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

Alluding to Lincoln's alleged change of heart, he writes: "He never changed a sentiment on the subject up to his final sleep."

From Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? by Remsburg, John B.

The next moment the great stillness had entered the hospital chamber and the Russian boy with the iron cross above his heart lay in his final sleep.

From The Red Cross Girls with the Russian Army by Vandercook, Margaret