Lexicographical Neighbors of Slumbry
Literary usage of Slumbry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises by George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed (1847)
"In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking and other actual perform* Slices, &c.
Macbeth, f. 1. Cor. or must omit Real necessities Coriolanus, iii. ..."
2. English Synonymes Classified and Explained: With Practical Exercises by George Frederick Graham (1867)
"In this slumbry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, &c.
Macbeth, VI Cor. • or must omit Real necessities Coriolanus, Hi, ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1883)
"Alone, with no confidante, in marble silence she suffers ; insanity results; and
now, in " slumbry agitation," she is doomed to ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"slumbry. Sleepy. Palsgrave. SLUMP. Wet boggy earth ; wet mud. Also, to slip down
into slump. Far. dial. SLUNK. Grose tells us, as a superstition, ..."