Seven Sleepers
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus: "One is inclined to think that almost all Christians now have taken them for patron-saints."
From Time Magazine Archive
The legends of the Seven Sleepers, S. Ursula, and S. Onofrio are treated after a like fashion.
From Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) by Symonds, John Addington
About midnight the Royal Mail rolled over the bridge with a noise fit to wake the Seven Sleepers!
From Hospital Sketches by Peabody, Robert Swain
And certainly I claim no great merit on the score of my vigilance; for the tantararara that awoke me would have aroused the Seven Sleepers themselves.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
The light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were permitted to awake.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
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