Silently he skirted thesleepers and crept into the darkness between the dunes.
Near him were the huddled forms of the two sleepers and the farthest one shifted in his sleep and he realized it was Mikah.
The snoring abruptly ceased, but no answer was given; thesleepers had not been fully awakened.
That amiable hosteller at first feigned sleep, but the pretence could not be long kept up through a din that might have roused the fabled sleepers of Ephesus.
Otherwise he could hardly have moved without causing some pressure beneath the sleepers that would certainly have disturbed them.
We camped near the railway station, and found the piles of wooden sleepers very easily split and very useful for our fires.
The sleepersthey had ear-marked, hopin' that no one would discover the lack of a brand.
Sleepers runnin' in such numbers was a little astonishin', but nothin' suspicious.
Third class passengers can travel in 2nd class sleepers upon payment of the usual charge.
Two of the attendants seemed to have these sleepers especially in their charge, moving continually hither and thither, to the bedside first of one and then another, evidently to see if there were yet any signs of waking.
They finally decided that he must have fallen from the window and somehow rolled from the sleepersinto the river.
Curly-pated sleepers Safely tucked in bed; Dreams of wondrous toy-shops Dancing through each head.
Everywhere, in the strong light, you can watch the sleepers turning to and fro; shifting their beds and again resettling them.
By now the noise was so great that even the sleepersbegan to stir, and one or two of them to wake.
The sergeant halted abruptly with his hand on the cellar door, three or four of the sleepers stirred restlessly, one woke for a minute sufficiently to grumble curses and ask "what the blank was that"; the rest slept on serene and undisturbed.
The Medicine Bend crowd gave them an Indian yell and in two minutes the Knights, with their scalps in their hands as a token of surrender, were tumbling out of their sleepers into the crisp dawn.
The storm passed around and no rain fell, but the sleepers were awakened towards dawn by a sharp change in the weather.
The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers' hearts.
Most of the sleepers had disappeared, but the rails lay scattered along the track.
The old embankments were still standing, but the sleepers had been burnt and the rails torn up, and in many cases bent or twisted.
Every consignment of rails and sleepers had been accompanied by its proportion of telegraph-poles, insulators, and wire.
The British Government had authorised the construction of the military railway to Akasha, and a special railway battalion was collected at Assuan, through which place sleepers and other material at once began to pass to Sarras.
It was covered deep in water, the ballast was swept away, and some of the banks so destroyed that in places rails and sleepers were left hanging in the air across a wide gap.
Barnes, who had taken the candle from the mantel-piece, stood peering at the sleepers in silence and dropping tallow over the floor.
He even went outside and peeped through the crack, but the sleepers did not stir.
Illustration: "Barnes, stood peering at the sleepers in silence and dropping tallow over the floor.
And then I knew she had been there-- Not in her breathing loveliness, But as the grave's lone sleepers are, Silent and cold and passionless!
Then came a hurricane of noise overhead, and adjurations in no gentle language to the sleepers to "tumble up lively there, no skulking; sperm whales.
As sleepers wear, lulled by the voice they love, which did reprove 40 The childish pity that she felt for them, And a .
And the business would have been still more difficult if the Boers had collected the sleepers in great piles and burned them.
He at once woke thesleepers and called the others in, and by the time they reached the farm some thirty unmounted ponies, followed by Carmichael's party and the farmers, came up.
It was a work of considerable difficulty to get the horses out, and could not have been accomplished had there not been a stack of sleepers near the spot.
Then, as sleepers generally do when one is near to them, she became conscious that she was not alone, and the dark blue orbs unclosed.
Taking them to drink," he muttered; and he made for an opening at the end of the shed just as the morning bugle rang out loud and clear, echoing from the different buildings near and rousing the sleepers throughout the barracks.
Dick's thoughts ran fast in those moments, and he argued to himself that, if he shouted to alarm thesleepers near and the sentry below, the man would escape.
The light of the sun darted into the cavern, and the Seven Sleepers were permitted to awake.
He compares the student to one of the seven sleepers in the ancient legend.
He was plainly bored, and he was looking about the room at the various sleepers as if he were thoroughly tired of them all.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sleepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
