Etymology
Origin of outsleep
Example Sentences
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After sunset they gradually awake and proceed to ravage any fruit preserves which may be within reach, committing serious depredations while the owners outsleep the moon.
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Not a morning did I outsleep the reveille; nor once missed matins in the Cathedral.
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“Your pardon, Don José, that I outsleep the camp,” he muttered haltingly.
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Yet even he could not outsleep the reluctant lingering of night.
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Lovers to bed; 'tis almost fairy time, I fear we shall outsleep the coming morn, As much as we this night have overwatched.
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