The film helps to draw scores of visitors to this sleepy river town year after year.
BIRKIANI, Georgia — Time seems to stop in this sleepy Georgian village high in the green mountains of the Pankisi Gorge.
Last year Fox gifted the world with the “Legend of sleepy Hollow” retelling we never knew we needed.
But it was a shadow of its former self: sleepy, unprofitable, and not particularly confident about its complicated past.
Now she is grateful for the jobs the tourist boom has brought to her once sleepy town, but admits it has taken away other jobs.
It seemed to my sleepy eyes as if an angel had melted his own door through the wall!
He was sleepy, that was all; but a sleepiness to fight against—he must still fight.
The Indian, quieted by the sleepy Chestnut, was going steadier.
When he was through with his work, it was late and he was sleepy.
Then I grew so sleepy, that I was impatient to be shown to my bed.
early 13c. from sleep (n.) + -y (2). Perhaps in Old English but not recorded. Old English had slæpor, slæpwerig in the sense "sleepy;" slæpnes "sleepiness." Cf. Old High German slafag. Of places, from 1851 (Irving's Sleepy Hollow is from 1820). Sleepy-head is from 1570s. Related: Sleepily; sleepiness.
