Sentence examples for slumber under from inspiring English sources

But there was no revolution and Iranians continue to slumber under the rule of an ever more restrictive political regime.

Some participants slept ensconced in fur and wool, buffalo hides serving as natural duvets during slumber under a black sky.

And even while ancient brick cities slumber under the sands, dug in for the next attack by today's Mongols, Parthians and Turcomans, new brickworks rise in the southern desert, reproducing ancient Mesopotamia.

Then there were intellectuals like the Palestinian George Antonius, who in 1938 wrote in The Arab Awakening of the crucial role Christians played in reviving Arab literature and the arts after their long slumber under Ottoman rule.

In "Die Zwei Blauen Augen" ("The Two Blue Eyes"), for example, Mr. Holzmair created an almost unbearable level of despondency in the first two verses, then gradually crawled into the light in the closing verse, in which the rejected lover finds solace in slumber under a petal-shedding linden tree.

The researchers also set up "artificial dens" where the bears could begin their seasonal slumber under the watch of infrared cameras, oxygen and carbon dioxide detectors, and motion sensors.

And wouldn't it be ironic if faculties slumbering under a stroke's spell could be awakened by a pill designed to put us asleep?

Modern and efficient, the factories are softened by evidence of their own history – the stone bodies of windmills, sails long gone, slumbering under cascading bougainvillea.

But that sweetness, verging on sentimentality, is also Housman's limitation: the lads and lasses slumbering under the grass, never growing old or sick or worrying about how to find a job.

While physics and astronomy marched slowly but inexorably from Galileo to Kepler to Newton and the Scientific Revolution, chemistry slumbered under alchemy's influence through what historians call its "postponed scientific revolution".

Dropping by Stonehenge for ten minutes and then announcing you've crossed it off your bucket list suggests that seeing Stonehenge — or beholding the Taj Mahal, or visiting the Louvre, or observing a pride of lions slumbering under a tree in the Maasai Mara — is something that, having been done, can be considered done with.