英语词汇“drowse”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

They looked with fervent anticipation, and the dead city lay dead for them alone, drowsing in a hot silence of summer made on Mars by a Martian weatherman. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was so much braid, and here she lay drowsing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was just drowsing, but Tom Yew was snoring. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was a heavy-breasted woman behind a bar in the garage and a lean yellow dog who lay drowsing by a pan of water, his ears twitching in sleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Taran drowsed with one hand on the iron brooch, the other grasping his sword. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z

If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse forever and ever.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her exhaustion flowed into the hot water; she drowsed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At last wearied with his cares Sam drowsed, leaving the morrow till it came; he could do no more. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

That night, I drowse in my bed, fully dressed, waiting for the Ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

One night soon after we arrived, I was working on the puzzle and Grandma was drowsing in her platform rocker. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Tayo had been drowsing in the sun with his back against the cliff rock; he sat up stiffly and looked at her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sunshine flooded the thirsty lawn, flowers blazed, trees drowsed in the breeze. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The drowsing creature in Harry’s chest suddenly raised its head, sniffing the air hopefully. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The cattle lay drowsing all day long under the willows and only moved out at night to feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even when we went to the beach in the summer he never lay down to drowse in the sun the way I did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

He drowsed and saw the colors of the fire, the tints of green and blue and burning yellow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I guess it is no surprise that he drowses during lectures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He carried it back and dropped it in front of Bristle and Runt, who were drowsing at the burrow entrance in the last rays of afternoon sun. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

At times by night, as they cowered or drowsed uneasily in some hiding beside the road, they heard cries and the noise of many feet or the swift passing of some cruelly ridden steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

His horse standing sleepily near the fence came to his whistle and stood drowsing while he saddled up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

All of this was heady news of a world far removed from hankies and thimbles, patiently delivered to me under a tree amidst the drowsing bees and nodding wildflowers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

I drowse from the exhaustion of holding myself up on the jerking train. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She worked slowly but steadily while the other creatures drowsed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Nina was drowsing on a stool tucked into the corner by the table, Inej’s hand grasped loosely in her own. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The reporters, drowsing in the barn aisles, jumped up when they saw him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

John, drowsing in the sunlight, put the toes of his right foot into his mouth and ran them along the place where his teeth were just beginning to come through. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Well after dark, a whistle sounds in the east and the drowsing soldiers stir. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

As I argued fleetingly in my discussion of pathos, the joke can do more than just perk up a drowsing audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

The greyhound lay on its side, drowsing, one chestnut-colored eye only partly closed and rolling grotesquely in the socket. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The real question, and the answer, becomes clear when you creep through hanging lianas and startle bats drowsing beneath the leaves and walk through the centers of clouds. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z

I sat up in bed, woke my drowsing boyfriend, shook him, and said, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! This is so gorgeous." Authors Janet Fitch, Cynthia Bond share admiration for each other's work 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z

Behind the walls, palms and red pines loomed above Ottoman mansions that drowsed in the leafy darkness. A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time 2011-07-08T19:03:11Z

Luckily, I found a taxi driver named Ray drowsing by the plaza in his battered blue Lada. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

“Dungan cuisine” says the sign, without fanfare, on a drowsing street. A House Built on Family and Dungan Food in Brooklyn 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z

While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm. Human hibernation: the restoring effects of hiding away in winter 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z

A man tells of drowsing on his bed in the heat of the day when his girlfriend arrives wearing next to nothing – and what happens next. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z

Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep. Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison’s Napping Technique 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z

Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home. Mike Royko: Golf, Chicago-style - Golf Digest 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

Halime watches them eat, her youngest baby drowsing on her breast. 5 Men, a Sack of Beer and a Forest With a Magical Well 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

Afternoon naps are a time-honored tradition in many child-care centers, as toddlers snuggle up on soft mats to drowse, daydream or fidget. Sleepy time: Some nap mats at Seattle child-care centers contain toxic chemicals 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Lot less, lot less than before,” said a bus agent, who declined to give his name, at the open-air Sonef station in Niamey, drowsing and empty in the late-afternoon heat. At French Outpost in African Migrant Hub, Asylum for a Select Few 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

He also wants to understand why accidents in this drowsing stage seem much more prevalent among people who are right-handed. The mysterious moments before falling asleep 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

João Lucas drowsed on his back, the green tape stretched on the backs of his fingers to unclench his fists giving his hands a skeletal look. Zika Twins: A Window Into Much More Than a Virus 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z

I drive in the evening, when I am most alert, and my husband drives in the daytime while I drowse. Aroma of garlic can calm a cough, reader finds 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z

One thing they have in common is a mastery in describing light in particular and optical phenomena in general; another is their inclination to evoke in-between states: drowsing, dreams, epiphanies, hallucinations. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z

Made of plastic from an MRI scan taken when Proctor was 16 weeks pregnant, it captured an exact likeness of the fetuses drowsing in her womb. 3-D Printing to the Rescue 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z

She woke her drowsing husband and herded the children toward the fire escape outside the front of the building. A Family Suggests the First Responders to a Fire Were Thieves 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

On the rare occasions Mr. Nichols appeared, he would be sitting in his car in the driveway, drowsing or reading the paper or maybe doing nothing at all. Amid Junk at Hoarder’s House, His Missing Wife 2013-07-16T03:24:44Z

But at least here, they said, the soldiers of the Republic of Niger are drowsing under a giant tree at the border, not pointing their guns at the civilians who continue to cross it. Nigerian Refugees Accuse Army of Excess Force 2013-06-06T00:05:06Z

The stillness almost seemed to drowse and to make a soft noise, like the distant sound of locusts in August. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z

How can you drowse, Lost in dreams, When Ashur’s rams Are battering the gates? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z

The poll-clerks sent out for pots of beer, the watchers drowsed, the candidates were invisible--some said that they had gone to dine with the mayor. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z

The porter was drowsing in his lodge, the gate was ajar. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z

