Sentence Examples

1. What, therefore, must have been my amazement, on awakening from a brief and disturbed slumber, on the morning of this day, the seventeenth, at finding the surface beneath me so suddenly and wonderfully augmented in volume, as to subtend no less than thirty-nine degrees in apparent angular diameter!
2. My own case, however, was very different indeed, and left me no room for any similar idea for I did not wish to keep awake, but to be aroused from slumber at regular intervals of time.
3. Thankfully, there was no sound of interrupted slumber from the slave quarters.
4. To be sure I arose from a sound slumber, with all my senses in confusion, to the contemplation of a very startling phenomenon, and one which, although expected, was not expected at the moment.
5. Richard was obviously not immobile in slumber for the sheets were in disarray.
6. It was also evident, that the water thus falling from a height of more than four feet, could not do otherwise than fall upon my face, and that the sure consequences would be, to waken me up instantaneously, even from the soundest slumber in the world.
7. Now his slumber was interrupted as the booming continued.
8. Dan sighed but stayed where he was until Richard succumbed to a drunken, uneasy slumber.
9. Now it was that those hideous shrieks arose upon the night, which had startled from slumber the inmates of the Rue Morgue.
10. I wake up suddenly, jolted out of slumber by a sudden noise.