fall asleep
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With some ordinary dull adult voice droning on, so the greatest danger is that I might fall asleep.
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Dad would pet my hair, sing me French nursery rhymes, and tell funny stories until I fell asleep.
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When Annad had finally fallen asleep, exhausted by the excitement, Rowan lay awake in his bed, looking out of the window at the huge bulk of the Mountain.
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It was the kind of sadness that made him want to curl into a ball and fall asleep until the bad day had passed.
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You slither out onto its snuggly warm blackness, and pretty soon you get so cozy and content lying there that you fall asleep, stretched out and snoring, even.
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