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FAST ASLEEP
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sleeping deeply
Example:
it would be cruel to wake him; he's sound asleep
Synonyms:
fast asleep; sound asleep
Classified under:
Similar:
asleep (in a state of sleep)
Context examples:
Then he laid himself down on his bed, and in a little while began to snore very loud as if he was fast asleep.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
She was fast asleep, and by her, seated on the window-sill, was something that looked like a good-sized bird.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They followed the bend of the river, and at last came upon their friend the Lion, lying fast asleep among the poppies.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
I promised, of course; and we kissed one another over and over again, and I soon fell fast asleep.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Hannah, quite worn out, lay down on the sofa at the bed's foot and fell fast asleep, Mr. Laurence marched to and fro in the parlor, feeling that he would rather face a rebel battery than Mrs. March's countenance as she entered.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When she entered the garden, there she found him as she had feared, lying on the tan-heap, fast asleep.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I was afraid she might get a chill, so I ran upstairs, but as I came into the room she was moving back to her bed, fast asleep, and breathing heavily; she was holding her hand to her throat, as though to protect it from cold.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Her eyes closed in spite of herself and she forgot where she was and fell among the poppies, fast asleep.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
What can I say to her, when Em'ly tied a ribbon off her own neck round little Minnie's the last night she was here, and laid her head down on the pillow beside her till she was fast asleep!
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Demi lay fast asleep, not in his usual spreadeagle attitude, but in a subdued bunch, cuddled close in the circle of his father's arm and holding his father's finger, as if he felt that justice was tempered with mercy, and had gone to sleep a sadder and wiser baby.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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