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
But for him she would have remained in peaceful oblivion, out of which she would have passed imperceptibly to her final sleep.
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
After long travelling I felt very drowsy, and had thoughts of sitting down, which had I done, without doubt I had fallen on my final sleep.
From Glimpses of the Past History of the River St. John, A.D. 1604-1784 by W. O. (William Odber) Raymond
