It helps explain why women are often up with the lark, while their partners stay slumbering long into the morning.

This was very easy to do because everyone else was sleeping anyway.

The problem isn't the engine itself; that is actually relatively quiet. It's the rotors that make the classic "whup-whup" sound.

When the wolf had satisfied his appetite he took himself off, laid himself down under a tree in the green meadow outside, and began to sleep.

So many nights as you were playing cards, I buried myself in work, and while you were still in sound sleep, I was already in the office.