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Slumbery   Listen
adjective
Slumbery  adj.  Sleepy. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Slumbery" Quotes from Famous Books



... a moment of surprise should be carefully led up to by anticipatory suggestion. Before Lady Macbeth is disclosed walking in her sleep, her doctor and her waiting-gentlewoman are sent on to tell the audience of her "slumbery agitation." This is excellent art in the theatre; but it would be bad art in the pages of a novel. In a story written to be read, surprise is most effective when ...
— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton



Words linked to "Slumbery" :   slumber, slumberous, somnolent



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