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Definition of Sleeplessly
1. Adverb. Without sleep; in a sleepless manner. "He was lying in bed sleeplessly"
Definition of Sleeplessly
1. Adverb. In a sleepless manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sleeplessly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeplessly
Literary usage of Sleeplessly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Edmund Kemper Broadus (1904)
"... and the chiefs with whom he had come into intimate contact gathered about the
body and watched sleeplessly through the night. ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1901)
"The wealthy are declared to be sickly, discontented and unhappy, spending their
nights sleeplessly guarding their treasure. They are wicked and cruel, ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"But whatever he did, and wherever he went, he had to be sleeplessly on the watch
for his Indian foes. When he and his fellows tilled the stump-dotted fields ..."
4. Collected Plays by Stephen Phillips (1921)
"Ever the snare was set, ever in vain; The Lotus Island and the Siren strain;
Through Scylla and Charybdis hath he run, sleeplessly plunging to the setting ..."
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