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1667. Milton, P. L., V. 644. The unsleeping eyes of God.
1744. Thomson, Autumn, 415. She sits Conceal’d, with folded Ears; unsleeping Eyes.
1777. Potter, Æschylus, Prom. Bd., 7. The joyless station of this rock Unsleeping, unreclining, shalt thou keep.
1805. Southey, Madoc in Wales, III. 195. The unsleeping eye Of justice.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, II. 293. Dear heart! Again you have passed a whole night long unsleeping.
fig. a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife, etc. (1614), H 2. Policie is the vnsleeping night of reason.
1796. Coleridge, Destiny of Nations, 106. Whose unheard name … Unsleeping Silence guards.
1802–12. Bentham, Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827), I. 428. Unerring and unsleeping steadiness.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., II. 520. The unsleeping suspicions of Aurangzib were stirred up.
Hence Unsleepingly adv.
1877. Daily News, 16 Jan., 4/5. Our pressure must be friendly, but very firm and unsleepingly watchful.
