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1. shook Nihar and Dolly from their slumber to step out of
2. As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber she groaned and mumbled, feeling for a tumbler full of bathroom tap water that should have been on her bedside table
3. As his wife surfaced from beneath the rolling waves of slumber
4. He stretched and arose from his slumber
5. Though her body was thinned from her long years of slumber, Rafe could tell there was a definite toughness to every bit of her scrawny muscles
6. Jesus would call us out of our slumber to watch and pray, lest we
7. Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush’d with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum’d chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull’d with sound of sweetest melody?’
8. By the time he had finished the large mug he was full and, although he professed not to be sleepy he had slept little over the last few days, his slumber light and full of fear
9. Within moments they had both fallen into an exhausted slumber
10. Of a profound lucid slumber
11. further into slumber:
12. And as soon as her head hit the pillow, slumber found her
13. Normally the darkness and coolness would have hastened slumber
14. Examples are people who have left their physical bodies during meditation or deep slumber
15. What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day
16. burrows out of their tobacco induced slumber, do as you wish
17. It jolted me out of my slumber
18. “Oy! What are you two going on about?” It was Ramrod, the blonde-bearded Halfling pirate stirring from his slumber
19. Crimpen’s case, I merely gave him his powders and, as he dropped off to a drugged slumber, I suggested that he killed Crimpen
20. When she returned that night, she hoped to succumb to a twelve-hour slumber
21. After Moss had finished telling Soffen about the ills that had befallen the sett, the exhausted sow fell into a restless slumber, leaving Soffen to ponder on the facts
22. A few hours later Adrian woke from his slumber feeling sick
23. Indeed within moments he fell into a slumber, where he dreamt of Celia
24. It was as if he was in a dream haze, unable to wake up from the slumber of a mystic
25. “He is in a very deep sleep then? A slumber? Is he going to help us? Help Amonas?”
26. He was about to offer it to Ethan when he suddenly rose up from the small cot and blinked furiously as if awaking from a long, deep slumber of which he had no recollection
27. warm sunshine intruded on their slumber
28. their type of slumber
29. He glanced at his watch, six hours of slumber, perfect
30. Andy replied slowly, as if awaking from a deep slumber:
31. 3 He will not suffer your foot to be moved: he who keeps you will not slumber
32. Ganesh left the room as Rajiv eased back into a slumber, one that, with each passing day, he’d grow more and more tired of arising from
33. a night of long slumber; its early yawns stirred the sea’s surface into shimmering patterns
34. the bed, woken abruptly from her slumber by his outburst
35. 8 He who tells a tale to a fool speaks to one in a slumber, when he has told his tale, he will say, What is the matter?
36. 2 Watching cares will not let a man slumber, as a sore disease breaks sleep,
37. in the land of slumber enjoying his sleep on a cozy mattress with a plush pillow
38. in his slumber he knew it was only a matter of hours before the
39. He remembered clearly the voices that had woken him from his slumber but he couldn’t mention those for they would certainly condemn him
40. 13 "Then, at the end of the third hour of that Friday, O Lord, You did cause a slumber and a sleep to come over me, and I slept, and was overwhelmed in sleep
41. “Who dares to ruin the slumber of their Queen?”
