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"Oversleep" Quotes from Famous Books

... breath, so characteristic of adolescence, and one factor in the inebriate's propensity, is ontogenetic expression of a rhythm trait of a long racial period. Youth needs overexertion to compensate for underexertion, to undersleep in order to offset oversleep at times. This seems to be nature's provision to expand in all directions its possibilities of the body and soul in this plastic period when, without this occasional excess, powers would atrophy ...

— Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene • G. Stanley Hall

... trumpeter herself managed to awake is something that never bothered anybody else. It was her business not to oversleep. And she knew that it would be very unpleasant for her if she failed even ...

— The Tale of Buster Bumblebee • Arthur Scott Bailey

... surely die!" And so he did:—they cut his throat, And put to sleep his rousing note. And yet this murder mended not The cruel hardship of their lot; For now the twain were scarce in bed Before they heard the summons dread. The beldam, full of apprehension Lest oversleep should cause detention, Ran like ...

— A Hundred Fables of La Fontaine • Jean de La Fontaine

... you sleep, my dear! I've been calling and rapping here for a quarter of an hour! Good gracious, child what made you oversleep yourself so?" ...

— Capitola the Madcap • Emma D. E. N. Southworth

... a door barred and bolted again! Am I not to have an atom of breakfast, because I just happened to oversleep myself? The mornings get darker and darker; it is almost impossible to see ...

— Springhaven - A Tale of the Great War • R. D. Blackmore

Words linked to "Oversleep" : slumber, catch some Z's, sleep, kip, log Z's