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He contemplated the black immensity pierced by a multitude of lights, without giving a thought to all the heavy slumbers, cruel insomnias, vain dreams, spoilt pleasures, and infinitely diverse miseries that a great city contains.

From Penguin Island by France, Anatole

They prattled of the dietary and idiosyncrasies of their several insomnias as though they had been so many exacting pet animals.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-18 by Various