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Usage examples of sleepers.

Thundering with the butts of three clubbed handspikes on the forecastle deck, Daggoo roused the sleepers with such judgment claps that they seemed to exhale from the scuttle, so instantaneously did they appear with their clothes in their hands.

Having to put up with what the Sleepers imposed on him was downright tedious.

It must gain acceptance in the minds of all sleepers for it to take form here.

The people here pride themselves on bending to the will of sleepers from the Waking World, to aid you in solving your problems.

The Seven Sleepers provide the underlying geography, based upon their personal experience, but what form it takes changes according to mass whim.

There is a strong feeling among some that one should take what the Sleepers send.

He resented being shut up with horrible little children, who were no doubt there to express the concerns of one or another sleepers in the Waking World.

Temple is still in this spot, by the will of the Sleepers, and there might be a pair of slippers on display, with books on sacred footgear on sale.

He wondered why the Sleepers had decided everybody here ought to be shoes for a while.

It must have rained or, Chuck corrected himself, the Sleepers who dreamed this part of the world had been thinking of rain.

The very forces of nature that the Sleepers of the Waking World brought to bear would themselves make it possible to wipe out five of their own number.

Duke of Westminster and the sleepers on the Embankment benches cannot.

The walkway, made of what were probably old railway sleepers, was maybe two meters above that.

As I hit the railway sleepers that made up the walkway, I could see her still playing the limpet, the current pushing her head against the support as she fought to keep it out of the river.

I switched to the other side, lying on my stomach on the sleepers and leaning down.