42. “I’ve dreamt of this for so long, you are the last thing I see as I shut my eyes in the morning, only to wake up at night with your fragrance fresh in my system from having fantasized of you throughout my slumber”
43. I hadn’t tried resting my body further; knowing that it may be the last day of my existence didn’t help matters, slumber was the last thing on my mind
44. With a sigh he collapsed onto a seat and appeared to slumber off, but his mind was sharp and working furiously
45. in the midst of slumber, life can be cruel
46. Since it’s six thirty, I treat myself to another hour of slumber on the large couch in the living room
47. 13 "Then at the end of the third hour of that Friday O Lord You did cause a slumber and a sleep to come over me and I slept and was overwhelmed in sleep
48. Pro 6:10 Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
49. some friends and I snuck out of a slumber party in the middle of the
50. And I said And what does he eat? And he said to me The manna of Heaven and 12 the dew of Earth; And I said Does the bird excrete? And he said to me He excretes a worm and the excrement of the worm is cinnamon which kings and princes use; But wait and you shall 13 See the glory of God; And while he was conversing with me there was as a thunder-clap and the place was shaken on which we were standing; And I asked the angel My Lord what is this sound? And the angel said to me Even now the angels are opening the three hundred and sixty-five gates 14 of Heaven and the light is being separated from the darkness; And a voice came which said Light 15 giver give to the world radiance; And when I heard the noise of the bird I said Lord what is this 16 noise? And he said this is the bird that awakens from slumber the cocks on the Earth
1. 5While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept
2. Nerissa slumbered in the hidden chamber
3. “It is all I want,” she added, staring along its sturdy lines, looking up to the top floor where her sister slumbered peacefully
4. (16) I slumbered and slept; I dreamed and was
5. Without knowing that was what was in his mind, the Lost One bent down, seized the cane from the earth where it slumbered and was at Talus’ side in a heartbeat
6. When then the bridegroom delayed they all slumbered and slept; But in the middle of the night there occurred a cry look the bridegroom comes! Go out therefore to meet him; Then all those virgins arose and made ready their lamps
7. 25:1-46 So then the Kingdom of Heaven is like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the Bridegroom; and five of them were wise and five were foolish; those who were foolish took their lamps and they took no oil with them; but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps; they all slumbered and slept while the bridegroom delayed and at midnight there was a shouting made: Look the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him; Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps and the foolish ones said to the wise: Give us your oil because our lamps are gone out but the wise answered saying: It will not be in case there is not enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell and buy some for yourselves and the bridegroom came while they went to buy; and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut; Afterward the other virgins came also saying Lord Lord open to us but he answered and said truly I say to you I do not know you; Therefore watch out because you know neither the day nor the hour when the Son of Man comes; because the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man travelling into a far country who called for his own servants and gave his wealth to them; and to one he gave five talents of gold to another two and to the other one; to every man according to his own special ability and straight away he took his journey
8. 1 Shall we then think it great and wonderful if the Maker of all things shall make a resurrection of those who in the confidence of a good faith have piously seized him when even by means of a bird he shows the greatness of his promises? 2 For he says in a certain place and you shall raise me up and I will give thanks to you and again: I slumbered and slept; I arose up because you are with me
9. 'I slept more soundly than usual, because it has been so long since I have slumbered the night through; yet I don't think anything could have entered the hall without waking me
10. In her chamber whose ceiling was a lapis lazuli dome, whose marble floor was littered with rare furs, and whose walls were lavish with golden friezework, ten girls, daughters of nobles, their slender limbs weighted with gem-crusted armlets and anklets, slumbered on velvet couches about the royal bed with its golden dais and silken canopy
11. Khoraja slumbered beneath the stars, which seemed to be reflected in the cressets that twinkled among the gardens and along the streets and on the flat roofs of houses where folk slept
12. Within seconds, it had carried her to the black arena where the Dragon slumbered on the heated sands
13. Although the wind and the waves tossed their boat about as though it were a toy ship, Jesus slumbered on undisturbed
