A growing silence fell across the terraces as the crowd fell into a deep, peaceful, merciful sleep.

I drifted off into merciful sleep.

I closed out the pain of my raw skin and again fell into deep, merciful sleep.

Prout, bleary-eyed, took over the watch; Woolf-Gault left the control-room to crawl into his bunk where merciful sleep eased his misery.

She felt herself drift off into merciful sleep while Thomas was talking to her.

It was something Rhys could have done for himself, as most Deryni with any training could have done, but the luxury of not having to do it released him to drift off to merciful sleep while he waited for the Healer.

"Avelyn, Bradwarden, and Tuntun," the woman whispered, and merciful sleep took her.

On and on, quite uncontrollably *iw w until at last, merciful sleep fell upon hvr.

Camigina was with him, so Pol finally got to meet the sorcerer who had sent him into merciful sleep.

Her tanned body was covered with bites and scratches, and she had slithered into a merciful, drugged sleep.