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A rich and lazy citizen, whose life is merely a chronicle of breakfast, dinners, suppers, and sleep, will slumber away ten or twelve hours daily.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 by Various

And the rustic maidens will gather the shell-pink honeysuckle with their lovers, and the amorous clouds will slumber above the exquisite plough-boy with his primrose locks, as he wanders, whistling, on his way.

From The Green Carnation by Hichens, Robert Smythe

The slumberers will slumber on, and‌ the worriers will worry, the serious people will go ponderously about until some one shows them how ridiculous they are and how pitiful.

From The Untroubled Mind by Hall, Herbert J. (Herbert James)

Those deeply graven images at times How they will slumber in us, seem forgotten, When all at once a word a tone, a gesture, Retraces all.

From Nathan the Wise; a dramatic poem in five acts by Taylor, William

It will slumber again when appetites have been duly appeased.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell