slumber
verb (used without object)
to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
slumberer
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a word derived from
slumber.
Example Sentences
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Amid the ensuing guffaw many a slumberer was rudely awakened.
From Time Magazine Archive
He then gazed long and anxiously at the torpid slumberer, standing at the bedside and watching that marble face.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
By the light of his electric torch he discovered the slumberer.
From The Keepers of the King's Peace by Edgar Wallace
"When shall it be morn in the grave to bid the slumberer wake?"
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
Electrical in its effect, every slumberer started to his feet, and each hut, which had for hours been silent as the tomb, poured forth its warrior, armed and ready for the fight.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
