send to sleep
Example Sentences
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There are good, blessed mortals, whom two glasses of wine immediately send to sleep, and to whom it is the most exquisite torture to be obliged to remain awake.
From Debts of Honor by Yolland, Arthur B. (Arthur Battishill)
But he always welcomed physical fatigue; it served to send to sleep the restless intellect, the gnawing regrets, the bitter sense of wasted powers and of useless knowledge, which were his daily company.
From The Waters of Edera by Ouida
