"Sound asleep" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the princess's drawing-room. She had a prodigious longing, sometimes, to jump over cousin Glum's great broad back, as she sat before the fire; but she knew that would never do, so she was prudent, and contented herself with scampering over the furniture; while Glumdalkin, pretending to be sound asleep all the time, would be watching her with one eye open the least bit in the world, and secretly wishing that Friskarina might be unlucky enough to dash down one of the princess's old china jars that ...
— Tales From Catland, for Little Kittens • Tabitha Grimalkin
... near midnight, I found my column from Duck River there in compact order. As the road was clear and the Confederates all sound asleep, while the Union forces were all wide awake, there was no apparent reason for not continuing the march that night. A column of artillery and wagons, and another of infantry, moved side by side along the broad turnpike, so that if the redoubtable Forrest should wake up and make his appearance ...
— Forty-Six Years in the Army • John M. Schofield
... And then for a third time, loudly, keeping on until I was sure that, if there were anyone in the room, no matter how sound asleep, I ...
— The Powers and Maxine • Charles Norris Williamson
... don't want to speak of it. It wasn't true. Don't look at me like that. Maggie came, and said that little Pearl lived. I was so relieved that I kissed Maggie, yes, actually, although she is only a kitchen-maid. Maggie got a warm bath ready, and put baby in, and when I left the hut she was sound asleep. Maggie knew exactly what to do for her. Fancy my kissing her, although ...
— Polly - A New-Fashioned Girl • L. T. Meade
... very quiet, for the baby meadow-larks were sleepy little fellows, and before he knew it Thumbkins was sound asleep himself, with an arm around ...
— Friendly Fairies • Johnny Gruelle
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