slumbered

The clock flickered past 5: 00, and some part of my reptilian brain slumbered long enough for me to think, Gee, I've been doing this for five hours now.

Have It Your Way shadesong 2004

Then the idea slumbered in his mind for a few years, while he continued to make his own people restless with criticism, perhaps deserved, of their sluggishness, their pessimism, their party strife, and foreign peoples equally restless with phrases like "_nemo me impune lacessit_"; until the idea came suddenly to utterance in 1897, when, on seeing the figure of Neptune on a monument to the Emperor

William of Germany Stanley Shaw

Then the idea slumbered in his mind for a few years, while he continued to make his own people restless with criticism, perhaps deserved, of their sluggishness, their pessimism, their party strife, and foreign peoples equally restless with phrases like “nemo me impune lacessit”; until the idea came suddenly to utterance in

William of Germany Shaw, Stanley 1913

Papers were suppressed or censored; free speech was denied; men were conscripted against will and conscience; constitutions were thrust aside; laws "slumbered"; writers and thinkers were jailed for their opinions; food was rationed; industries were controlled -- all in the interest of "winning the war."

The American Empire Scott Nearing 1933

The world "slumbered" signifies, simply, "nodded," or, "became drowsy"; while the world "slept" is the usual word for lying down to sleep, denoting two stages of spiritual declension -- first, that half-involuntary lethargy or drowsiness which is apt to steal over one who falls into inactivity; and then a conscious, deliberate yielding to it, after a little vain resistance.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

Sophie had left me a plate of biscuits and a bottle of 7Up—comfort foods from my childhood—on the dresser while I slumbered.

Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

Sophie had left me a plate of biscuits and a bottle of 7Up—comfort foods from my childhood—on the dresser while I slumbered.

Mercy Kill Lori Armstrong 2011

Lead singer Jay Siegel's spectacular falsetto vocal turn, surrounded by African rhythms and otherworldly harmonies, transported me to a frighteningly beautiful world in which majestic creatures slumbered peacefully in fierce jungle terrain.

Michael Sigman: 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight' at 50: A Song for the Ages Michael Sigman 2011

For of all times, the devil that slumbered in Captain Dettmar's soul chose this particular time of good cheer to awaken.

Bunches of Knuckles 2010

The sea crashed below on the cliffs and the Maker of Narrow Houses slumbered on.

One Year’s Worth of Woe « A Fly in Amber 2009