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Sleep taken before midnight. Those who habitually go to bed, especially during youth, after midnight, are usually pale and more or less haggard.
“Would I please to remember that I had roused him up at night … . [in] his beauty sleep.”—Blackmore: Lorna Doone, chap. 64.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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