Word in a Tom Hanks film title

Usage examples of sleepless.

Yet it was possible in still weather to hear the muted bombilation of the sleepless city and when the wind was in the north to count the hammer-strokes of the great bell of St.

Sleepless and unarmed, he sits whole nights in his closet, debating with reverend graybeards, and turning over the pages of ecclesiastical volumes.

So impatient did I feel for the next day to come that I thought the opera detestable, and the night for me was a sleepless one.

He came in with the book-editor, who went away about six hours ago with thirteen finished chapters -- the bloody product of fifty-five consecutive hours of sleepless, foodless, high-speed editing.

I spent a weary night as I had expected, for anger, the mother of vengeance, always made me sleepless, while sudden happiness had sometimes the same effect.

I passed a sleepless night, weeping all the time, and in the morning I went and complained to the police that you had taken off my daughter, and asked them to send after you and make you give her back to me.

It lies between you and Hyn, who bowed her head to you, as it lies also between the sleepless one and Hynyn.

I was a hundred yards from the house, leading Aristotle toward the outskirts of Kuttar, my heart in my throat as I prayed that no sleepless soul would chance to see me in the bright moonlight.

Ultimately a meeting was called to consider the question of liquidating the company, and at this meeting, after three sleepless nights, I occupied the chair.

In the night, lying sleepless, she told herself that she was behaving like a fool--a lovesick fool, she amended, determined to be honest with herself.

So that he was well pleased to mark the Red Foliot go softly from his seat on the dais and forth from the hall by a door behind the arras, and seeing this, himself departed softly amid the full tide of the Galliard, forth of that hall of swift movement and gleeful laughter, forth into the quiet evening, where above the smooth downs the wind was lulled to sleep in the vast silent spaces of the sky, and the west was a bower of orange light fading to purple and unfathomable blue in the upper heaven, and nought was heard save the murmur of the sleepless sea, and nought seen save a flight of wildfowl flying against the sunset.

Marti, for all the dead trapped sleepless and peaceless and tormented in their graves.

But as it was, her own sleepless journey reminded her of the tasks of Psyche in the Greek myth, a story Lucien had once told her, at the Luxembourg Gardens, and which had retained for her ever after the shattering poignancy of that time.

Informed by Briggs that Lady Wilcott enjoyed her morning walk, Reyn had no choice but to delay his confrontation with the source of his sleepless night.

He did not want to explain now how so many sleepless nights strung end to end had afforded him the opportunity to refine his sneaksman skills.