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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
sleep .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tennyson gave the Kraken life in this sonnet, which speaks of its "[u] nnumber'd and enormous polypi" and reassures us that, for the time being, "[t] he Kraken sleepeth."
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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Tennyson gave the Kraken life in this sonnet, which speaks of its "[u] nnumber'd and enormous polypi" and reassures us that, for the time being, "[t] he Kraken sleepeth."
Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival Stefan Beck 2010
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Rome and Pisa are dead and gone; Florence is not dead, but sleepeth; while Naples overflows with life.
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Rome and Pisa are dead and gone; Florence is not dead, but sleepeth; while Naples overflows with life.
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Cooler heads prevailed, and Green revived the Gazette with the banner headline: "An Apparition of the late Maryland Gazette, which is not dead, but only sleepeth."
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
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“Wilt thou come with me and look upon the beauty of a youth who sleepeth in yonder burial place?” she asked and he answered, “I will.”
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He is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
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‘Perchance he is tired with the bath and with watching by night and fasting by day; wherefore he sleepeth.’
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He is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
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And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
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