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Definition of Sleepier
1. sleepy [adj] - See also: sleepy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleepier
Literary usage of Sleepier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again,
and says she, looking at me real meanin', ' I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1902)
"No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again,
and says she, looking at me real meanin', ' I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."
3. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"'No, Sarah Ann, you can't, dear,' says she; and then she got her breath again,
and says she, looking at me real meanin', 'I'm only a-gettin' sleepier and ..."
4. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1889)
"But I didn't try to tell all this to the company, who grew, like myself, sleepier
and sleepier, while the story-teller went on and on with his castles, ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1831)
"Coach after coach arrived and departed, sleepier and sleepier grew the face of
the passengers; indeed, one old lady was lifted out and back, snoring all the ..."