The Innocent slumbered peacefully, with a smile on his good-humored, freckled face; the virgin Piney slept beside her frailer sisters as sweetly as though attended by celestial guardians, and Mr. Oakhurst, drawing his blanket over his shoulders, stroked his mustaches and waited for the dawn.

That's a nice sort of a guard, ain't it?" said Jerry, pointing to Hal, who was slumbering soundly near the fire.

Around him the birds that build their nests in the crevices of the rock were whirling and screaming, while before him lay the beautiful lake, motionless and calm, as if it had fallen asleep and was slumbering sweetly in its forest bed.

Mournfully, tearfully, twine we a wreath, To the memory of one who sleeps with the dead; Calmly she slumbers the cold sod beneath, While the wind chants a requiem over her bed.

A little shrine, adorned with flowers, stood at the other end, and there were two tablets on the wall, to persons who slumbered beneath, I approached these and read on one of them with feelings not easily described: "Look not mournfully into the pastit comes not again; wisely improve the presentit is thine; and go forward to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart!"

He slumbered uneasily, and his brain was filled with troubled pictures.

rise in haste, or slumber evermore!

All night long he lay awake, and could think of nothing else but her, he could not get her out of his mind; towards morning, sleep took a little pity on him, he slumbered awhile, but all his dreams were of her." "te nocte sub atra Alloquor, amplector, falsaque in imagine somni, Gaudia solicitam palpant evanida mentem.

And half an hour later he was slumbering profoundly without knowing at what moment he had slid down the soft slopes of sleep.

The survivors of the crew were grouped about the upturned boat, slumbering heavily after their labours of the night.

Welcome, sweet partner, and of favour tell me, Is this some friend of yours that slumbers heere? Luc.

The poor sleeper beneath could not hear it, it is true; his slumber, henceforth, was sound; the full tide of human population pressing fast beside the spot where he lay buried, should never wake him more: no human sorrow should rack his breast, no dream disturb his repose; yet cold, changed, and senseless as he was, the first sound of the falling clods jarred strange and harsh upon my ear, as if it must perforce awake him.

Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance.

And all this did make it a hard thing that we not to begin to race, and to exceed the hours that we did set; but truly we had wisdom in this matter, and slumbered alway after the sixteenth hour.

Meantime, in her cradle-like nest in her nautical bower, Miss Rosey slumbered as lightly.

So deep, On a heap Of clouds, to sleep, Down lay the Wind, and slumbered soon Muttering low, "I've done for that Moon.

Meantime, in her cradle-like nest in her nautical bower, Miss Rosey slumbered as lightly.

It was now some months since he had seen the girl, and his eager exclamation was wrested from him by surprise and a sudden awakening to the fact that his love for her had merely slumbered.

The little Prince, who had slumbered so opportunely all night, awoke and received infinite praise, and what he better appreciated, the food that had been provided for him.

The nurse had fallen asleep in her arm-chair by the fire, and was slumbering placidly.

She was slumbering, but restlessly, and so lightly that she sprang up at once on my entrance.

Yes, compassion is due to thee, India's young daughter; The sound of thy sorrow, thy plaint of despair Have reached English ears o'er the wide westward water, And sympathy stirred, seldom slumbering there. Child-Wife, or Child-Widow, in agony kneeling And clasping the skirts of the armed Island Queen, Her heart is not cold to thine urgent appealing; Considerate care in her glances is seen.

At one moment we behold him slumbering softly as an infant"so tranquil, helpless, stirless, and unmoved;" in the next, we remark with surprise sundry violent twitches and contortions of the limbs, as though the sleeper were under the operation of galvanism, or suffering from the pangs of a guilty conscience.

Daphnis, thou slumberest on the leaf-strown lea, Thy frame at rest, thy springes newly spread O'er the fell-side.

"He slumbers tranquilly," she muttered, after contemplating him for some time, adding with a chuckling laugh, "it would be a pity to waken him.