"Short sleep" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... short sleep we must have, but we'll have to take our rest without kindling a fire," ...
— The Crew of the Water Wagtail • R.M. Ballantyne
... love, scarcely able to speak, and unwilling to eat, in spite of Arthur's coaxing. Half the night they sat there, mostly silent, talking reverently, every one touched and afraid to disturb them; after a short sleep they were on deck again to see the ship enter the harbor in the gray dawn. The sun was still behind the brown hills. Arthur saw a silver bay, a mournful shore with a few houses huddled miserably in the distance, and bare hills without verdure or life. It was an indifferent part of the earth ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith |
