Human African trypanosomiasis, more commonly called sleeping sickness, is induced by a parasite, the trypanosome, transmitted to humans by the bite of an insect, the glossinid tse-tse fly.
Because even if you enjoy a good " slumbear" going dormant in the summer sun, a bit of shut eye gets really " eye-opening" when your cat-nap because a " bear-nap" , turning all of your dreams into an " ersa major hiber nightmare" ya'll.
" John, " she murmured to herself, " John ..." Then " My Ford, " she wondered, have I given this one its sleeping sickness injection, or haven't I? She simply couldn't remember.
In midocean it's not unusual to encounter whales so sound asleep they can successfully be attacked, and Ned Land had harpooned more than one in its slumber.
I found the sick-room unwatched, as I had expected: no nurse was there; the patient lay still, and seemingly lethargic; her livid face sunk in the pillows: the fire was dying in the grate.
He decided this just previous to the expiration of his sentence, when the cloud that oppressed him had lifted, leaving him in a deep, dispirited lethargy.