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  • And if you look tired, people will think you're generally sleepy-headed.

    Gerald Sindell: Signs of Intelligent Life 2009

  • Instead, the corporate-owned Main-Stream-Media toadies are rushing to Rove today to get their talking-points to regurgitate back to the sleepy-headed American people ...

    Fox News Analysts: Libby Verdict Flawed, No Underlying Crime 2009

  • It might be useful for a sleepy-headed college student.

    Aiming to Wake Stubborn Sleepyheads 2008

  • The act of this lone Islamic murderer should have caused a few sleepy-headed Seattle liberal twits to briefly stop singing "Imagine" and look around at the reality of our situation.

    Sound Politics: "The Brink of Madness" 2006

  • Johnny longed to ask whether the last generation was less sleepy-headed, and whether the gentleman with two thousand a year sat up talking all night before he pressed his foot for the last time on his native soil; but he did not dare.

    The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

  • I just have not been able to see them as interesting at all since that single issue of Flare in November 2001 that was a neo-conservative love letter with it's commentary on Kim Campbell's broaches and profiles of that slow, sleepy-headed Mulrouny son.

    All I really want to be baggyk 2004

  • That was the first definition I gave you, you sleepy-headed wretch, said Stephen, when I began to try to think out the matter for myself.

    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 2003

  • Even Precious Auntie had become this way in my mind, a sleepy-headed greasy-hat from the country.

    The Bonesetter's Daughter TAN, Amy 2001

  • Yawn, -- probably the latter, on account either of his opening his mouth wide, or of his being a sleepy-headed fellow, -- and fetch a stoop of liquor.

    Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 Various

  • I offered to take my turn, but the old gentleman said "the boy will go to sleep," an arrangement very satisfactory to a tired, sleepy-headed boy.

    Reminiscences of a Pioneer William Thompson

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