ASLEEP in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
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1 He may be half asleep himself, he thought.
2 He was asleep when the boy looked in the door in the morning.
3 The boy left him there and when he came back the old man was still asleep.
4 When the boy came back the old man was asleep in the chair and the sun was down.
5 The boy was asleep on a cot in the first room and the old man could see him clearly with the light that came in from the dying moon.
6 He lay forward cramping himself against the line with all of his body, putting all his weight onto his right hand, and he was asleep.
7 Then he dreamed that he was in the village on his bed and there was a norther and he was very cold and his right arm was asleep because his head had rested on it instead of a pillow.
8 They were strange shoulders, still powerful although very old, and the neck was still strong too and the creases did not show so much when the old man was asleep and his head fallen forward.
9 He was asleep in a short time and he dreamed of Africa when he was a boy and the long golden beaches and the white beaches, so white they hurt your eyes, and the high capes and the great brown mountains.
10 It was these sharks that would cut the turtles' legs and flippers off when the turtles were asleep on the surface, and they would hit a man in the water, if they were hungry, even if the man had no smell of fish blood nor of fish slime on him.