slumber
verb (used without object)
to sleep, especially lightly; doze; drowse.
unslumbering
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a word derived from
slumber.
Example Sentences
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Above, the vault of night with all its stars, and watching all, the shepherd, with unslumbering eye.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Thirteen years after, his unslumbering memory made this an illustrating point in an exhortation to a first lord of the admiralty not to disregard small outgoings.
From The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) by John Morley
Silently and invisibly, yet with unslumbering assiduity, Odd-Fellowship watches over him, and by its wise counsels, its tender sympathies and rational restraints, saves him from the ways of vice.
From The Jericho Road by W. Bion Adkins
The old legend told of unslumbering guards who kept the treasure of the golden fruit.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren
"The senate," he had said, "sends thee this through me:" and henceforward the senate was the object of unslumbering suspicions to the emperor.
From The Caesars by Thomas De Quincey
