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Definition of Sleepyheads
1. sleepyhead [n] - See also: sleepyhead
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleepyheads
Literary usage of Sleepyheads
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Silent Readers by William Dodge Lewis, Albert Lindsay Rowland (1920)
""His ancestors were sleepyheads on his mother's side, and Dozy Pates on his father's
... "That's a curious thing about the sleepyheads and the Dozy Pates. ..."
2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1898)
"I '11 tell you about it later," said Bobbles, as eleven tired sleepyheads separated
to go home to their well-earned pillows and sweet dreams of victory. ..."
3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1889)
"... as for the sleepyheads, they were chosen as being just little, chubby, and
pretty, and the Pages had good looks rather than good behavior to thank; ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... would think us a fine set of sleepyheads. So the fire was stirred and tea
ordered. Alice brought it in, and when she left the •flora Miss Herbert made ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"What a convocation of nightcaps and sleepyheads ! .... The nature of the nocturnal
movements and attitudes of plants, both in leaves and flowers, ..."
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