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We, the wretched people, to whom that day was our last, hang the shrines of the gods with festal boughs throughout the city. Meanwhile the heavens wheel on, and night rises from the sea, wrapping in her vast shadow earth and sky and the wiles of the Myrmidons; about the town the Teucrians are stretched in silence; slumber laps their tired limbs.
She was horrified at Betty's conduct with regard to the little packet, and could not feel a particle of sympathy for the other girls in the matter. It was soon after midnight on that same eventful night. The great clock over the stables had struck twelve, and sweet chimes had come from the other clock in the little tower of the chapel. The whole house was wrapped in profound slumber. Even Mrs.
At last, Charles, who walked silently by her side, was persuaded to go to bed, where, some time after midnight, he cried himself into uneasy, dreamful slumber. But no drowsiness came to the mother's eyelids. All night long she sat watching at the bedroom-window, longing for the gleam of returning torches, and the joyful fanfare of the trumpet. But all was dark and still.
With these words the immoderate and contemptible person sank down in a very profound slumber.
In a brief interval of wakefulness, the sons of toil have heard thee, and say, "Is so much of our quiet slumber spent? is the morning so near at hand?" Crime has heard thee, and mutters, "Now is the very hour!" Despair answers thee, "Thus much of this weary life is gone!"
When Miss Monro returned to the bedroom, Ellinor was in a heavy feverish slumber; so feverish and so uneasy did she appear, that, after the hesitation of a moment or two, Miss Monro had no scruple in wakening her. But she did not appear to understand the answer to her request; she did not seem even to remember that she had made any request.
By degrees, he fell into an uneasy slumber, in which he had many incompleted dreams, one of which was that he found himself all alone on the wide ocean which stretched for thousands of miles beyond The Islands, alone in a small boat, endeavouring to row it towards the great Southern Continent that lay afar off in the invisible distance, where few but the most adventurous travellers ever cared to wander.
The Turks, roused from their slumber, amazed, bewildered, fought for a short time with maniacal fury, often pouring volleys of bullets into the bosoms of their friends, and with bloody cimeters smiting indiscriminately on the right hand and the left, till, in the midst of a scene of confusion and horror which no imagination can conceive, they broke and fled.
Presently she fell into a light slumber. At first a slight expression of pleasure played upon her lips, but ere long the fatigue of her journey overcame her, and she slept heavily.
It would be when winter set its white distance upon them, chilled the flowers to slumber, and stopped the labor that the testing time would come; and Michael was thinking about that. He began hunting out helpers for his purposes. He found a man skilled in agricultural arts and secured his services to hold a regular school of agriculture during the winter for the men.
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