Citations:sleepy-dust
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English citations of sleepy-dust
Noun: "alternative spelling of sleepy dust"[edit]
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- 1988 — Fay Weldon, The Hearts and Lives of Men, Viking (1988), →ISBN, page 261:
- […] and before they could so much as rub the sleepy-dust out of their eyes they were under arrest, and taking the whole blame for everything.
- 2006 — Peter Dickinson, Angel Isle, Wendy Lamb Books (2006), →ISBN, page 102:
- The full lips parted and a narrow, tubular, dark purple tongue slid out and extended until its tip could probe into nostrils and ears, and delicately pick the sleepy-dust out of the corners of the golden eyes, and then withdrew.
- 2006 — Andrew Motion, In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood, David R. Godine (2007), →ISBN, page 159:
- The two boys didn't interest me much — the older one, Simon, was so dozy he always had sleepy-dust in the corner of his eyes, […]