slumbers

Due to our pursuit of ineffective and ill-focused educational and economic reforms , the rude disturbance of our slumbers is the slamming of the door on the American dream.

What international test scores really tell us: Lessons buried in PISA report Valerie Strauss 2010

Chapman, who regarded him much as the ferret did the rat, declared that the rabbits and hares would suffer from letting 'that there chap' show his face here on any plea; and, moreover, gave a grunt very like a scoff; at the idea of slumbers in the mullion rooms (as they were called) being secured by his good offices.

Chantry House Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

Ludlow sought his rest, and although there is reason to think that his slumbers were a little disturbed by dreams, he remained tolerably quiet in the hammock-cloths, the place in which it has already been said he saw fit to take his repose, until the morning watch had been called.

The Water-witch, Or, the Skimmer of the Seas 1831

The sound of the shofar is intended to awaken the listeners from their "slumbers" and alert them to the coming judgment.

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What would I not give for a fresh, pure, and untrampled heart, such as slumbers peacefully in yonder room, with no damning recollections to scare sleep from her pillow?

St. Elmo 1872

What would I not give for a fresh, pure, and untrampled heart, such as slumbers peacefully in yonder room, with no damning recollections to scare sleep from her pillow?

St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867

One of those strange fitful kind of slumbers, such as he had himself described as being so full of dread, came over him.

Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3 1847

When not on Shabbat, Rosh Hashanah is characterized by the blowing of the shofar,[5 a trumpet made from a ram's horn and not from the horn of any other kind of animal, intended to symbolically awaken the listeners from their "slumbers" and alert them to the coming judgment.[

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One work, titled "Risqué," takes a saucy look up a lady's skirt, while others present ominous close-ups of Cooper's human baby brother, Cameron, who slumbers peacefully as his rival for the Cross' affection stalks ever closer... until he hovers only a whisker away.

ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011

One work, titled "Risqué," takes a saucy look up a lady's skirt, while others present ominous close-ups of Cooper's human baby brother, Cameron, who slumbers peacefully as his rival for the Cross' affection stalks ever closer... until he hovers only a whisker away.

ARTINFO: Is This Cat a Great Photographer? The Seattle Art Scene's Feline Phenomenon ARTINFO 2011