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
"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
After a few hasty but discreet sniffings, which enabled him to locate the careless slumberer, he pounced upon the exact spot and fell to clawing the sod ferociously.
From The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
With eyes full of the hopeful project he stood looking at the noble slumberer, then suddenly turned and tip-toed to the door.
From A Poached Peerage by William Magnay
Roused from this position by some movement of the slumberer, she started up and watched him.
From Edmond Dantès by Edmund Flagg
