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Definition of Somnambulating
1. somnambulate [v] - See also: somnambulate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Somnambulating
Literary usage of Somnambulating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... it with his Eminence, left somnambulating the Promenade de la Rose; and at
times truculently stamping ? Alas, ill, and ever worse. ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1862)
"... instead of somnambulating and stum- "bling over the chimney-tops; and the
settlement might " have come far sooner, and far cheaper to mankind. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... the poor English would have gone upon their necessary Spanish War, by the
direct road and with their eyes open, instead of somnambulating and stumbling ..."
4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... instead of somnambulating and stumbling over the chimney-tops; and the settlement
might have come far sooner, and far cheaper to mankind. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... in immediate fear of the sleepy waters lazily somnambulating at their entrances,
we recover our placidity, and are sensible of no presence but our own. ..."
6. History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1866)
"... brother mortal, somnambulating so pacifically in Sleepy Hollow yonder, and
making no complaint! He continued, though soon with less enthusiasm, ..."
7. History of Friedrich the Second Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1869)
"... the poor English would have gone upon their necessary Spanish War by the direct
road and with their eyes open, instead of somnambulating and stumbling ..."
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