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Slumber   /slˈəmbər/   Listen
noun
Slumber  n.  Sleep; especially, light sleep; sleep that is not deep or sound; repose. "He at last fell into a slumber, and thence into a fast sleep, which detained him in that place until it was almost night." "Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber." "Rest to my soul, and slumber to my eyes."


verb
Slumber  v. t.  
1.
To lay to sleep. (R.)
2.
To stun; to stupefy. (Obs.)


Slumber  v. i.  (past & past part. slumbered; pres. part. slumbering)  
1.
To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze. "He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep."
2.
To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. "Why slumbers Pope?"





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"Slumber" Quotes from Famous Books



... it. The Indian was asleep in an instant. Though I thought for a minute or so, I very quickly followed his example. We both of us awoke at intervals and made up our fire, but were instantly again asleep, and I do not think I ever enjoyed more refreshing slumber. It was broad daylight when I awoke. I got up and went to the mouth of the cavern; the snow fell as thickly and fast as ever, but as it did not appear to be blocking up our cavern, ...
— Dick Onslow - Among the Redskins • W.H.G. Kingston
... had spoke of had surely sunk deep into her soul and troubled it, though she had so laughed and lightly changed the subject of their talk, for in the night she had an awful dream, and her lord, wakened from deep slumber—as he had been once before—started up to behold her standing in the middle of the chamber—a tall white figure with its arms outflung as if in wild despair, while she cried out ...
— His Grace of Osmonde • Frances Hodgson Burnett
... Teuton altar they beheld two forms, both perfectly motionless: but one was extended on the ground as in sleep or in death; the other sate beside it, as if watching the corpse, or guarding the slumber. The face of the last was not visible, propped upon the arms which rested on the knees, and bidden by the hands. But in the face of the other, as the two men drew near, they recognised the Danish Prophetess. ...
— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... joy, ye stubborn dumb, to-day, And your heavy slumber shake away! From the battle, victory upsprings! Hearken to the trump's exulting song! Ye are worshipped by the shouting throng!— Rouse ...
— The Works of Frederich Schiller in English • Frederich Schiller
... the yard gates watching the detective backing the car down the declivity of the passage into Bridge Street. Before they had reached it, he banged the gates behind him with another tremendous yawn, and went back to his interrupted slumber in ...
— The Hand in the Dark • Arthur J. Rees


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