Sentence examples similar to slumbering gently from inspiring English sources

When, with her "tiny" hand, she gently wakes the king, slumbering over his dinner (all the men at the table are too frightened), and when she returns the purse he has sent, having "kissed the seal" ("genius", exclaims a bystander), is it maidenly reticence or guile that even Cromwell might envy?

Slumbering boards beware.

[from yawn.] Sleepy; slumbering.

His intent is to awaken us from slumbering complacency.

Awaken, slumbering cat!

The scarce shops, shuttered, are slumbering.

At night the stained glass figures in the windows seemed to slumber, and the lamps on each desk gently rolled orange light along the floors until it formed one great globe that bounced along every twist and turn of the staircase to the upper levels.

He who slumbers on a par.

How long it had slumbered was unclear.

Once more To slumber And snore.

Still, the mummy slumbered, biding its time.