"___ in the deep"

Usage examples of asleep.

You were asleep, or at least I thought you were, then suddenly, I saw you standing with a group of Aboriginal women.

So he went to his place and fell asleep and slept long, while the women went down to acre and meadow, or saw to the baking of bread or the sewing of garments, or went far afield to tend the neat and the sheep.

At night, when everybody was asleep, he and the famous airman Lyapidevsky found and rescued the Chelyuskin expedition, and with Vodopyanov he landed heavy aircraft on the pack ice at the North Pole, arid with Chkalov opened the unexplored air route to the United States across the Pole.

When all efforts had failed, Seregil had tumbled into it beside Alec and fallen asleep almost at once.

When Alec was certain he was soundly asleep this time, he fell into his own bed, only to be awakened a second time by the sound of soft voices.

As the flames sprang up, he discovered Alec asleep on the narrow couch behind him.

To be the butt of a joke was nothing compared with the humiliation of not handling the alky, of falling asleep on watch.

In the clearing around the Twins many of the Amar were already asleep, rolled tight into their sleeping leathers, their heads covered, their toes naked to the darkening night.

Carlo was out cold, in the ambient just barely, in that very faint way you could pick up someone sound asleep, at very close range.

Her ardour made me amorous, and I rendered homage to her charms till I fell asleep with fatigue.

He was ravenous for the buttermilk, and when he stretched on the bench in the arbour the flickering patches of sunlight so tantalized his tired eyes, while the bees made such splendid music, he was soon sound asleep.

Batesby was asleep that night, and the Archdeacon was, in a Victorian way, engaged in his prayers, when Gregory Persimmons stood up alone in his room.

Now he wants me to lead him to the Armoury, at an hour in the morning when any man with half a brain in his head is fast asleep!

Seeing Asch lying motionless on the straw, apparently asleep, he tried to be as quiet as possible.

By the time Astasia reached the musical squirrel and the bumblebee, Karila was yawning, and long before the swan princess made her appearance, the little girl had fallen asleep.