Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without slumber; sleepless.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without slumber; sleepless.
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- adjective Without
slumber ;sleepless ,unsleeping .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have considered trying to gently DIScourage what you so accurately call slumberless parties.
Party Time – 14 year old girls go dancing « The Life and Times of Organic Mama 2009
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(Sunday is Gloomy, my hours are slumberless, Sunday Bloody Sunday!)
Happy Hump Day zombietron 2009
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(Sunday is Gloomy, my hours are slumberless, Sunday Bloody Sunday!)
Archive 2009-02-01 zombietron 2009
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No Modern Library edition of the great polemicists of the blogosphere to yellow on the shelf; nothing but a virtual tomb for a billion posts - a choric song of the word-weary bloggers, forlorn mariners forever posting on the slumberless seas of news.
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"Sunday is gloomy," the song begins, "my hours are slumberless/Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless."
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After a day of wild panic and slumberless nights the citizens remained at their windows.
The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915 Various
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But alas! his sorrow had cost him many slumberless nights, and now that he thought himself secure of his happiness again, long-absent sleep came, and overpowered him suddenly where he stood on the street.
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Of rigorous years, sad days and slumberless nights,
The Golden Threshold 1916
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That is lisp'd evermore at his slumberless fountain.
Poems of Coleridge Arthur Symons 1905
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I tied my horse among the bushes and lay down, more for protection from the cold than from any desire to sleep, and spent a quiet, peaceful, though slumberless night, in a mood not to be surprised if the sound of that precious voice rang out my name through the deathly stillness, remembering what he had said about calling to me if he should return after dark – but in vain.
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