All nature drowsed in the hot afternoon sun. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z

Did you never drowse and doze over your rod, when "sitting in a pleasant shade," on a sultry afternoon, not a nibble disturbed the equanimity of your float? Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z

On market days the farmers crowded the square with their teams, the village awoke from its long sleep and became a modestly thriving little country town again,—drowsing on into life once more. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z

Many a drowsing mallard has been caught by a lean fox or knocked on the head with a paddle. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z

The place lay drowsing in the late heat of the summer afternoon. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z

He had been attracted by the woman, by what was sombre and unexplained in her eyes, by the sleepy grace of her movements, by the magnetism that seemed to drowse in her. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z

The village drowses in the darkness, But aloft in the temple There is a thud of gongs and a shuffle of hollow voices In the dark corridors. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z

The roughnecks of the gas industry drowse in their parkas to the restful cadence of the helicopter blades clipping overhead. Gazprom's Empire at the End of the Earth 2012-02-09T23:00:17Z

The horse at the street corner still drowses. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z

Awake or drowsing, stung to life by the smart of his hurt or lulled to sleep by the music of the stream, he had her face always before him. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z

The Mistress drowsed over her book by the fire. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z

The village drowses in the darkness: Like a vast black cube The temple looms above it, There is no light on its fa�ade. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z

All winter long in its leaf bud the baby tulip leaf drowses, curled up tight. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z

The silent bird is hid in the boughs, The scythe is hid in the corn, The lazy oxen wink and drowse, The grateful sheep are shorn. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z

Here and there small knots of men discussed the more obscure points of the Koran or of Mohammedan law, while others sat in shady corners, lazily drinking sherbet or drowsing away the hot morning hours. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z

And the name brings back those kindly hills And the drowsing life so new to me; And the welcome that those purple blossoms With their tiny trumpets blew to me. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

The older people lay at full length in steamer chairs and drowsed like so many hibernating bears. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z

THE carriage stopped, unheeded by O'Byrn, who drowsed, huddled in a corner. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z

If I left her to her own devices she drowsed, stumbling, through the dust; if I corrected her, she pranced and pulled, and kicked up behind like a donkey. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z

The city was wrapt all day in a torrid drowse; the pavements lay either in bleak glare or breathless shadow. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z

While through the glade an insect army drones And birds from neighboring boughs their notes repeat, These patriarchs, drowsing as in bliss complete, Rest on the flowery sward their tranquil bones. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z

There came the same sudden start, stricken, panting, perspiring, out of deep sleep; the same frantic search of the apartment with all the lights burning; the same late, broken drowse; the same jaded awakening. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z

He dare not drowse, for he cannot tell at what moment the quarry may appear. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z

She pressed him tightly in the embrace of her slender, white arms; she kissed his raspberry mouth, his drowsed eyes. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z

But when she had promised to come, and William, slapping a rein down on the mare's flank, was jogging along under the sycamore branches, he did not fall into his pleasant drowse again. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z

They hid in the thicket all the hours till darkness came again, drowsing by turns. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z

But Lamme, who was thoroughly drowsed by all that he had been drinking, lay down straightway and went to sleep; and on the morrow he departed to Ghent together with Ulenspiegel. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z

For a couple of hours I sat drowsing in the intense heat. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z

The blessed Sabbath stillness falls on all within our ken; our steeds are blinking, our men are drowsing in the leafy shades below. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z

We knew we must not tell you ere the hour, Or ... or ... too many hinds might creep to be Their own drowsed leering loutish prophecies. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z

Men laboured on the meagre defences of the county as though weighted by a nightmare—as though drowsing awake and not believing in their ghostly dream. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z

It was a Sunday afternoon, warm and still, and until their present conversation roused them from their lethargy they had both seemed more inclined to drowse than talk. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z

I wasn't exactly asleep, I was pleasantly drowsed, and I had a sort of feeling that something was going to happen. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z

Oh, and how pleasant the fulness of the afternoon sun flooding this round, fast-sleeping harbour, along whose side the tall palms drowse, and whose waters are fast asleep. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z

The sentinel at the gate drowsed against the carriage of the saucy brass cannon. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z

As a rule he drowsed happily all evening, for then there was peace in the kitchen, and no fear of heavy felt-shod feet descending upon his tail. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z

He lay for a short time drowsing and enjoying the unaccustomed rest, but being unable to content himself, arose, and after dressing stepped outside in the crisp morning air. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z

She had transformed Bess’s pillowed couch into a bed, and these hot nights she fanned her until she drowsed away herself. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z

Over everything there was a sense of autumn peace which comes when the world is drowsing off into his deep sleep. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z

So the days drowsed on quietly and peacefully, seeming, to my youthful ignorance, as nearly perfection as they could possibly be. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z

“Well, you couldn’t expect her to have a warm one, could you?” drowsed Tarleton, who was half asleep. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z

The sleeping waters bathe her sides, The warm, blue streams of the Adrian Sea; She dreams and drowses languorously, Swayed in the swaying of the tides. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z

An infinitesimal odour of the most exquisite choice, mingled with a floating humidity, swims in this atmosphere where the drowsing spirit is lulled by the sensations one feels in a hothouse. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z

The Sun hung like a red balloon As if he would not rise; For listless Helios drowsed and yawned. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z

The swift, inexplicable change of countenance could be compared only with the startled alertness of a drowsing fox when his dim, snug covert echoes the first far-off blast of the coming hunter's horn. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z

In weather like this, it was good just to lie still and watch and listen, or drowse off with the sun warm on one’s fur and the spicy earth smells in one’s nostrils. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z

He drowsed with the music of the grinding floes in his ears, then heard a racking shiver which came from the north and east; it was the great North pack breaking along its entire length. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z

A road bordered by flower-faced fields with drowsing villages, now and then, like ancient inns with bread and cheese and milk. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z

Then he would creep back to drowse by the warmth of his fire and dream that the blue-eyed stranger had come back and brought the luck of the Golden Fortune. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z

