Crossword clues for slumbering
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slumber \Slum"ber\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Slumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slumbering.] [OE. slombren, slumberen, slumeren, AS. slumerian, fr. sluma slumber; akin to D. sluimeren to slumber, MHG. slummern, slumen, G. schlummern, Dan. slumre, Sw. slumra, Goth. slawan to be silent.]
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To sleep; especially, to sleep lightly; to doze.
--Piers Plowman.He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
--Ps. cxxi. 4. To be in a state of negligence, sloth, supineness, or inactivity. ``Why slumbers Pope?''
--Young.
Wiktionary
Temporarily inactive. n. sleep v
(present participle of slumber English)
Usage examples of "slumbering".
Their wings of braided air: The Daemon leaning from the ethereal car Gazed on the slumbering maid.
Some shrouded in their long and golden hair, As if not dead, but slumbering quietly Like forms which sculptors carve, then love to agony.
When I went down to the yard in the morning, there were often people slumbering on the stair who had taken shelter there from the cold.
The boy is sitting with his feet on the fender and roasting chestnuts on a toasting-fork held at the fire while Mr Vulliamy is slumbering at his desk with his head resting upon his papers.
The Greeks sometimes depicted death and sleep as twin boys, one black, one white, borne slumbering in the arms of their mother, night.
During this night the saints, who in high Jana loka have survived the dissolution of the lower portions of the universe, contemplate the slumbering deity until he wakes and restores the mutilated creation.
When Switzerland is in peril, the Three Tells, slumbering there in their antique garb, will wake to save her.
It is unreasonable to suppose that fresh guards would slumber at a post where the penalty of slumbering was death.
He tenderly took his wife in his arms, and they exchanged the closest, the most human of kisses amid the quiet of the slumbering fields.
In the yard of the picturesque old building, half covered with ivy, with its mossy wheel slumbering amid water-lilies, they found the Lepailleurs, the man tall, dry, and carroty, the woman as carroty and as dry as himself, but both of them young and hardy.
There was no wind, apparently no breath of air, yet the leaves of the trees moved, the weather-vanes turned slightly, the animals in the byres roused themselves, and slumbering folk opening their eyes, turned over in their beds, and dropped into a troubled doze again.
Then his second task was done, and he flew gayly back to the green earth and slumbering Lily-Bell.
The sign featuring a painting of the famous slumbering orange tabby swayed and creaked in the evening breeze.
FLEEING THE ILL-FATED FIASCO IN THE PALACE, DAMRA and her husband Griffith had made their way through the slumbering city without difficulty.
Griffith looked intently at his slumbering patient, then glanced at Quai-ghai.