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Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLUMBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slumber
 n.  sleep; state of inactivity or dormancy
Classic Sentence: (96 in 7 pages)
1  This brief slumber was profound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
2  It seemed to be a sort of rite with him, to prepare himself for slumber by meditation in the presence of the grand spectacles of the nocturnal heavens.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
3  The moral world has no grander spectacle than this: a troubled and uneasy conscience, which has arrived on the brink of an evil action, contemplating the slumber of the just.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
4  That slumber in that isolation, and with a neighbor like himself, had about it something sublime, of which he was vaguely but imperiously conscious.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XI—WHAT HE DOES
5  She slept with that slumber of absolute confidence peculiar to her age.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
6  Sister Simplice, who had been watching with her, availed herself of this slumber to go and prepare a new potion of chinchona.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—IN WHAT MIRROR M. MADELEINE CONTEMPLATES HIS HA...
7  His slumber was complete and conscientious.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
8  The sun was shining brightly when he sank into that frightful leaden slumber which permits ideas to go and come in the brain.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II—MARIUS
9  His was the overwhelming slumber of the torpid bear and the satiated leech.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
10  The sort of halt which the tumult underwent in the presence of Enjolras was a shock to this heavy slumber.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII—ORESTES FASTING AND PYLADES DRUNK
11  This good, old quarter, terrified at the Revolution, takes refuge in slumber, as children, when they hear the Bugaboo coming, hide their heads hastily under their coverlet.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE
12  God doubtless neither heard nor saw me, and I sank upon the floor a prey to a slumber which resembled death.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
13  This repulsive pillow was her especial property, being used as a weapon of defense, a barricade, or a stern preventive of too much slumber.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO
14  Furthermore she went to the house of Ulysses, and threw the suitors into a deep slumber.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
15  Like a lioness caught in the toils with huntsmen hemming her in on every side she thought and thought till she sank into a slumber, and lay on her bed bereft of thought and motion.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK IV
Example Sentence:
1  He is calm as a child in dreamless slumber.
2  It is only when the mind and character slumber that the dress can be seen.
3  The baby slumbered in his cradle.