At the other end of the wooded space we found a little pond opening out, and a score of wild ducks drowsing placidly on its smooth surface. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z

Even the little monkeys and parrakeets, that had seemed so gay, moped and drowsed like they was sick. Friend Island 2011-02-28T03:00:33.693Z

Who was the woman behind the lattice—yes, it was a woman——Then Swinton drowsed off. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z

Tell me not you've never heard him by the river bank o' quiet days, when the squirrels sleep, and the chipmunks drowse, and the birds forget their tunes. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z

It seemed to the old man most good to rest, and he drowsed upon his feet. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z

An aged black and white dog drowsed on its sunny deck. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z

Overhead on a bare tree branch, two racoons drowsed after their midday meal. Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z

I entered noiselessly, and made out, in the dim light, the broad figure of Becker, the forester, sprawled out leisurely in his armchair beside the bed and drowsing over his vigil. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z

He handed her a fly-whisk, and placed a small stool beside the couch; and here she sat herself, while her patient closed his eyes and drowsed in some degree of comfort. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z

With the dropping of the sun and the sinking of the winds the fires drowse and flicker and smoulder. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z

She was unconscious of her physical suffering; and she had already undergone such mental suffering that this supreme ordeal did not awaken her drowsing senses. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z

Well and clearly he saw now that mild good, undemonstrative, unaggressive good—seventy years of bovine plodding, sunning, grazing, drowsing—is a step toward the Top. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z

On one end, peddlers were besieging a group of tourists; on the other, a girl with bronze-colored hair sat reading, a native in a flowered chintz coat drowsing at her feet. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z

She no longer started out of a drowse with a cry because some picture of her paradise lost stood before her with horrible vividness. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z

Joe leaned against the door jamb and drowsed for a second. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z

The slow train crept around a bend and puffed to a standstill at the drowsing little station of Hobostein. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z

Morgan's wife drowsed for eight weeks and never woke up; he donated a tremendous amount of money to a neurological institute to study the disease. Q&A: Why Can't We Sleep? 2010-05-17T08:00:00Z

The stars drowsed above them, like sleepy eyes, and the ship was a dim, prowling world when they parted. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z

When unable to fall asleep, she pictured herself drowsing off with her head under his shoulder—that was bliss enough. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z

Dimples played merrily in the flushed cheeks, and Gabrielle was smiling as she looked from the window where westwards a golden sunset flung a halo of glory over the drowsing landscape. A Blot on the Scutcheon

And Tempest there, who houses Within them, like a cave, Lies down and dreams and drowses Upon the Earth's huge grave, With wandering wind and wave. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy

Tossing, throughout this tense and nervous night Sleepless I drowse. Challenge

She kept up this babble during the whole of tea in the lee of that motor on the downs where Mr. Burke had come upon me as I drowsed after lunch. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune

The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth, and the shadows of the branches lay on the ground like sharp bluish etchings on light green paper. The Valiants of Virginia

A drowse gradually laid itself upon the delicate maternal face; under the scant light beginning to smell of smoke, it looked almost like a mummy's. Woman

From bloom to bloom the languid butterflies drowse; The sleepy bees make hardly any sound; The only things the sunrays can arouse, It seems, are two black beetles rolling 'round Upon the dusty ground. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems

He could not read, but tobacco was no hindrance to the brave play of memory and imagination, and with a luxurious smile he lighted a pipe and drowsed. The Gay Adventure A Romance

Here grew, dipping down to the water, sprays of dewberries, and here, remote even from twittering warblers and the distant harvest cries, Michael and Alan drowsed away the afternoon. Sinister Street, vol. 1

In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893

He had decided to avoid Dalrymple as far as possible, but that first night, as he drowsed over a book, he heard a knock at his door, not loud, and suggestive of reluctance and indecision. The Guarded Heights

Nor did Pedro, drowsing, exhausted, beside him, dream of the test that was to be made of his courage while he remained behind. Unexplored!

I drowsed and time passed; stealing as for one Whose drowsy life dreams in Avilion. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems

That evening as I drowsed over the hearth after dinner, still holding Desire's letter in my hand and pondering over it, the card of young Dr. Arnold Ackroyd was brought up to me. The Preliminaries And Other Stories

Then he drowsed again, just the short nap of a man who had been up too long. Last Words

Compare daze, dazed, dazzle, doze, drowse, drowsy. deceived. Stories from Tagore

The boys drowsed off that night to dream of fire mountains and explorations in the nether regions. Unexplored!

Then she drowsed again, and seemed to be listening to the wailing song with some one whose hand she held. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop

The leaves wherein true wisdom lies On living trees the sun are drinking, Those white clouds drowsing through the skies Grew not so beautiful by thinking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867

Time and again he caught himself drowsing and threw off the temptation just in time. The Crimson Sweater

The song is hushed in every woodland throat; Moveless the lilies float; Even the ancient ever-murmuring sea Sighs only fitfully; The cattle drowse in the field-corner's shade; Peace on the world is laid. Later Poems

Just as she was drowsing off, however, a consoling thought occurred to her: "But he must have made divine love!" she reflected, smiling. Shadows of Flames A Novel

And if they add “on Earth” they deem Thee impotent, Seeing Thee drowse thus long and leave men to their bent. Satan Absolved

And at last on one of the bunks he found him, stretched out in a stupor of sleep or drowsed by the stifle of gases. Careers of Danger and Daring

How long he lay in darkness, a second, an hour, he could not afterward recall; it seemed to him that he had drowsed off at once, but suddenly he started, trembling from head to foot. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel

She was the only European nation that did not drowse. The Spanish Pioneers

Sophy said, looking at the lake that drowsed under the faint breath of a listless Tramontana. Shadows of Flames A Novel

Ye drowse here in your choirs, Sleep-walkers all,—while these, glad messengers, go forth Upon new joyous errands, Earthwards, South and North, To visit men and cities. Satan Absolved

