Citations:sleepy-dust

Noun: "alternative spelling of sleepy dust"

 * 1988 — Fay Weldon, The Hearts and Lives of Men, Viking (1988), ISBN 9780670820986, page 261:
 * and before they could so much as rub the sleepy-dust out of their eyes they were under arrest, and taking the whole blame for everything.
 * 2006 — Peter Dickinson, Angel Isle, Wendy Lamb Books (2006), ISBN 9780385909280, page 102:
 * The full lips parted and a narrow, tubular, dark purple tongue slid out and extended until its tip could probe into nostrils and ears, and delicately pick the sleepy-dust out of the corners of the golden eyes, and then withdrew.
 * 2006 — Andrew Motion, In the Blood: A Memoir of My Childhood, David R. Godine (2007), ISBN 9781567923391, page 159:
 * The two boys didn't interest me much — the older one, Simon, was so dozy he always had sleepy-dust in the corner of his eyes,