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Slumber

noun

A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended. Synonym: sleep. "Calm as a child in dreamless slumber"

A dormant or quiescent state.

verb

(past & past part. slumbered; pres. part. slumbering)

Be asleep. Synonyms: catch some Z's, kip, log Z's, sleep.

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... commencement of the case. Who the stout man was Taggart could not surmise. It might be one of a score of thieves, and for four days he could form no conception of the murderer's identity, until one night, waking from a restless slumber, Huey Donnelly flashed like thought across his mind, and running his memory back for the past few weeks, he remembered that at the time the murder was committed Donnelly was in the city. The great difficulty in tracing the case ...

— The Secrets Of The Great City • Edward Winslow Martin

... the thunder of Lee's guns at Chancellorsville. Their roar seemed to have awakened throughout the entire North the great party hitherto lulled to slumber by the plea of "military necessity," or paralyzed by the very extent of the Executive usurpation which they saw, but had not had heart to oppose. On all sides the advocates of peace on the basis of separation were heard raising their importunate voices; and in the North the ...

— A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee • John Esten Cooke

... Joash tossed and tumbled. He was in a fitful slumber when Mrs. Baker called her husband to supper. The meal was anything but a cheerful one. They talked but little. Over the home, ordinarily so cheerful, had settled a gloom that ...

— The Depot Master • Joseph C. Lincoln

... rivalries, such antagonisms might slumber for decades, but with the economic struggle so active, these other matters will be kept ...

— The American Empire • Scott Nearing

... from the phone, John McCarthy entered the room, followed by George Martin. The noise in the city had finally aroused them from their slumber. ...

— Wanted--7 Fearless Engineers! • Warner Van Lorne

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