This ardor of merely sensuous love had lasted long enough to carry her off to sleep drowsed by a passionate content. Carnival

The house seemed to drowse in a comfortable lethargy, confident of the rectitude of builders long dead who had roughhewn its beams and joined them with wooden pins before a day of nails. Ewing\\'s Lady

And the garden drowsed in the warmth of a forenoon brilliant, heavy-scented, tropical!... Where the Pavement Ends

There were the guards, too, drowsing near one of the fires, their weapons dangling beside them. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War

Trask was asleep, and I was just drowsing off, when a tap at the door and Brian’s voice started me wide awake again. A Veldt Vendetta

The hot afternoon drowsed on, and the assailants, or besiegers rather, after the first few volleys made no further sign. In the Whirl of the Rising

The thought sent a wave of panic coursing through her, but she was too tired to experience any emotion for long, and she soon drowsed off. Bedside Manner

Still drowsing, she wondered, without any real interest, what they felt they must tell her. A Woman's Place

The plaid danced before his eyes, became a signal flag, and, watching it, he drowsed and then fell into the profound sleep which means recovery. Fairfax and His Pride

The night wore on, and Stark lay drowsing. Black Amazon of Mars

The next day I pleaded indisposition and spent most of the hours idling and drowsing in my chamber. Tiger Cat

Yet once more into his drowsing ear fell a peculiar sound. Dorothy on a House Boat

They drowsed on the doorsteps or scampered about the neat gardens. The Golden Amazons of Venus

Everywhere on the reddish-brown plush sofas, ladies and gentlemen with steamer-rugs over them lay drowsing. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself

The scene lay silent and slumbrous in the brooding noon-day sun: the drowsing peacock squatted humped on the lawn, no fish leaped in the pools, no bird declared himself from the trim secluding hedges. The Golden Age

They sleep upon the barren plain, drowsing in a timeless ocean. The Legion of Lazarus

At dawn, now, from dripping spires, white-throats and hermit thrush, fleeter than the spring, startled the drowsing forest with a reveille of song. The Whelps of the Wolf

And all in vain, for, with the dawn of a bleak to-morrow, Private Blenke, no one could begin to say how, had slipped by his possibly drowsing guard and escaped. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade

They drowsed and nodded and curled up tight into a long sleep, in which they missed nothing at all of the later day. The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers

The place drowsed in a slow and comfortable silence. Assignment's End

Past midnight he suddenly was startled from his drowse and sat bolt upright in terror. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making

That person was, as Plouff expected, drowsing comfortably over the galley fire. Command

Puffed within the belfry tower Hungry owls drowse out their hour.... Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems

Another telegram woke him as he was drowsing off. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North

And once while I drowsed for a spell I was aware of her as she stepped softly up to me, peered into my face, and then, as I opened my eyes, withdrew without speaking. Captain Macedoine's Daughter

The room held a faint whisper of mechanical music. arry stood at one of the windows gazing out over the drowsing city. Astounding Stories, June, 1931

The garden drowsing lies, The stars fold down their eyes,— In this dear spot, my steed, neigh not, Nor stamp in restless wise! Second Book of Verse

Though I seem to cease Outside myself and sleep in peace, I drowse awake and wonder. Days and Dreams Poems

Suddenly, on the other side of the water somewhere, but evidently far away, a voice, untrained, but of peculiar sweetness, broke into my drowsing. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia

Yes, I drowsed time and again; but toward dawn I grew wakeful and the necessity of returning to the ship became urgent once more. Captain Macedoine's Daughter

Set in sad walls, all mossy with the past, An old stone gateway with a crumbling crest; A garden where death drowses manifest; And in gaunt yews the shadowy house at last. The Garden of Dreams

The influence of Sleep made the winged horses drowse, and also Endymion and the Bacchante. Life of John Keats

Dozing in the truck, an odd lapse of consciousness had come over me ... myself yet not myself, drowsing over thoughts I did not recognize as my own. The Planet Savers

In the stifling heat of the lazy June afternoon it drowsed, seemingly deserted except for the ponies and the two wagons, and the few incurious cowboys who had rewarded the young man with their glances. The Coming of the Law

In happy case, she may yet remain afloat—a sheer hulk, drowsing the tides away in some remote harbour, coal-hulking for her steam-pressed successor. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea

As they rolled homeward through the night, the little boy drowsed off into slumber. Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth

Yet he must have drowsed at last, for when suddenly he saw his wife standing, draped in some dark wrapping, hearkening at one of the open windows, the moon was sinking. John March, Southerner

On his right loomed a large horse; behind him stood a drowsing team; on his left was a dirt-cart; while immediately in front, such was his position now, stood his mother. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance

There he installed her, and when she reminded him that the room had been wakened from its winter drowse to this exhilaration for Amelia, he bade her "hush up and stay put." Old Crow

Toward morning I fell into a drowse, and was awakened out of it by the reveille. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry

The others are drowsed with weariness, stupefied with sorrow. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium

He found a seat in front of them, and sat stiff beside a man who drowsed. John March, Southerner

At such times the round-faced man, the white’s master, would drag him away mightily, or, if he was not quick enough, then the sorrel, drowsing along behind on a lead-rope, would unconsciously offer resistance. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance

Then, as if this had been as commonplace an interlude in her night as the baby's waking and drowsing off again, she felt herself surging happily away to sleep. Old Crow

What is taking place to-day is horribly abnormal for those alone who were drowsing in the abnormal peace of a society equally devoid of foresight and of remembrance. The Forerunners

Shivering, with chattering teeth, There I stood beside the hearth, Till the fire drowsed me quite, Then upon the straw I sank. Atta Troll

The drowse of noon seemed to put them all to sleep. Old Plymouth Trails

He stepped down off the curb, roused the drowsing mare with a vigorous clap, again looked about him worriedly. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance

As I drowsed that night I registered a vague resolve to see Mr. Carville again and broach the subject to him. Aliens

