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
On this side the grave ye have all slept your final sleep.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas
Weakened by disease, the heart had been powerless to bear the strain of the sudden motion, and the boy fell into his final sleep, cradled in his mother's arms.
From The Dominant Strain by Edwards, H. C. (Harry C.)