14. In the darkness before dawn an unaccustomed sound disturbed the solitude that slumbered over the reedy marshes and the misty waters of the coast
15. Sword shaking in his grasp, horror and revulsion and fear almost choking him, he backed away and down the glass steps with painful care, glaring in awful fascination at the grisly thing that slumbered on the copper throne
16. But the giant Cimmerian had repeatedly demonstrated his ability to take care of himself, and Balthus felt his duty lay toward the helpless settlers who slumbered in the path of the red hurricane
17. Alone in the great sleeping-chamber with its high golden dome King Conan slumbered and dreamed
18. slumbered around her, a distant scream of car-tires the only sound, two discordant
19. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept
20. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept
21. Rana slumbered restlessly
22. had slumbered among the clouds for days
23. ’ Having resolved on a liaison with her lover, Roopa slumbered in expectation
24. Therefore Mei Yinxue slumbered into unconsciousness but in her face, was
25. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept
26. The powers of action awoke, as often before, in comparative isolation, but the zeal of truth-seeking still for the most part slumbered
27. But the watchfulness of these vigilant protectors neither tired nor slumbered
28. sounds reverberating from the organ, which he played very expressively, but only at night in the midst of the most secretive darkness, while the Nautilus slumbered in the wilderness of the
29. Even these occasional threatening sounds ceased to be heard in that dull hour which precedes the day, at which period a listener might have sought in vain any evidence of the presence of those armed powers that then slumbered on the shores of the "holy lake
30. Then after a few seconds it became placid: the mouth resumed its usual shape; the limbs relaxed and the child slumbered peacefully
31. Around him and within him the flight of thought seemed to have stopped; his energetic mind slumbered, as the body does after extreme fatigue
32. At that time my virtue slumbered; my evil, kept awake by ambition, was alert and swift to seize the occasion; and the thing that was projected was Edward Hyde
33. And thus his conscience slumbered
34. When it rained, an old woman, the portress, took pity on him; she took him into her den, where there was a pallet, a spinningwheel, and two wooden chairs, and the little one slumbered in a corner, pressing himself close to the cat that he might suffer less from cold
35. Lulled by the sound, I at last dropped asleep; I had not long slumbered when the sudden cessation of motion awoke me; the coach-door was open, and a person like a servant was standing at it: I saw her face and dress by the light of the lamps
36. The stillness of early morning slumbered everywhere; the curtains were yet drawn over the servants’ chamber windows; little birds were just twittering in the blossom-blanched orchard trees, whose boughs drooped like white garlands over the wall enclosing one side of the yard; the carriage horses stamped from time to time in their closed stables: all else was still
37. But the notes of the flute came home to his ears out of a different sphere from that he worked in, and suggested work for certain faculties which slumbered in him
38. By the time he had smoothed and polished the staff Kalpa was no longer the pole-star; and ere he had put on the ferule and the head adorned with precious stones, Brahma had awoke and slumbered many times
39. His song, when still he slumbered deep,
40. The "old believer" from Starodoub, after having slumbered a little, climbed up on to the top of the stove, opened his book, and prayed the entire day until late in the evening without interruption
41. She was twenty-five now, and must be fated to be an old maid, and “with such beauty, too!” The mother spent whole nights in weeping and lamenting, while all the time the cause of her grief slumbered peacefully
42. The rotund innkeeper slumbered peacefully in front of his great hearth, and small patches of November sunshine lay on the floor, while merry November motes danced in the yellow beams
43. It would, he trusted, further enable the Executive to show that it never slumbered on any occasion in which the rights of the people were concerned; and he had no doubt the information to be received would show it
1. Where he stood silently, looking out over the slumbering valley
2. As she watched his chest rise and fall, rhythmically to each slumbering breath, she wished that she’d listened
3. “You deserve better than this,” he whispered to her slumbering form
4. her arms around his chest to warm the slumbering Andrastus, too
5. She would smile and even mumble at the familiar faces flashing before her slumbering eyes
6. She stealthily entered stepping over his slumbering, noisy, body
7. The rest of the night was uneventful, and I was still slumbering peacefully when Grits
8. Among the other slumbering victors were Minty Pinter, Farmer Duck, and a surprise visitor, Dalbo Dall, who had turned up in the middle of the night
9. obstacle overcome and the Roneys still slumbering peacefully, the rest
10. One soldier acted as a lookout, peering carefully around the corner at the slumbering soldiers
