Sleepers

Examples

• Look at them, glancing at the sleepers on the ground. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• They had heard nothing during the night, for they are both sound sleepers. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• To supply this number of sleepers, 300,000 trees were felled, the growth of which would require little less than 5,000 acres of forest land. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• We shall rouse up that nest of sleepers, mark my words! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The sleepers were laid upon the natural grade, and there was comparatively no effort made to ballast the road. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Upon hearing the sound of feet approaching, the watch instantly gave the alarm, and the sleepers as suddenly started up and bent their bows. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• These iron plates were usually cast in lengths of six feet, and they were secured to transverse wooden sleepers by spikes and oaken pegs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• They say that away down in the village, and even in the distant parsonage, that cry raised the sleepers from their beds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Either they were wondrous heavy sleepers or else the noises that I made were really much less than they seemed to me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Such is the story of the Seven Sleepers, (with slight variations,) and I know it is true, because I have seen the cave myself. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You'll have to lie alone all your life; and 'tis not to married couples but to single sleepers that a ghost shows himself when 'a do come. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• In the Mount of Pion, yonder, is the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• They were spiked down on ordinary sleepers laid upon the natural grade, and the gauge was about three feet six inches. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• For instance, 20,000 tons of iron rails required to be annually replaced, and 26 millions of wooden sleepers perished in the same time. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• So spirited a creature would have certainly roused the soundest of sleepers when it felt the prick of the knife. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• As to the road: The rails were light and were spiked to ordinary sleepers, with a gauge of about three and one-half feet. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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