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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Slumber

Slumbers as in a grave.
—Robert Browning

Slumbered like Goldsmith’s Madam Blaize, bedizened and brocaded.
—Austin Dobson

Slumbers like a beam of moonlight.
—Henry Ellison

Slumber like a stone.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Slumber like the leaves of a lily at nightfall.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Slumbering quietly,
Like forms which sculptors carve.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Slumberest here like a caged bird that never knew its pinions.
—N. P. Willis