Camille Blatrix lives in southern Paris, in the 14th arrondissement, an area that once housed many artists but is quiet now, and slumbering in the heat of summer.
From Oxford, Shakespeare's Way follows the River Thames for several miles, through quiet countryside and slumbering villages; after about 18 miles, it heads into the beech woods of the Chilterns, where red kites, a well-known bird of prey, soar over the chalk hills.
The people who would eventually make other choices, and who by doing so would threaten the postwar social order, "lay in the quiet night of suburbia, slumbering in the children's bedrooms".
Perhaps an occasional pang of something close to anger interrupted one of his last slumbers in the quiet of his mansion.
SAINT-ÉMILION, FRANCE — In winter, when the tourists have left and the new vintage is slumbering, Saint-Émilion is quiet.
For decades one of the world's great collections of ancient religious manuscripts lay slumbering, relatively forgotten, down a quiet leafy avenue in a wealthy residential neighborhood here.
We know that your dry heat often feels like a hug, your community is as close-knit as it gets, and that the only thing better than your hot, slumbering days are your serenely quiet streets.
Why it works: Those car alarms and chatty pedestrians are even more likely to disturb your slumber if your bedroom is too quiet.
"I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth".
