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Sleeping beauty   /slˈipɪŋ bjˈuti/   Listen
Sleeping beauty

noun
1.
Fairy story: princess under an evil spell who could be awakened only by a prince's kiss.
2.
A person who is sleeping soundly.
3.
A potential takeover target that has not yet been put in play.





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"Sleeping beauty" Quotes from Famous Books



... the kind lady who had beckoned her as to a refuge. Lord Cumnor was very fond of getting hold of what he fancied was a joke, and working his idea threadbare; so all the time the ladies were in the room he kept on his running fire at Molly, alluding to the Sleeping Beauty, the Seven Sleepers, and any other famous sleeper that came into his head. He had no idea of the misery his jokes were to the sensitive girl, who already thought herself a miserable sinner, for having slept on, when she ought to have been awake. If Molly had been in ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... when the world of fairyland and legend is left behind, does the child have any idea of consecutive events and human destinies. The stories told by mother and grandmother about Snow-White, the Sleeping Beauty, the giants and the dwarfs, Cinderella, the stable at Bethlehem where the Christ-Child lay in the manger beside the oxen and asses, the angels who appeared to the shepherds singing "Glory to God in the Highest," ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... pleasant thought that in school-rooms throughout the land boys and girls are hearing about the Argonauts, and the Knights of the Round Table, and the Crusaders; to say nothing of such famous personages in the story world as Cinderella, and the Sleeping Beauty, and Hop-O'-My-Thumb. The home story hour is no less dear because there is ...
— The American Child • Elizabeth McCracken
... was overgrown with rank vegetation and reminded one of the impenetrable forest abode of the "Sleeping Beauty" ...
— The Petticoat Commando - Boer Women in Secret Service • Johanna Brandt
... the prince's hair all over his forehead, how would he have liked it? Suppose the Sleeping Beauty, when the king's son with a kiss set her and all the old clocks agoing in the spell-bound castle—suppose the young minx had looked up and coolly laughed in his eye, I guess the king's son wouldn't have been ...
— The Story of a Bad Boy • Thomas Bailey Aldrich


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