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That night, pondering the experience, I was the one who tossed and turned, slumberless, a few feet from the man who once held the fate of humanity in his hands.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

So, no ghost disturbed her restless slumberless nights, consumed in watching and listening.

From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius

From the slumberless bed for thy bedfellow spread and his bride under earth Hast thou brought forth a wild and insatiable child, an unbearable birth.

From Erechtheus A Tragedy (New Edition) by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

Even and morrow should seem to her sorrow as long As the passage of numberless ages in slumberless song.

From A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

After a day of wild panic and slumberless nights the citizens remained at their windows.

From The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 by Various