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- noun Obsolete spelling of
sleep . - verb Obsolete spelling of
sleep .
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Examples
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And therefore after dinner there is no talking with them, but euery man goeth to his bench to take his afternoones sleepe, which is as ordinary with them as their nights rest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And therefore after dinner there is no talking with them, but euery man goeth to his bench to take his afternoones sleepe, which is as ordinary with them as their nights rest.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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At a town meeting in 1662, it was ordered "that a cage be made or some other meanes invented by the selectmen to punish such as sleepe or take tobacco on the Lord's day out of the meetinge in the time of publique service."
An Old Town By the Sea Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1871
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295: Sleeke-headed men, and such as sleepe a-nights:
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And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
What, where, and how is the best way to hunt pheasants without a dog. Thanks. 2010
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For in that sleepe of death, what dreames may come,
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The people of the countrie, when they travaile in the woods make fires where they sleepe in the night; and in the morning when they are gone, the Pongoes will come and sit about the fire till it goeth out; for they have no understanding to lay the wood together.
Essays 2007
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They sleepe in the trees, and build shelters for the raine.
Essays 2007
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And poppie, or charmes can make us sleepe as well,
Death be not proud M-mv 2005
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