Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
1
They seemed to be in the first hour of the eternal sleep.
2
In just a slightly stronger dose it brought the eternal sleep itself.
3
The promise of eternal sleep is not sweet to a live man.
4
She has earned that beautiful, eternal sleep which alone brings perfect peace.
5
And in a few days-whocould say?-perhapseternal sleep somewhere near Lens.
6
He is deaf and insensible; he reposes in an eternal sleep.
7
Sweet to rejoin, were it only in eternal sleep, those that are away.
8
Let him sleep his eternal sleep in the dignity of his golden mask.
9
The woman is sleeping her eternal sleep, she will nevermore awaken on this earth.
10
He begged for immortality, eternal sleep, and never fading youth.
11
Sleep was coming over the world, and eternal sleep had come for Jerry Strann.
12
I think of them with inexpressible love and yearning, wrapped in their last eternal sleep.
13
When we die we fall into an eternal sleep.
14
It is an almost intolerable philosophy, the philosophy of eternal sleep, without dreams and without awakening.
15
He is led away to his eternal sleep.
16
Let me only go to an eternal sleep-
