Use slumbering in a sentence
Sentences ending with slumbering
- I cared to look at her as one would dwell on the sleek beauty of a deer--as, indeed, I have many a time since then, in India, watched a tigress asleep on her chain, claws hidden, wild life latent but slumbering. [11]
- He was tired from the sleepless night he had last spent, and when he opened his eyes once more and looked down the street into which the moon was now shining, he did not know how long he had been slumbering. [10]
More example sentences with the word slumbering in them
- There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again. [11]
- Its long white-washed walls, it is true, glimmered through the gloom as distinctly as ever, but instead of towering--as usual at this time--mute and lifeless above the slumbering town--the most active bustle was going on within and around it. [10]
- Arrived at the tree, or fence, or other henroost (your own if you are an idiot), you warm the end of your plank in your friend's fire vessel, and then raise it aloft and ease it up gently against a slumbering chicken's foot. [5]
- But I used to think that if Irene, attracted by his many admirable qualities, should become his wife, and that if afterwards the Prince should appear and waken the slumbering woman's heart in her, what a tragedy would ensue. [4]
- It was as though some inward monitor, some gnome of the hidden life had whispered of danger to her slumbering spirit. [11]
- And who is the fair one who has succeeded in waking up his slumbering heart? [10]
- Then it was that the Chambertin or the Clos Vougeot came in, slumbering in its straw cradle. [6]
- Great occasions only summon as with a trumpet-call the slumbering reserves of my intellect. [5]
- If she were slumbering, she had fallen asleep with bright images in her memory. [10]
- Yonder, as if slumbering under a blue veil, lay the Calabrian coast, while nearer and more distant, but always noiselessly, ships and boats, with gently swelling sails, glided over the water. [10]
- Then a dream showed the Biamite to the slumbering man, yet no longer in the guise of a woman, but as the spider Arachne. [10]
- He left the quiet, slumbering town at our mercy. [5]
- The slumbering Philostratus now and then murmured incomprehensible words to himself; and the lion, who perhaps was dreaming of his freedom in his sandy home, whined low in his sleep. [10]
- There's no music like the bugle to stir the blood, in the still solemnity of the morning twilight, with the dim plain stretching away to nothing and the spectral mountains slumbering against the sky. [5]
- The sun shone into the window at a pretty well opened angle when the Colonel first found himself sufficiently awake to address his yet slumbering spouse. [6]
- In politics their influence has always been felt, and in many cases their drums ecclesiastic have beaten the reveille as vigorously, and to as good purpose, as it ever sounded in the slumbering camp. [6]
- The passion slumbering in the eyes, however, might at any moment burst forth in some wild relinquishment of control and self-restraint. [11]
- All the passionate impulses which had hitherto been slumbering in her soul were set free, and now raised their clamorous voices as she was whirled across the desert through the gloom of night. [10]
- Here, almost at his feet, was a man, also looking out along that slumbering waste. [11]
- But Nell retained her grasp upon the old man's arm, and long after he was slumbering soundly, watched him with untiring eyes. [12]
- As the sun grew low, the Celebrity's conductors straggled in with fishing-rods and told of an afternoon's sport, and we left the captain peacefully but sonorously slumbering on the bank. [9]
- At half past four o'clock on Sunday morning the shepherd brought the stray lamb into the paved yard at The Poplars, and roused the slumbering household to receive back the wanderer. [6]
- She had no fear as she looked upon his slumbering features, but she had a deep and weighty sorrow, and it found its relief in tears. [12]
- So she floated by the slumbering village, the flow of the river carrying her steadily on, and the careful strokes of the oars adding swiftness to her flight. [6]
- Immediately before the benediction, Mr. Alcott recited the following sonnet, which he had written for the occasion:--- "His harp is silent: shall successors rise, Touching with venturous hand the trembling string, Kindle glad raptures, visions of surprise, And wake to ecstasy each slumbering thing? [6]
- If our borders are invaded, it is only as the spur that is driven into the courser's flank to rouse his slumbering mettle. [6]
- Her government is all there; all in that deceptively innocent-looking little book, that cunning little devilish book, that slumbering little brown volcano, with hell in its bowels. [5]
- These new and accidental newspaper friends declared weekly that measures of paramount importance were slumbering in committees, and cited the measures. [9]
- I said: "What a picture is here slumbering in the solemn glory of the moon! [5]
- We sat upon a mountain commanding a vast landscape of mountain-range and gorge and valley and plain and river, with cities and villages slumbering in the sunlight, and a glimpse of blue sea on the farther verge. [5]
- But there was a certain charm through it all--a languid precision, a slumbering look in the face, a vague undercurrent in the voice, a fantastical flavour to the thought. [11]
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