lull to sleep
Example Sentences
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From Salon • Nov. 8, 2024
On such occasions, however, I had but little scope for displaying my heroism; for the abbe, whose vigilance nothing could lull to sleep, was always at our heels.
From Mauprat by Young, Stanley
Where could such grateful languor o'er Him creep, Or what more soothing murmur lull to sleep?
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard
He reached the chamber door, where stood Around his followers young and good, Bard, minstrel, charioteer, Well skilled the tuneful chords to sweep, With soothing strain to lull to sleep, Or laud their master dear.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
It is not my purpose to attempt to lull to sleep in fancied security those who have been influenced by those suspected of being unnecessarily active in fighting windmills.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
