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
A Story of the Seven Sleepers, who slept above three hundred years, and not yet awakened.
From Amusing Prose Chap Books by Various
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
It may afford, perhaps, a lively illustration of the principle here insisted upon, if I recall to the reader's recollection the legend of the Seven Sleepers.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
A little sob ended the entreaty, and as though he understood every word she had spoken Apache gave a neigh loud enough to waken the Seven Sleepers.
From A Dixie School Girl by Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
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