Beneath that shell, the collective soul, suffering, overwhelmed with fatigue, brutalised by the noise, poisoned by the smoke, endures infinite boredom, drowses, waits, waits unendingly. The Forerunners

Father and sister drowsed, and she put the story aside to study over the predicament in which she felt herself at fault. The Plow-Woman

I contrasted the activity in the store of Stibbs with the drowse that hung over another shop in the North Country where, in earlier years, I used to buy my supplies. The So-called Human Race

But after a time, made sluggish by the attitude of the men, he himself attempted to drowse. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance

Sometimes, away out East, when I've been drowsing in a hammock listening to the sweat dripping on the deck and watching the blue hills in the distance, it has come upon me. Aliens

Russian brothers, your revolution has come to awaken this Europe of ours, drowsing over the arrogant memories of whilom revolutions. The Forerunners

"To-night, huh?" murmured Buck Elk, as he and Little Fat Bear fished together, and the two old Indians drowsed in the shade, or wove baskets of reeds. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters

Peggy sat up quickly as the foregoing words penetrated her drowsed consciousness, and parting the curtains of the bed looked out. Peggy Owen and Liberty

It was, perhaps, an hour later when Donald, just beginning to drowse before his little fire, heard someone approach and unlock his door, for the second time that night. The Wilderness Trail

Here the brown thrashers hide, The chat and cat-bird chide; The blue kingfisher houses Above the stream, And here the heron drowses Lost in his dream; The vireo's flitting note Haunts all the wild remote. Weeds by the Wall Verses

They drove in silence for some time, Kessler intent on the evening flood of traffic, Margaret almost drowsing in the evening sunlight and the cool of the breeze in her hair. The Last Straw

Here one would drowse–there another lose consciousness and sink to the ground, but always men were talking. In the Heart of a Fool

Presently he came across the Bull drowsing in the moonlight after a hard day's work, and looking through half-shut eyes at the beautiful straight furrows that he had made. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II

It pulled people up out of the drowse of a generation, and set them talking as they had not talked in twenty years. The Bondboy

Into a quietness as of fallen bloom Their feet sank in that chamber; and, all round, Soft hills of Moorish cushions dimly drowsed On glimmering crimson couches. Collected Poems Volume One

At eight o’clock Hitty came in to her, and roused her from the light drowse into which she had fallen at last. Outside Inn

There she saw waiting a hired trap, with its driver drowsing in the sunlight. A Manifest Destiny

Mrs. Lawrence drowsed away when the confusion of re-arrangement had subsided. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart

The day’s work was begun, while Davidge drowsed and smiled contentedly at the side of the strange, sleeping woman as if they had been married for years. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards

Song had touched his lips with flame, And his eyes were drowsed and dim; And we kissed the hours away Till night grew rosier than the day.— Collected Poems Volume One

And with no further ado he shut his eyes and drowsed. The Pathless Trail

The Lost Island villages had been drowsing in the sun that afternoon, as this town was drowsing now— The Helpful Hand of God

At times it seemed that she was in the little, old, gray house in the valley, and that her father's sharp voice might come at any moment to break her delicious drowse. Money Magic A Novel

Davidge drowsed and smiled contentedly in the dark and did not know that he was not awake until at some later time he was half aroused by the meteoric glow and whiz of another automobile. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards

Yet in his dream's desire He drowsed away the hours: His lyre Lay buried in the flowers. Collected Poems Volume One

The late moon peeped timidly above the drowsing treetops. Carmen Ariza

Fever still drowsed in her blood and a haze of half delirious visions often accompanied her waking. Tante

He smiled gayly, and went out, closing the door softly after him, and Northwick drowsed. The Quality of Mercy

Then sleepy little Danton awoke from its September drowse and was aware that something real had happened. The Shepherd of the North

Often she had drowsed the summer noon in the coolness, unheeding the dinner call, until busy Martha roused her with the sisterly scolding she knew she deserved and took in good part. The Eye of Dread

Simití, drab and shabby, a crumbling and abandoned relique of ancient Spanish pride and arrogance, drowsed undisturbed in the ardent embrace of the tropical sun. Carmen Ariza

The elder seemed to drowse off from the time and place, but he was recalled by the younger saying, "It is certainly astonishing weather for this season of the year." The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse

She had not slept, either; it was from her first drowse that Adeline had wakened her. The Quality of Mercy

The drowsing birds, even, had finished their evensong. The Law-Breakers

The clang of trains, the feathery whirr of motors, the echo of footsteps, the immense, indefinable breathing vibration of the iron monster, drowsing on its rock between three rivers and the sea, ceases utterly. The Crimson Tide A Novel

Mud hovels; ragged, thatched roofs; lowly peones drowsing away life’s little hour within! Carmen Ariza

He had begun to drowse after a 282 good home dinner and sixty hours without sleep, but this acted like an electric shock. The Harbor of Doubt

The car was old and worn, and badly hung; but in spite of all, Northwick drowsed in the fervor of the glowing stove, and towards morning he fell into a long and dreamless sleep. The Quality of Mercy

Apparently he shared his mother's apathy towards all things, and he lay by the hour in a sluggish drowse, leaving his mother free to allow her thoughts to wander at will. The Dominant Strain

It looked very sleepy, drowsing in the silence of the noon sun. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine

The care-free children of this tropic realm drowsed through the long, hot days and gossiped and danced in the soft airs of night. Carmen Ariza

The sound of the shot awakened the drowsing street and many who ran to their doorways saw the murderer riding away at a swinging gallop. When the West Was Young

He must be going out of his mind, or else he was drowsing. The Quality of Mercy

There were many of them, the horses blanketed and unblanketed, drowsing where they stood. Mixed Faces

The man’s eyes were half-closed, yet he was by no means drowsing. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills

Nature changed her garb with monotonous regularity; the drowsing children of this tropic region passed their days in dull torpidity; Josè saw nothing of it all. Carmen Ariza

