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Updated: May 29, 2025
He sinks and is rocked, forgets himself; and in that narrowing of his own individual existence, in that half- waking, half-sleeping, he has discovered a rest so great that it nearly resembles half-death. But the awakening came.
Don't whine because you can't be a saint, and she ain't an angel. Be a man and treat her like a woman. Don't be a damn fool. Good-by." He tore himself from Brown's grasp, and leaped down the stairs like a deer. At the stable door he collared the half-sleeping hostler and backed him against the wall. "Saddle my horse in two minutes, or I'll " The ellipsis was frightfully suggestive.
This was the conclusion which Sally had just reached at the end of her half-sleeping and half-waking dream of her runaway soldier. She did not know that she was to make such an extraordinary remark aloud, but fortunately no one had the faintest knowledge of her meaning.
The earthy smell, the sunless air, the sensation of the world being shut out, the resounding of the organ through the black and white arched galleries and aisles, are wings that take me back, and hold me hovering above those days, in a half-sleeping and half-waking dream. I am not the last boy in the school. I have risen in a few months, over several heads.
It was difficult to proceed along the dimly lighted deck without stumbling over some half-sleeping convict, who retorted by oaths and kicks. Ayrton was, therefore, more than once obliged to halt. But at last he arrived at the partition dividing the aftercabin, and found the door opening into the magazine itself. Ayrton, compelled to force it open, set to work.
She learnt it by heart and let it sing to her as she lay half-sleeping and half-waking, half-living and half-dying: "There is a World; men compass it through tears, Dare doom for joy of it; it called me o'er the foam; I found it down the track of sundering years, Beyond the long island where the sea steals home.
The men in the "long green" roused the half-sleeping Moors in the companion boat, and it was evident that both meant going out together to tow the belated cargo in. Our voices carried less as the wind rose, and it was evident even to Madunnah that words were wasted.
Ere long all this was forgotten as we lay under the starry sky in profound slumber. While we slept, the Creator was preparing that wonderful and beautiful change to which I have referred. Clouds gradually overspread the sky I observed this when, in a half-sleeping state I rose to mend our fire, but thought nothing of it.
Huldbrand, however, persuaded himself that the priest was full of whims and fancies, and with dawn of day he sent for a father from the nearest monastery, who, without hesitation, promised to perform the ceremony in a few days. It was between night and dawn of day that the knight was lying on his couch, half-waking, half-sleeping.
The other, the colossus with the colossal appetite, looked hungrily at Jean's hands, as if to reproach them for being always empty in those days. Perhaps, in his half-sleeping state, he had dreamed that Jean was away at the commissary's for rations. "D n the luck!" he grumbled, "we'll have to tighten up our belts another hole!"
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