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"Morpheus" Quotes from Famous Books

... assignments. As the champion short-distance sleeper of his craft, which distinction he claimed for himself without fear of successful contradiction, McGuire Ellis was wont to devote half an hour or more, beginning on the ninth stroke of the clock, to the cultivation of Morpheus. Intruders were not popular at ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... doubt the writer had in his mind the description of "Morpheus house" in the Faerie ...

— Old English Plays, Vol. I - A Collection of Old English Plays • Various

... ascending the stairs, bawling out to the ladies above that it was high time for them to be up and moving; and hammering away at the first door he came to, he called out—"Come, come, young ladies, wake up, wake up—chase away your balmy slumbers, and kick Morpheus out of ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... done, she caught up the fretful Polly and carried her upstairs, saying the magic name over softly to herself. She even found it easy to be patient with Lemuel as he put her through her nightly torture before he fell into the arms of Morpheus. She did not mind much if Polly was wakeful—she knew she should never close her eyes all night. The soft spring air floated in through the open window, and she heard the birds twitter and the frogs peep: she heard Abraham Lincoln, the old horse that she used to ride to water ...

— A Princess in Calico • Edith Ferguson Black

Words linked to "Morpheus" : deity, immortal, Publius Ovidius Naso, Ovid, god, divinity