Away below them, the little 371 town, with its long Main Street of business houses and its stretch of regular shade trees, drowsed in an adolescent contentment. The Spoilers of the Valley

Perhaps he was freezing, and this was the beginning of the death drowse. The Quality of Mercy

And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems

The smoke from the burning wood made his eyes grow heavy; he began to drowse. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin

Anne went back and forth from china closet to piles of dishes left ready washed by Mary Nellen, and the colonel, in the library, drowsed off the morning's work. The Prisoner

Don't I drowse The week away down with the Aunt and Niece? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning

He got into the hammock, and after a while he drowsed, with a delicious, poetic sense of her capricious charm, as she drifted back to the farmhouse, over the sloping meadow. The Quality of Mercy

We either drowse or vegetate in and for the past. England and Germany

Yes, here are my three friends, in the quaint little garden of the hotel, with its purple-flowering vines of Bougainvillea, fragrant orange-trees, drooping palms, and long-tailed cockatoos drowsing on their perches. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit

He was conscious of having drowsed away in his chair, into one of those intervals he found so inevitable, and that were, at the same time, so irritatingly foreign to his previous habits of life. The Prisoner

The outer garden drowsed; there seemed no one about. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930

It was the season of threshing, and all day long to the drowse of the air was added, near and afar, all-pervading through the stillness, the sleepy hum of the separator. A Breath of Prairie and other stories

It was a pastoral, peaceful scene—a little country-side drowsing in the warm rosy twilight. The World Beyond

And as she lay she became conscious of something else in the drowsing land beside herself and her horse. Tharon of Lost Valley

Brangwen continued in a kind of rich drowse of physical heat, in connection with his wife. The Rainbow

The scent of the flowers, the street lined in one place by arching giant fronds drowsing and nodding overhead—there seemed a strange exotic romance to it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930

She was due at six o’clock, and here’ve I been drowsing like a more-pork on this couch, when I might have been in bed. The Tale of Timber Town

Lee had left the table and again was standing at the latticed window, beyond which the drowsing little garden lay silent, and empty now. The World Beyond

Then he shut his eyes and drowsed off. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia

Till gradually a sleep, a heaviness settled on them, a drowse, and out of the drowse, a small light of consciousness woke up. The Rainbow

The little rocky islands drowsed in the mist like some strange monsters sleeping on the bosom of the water. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse

I drowsed in my chair, feeling comfortably tired after my all night journey. The Belovéd Vagabond

It was a little garden, drowsing in the twilight. The World Beyond

It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon, And we two dreaming the dusk away, Beneath the drift of a twilight grey— Beneath the drowse of an ending day. Legends of Vancouver

For this house was always quivering with darkness, they put off their puppet form when they came home, to lie and drowse in the sun. The Rainbow

It’s just a kind of drowsing life away. A Modern Cinderella

Only the parched world drowsed in drought, And a fat bee, there, Prying and probing at a poppy’s mouth That drooped a-swoon. viii What did you hear there, Na�a? The Dark Star

And Kate, watching them and listening, even while she drowsed over the Woman's Page, decided that after all they were nothing but a pack of children. The Beloved Woman

We know not which; still drowsing, dreaming, but yet strongly conscious that in a moment we shall be awake to reality. The Countess of Albany

Mother Death, says Baka, like an onion, brings tears from the dears she embraces, and fondles alike both the baby that drowses and the rake that carouses! Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812

They spent an hour or two talking or drowsing luxuriously on the grass; then the springing up of a fresh breeze roused them all, and weighing anchor they set sail for another port. Moods

So it came out to us in the dream and drowse of summer, which the little bubble of water cooled. Tatterdemalion

Mrs. Melrose, who had been contentedly rocking and drowsing in the heat, paled with sudden terror and apprehension, and looked around her with sick and uneasy eyes. The Beloved Woman

It was not until she lay drowsing in utter exhaustion on her own bed that she thought of all of the rest that must be done to that boat-load of precious freight. Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea

Before Saxham rise the bony brown and bay and chestnut hindquarters of half a dozen lean horses, that are drowsing or fidgeting before their emptied mangers. The Dop Doctor

Dear old soul, I'll be good by-and-by, but now I'm tired and cross, so let me keep out of every one's way and drowse myself into a cheerier frame of mind. Moods

Meanwhile his wife sat quietly on her eggs—there were three of them this year—and drowsed away the warm spring afternoon. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals

Doubtless, then, she drowsed again, for she was awakened once more by a voice and a vehement pair of knuckles on her door. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

“I shall lose Blossom—no, I mean Blossom will lose—oh, yes, Blossom will lose her legs, if I don’t get up,” she drowsed, and fell asleep. Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea

He had drowsed through the evening and at the first opportunity had managed to slip away quickly. A Royal Prisoner

Daisy thought the rain would be a capital excuse for lying in bed; for she still liked to cuddle and drowse in her cosey, warm nest. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc.

The mellow dip! dip! of the paddle woke the drowsing red-winged blackbirds from the reeds; the gray snipe wheeled out across the marsh in flickering flight. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories

Now I——” And he had already drowsed off into sleep. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905

Paloma Springs in its entirety lay there in full view, drowsing in the torrid heat of mid-September. Shoe-Bar Stratton

I dozed and drowsed, while East and West in my mind wove a web whose pattern I cannot trace. Appearances Being Notes of Travel

She came on valiantly, and, when within a hundred yards, pumped a shot across the bow of the drowsing Emilie. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure

Nothing like it, for sheer, deadly, draining, maddening, drowsing witchery of beauty. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions

Her father was easily tired, but he drowsed through the early afternoons when a none-too-digestible small-town lunch was as lead within him. Free Air

At the third entrance the four men were already asleep—all but one of them, and he was drowsing; and Nick, in his character of Handsome, pretended to be angry at first. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts

The afternoon drowsed slowly past, a spell of sapping at the sap-head occasionally breaking the monotony. The Tale of a Trooper

I was drowsing, when suddenly I heard him give a frightened yell. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

