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
For Time, all-edacious and all-feracious, does run on: and the Seven Sleepers, awakening hungry after a hundred years, find that it is not their old nurses who can now give them suck!
From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Thomas Carlyle
"I was like one of the Seven Sleepers."
From A Book of Ghosts by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Its motive is that of the legend of the Seven Sleepers, and is often found in Chinese fairy tales.
From The Chinese Fairy Book by Richard Wilhelm
For as the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus were dead and yet alive, so are the souls of the authors in the care of their ancient leathern binding.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
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