"Sleep out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Miles," put in the mate. "God bless the old lady; she shall never sleep out of the house, with my consent, unless it is when she sails down the river to go to the theatre, and the museum, the ten or fifteen Dutch churches there are in town, and all them 'ere ...
— Miles Wallingford - Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" • James Fenimore Cooper
... floating dock. Most of the night is spent in sitting on deck and watching the Persian roustabouts carry the cargo aboard, for the shouting, the inevitable noisy squabbling, and the thud of bales dumped into the hold render sleep out of ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens
... madhouse," and he will say, "Wherein am I mad?" Say to a tramp under a hedge, "Go to the house of exceptional failures," and he will say with equal reason, "I travel because I have no house; I walk because I have no horse; I sleep out because I have no bed. Wherein have I failed?" And he may have the intelligence to add, "Indeed, your worship, if somebody has failed, I think it is not I." I concede, with all due haste, that he might ...
— Eugenics and Other Evils • G. K. Chesterton
... here awhile," he said. "The smoke might be too much for her, and the paper rustles so. We'd better let her have her sleep out." ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... the fastenings and removed the chain, "if a body may judge by the kear (care) you take on't! Now, down our way we ain't half so partic'lar; Dolly and Blossom never so much as putting up a bar to the door, even when I sleep out, which is about half the time, now the ...
— Oak Openings • James Fenimore Cooper
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