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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



... limited to the fairylands that we read about in the Arabian Nights or in the tales of Cinderella or of the Sleeping Beauty. There is the enchantment which put the princess and all her household to sleep for a hundred years until the prince came to release them. There is also the enchantment of the frost, that stills all the life of brook and lake ...
— The Elson Readers, Book 5 • William H. Elson and Christine M. Keck
... a searching glance upon the sleeping beauty and then said roughly: "Eat and drink. You can surely trust me. The job's done. The poor fool is miles away ...
— The Midnight Passenger • Richard Henry Savage
... the knight that came to release the sleeping beauty of the woods from her bondage? Fifteen hundred or two thousand pounds would be ample. I can easily ...
— Evelyn Innes • George Moore
... Fair One with Golden Locks;" from closet to bookcase, ran "Puss in Boots;" from bookcase to fireplace, was "Jack the Giant-killer;" and on the other side of the room were "Hop o' my Thumb," "The Sleeping Beauty," and "Cinderella." ...
— The Bird's Christmas Carol • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... the place was deserted. Then, when the last echo of his steps had died away in the distance, the blinds were drawn up again, Turk, barking with joy, was released from his captivity, and, like the castle of the Sleeping Beauty, Les Jardies re-awoke to its normal activity. How ever the tiers of planted beds perched one above the other—a modern example of the hanging gardens of Babylon—were made to resist the solicitations of the walls was a puzzle to Balzac's familiars. As for trees, only ...
— Balzac • Frederick Lawton
... back something which he SAID was The Sleeping Beauty. Myself, I think it was an albino niggeress. She had red hair and the biggest feet you ever saw. But Bumpo was no end pleased with her and finally married her amid great rejoicings. The feastings lasted seven days. She became his chief wife and is now known out there as the Crown-Princess ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... miles and miles before him, to see all round, roads stretching into the unknown, houses and churches and woods, all nameless and new; was he riding out to seek his fortune, was he going to conquer the world, was he the prince riding to the castle where the Sleeping Beauty lay? Or was he going on unawares to the ogre's castle, where he was to kill the ...
— A Country Gentleman and his Family • Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
... walked along the little paths through a tangle of wood and green that might very well have presented the garden of the Sleeping Beauty, I heard now and then a sound that resembled the swift flight of a bird or the sudden "ting" of a telegraph-wire. The Austrians were amusing themselves; sometimes a bullet would clip a tree in its ...
— The Dark Forest • Hugh Walpole


Words linked to "Sleeping beauty" :   princess, slumberer, sleeper, takeover target, target company


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