slumberer
English
Etymology
Noun
slumberer (plural slumberers)
- One who slumbers; a sleeper.
- 1633, John Donne, The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis, in John Carey (ed.) John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75,
- His right arm he thrust out towards the east, / Westward his left; th' ends did themselves digest / Into ten lesser strings, these fingers were: / And as a slumberer stretching on his bed, / This way he this, and that way scattered / His other leg, which feet with toes upbear;
- 1955, Martin Buber, The Legend of the Baal-Shem, translated by Maurice Friedman, London: Routledge, 2002, p. 148,
- There lay the houses in the dawn light with closed window-shutters, like joyless slumberers with heavy lids.
- 1633, John Donne, The Progress of the Soul. Metempsychosis, in John Carey (ed.) John Donne: The Major Works, Oxford University Press, 1990, First Song, Stanza XV, 141-6, p. 75,
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