11. Elves Wood, leaves of a slumbering wood
12. Cook beside her, slumbering deeply
13. Morning sneaked in upon the slumbering group
14. Were they not all slumbering now, the word of his coming would send them raving and shrieking again through the outer gates
15. " Granted the possession of a normal body and reasonably good health, we must next look for those lures which will act as a stimulus to call forth man's slumbering spiritual forces
16. But for a slumbering glitter in his eyes, his bearing was unchanged
17. In the heart of the slumbering hills I have watched Xaltotun commune with the souls of the damned, and invoke the ancient demons of forgotten Acheron
18. Not much grows in the frozen months in Northeast Ohio except the opaque glow of the silver moon as it reflects cold and harsh off the hilltops covered with snow, slumbering peacefully and serenely under the great dark sky
19. lay slumbering in thy stony cave cleft
20. epidemic and to nuclear submarines slumbering on the floors of
21. between the lid and the slumbering Amazon, trying to remember which way
22. could he really tip-toe past those slumbering circus-freaks, knowing what
23. Just then, she realized that she was not dreaming, but that Soren was actually there with her and was trying to bring her with him unnoticed by the slumbering Vikings
24. Sleeping or slumbering because at this state a man becomes sluggish so he has to reactivate himself
25. Her two cats were slumbering on top of her, and Neo was lying on the floor beside the couch, his head resting on her legs
26. Those elements that dragged along slumbering, weighted with classic concepts of a
27. Desiree’, heed my astute advice; don’t tempt Marcus with the taste of your blood in any way, shape or form or you run the risk of having the slumbering giant’s wrath within his heart and soul reign down on you in a maelstrom of fire and brimstone! He’ll know you’re not Bethanie, and won’t forgive your deceit and dishonesty
28. These were my reflections, and many others besides, as I sat weary at the window that cold spring night, long after the lieutenant who had occasioned them was slumbering peacefully on the other side of the house
29. She fluffed her pillows and arranged them under the covers in the shape of what she imagined a slumbering 12-year-old looked like
30. He started to walk about his room on his own, staring blankly out the window at the slumbering bed of white
31. It was at that moment that Shanghai Larry, whom Michael was convinced had been slumbering in the corner, came to life
32. Sighing, Nole stared down at his slumbering brother
33. Our raucous yells that night could be heard for miles around and sure woke up the neighbors and their slumbering livestock; it maybe even woke up the devil, but she didn’t make any appearances that I was aware of, so I presume she didn’t mind
34. upfront that you should watch, be vigilant, and not slumbering when
35. Slumbering at a time like this
36. She looked down at the tiny feline slumbering away on the thick little bed she had made him
37. " And he sat back down, paying all his attention to the slumbering cat
38. locked me with slumbering eyes and slowly nodded her head
39. What else is this Vaticanism, which sits like a nightmare on the breast of slumbering Christendom, but the perfection of unreason and spiritual selfishness, the result of an overpowering fear of an eternal hell? Well sing the angels in the Apocalypse at the downfall of 'Babylon,’ if by Babylon be symbolized that religion which is the work of theologians to whom 'the heart of a Husband and a Father is,’ in the language of Sir James Stephen, 'an inscrutable mystery;’ and who, by an enforced celibacy, have cut off the teachers of the people, as well as the masters of the confessional, from personal experience in those two chief revelations of God’s loving Nature to mankind
40. “Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action
41. "For, how could you expect me not to feel uneasy about what that ancient lawgiver they call the Public will say when it sees me, after slumbering so many years in the silence of oblivion, coming out now with all my years upon my back, and with a book as dry as a rush, devoid of
42. Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
43. Who are the infants, some playing, some slumbering?
44. When a university course convinces like a slumbering woman and child convince,
45. While my wife at my side lies slumbering, and the wars are over long, And my head on the pillow rests at home, and the vacant midnight passes, And through the stillness, through the dark, I hear, just hear, the
46. Within the pallid slivers slumbering
47. He tried to picture those eyes on her now as he looked at her slumbering face, melding the two images in his mind
48. But as one intellectual has remarked, "Here, perhaps, is the actual point where life rises humbly out of slumbering stone, but without breaking away from its crude starting point
49. slumbering peacefully in each other's arms
50. The bright flashes and the quick reports of a dozen rifles, from the opposite banks of the stream, followed this incautious exposure of his person, and left the unfortunate singing master senseless on that rock where he had been so long slumbering
