sleep of the just

Definitions

1. A deep and worry-free sleep.
   uncountable
2. A peaceful death or burial.
   dated, euphemistic, uncountable

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2 more languages

Portuguêssono dos justos

Русскийсном пра́ведника

Examples

“Make⟳ your mind⟳ easy, Percival. Sleep⟳, my son, the sleep⟳ of the just; and see⟳ what I will do for you when daylight comes to help⟳ us both.”

“Then—Smith went to bed, and slept the sleep⟳ of the just, with not a glimmering of an idea that he was not the unselfishest and lovingest of husbands.”

“He slept the sleep⟳ of the just, with just that gentle whisper⟳ of a snore which Aristotle hints at to prove⟳ that virtue being, as she must be, in the mean⟳, doth in the neutral third of life maintain⟳ a middle course between loud snore and silent slumber.”

“That night, as Grimley Grange was sleeping the sleep⟳ of the just, two shadowy forms crept through the shrubbery by the library window with all the stealthiness of professional house-breakers.”

“After the gentleman and Senator [Mariano Jesús] Cuenco interpellated me, I knew already that my bill was hopeless. That is why I presented that bill on February 4th, but it slept the sleep⟳ of the just in the Committee on Education.”

“You would probably not say⟳ he was sleeping the sleep⟳ of the just, unless you meant the just asleep, but it was certainly the sleep⟳ of someone who was not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light⟳.”

“Lennie Doria tapped on my door a couple of nights later while I was cramming (Nate had been in the rack for an hour or more, sleeping the sleep⟳ of the just and the caught-up) and asked me if I had any interest⟳ in writing a paper about Crispus Atticus.”

“All night long, she tossed and turned in bed, envious of Nennella, who shared the same room but didn't question⟳ things very deeply. The maid slept the sleep⟳ of the just, and a faint whistling came from her nose, like⟳ babies when they have⟳ a slight cold.”

“Towards the close⟳ of the day (the 8th) the holy father [Pope Leo XII], who had never lost his recollection, fell into a profound lethargy, from which he did not recover⟳ till at nine in the morning of the 10th [of February, 1829], to fall⟳ into the sleep⟳ of the just.”

“At length he [Jean-Pierre-François Guillot-Duhamel] slept the sleep⟳ of the just, on the 19th February 1816, aged somewhat less than 86 years old.”

“He [Albert Vernon Randall] was called to his final reward⟳ in January, 1883, after a long and useful life, and with his faithful wife, Sarah (Pettit) Randall, who was born May 9, 1809, in Loudoun County, Virginia, now sleeps the sleep⟳ of the just in the beautiful cemetery at Shebyville.”

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