Word: slumbered
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While inland China was wrapt in its customary slumber, the coast provinces, from Kwangtung to Chihli, effervesced in a variety of bubbles...
...manner of pleasing scenes are presented; an ambitious man will fancy himself a gloried Napoleon; a man will liverish fancy man will himself be seized with morbid visions and filled with horror and dismay. About half to one hour is necessary for the opium to take effect and cause slumber from which the consumer awakes exhausted, pensive and melancholy. The drug is dangerously habit-forming and becomes so necessary to the addict that he cannot live without a regular supply...
...African sickness, but they occur whenever the parasite localizes in the fluid of the spinal cord or in the brain. Since they are conspicuous when present, the disease got its popular name from them. Sleep is a marked and invariable symptom of encephalitis, ranging from a light slumber to a profound coma...
Until lately the seven o'clock morning bell was practically the only disturbance of slumber that the senior was forced to endure. He protested many times to this, but in vain. Finally he learned to ignore the bell, for it, at least, was regular, and a seemingly necessary evil. But, recently, many seniors have adopted the custom of yelling in concert at an average hour of midnight the one word "Reinhardt" across the Yard, and yelling it in as many keys and as loudly as possible. And, worst of all, men returning from dances at twelve and one o'clock...
...popular and able actress, retired from the stage coincidentally with her marriage to August Belmont. She has not acted since. Her plunge into playwrighting was occasioned by insomnia. In the pursuit of sleep one night she picked up The Boule Cabinet; it so effectively banished the final vestiges of slumber that she concluded it had merits as a play. She summoned Harriet Ford (who wrote for her A Gentleman of France and Audrey 15 years ago), and after working over the plot for a year, introducing romance and laughter, they presented it for managerial approval and production...