By the 1940s Bluemont had become a sleepy village of about 140 inhabitants.
The period from the 1820s to the Civil War was a time of slow growth for the sleepy village.
It has developed in the last decade from a sleepy village into a popular tourist destination.
It was now a picture of a sleepy dull village.
Ten years ago this was a quaint and sleepy village.
In 1974, a few years after he moved to the small, sleepy village, his home was burglarized and burned to the ground.
Behind the woman lies a sleepy village, with white houses and a church spire.
We were living in Flushing, which was then a sleepy village of 25,000 - before the subway got there.
Theft was probably unknown in this sleepy village, but there had to be a first time.
Suddenly, she came to know that many people had descended in their otherwise sleepy village.