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 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
But before the conclusion of the third verse Squire Erliston and his good resolutions would be as sound as one of the Seven Sleepers.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
The light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were permitted to awake.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Isaac Disraeli
The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus slept their long sleep in a cave.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
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