WordNet
n. euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" [syn: rest, eternal rest, sleep, quietus]
Usage examples of "eternal sleep".
He felt the divine and limitless energies, waked from eternal sleep, that were flowering with such dynamic violence in time.
There is also peace in a land whose borders are as quiet as the eternal sleep of Mount T’.
There is also peace in a land whose borders are as quiet as the eternal sleep of Mount T'ai.
His heart seemed always on a lonely hill on the Lebanese border where Dafna lay in eternal sleep alongside twenty other Haganah boys and girls who had fallen for Ha Mishmar.
Luciano rips open his breast with a wound in the form of a cross, and he sinks into eternal sleep.
Another tradition explains this eternal sleep as a punishment inflicted by Zeus on Endymion who, on his admission to Olympus, had been rash enough to aspire to Hera's love.
To calm the fears aroused by this demon, Brahma wanted to confer on him the gift of eternal sleep.
Athos preserved, even in the eternal sleep, his placid and sincere smile,- an ornament which was to accompany him to the tomb.
I should join in the regret of Gibbon, if these books contain any historical information: if they are but a continuation of the controversies which fill the last books in our present copies, they may as well sleep their eternal sleep in Ms.