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Meanings of eternal sleep in English

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Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

Usage of eternal sleep in English
1
They seemed to be in the first hour of the eternal sleep.
The Wandering Jew — Volume 11
2
In just a slightly stronger dose it brought the eternal sleep itself.
Blood and Bone
3
The promise of eternal sleep is not sweet to a live man.
Wise or Otherwise
4
She has earned that beautiful, eternal sleep which alone brings perfect peace.
Bought and Paid For; From the Play of George Broadhurst
5
And in a few days-whocould say?-perhapseternal sleep somewhere near Lens.
Now It Can Be Told
6
He is deaf and insensible; he reposes in an eternal sleep.
The Amulet
7
Sweet to rejoin, were it only in eternal sleep, those that are away.
Thomas Carlyle
8
Let him sleep his eternal sleep in the dignity of his golden mask.
The Guardian
9
The woman is sleeping her eternal sleep, she will nevermore awaken on this earth.
Erick and Sally
10
He begged for immortality, eternal sleep, and never fading youth.
The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
11
Sleep was coming over the world, and eternal sleep had come for Jerry Strann.
The Night Horseman
12
I think of them with inexpressible love and yearning, wrapped in their last eternal sleep.
Our Friend John Burroughs
13
When we die we fall into an eternal sleep.
The Daughters of Danaus
14
It is an almost intolerable philosophy, the philosophy of eternal sleep, without dreams and without awakening.
Letters on Literature
15
He is led away to his eternal sleep.
The Guardian
16
Let me only go to an eternal sleep-
Foes
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Eternal sleep through the time
Eternal sleep across language varieties
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