Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleepery
Literary usage of Sleepery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. John T. Dorland by William King Baker (1898)
"This morning after breakfast we went for a long walk, climbing " sleepery Law,"
and came home weary and hungry. We went about eight miles. ..."
2. Guy Mannering by Walter Scott (1910)
"... and if you, sir, are not very sleepery, and would do me and the Dominie the
honour to sit up wi' us, I am sure we shall not detain you very late. ..."
3. More Letters from Billy by Billy Gray, Author of A sunny subaltern (1917)
""sleepery" is on the blink—I get only about two hours a night, and it never seems
to improve very much. I have such restless nights—all nightmare and ..."
4. Folk-etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... as we still sometimes say "to slip off to sleep," and Scot. slippery is a form
of sleepery or sleepy (Jamieson). SLEEVELESS, useless, unprofitable, p. ..."
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