final sleep
Example Sentences
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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
The fear of sleeplessness is almost worse than the reality; but one falls asleep at last without knowing how, and so it shall some day be with our final sleep.
From Waldfried A Novel by Auerbach, Berthold
He will be in bed, his candle out, and in darkness, in five minutes, and his shoes found next morning at his door, the little potentate all the while in his final sleep.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright
