The ball struck the huge slumbering beast, but glided off its back as if it had struck a piece of polished steel.
Woddle's shot that caused the slumbering creature to rush madly upon the vessel.
In politics their influence has always been felt, and in many cases their drums ecclesiastic have beaten the reveille as vigorously, and to as good purpose, as it ever sounded in the slumbering camp.
As the wild tempest wakes the slumbering sea, Thou only teachest all that man can be!
If our borders are invaded, it is only as the spur that is driven into the courser's flank to rouse hisslumbering mettle.
The religious earnestness of the young custode, the hushed adoration of the country-folk who had silently assembled round us, intensified the sympathy-inspiring beauty of the slumbering girl.
His descent into Lombardy awakened the slumbering sense of Italian nationality.
One deputy was carried from a sick-bed to cast his vote in the scale of mercy; others slumbering on the benches were awakened and gave their votes of death between two yawns.
Standing beside it, I count these slumbering passengers, and get past forty.
The very name of Clameran had sufficed to arouse all the slumberingwrath of M.
This speech seemed to arouse all the bad passions slumbering in Clameran's bosom; and his pale face had a fiendish expression as he fiercely replied: "We had better end this humbuggery, and come to a clear understanding at once.
This question seemed to arouse all the anger slumbering in the breast of poor St. Jean.
Hawkeye listened while he coolly adjusted his flint and reloaded his rifle; but the sounds, wanting the extraneous assistance of scene and sympathy, failed to awaken his slumbering emotions.
The moon reached the zenith, and shed its mild light perpendicularly on the lovely sight of the sisters slumbering peacefully in each other's arms.
It appeared as if Webb, with his army, which lay slumbering on the banks of the Hudson, had utterly forgotten the strait to which his countrymen were reduced.
How long the tired Duncan lay in this insensible state he never knew himself, but his slumbering visions had been long lost in total forgetfulness, when he was awakened by a light tap on the shoulder.
It was a signal that awakened all the slumbering passions of the nation.
The eye could range, in every direction, through the long and shadowed vistas of the trees; but nowhere was any object to be seen that did not properly belong to the peaceful and slumbering scenery.
The age and weakness of the slumbering and unconscious Munro were indicated by signs too palpable to be mistaken.
Soundlessly Jan tiptoed across the floor, opened the door, without disturbing the slumbering man and went out into the night.
Later, the restless spirit slumbering within his breast urged him to speak to Cummins.
A faint sound of slumbering breath drawn evenly met her ear as she paused at the door of the slip of a room where Zarifa lay hidden.
Let in the rose from her long winter sleep; Bid the tall cypress stand sentinel-warden, Spreading soft shade where the narcissus keep Heads drooping down in their slumbering deep.
He did not come at all, however, and only once at table did she show any sign of the genuine intellectual activity which I was now pretty sure was either concealed or slumbering in these moods.
A loud cry of anguish escaped his breast and must have awakened the slumbering birds.
But when we lie sleepless on our couches during the long night, as I do, then the slumbering conscience awakens, all self-deception vanishes, and we see things as they really are.
Weimar lay slumbering in its dullness and tranquillity on the banks of the murmuring Ilm, and the staid and honest burghers of the good city considered it a positive blessing that this restless spirit had departed.
No wonder that the intelligence of Goethe's return agitated the little city, and infused a little life and excitement into slumbering society!
The countenance of theslumbering king, however, still wore the same enraptured expression.
When her husband had left the room she looked down at the pale child, who was slumbering in her arms.
Andrew accompanied his friend in silence through the deserted streets of the slumbering city, to the post-office, where the coach stood awaiting the passengers.
Standing here, where so many historic heads have fallen, one may behold the river streaming by, and watch the sun lighting up the polished masts of a hundred vessels slumbering in the Pool.
Taste, at least, was still slumbering when Lady Howe considered herself justified in demolishing one of the most famous abodes that have ever been connected with our literary history.
Criminals have often so slept their last sleep upon earth; and have been found in the gray morningslumbering peacefully, by the jailer who came to wake them.
But on approaching, the knights saw much more; a troop of horsemen of strange and foreign appearance were all asleep, and in the midst of them, slumbering on cushions, a female form in white garments.
Insurrectionary Chaos lies slumbering round the Palace, like Ocean round a Diving-bell,--no crevice yet disclosing itself.
Boundless Chaos of Insurrection presses slumbering round the Palace, like Ocean round a Diving-bell; and may penetrate at any crevice.
Crack, crack, we go incessant, through the slumbering City.
The hot night air brooded steamy and close upon the slumbering camp of the slavers, but to these it mattered nothing.
Don't you think that every woman has slumbering inside her a selfish craving for her own love and happiness and that, when she has found this, the outside world and the future cease to interest her?
Dressed as he was, he flung himself sobbing on his bed, swallowing his sobs in the slumbering night that hung over the castle.
For in their coffers and lockers there was slumbering enough of costly stuffs to outshine the Seldwyla ladies tenfold, they thought.
The Ottoman Empire could only have gained effectual political influence in these remote regions of the East when it was roused from its slumbering Oriental existence before the time of Peter the Great.
The dying fire revealed for a time the slumbering cat and dog, but gradually the quaint old kitchen faded into a blank of darkness.
He next found a broom, and commenced sweeping the room, which unwonted proceeding aroused the slumbering cat and dog, and they sat up and stared at the stranger with unfeigned astonishment.
Many of the youth's best aptitudes are necessarily still slumbering and unknown to either himself or others.
In the hidden depths of the natures of the common boys and girls there lieslumbering these splendid possibilities!
If he failed in the traditional subjects, he was branded as a dullard and crowded out of the school, although in respect to some other untested activities he may have been a slumbering genius.
My father does not know of its existence," she said, with a glance at the slumbering man of learning.
When here, but three days since, I came Bewildered in pursuit of game, All seemed as peaceful and as still As the mist slumbering on yon hill; Thy dangerous Chief was then afar, Nor soon expected back from war.
See, gliding slow through mist and bush, The hermit gains yon rock, and stands To gaze upon our slumbering bands.
No, my joy, I am more afraid for thee of Morphiliziy and his followers than of all the wild animals of thisslumbering thicket.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slumbering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
