Example Sentences

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Sleeplessly, he reads a book by Ovid that does finally knock him out and inspires the dream that he then relates.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

Sleeplessly, anxiously, wretchedly, until long after midnight, when he fell asleep.

From Self-Raised Or, From the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

Sleeplessly, faithfully, she went to and fro in that darkened room, whose atmosphere was tainted by infection, and at last she found her reward.

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans