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All that training, all those long, sleepful nights, all for naught.

From Washington Post • Dec. 12, 2021

This is the very place of shades, and sleep, and sleepful night;390 And living bodies am I banned in Stygian keel to bear.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

I looked about the little shop, as gloomy and sleepful as the mausoleum of an eastern king, and wondered by what alchemy of the mind the little druggist found it a very vortex of activity.

From Moonbeams from the Larger Lunacy by Leacock, Stephen