slumber

• A man needs nothing more than to shake off the slumber, and bring himself into the conscious presence of the unseen glories that surround us, in order to get light enough and to spare--whether you mean by light knowledge for guidance on the path of life, or whether you mean by it purity that shall scatter the darkness of evil from the heart, or whether you mean by it the joy that comes in the morning, radiant and fresh as the sunrise over the Eastern hills. —  Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
• His stolid nature gave way to a restlessness that caused him to start in his slumber, and to stop suddenly in his tracks to listen for sounds that never came. —  The Black Phantom
• Even this slumber was continually disturbed by the appearance and harangues of some newly-arrived rude knights. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• But men are awakening from their mental slumber, and are becoming incomprehensible. —  The Green Carnation
• After a long season of slumber, the governor resolved to enforce the observance of the Sabbath, which had been commonly spent in "abominable dissipation." —  The History of Tasmania, Volume I

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