slumberers

Well, walk down from the St. Louis road along Mr. St.art's new road and we shall see first how the rest of the 'slumberers' has been respected.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

And as for the slumberers in those lairs by the wall, which served the family for beds, they only raised their shirtless bodies to look at the fray, ejaculated, “Oigh! oigh!” in the tone suitable to their respective sex and ages, and were, I believe, fast asleep again, ere our swords were well returned to their scabbards.

Rob Roy 2005

Although it was broad day in the other parts of the city, it was scarce dawn yet in Alsatia; and none of the sounds of industry or occupation were there heard, which had long before aroused the slumberers in any other quarter.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

The car, as it grew used to the boisterous roar of the engines and the measured rhythm of the paddle-wheels, did not at first notice the new sound born of the fact that into the sounds previously made familiar there began to intrude the snores of slumberers, and the padding of soft footsteps, and an excited whisper of:

Through Russia 2003

At dawn next morning, all the slumberers started to their feet and rushed to the shore, shouting “Hurrah, hurrah!” as

In Search of the Castaways 2003

Nothing occurred during the night to disturb the slumberers, although occasional growls front panthers and chatterings of monkeys broke the silence; the more formidable beasts made no cries or hostile demonstration against the occupants of the bungalow.

Around the World in 80 Days 2003

The town did not awake; or, if it did, the drowsy slumberers mistook the cry either for something frightful in a dream, or for the noise of witches, whose voices, at that period, were often heard to pass over the settlements or lonely cottages, as they rode with Satan through the air.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

Hy is one or the slumberers; he lies in our bed, half tuned to danger, but less so than when I met him years ago.

While Other People Sleep Muller, Marcia 1998

In them the motionless bodies of the slumberers were still resting.

Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975

Ps-5 had explained to him that there must still be 9 or 10 of these curved rooms, perhaps containing other blocks with slumberers.

Spaceship of Ancestors Ernsting, Walter 1975