1.   Paula drew back the sheet and looked at the sleeping child.

2.   Ruth gazed down at the sleeping child.

3.   The Nativity, with Mary and Joseph bowing over a sleeping child.

4.   The sleeping child stirred and opened her eyes.

5.   She gently wakened the sleeping child.

6.   FOR some time now Wallingford engineering staff have been creeping around like concerned parents not wanting to disturb a sleeping child.

7.   Had they discovered her sleeping child?

8.   He looked down, and as he gazed at the sleeping child his eyes glittered with what looked suspiciously like unshed tears.

9.   He looked at the sleeping child.

10.   Arriving close to midnight on the eve of Thanksgiving, we carry sleeping children into the welcoming house where their grandparents are still up.