Etymology
Origin of outsleep
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Then, I thank God, I have vast blessings; I have preserved my eyes, ears, and teeth; I have no pain left; and I would bet with any dormouse that it cannot outsleep me.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole
Yet even he could not outsleep the reluctant lingering of night.
From Out of the Depths A Romance of Reclamation by George Brehm
Oh to drink of it again, and to lay her head upon the pillow and outsleep the day!
From The Whirlpool by George Gissing
When he did recollect, he rose quietly, extinguished the gas and made the room as dark as possible, in hopes that Bovey might outsleep himself in the morning.
From Crowded Out! and Other Sketches by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison
“Your pardon, Don José, that I outsleep the camp,” he muttered haltingly.
From The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Robert Wesley Amick
Her eyes were still red, but she had the happy look of a child that has outslept its grief.
From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
She starts within me, like a traveller, Who sluggishly outslept his morning hour, And mends his pace to reach his inn betimes.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 by Sir Walter Scott
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