slumberer
- 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
Or, though the zephyr scarcely blow, Down to the bottom must she go With all who wake or sleep, Ere the slumberer from his dream can start, Or the hymn hath left the singer's heart!
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by Wilson, John Lyde
Here lay a slumberer still as death, Save only that her balmy breath Raised ever and anon the lace That floated o'er her sleeping face.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
The trumpeter was now calling every slumberer to arms, and in a few moments the entire garrison was ready for action.
From The Battle of Bayan and Other Battles by Reidy, John J.
Long before the dawn, the shrill crowing of a thousand cocks first startles the slumberer from his uneasy repose.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis
