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God of mercy!" he cried, as he looked into it, "your man must have shot you with a currycomb." When he had done his best for me I went to bed, and immediately fell asleep. I slept like a log until the hour of noon perfectly dreamless sleep. I heard the bells of the hour ringing and guessed the time; I remembered that Scipione was away; I remembered everything.
Signora Teresa opened her eyes a little, as though he had awakened her from a very deep and dreamless slumber. Before he had time in his deliberate way to say a reassuring word she jumped up, with the children clinging to her, one on each side, gasped for breath, and let out a hoarse shriek. It was simultaneous with the bang of a violent blow struck on the outside of the shutter.
To a true-hearted man, it is almost impossible to find any picture to which his nature turns with fonder delight than to that of a mother with a child sleeping on the breast, full of sweet trust and enjoying a dreamless repose, or being ministered to in his nude state in the morning bath. The spiritual covers the common with a halo of glory, and robes woman in the light of love.
After the lapse of perhaps an hour, possibly more, I felt the ground beneath my feet, and staggering out of the water, I flung myself upon the dry land, and, notwithstanding the howling of the wind and the roar of the breakers, I fell into a deep and dreamless sleep.
The morning sun, as its rays shot in between the blinds, lighted the seamed and careworn face of an old man, resting as in a serene, dreamless sleep. Mr.
They at first thought they were too excited, in view of the coming night's adventures, to sleep, but as the Indians so desired they lay down near the shore, and the rippling waves were such a soothing lullaby that, strange to say, they were soon in dreamless slumber.
"Yes death as you conceive it to be." "Well, does any one fear sleep? Do we not seek it, court it, wish that it may be sound that is to say, dreamless? We desire occasional annihilation wish to be dead for eight and ten hours at a time.
Once more he roused himself, heard the storm raving on over buried graves and curtained beds, heedless of human heeding fell a-listening to its shriek-broken roar, and so into a soundless and dreamless sleep. He woke so suddenly that for a moment he knew himself only for somebody he knew. There lay upon him the weight of an indefinable oppression the horror of a darkness too vague to be combated.
And to wish that we may be united with God is not to wish that we may be lost and submerged in Him, for this loss and submersion of self ends at last in the complete dissolution of self in the dreamless sleep of Nirvana; it is to wish to possess Him rather than to be possessed by Him.
Her sorrows, however, were speedily charmed away by the representation made to her by her mother that if the ship had not been burnt they would probably never have thought of going for a delightful sail in the boats, as they now were; and soon afterwards the poor overtired child fell into a deep dreamless sleep in her mother's arms.
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