1. downstairs and as the dawn sky uncurled from its slumbers they
2. I was in the deepest of slumbers on
3. And, being in the middle of the deepest of slumbers, I slept
4. Yet the anger of The Lord is fully aroused! My indignation slumbers not!
5. A Cultural War waged by determined ideas is a much more subtle, deceptive and formidable form of warfare inasmuch as it craftily conceals its (unstated) purpose; a social and cultural conversion cutting at the (very) heart of a society‘s traditional belief system; a gradual, however determined process that oftentimes goes unchecked until an awakening society (roused from its slumbers) suddenly finds itself in the midst of altered customs and norms no longer consonant with that society‘s accustomed practices
6. The lion that slumbers in your soul
7. With a slow exhalation of breath he settled the quilt around her naked body, touched her forehead lightly with his lips and left her to her slumbers
8. During her slumbers, Zia had endured horrible
9. They swarmed about him yelling and hacking, and through the arched doorways rushed others, awakened from their slumbers by the unwonted clamor
10. But why should he select such a place for his slumbers? While meditating on the matter, Conan was galvanized by a sound behind him
11. Thus does the so-called Christian church become the cocoon in which the kingdom of Jesus' concept now slumbers
12. of an early winter, the dead bird slumbers
13. Preaching by the Baptists of the truth, "Ye must be born again," awoke men from the slumbers of spiritual death and dotted New England hills with Baptist churches
14. The Orcs all still snored in their deep slumbers as he led
15. clapped his hands, and they finally awoke from their slumbers
16. Thou hast preserved us from the pestilence that walketh in darkness, and from the malice of the rulers of the darkness of this world, the roaring lion that goes about seeking to devour: He that keepeth Israel, and neither slumbers nor sleeps, has kept us, and so we have been safe
17. They slept standing, breaking their slumbers to shift from place to place
18. See the calmness of the night, the solitude of the spot, inviting us to break our slumbers by a vigil of some sort
19. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth
20. They then retired within the walls, and first offering up their thanksgivings for past mercies, and petitioning for a continuance of the Divine favor throughout the coming night, they laid their tender forms on the fragrant couch, and in spite of recollections and forebodings, soon sank into those slumbers which nature so imperiously demanded, and which were sweetened by hopes for the morrow
21. He was permitted to pass the grenadier, who watched over the slumbers of the French commander, without interruption, the man making the usual salute which betokens military deference, as the other passed swiftly through the little city of tents, in the direction of William Henry
22. Then shaking off a train of reflections that he accounted a weakness in such a moment of triumph, he retraced his steps toward his tent, giving the order as he passed to make the signal that should arouse the army from its slumbers
23. Within the bosom of the encircling hills, an impenetrable darkness had already settled; and the plain lay like a vast and deserted charnel-house, without omen or whisper to disturb the slumbers of its numerous and hapless tenants
24. Has Kat, like Rowena before her, been seduced by the evil that slumbers a thousand feet of stone beneath her pillow? I shiver
25. The baby was still asleep in the cradle, but his slumbers had evidently not been of the most restful kind, for he had kicked all the bedclothes off him and was lying all uncovered
26. Arise ye workers from your slumbers, Arise ye prisoners of want For reason in revolt now thunders, And at last ends the age of cant
27. slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts
28. I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth
29. It was nearly twenty years since he had slept in a bed, and, although he had not undressed, the sensation was too novel not to disturb his slumbers
30. Madeleine seated on his truss of straw, and watching Cosette's slumbers
31. Pietro Massinello was a circus of one, allowed, like the others, to move his feast of dogs, cats, geese, and parakeets from the roof, where they lived in summer, to a basement lumber room in December, where they survived in a medley of barks, cackles, riots, and slumbers through the years
32. Mike, Mike, and his steady boat gentling a mild sweet lake where all Time slumbers
33. And also, their tardy slumbers, to some degree
34. The terrors of your death shall haunt the slumbers of the red men through all the ages to come; they will shudder in the shadows of the night as their fathers tell them of the awful vengeance of the green men; of the power and might and hate and cruelty of Tal Hajus
35. We are conscious of an animal in us, which awakens in proportion as our higher nature slumbers
36. So, almost every twenty-four hours, when the watches of the night were set, and the band on deck sentinelled the slumbers of the band below; and when if a rope was to be hauled upon the forecastle, the sailors flung it not rudely down, as by day, but with some cautiousness dropt it to its place for fear of disturbing their slumbering shipmates; when this sort of steady quietude would begin to prevail, habitually, the silent steersman would watch the cabin-scuttle; and ere long the old man would emerge, gripping at the iron banister, to help his crippled way
37. So, it being calm weather, they broke out deeper and deeper, disturbing the slumbers of the huge ground-tier butts; and from that black midnight sending those gigantic moles into the daylight above
38. Started from his slumbers, Ahab, face to face, saw the Parsee; and hooped round by the gloom of the night they seemed the last men in a flooded world
39. He fell asleep on the bench; but his mental disquiet continued through his slumbers
40. The next morning Raskolnikoff awoke late, after disturbed and unrefreshing slumbers
41. He slept much longer than usual, and his slumbers were undisturbed by dreams
42. It was some time before I could arouse the old janitor of the factory from his peaceful slumbers
43. The weak and aged members of the majority have been kept all night from their slumbers, by a hale and sturdy minority; which slumbers they might, by the way, at any moment have enjoyed, if that very majority had yielded the point of adjournment
44. You are told in that book that every effort was made by the American Commissioners to effect a relaxation of this right; that the British Ministry evinced the sincerest desire to give satisfaction to them on this point: but what? The Admiralty was consulted; they waked up out of their slumbers the Civilians at Doctors' Commons to deliberate upon it; and they came to the conclusion that the Government of Great Britain could not give up that right
