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sandman
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Wikipedia
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The Sandman is the pseudonym of several fictional characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics . They have appeared in stories of various genres, including the pulp detective character Wesley Dodds , superheroes such as Garrett Sanford and ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bringer of sleep in nursery lore, 1861, from sand (n.) in reference to hard grains found in the eyelashes on waking; first attested in a translation from the Norwegian of Andersen (his Ole Lukoie "Ole Shut-eye," about a being who makes children sleepy, ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an elf in fairy stories who sprinkles sand in children's eyes to make them sleepy
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A legendary figure who is said to bring good sleep and dreams by placing sand in the eyes. 2 (non-gloss definition: Used as a symbol of the passage of time to death.)
Usage examples of sandman.
This is a very small point, but when I searched the villa, the room Sandman has used as a lab, I found a kelp pill.
Krist is what they call an important liaison man between Sandman and his potential customers.
There have been mighty near seventeen resurrections, you know, since Sandman hung out his sign.
Our machines suggested to us Sandman would indeed be most likely to make his nest, shall we call it, down in Level Four or beneath.
Anyway, NSO had information indicating Sandman had a base, possibly his home base, up here under Los Angeles someplace.
I originally got onto the Sandman process while I was trying to work out something to thin out the world population a little.
She saw the pale, tight-set face of the Sandman, and saw his eyes above the Gun, as his fingers whitened on the trigger.
Logan started toward his son, wanting him to understand everything, wanting to tell him he was sorry he had ever been a Sandman, ever hunted and killed runners like himself, ever used the Gun.
Which meant he could cut through Sandman Headquarters and take a slidechute to Arcade.
As a Sandman, Logan had been taught that the only reality was the reality of the system, that the power of the Gun, was paramount over the power of the mind.
I was the only Sandman to ever reach Sanctuary, and he hates me for it.
He turned toward the Sandman, triggered the Flamer in his gloved hand.
No other Sandman had defied the full might of DS, but Logan had done so, and survived.
You are here because of what you are--a Sandman who defied a life-destroying system, who outran it, outwitted it, and finally destroyed it.
Francis is very real on this world, a key Sandman, a Master of the Gun.