Verb (used without object) : Vesuvius is slumbering. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to slumber the afternoon away. ,to slumber cares away. From Dictionary.com.
A gauzy curtain of silver tissue, which, without impeding respiration, protected the slumberer from the fell insects of an Oriental night. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5 - Part IX] Reference
That call the slumberer back. From Wordnik.com. [Small Means and Great Ends] Reference
Then called a slumberer by his side. From Wordnik.com. [Lady of the Lake] Reference
With each newly discovered slumberer, the populace grew more pensive. From Wordnik.com. [WORLD OF WARCRAFT STORMRAGE] Reference
On -- on -- the slumberer breathed on, but he thought not, felt not, perceived not. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
It was definitely occupied, although the slumberer was no match for the trio upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
Roused from this position by some movement of the slumberer, she started up and watched him. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
I pulled out the nozzle and turned it full onto the slumberer in her slumblies and dead quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
For some time the physician gazed in deep thought at the pale face of the unconscious slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
The lighting was not adequate enough to determine whether the slumberer was inhaling the gas or not. From Wordnik.com. [Spaceship of Ancestors]
He then gazed long and anxiously at the torpid slumberer, standing at the bedside and watching that marble face. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
The trumpeter was now calling every slumberer to arms, and in a few moments the entire garrison was ready for action. From Wordnik.com. [The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles] Reference
Neither was the ridge level, and our tents were pitched at such an angle that the slumberer whose grasp of the bed-head relaxed. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
"I might throttle her," he muttered in a half audible tone, as his glittering eyes peered into the quiet face of the slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Dollars Reward] Reference
If the slumberer did not instantly start up, the tent was pulled down about him, and he found himself half-smothered in canvass. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference
The organist would pound the bass, making the entire sanctuary shudder, waking up even the most devout slumberer in the congregation. From Wordnik.com. [Song on the Brain (2/16)] Reference
'The slumberer speaks; the words of sleep are sacred.'. From Wordnik.com. [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference
This he cast at the slumberer with felicitous accuracy. From Wordnik.com. [The Clarion] Reference
By the light of his electric torch he discovered the slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [The Keepers of the King's Peace] Reference
When shall it be morn in the grave, to bid the slumberer awake?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference
Angels sat beside the slumberer, tenderly formed out of his dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Schlemihl] Reference
The slumberer stirred uneasily, rolled over, opened one eye, and sat up. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights] Reference
Cause, and many a slumberer hath been wakened by the sweetness of Thy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá] Reference
Baron von Moudenfels or Commissioner Kraus tapped the slumberer lightly on the shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [A Conspiracy of the Carbonari] Reference
The duchess drew aside the drapery, and contemplated the rosy face of the infant slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
But this time the operation was more skillful and no warning click disturbed the slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Broken to the Plow] Reference
But Wally's hat, skilfully thrown, had already caught the slumberer on the side of the head. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Bush Maid] Reference
Who would deem this gentle slumberer had betrayed the highest trust that ever Heaven vouchsafed to favoured man?. From Wordnik.com. [Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity] Reference
Ruminating thus, he essayed another door, which admitted him to a bedroom, where lay another harmonious slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Peveril of the Peak] Reference
And now the slumberer, as the loiterer had been before, was the subject of observation to the accidental passengers. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
But, how quietly the slumberer lay! how pale his features! and how like a shroud the sheet was wound about his frame!. From Wordnik.com. [The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales")] Reference
She whispered feelingly, "Poor girl! poor child!" then, with a sigh almost as deep as that of the slumberer, withdrew. From Wordnik.com. [The Emancipated] Reference
She hesitated; she trembled; she was in mortal fear of that truculent slumberer; but sleep lessens the awe thieves feel or heroes inspire. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
This noisy slumberer was the Irishman, O'Gorman, -- one of the parties to that suspended fight, to be resumed by day break in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference
Over her closed eyes the long lashes trembled almost imperceptibly, and a delicate pink flush came and went on the cheek of the slumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
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