dog-sleep

Ponocrates, after he had a while rubbed his noddle and shaken his ears, asked how one might avoid dog-sleep.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Ponocrates, after he had a while rubbed his noddle and shaken his ears, asked how one might avoid dog-sleep.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

In the trench at night, when fever and rheumatism kept him from the dog-sleep that other men were snatching, he would hear her crying over and over: "Oh, cruel, to break a poor girl's heart!"

The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

He planted his bristly chin upon his folded arms, and closed his eyes in a kind of dog-sleep.

Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875

Alas! with the maid in the Gospel, he is not dead, but sleepeth; or rather, he sleepeth not, but only shutteth his eyes in dog-sleep, and doth awake when he seeth his advantage, and snappeth up many a lamb out of our flocks.

Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863

So he made the best of his plaid, and picked a softish place, and went off into a sort of dog-sleep, which lasted at intervals through the short summer night.

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

But my sleep distressed me more than my watching, for beside the tumultuousness of my dreams (which were only not so awful as those which I shall have to describe hereafter as produced by opium), my sleep was never more than what is called _dog-sleep_; so that

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater Thomas De Quincey 1822

Ponocrates, after he had a while rubbed his noddle and shaken his ears, asked how one might avoid dog-sleep.

Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518