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But their impact is even greater on a land which has been slumbering since Nebuchadnezzar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Percy remembered what Juno had said—-for months he has been slumbering, but now he is awake.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan

There the cloud has been slumbering all night—there it found its home.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

The blue-bells, these yellow-chaliced butter-cups, are fit haunts for fairies, and, perchance, wild Puck, or Prospero's good Ariel has been slumbering in them.

From Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It by Aldrich, Thomas Bailey

And as soon as a fertilizing rain comes, it springs up, and everyone perceives what has been slumbering beneath the crust.

From Banzai! by Parabellum by Grautoff, Ferdinand Heinrich