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Definition of Slugabeds
1. slugabed [n] - See also: slugabed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slugabeds
Literary usage of Slugabeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1915)
"I '11 have no slugabeds in this house. The time is all too short for what we have
to do !" And so began another busy day, with no rest nor shirking till all ..."
2. The Fairy Mythology: Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various by Thomas Keightley (1905)
"Ah, in my young days," continued the old woman, " people woren't slugabeds ; out
airly, home late — that was the way wid thirn. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1884)
"No slugabeds, I see. Will ye come with us to hear mass at St. Faith's t '"' They
agreed, and Master Headley then told them that if they would tarry till the ..."
4. Sanctuary: A Bird Masque by Percy MacKaye (1914)
"You do us wrong: We rhyming slugabeds Walk with Aurora at our pillows' heads,
For dreamers can see dawn rise in the dark. ..."
5. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"By and by comes a whole shole of slugabeds, and then 'tis, We beseech ye to hear
us good Lord; slap here, and slap there, slap there, and slap here; ..."
6. Social Life at the English Universities in the Eighteenth Century by Christopher Wordsworth (1874)
"... of slugabeds, and then 'tis, We beseech yc to hear us good Lord; slap here,
and slap then, s!ap tliere, and slap here; slap a that side, and slap a this ..."
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