final sleep
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Van Gogh’s severed ear also haunts this work, which begins in pain and stays in pain until it frames Artaud’s sought-for final sleep in Ivry-sur-Seine, France, in 1948.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2024
John opens the front door and steps out into the quiet tension of his neighborhood’s final sleep cycle.
From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2011
“She went to her final sleep most tranquilly, most sweetly at twelve o’clock today’ Dr. Gully had written up the cause of death as a “Bilious Fever with typhoid character!’
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
Messrs. Chiswell and Tirrell of the Carpenters' Group were called on for their help, whilst Mrs. Pratt and others prepared the body for its final sleep.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by Codman, John Thomas
In that final sleep Jack Pudding lies with Roscius; the tragedian does not disdain the mummer, and beautiful Columbine, all silver spangles and lace, is company for the clown.
From The Strollers by Fisher, Harrison
