Seven Sleepers
Britishplural noun
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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
He knocked with a perturbed violence, till the Seven Sleepers themselves would have awoke at the din.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
Gregory also left a life of St Andrew, translated from the Greek, and a history of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, translated from Syriac.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various
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 Wilhelm, Richard
It seemed to me that their watchfulness resembled that of the Seven Sleepers.
From Fr?d?rique; vol. 2 by Kock, Charles Paul de
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