2. Verb. (third-person singular of sleep) ¹
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Definition of Sleeps
1. sleep [v] - See also: sleep
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sleeps
Literary usage of Sleeps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Lawyer's Idle Hours: Sentiment-satire-humor-life-death-glory by C. Augustus Haviland (1902)
"They have buried my love in the land far away They have buried him there 'mong
the brave, He sleeps where he fell, on the old battlefield, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"sleeps! Moon of the summer night! Far down yon western steeps, Sink, ... sleeps!
Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch! while in ..."
3. The Abridged Academy Song-book: For Use in Schools and Colleges by Charles Herbert Levermore (1918)
"STARS OF THE SUMMER NIGHT dim. gold - en light,She sleeps,my la - dy sleeps, She
sleeps, She sleeps,my la - dy sleeps, sil -ver light,She sleeps,my la- dy ..."
4. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"sleeps! Moon of the summer night! Far down yon western steeps, Sink, sink in silver
... sleeps! Dreams of the summer night! Tell her, her lover keeps Watch, ..."
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