soul was as fresh and joyful as if he had stepped out of a stuffy room into God’s own fresh air


    38. His forehead, that I once thought so manly, and that I now think so diabolical, was shaded with a heavy cloud; his basilisk eyes were nearly quenched by sleeplessness, and weeping, perhaps, for the lashes were wet then: his lips devoid of their ferocious sneer, and sealed in an expression of unspeakable sadness


    39. Alexander called him "my sleeplessness


    40. Cosette sufficed for his happiness; the idea that he, perhaps, did not suffice for Cosette's happiness, that idea which had formerly been the cause of his fever and sleeplessness, did not even present itself to his mind

    41. His eyes were hollow, and so sunken in his head by sleeplessness that they nearly disappeared in their orbits


    42. But now that it had come, he did not feel the thrill of triumph he had imagined so often in his sleeplessness


    43. They talked, not concerned about the hour, because both were accustomed to sharing the sleepless nights of their youth, and they had much less to lose in the sleeplessness of old age


    44. But in the cautious comprehensiveness and unloitering vigilance with which Ahab threw his brooding soul into this unfaltering hunt, he would not permit himself to rest all his hopes upon the one crowning fact above mentioned, however flattering it might be to those hopes; nor in the sleeplessness of his vow could he so tranquillize his unquiet heart as to postpone all intervening quest


    45. All these ill-natured women and sickly children, together with their tormentor, were crowded together in a wooden house on Petersburg Side, and did not get enough to eat because the old man was stingy and gave out to them money a farthing at a time, though he did not grudge himself vodka; they did not get enough sleep because the old man suffered from sleeplessness and insisted on being amused


    46. He spoke in fun, but the doctor informed him that the fact of feelings and opinions changing during meditations at night, and during sleeplessness, was one long recognised by science; and that that was especially the case with persons of strong thinking power, and of acute feelings


    47. As often happens after long sleeplessness and long anxiety, he was seized by an unreasoning panic—it occurred to him that the child was dead


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    Synonyms for "sleeplessness"

    sleeplessness wakefulness

    "sleeplessness" definitions

    a temporary state in which you are unable (or unwilling) to sleep