Oh! but now they stir and rouse Like a girl who has bin dreamin' of her lover in a drowse, And wakes up to feel 'is kisses on 'er softly poutin' lips. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893

The stupid sort will prefer to drowse in the shade, and the light-minded will care only for the gay round of social pleasures. Our Bird Comrades

His mind luxuriated in these details till he fell into an uneasy drowse. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

At the depot, he persuaded the water-guard to let him fill his water-bottle, and then, while the Quarters calculated together, he drowsed in the shade of a bank. The Tale of a Trooper

A torrid drowse is in the receding landscape. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1

The atmosphere was dense with fog in the dusky chamber of a London police court; the lights were bleared and the voices drowsed. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time

If he doesn't sleep let him sip a cup of hot milk, and sit beside him until he drowses off. Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest

He yielded again to the force of her will, and fell back into a luxurious drowse hearing the stove roar and the bacon sizzle in the pan. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range

And chained to the oak by a staple driven into the trunk, drowsing in the heat of the summer mid-afternoon, lay a bloodhound. Frank of Freedom Hill

Once a year, surely, reason might nod and drowse. Chimney-Pot Papers

"Have you got an outside room?" demanded Trask of the drowsing English clerk behind the railing, as he pulled the register toward him and scanned the open page. Isle o' Dreams

It seemed to her that she was slowly drowsing away and that her thoughts were fading, for her consciousness had begun to disintegrate and she was already ceasing to feel and to know. The Comedienne

But while Sandy was ranging afield he lay on the edge of the basin drowsing and watching the valley, for he did not intend to be taken by surprise. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters

He smoked, while she almost drowsed into slumber to the lullaby of the afternoon. The Job An American Novel

The dullest nose, even if it had drowsed like a Stoic through the day, perked and quivered when the breath came off the kitchen. Chimney-Pot Papers

The few men of the watch drowsed at their stations or wistfully gazed at the fires ashore and the mob of pirates who moved in the red glare. Blackbeard: Buccaneer

They were looking at a cluster of white-washed cottages, with tall thatched roofs and with great stone chimneys: a lonely little hamlet drowsing in the sun. Drolls From Shadowland

We made the passage stealthily; all the world seemed drowsing on that hazy Sunday afternoon. Explorers of the Dawn

The child's head drooped, and he drowsed in her arms. The Uncalled A Novel

He shook the drowsing man and roused him, and plied him with sips from a dipper of the unhallowed white corn whisky of a mountain still-house. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights

This left them really in worse spirits than before, and they drowsed off to sleep, and no wonder, after such a night as they had passed. Blackbeard: Buccaneer

Already I am drowsing; early then To-morrow I will come to you. Nero

Just after the war, as if tired with its exertions to repel the invader, the old place had fallen asleep and was still drowsing. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories

But in the late afternoon while she sat beside the bed and Sabrina drowsed, there was a clear whistle very near. Country Neighbors

Will not one puff of that narcotic breath drowse deep all watching dragons, and make for him the sleeping beauties of his will? Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce

In the small hours of the night, the twain drowsed upon their frail platform which floated as a speck on the shrouded ocean. Blackbeard: Buccaneer

O Lydia, I am drowsing, and my hands Can scarcely wreathe the Emperor as Apollo. 2ND MAIDEN. Nero

She was half drowsing when a brisk knock startled her into wakefulness. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories

Violet drowses in her hammock and dreams away the happy hours. Floyd Grandon's Honor

The world and the friends that lived in it Are shadows: you alone remain Real in this drowsing room, Full of the whispers of distant rain And candles staring into the gloom. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems

One day the little frontier town of Pierre drowsed through a hot afternoon, and the broad plains lay tenantless, devoid of any sign that men had passed that way. Land of the Burnt Thigh

He was a Portuguese, it seemed, of some little town on the coast of East Africa, where a land-locked bay drowsed below the windows of the houses under the day-long sun. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories

Through the slow, hot days it drowsed along like a lazy dog, only half rousing now and then to snap at some flying rumour, and relapsing at once into its pristine somnolence. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories

To outer senses they are geese, Dull drowsing by a weedy pool; But try the impression trick. The Book of Humorous Verse

She sat in her high-backed chair wrapped in furs listening to his reading aloud or appearing to, though she often drowsed off. A Little Girl in Old Quebec

While we had drowsed through the lazy autumn days, advertising campaigns were shrieking to the people all over the country of the last frontier. Land of the Burnt Thigh

Strong men grow through opposition—the plummet of feeling goes deeper, thought soars higher—vivid and stern personalities make enemies because they need them, otherwise they drowse. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators

Even Patsy Ann drowsed and finally dropped into the deep slumber of childhood. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories

He finished with a Villa Villa and a double Napoleon and sat back with folded arms, a pleasant smile and eyes that drowsed comfortably over the agreeable quiet of the café. Men of Affairs

Brushy Creek gorge was no longer dark and cool, with its double sky-line of trees drowsing toward one another, like eyelashes, from the friendly cliffs. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

The wrinkled old farmer looked up from his drowse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866

For several minutes he lay in a delicious drowse, idly watching the old man as he hobbled deftly from stove to cupboard, and from cupboard to table. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest

Aunt Selina nodded cheerfully, and sat watching the little girl write until her eyelids drowsed slowly over her eyes. 24The first and most important letter was written to Ruth’s dear father and mother. The Blue Birds' Winter Nest

All day long I would drowse under a tree which stood within a few yards of the hut door, with Indogozan or his companion waving a bough to keep off the flies. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer

"See what?" sort of drowsed out the man at the wheel. The U-boat hunters

Mary Carew drew the child,—drowsing in her arms,—to her quickly. The Angel of the Tenement

Natheless my soul's bright passions interchange As the red flames in opal drowse and speak: In beautiful twilight paths the elusive strange Phantoms of personality I seek. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence

When her anguish became unbearable a double dose of it would enable her to drowse away the hours. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses

My life hung on a hair; so too did that of the watchman drowsing by the mast. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure

The boat itself stirs only when I break This drowse of heat and solitude afloat To prove if what I see be bird or mote, Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake. Last Poems

A lady was standing on the corner, lost in pleasant drowse. Pipefuls

In the innermost room of all, on an ebony couch draped with sable curtains, the god of sleep lay drowsing. A Book of Myths

Paints an Age of Gold Yon cloud with prophecies of linked ease— Lulling this Land, with hills drawn up like knees, To drowse beside her implements of war? Poems of To-Day: an Anthology

At last, drowsing in the warmth of the sunlit land, the Ranger's eyes closed, opened, and shut again. Oh, You Tex!

Then there were long, quiet evenings by the fire, when the Hermit studied and Pal drowsed beside him, one eye on the man, ready to respond to the least sign of attention. Followers of the Trail

The long ridges of surf crumble about their knees and the sun and keen vital air lull them into a cheerful drowse of the faculties. Pipefuls

His hives stood empty and silent, and no more did “the murmuring of innumerable bees” drowse the ears of the herds who watched their flocks cropping the red clover and the asphodel of the meadows. A Book of Myths

Once they went through a bit of rolling pasture-land where the cattle drowsed, dim, misty bulks on either hand, and the steaming breath of a curious horse bathed her startled face. In the Border Country

So suddenly did she appear that at first he did not move, believing himself still drowsing. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain

The cold north-light of the studio showed that it was broad day when a tap at the door roused Cornelia from a thin drowse she had fallen into at dawn. The Coast of Bohemia

After this he drowsed off again into a half torpor of sleep and exhaustion. Bloom of Cactus

The stall's phlegmatic proprietor drowsed with the glass mouthpiece of his narghilly between his lips. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)

My prolonged drowse half refreshed me, and the cold, wet air which blew up from the river through the window Brunow had opened fell freshly on my cheek. In Direst Peril

The sunshine drew out the strong, life-giving odour of the pines, the ground was dry and warm, it should have been a pleasant place to drowse in and be happy. The Long Roll

Several times he drowsed forward, and almost fell into the fire. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

All things drowsed, like a dog before the fire, relaxed but not asleep.... The Wind Bloweth

The temperature is usually high, and the little patient when he drowses off to sleep is quite apt to become more or less delirious. Preventable Diseases

Unceremoniously Stair Garland awaked Louis from his drowse in the cave's mouth. Patsy

Eben Tollman stood declaiming on his hearth with his clenched hands stretched high above his head while his victims drowsed peacefully. The Tyranny of Weakness

On this day I was drowsing on my bench when some one addressed me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance

It was a very adventurous thing to go up the glen while other boys were droning their Latin like a bagpipe being inflated, while the red-bearded schoolmaster drowsed like a dog. The Wind Bloweth

During the nine days while the rebels lay on the burning lake, drowsed by its fumes, the World was created. Milton

III Dwindling day and drowsing birds, O my child! A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry

You, placed afar from each extreme, Nor dully drowse nor wildly dream, But, ever flowing with good-humour, Are bright as spring and warm as summer. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection

For the moment, half drowsed still by his desire for sleep, Mark could not make out what it meant. The Black Bar

As the cold intensified, the crickets ceased to cry, and the pony, having filled his stomach, turned tail to the wind and humped his back in drowse. The Eagle's Heart

And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heered the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I

A certain famous preacher when preaching one Sunday in the summer time observed that many among the congregation ware drowsing. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers

She half closed her eyes, half opened her lips, smiled and drowsed and waited. Little Novels of Italy

More than once in the pleasant summer I stole out of bed when even the cow was still drowsing, and went barefoot through the dripping grass and stood at the gate, awaiting the morning. The Promised Land

They arose slowly to sniff lazily at Mose's garments, and then returned to their drowse before the fire. The Eagle's Heart

It was as if Dizful drowsed sullenly in that July blaze brewing something, like a geyser, and burst out with it at the end of the unendurable day. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Near the Dutchman stood Morgan's borrowed horse, drowsing in the sun with head down, its weight on three legs, one ear set in its inherited caution to catch the least alarm. Trail's End

Safe at last there, she shivered and drowsed the night away; but waking or sleeping she did not cease her dreary moan. Little Novels of Italy

We are interested in bad men, in courageous men, in poor men and rich men, but good men—our interest lags here, nods, drowses, goes to sleep. Sermons on Biblical Characters

We must not drowse and brood in our own sombre corner, when life is flowing free and full outside, as in some flashing river. Joyous Gard

Then he remembered that voice of the drowsing city, bursting out with the pent-up brew of the day. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

Wrapping my blanket about me, half propped by a bale of stuff and breathing deep of the clear air with frequent resinous whiffs from the forest I drowsed off. Lords of the North

A flock of white ducks lay drowsing on a grassy spot. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories

Towards morning they drowsed a little, but at their time of life the loss of a night's sleep means nothing, and they rose as glad as they had lain down. The Story of a Play A Novel

What would be the joy of heaven to a soul full of energy and love, condemned to such luxurious apathy, forced to drowse through the ages in epicurean ease? Joyous Gard

Again the lids closed, and he fell into a light drowse, during which Florence Howard flitted before him in countless variety of forms. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems

Then I would lose grip of the pole and come to myself clutching at it with wild terror; and again the drowse of life's borderland would overpower me. Lords of the North

At last I drowsed, waking now and then to raise my head and just glance down at those waves—they certainly sounded as if they were lapping the sand close by my ear. More Jonathan Papers

There followed a silence which drowsed and buzzed to eternity, and during which Mr. Morrissy's curled moustaches straightened and grew limp and drooped. Here are Ladies

And this time even Chrome was convinced, and the next instant guards and pickets, sleeping troopers, and drowsing steeds all came staggering to their feet, roused by the shrill blast from Cranston's trumpet sounding "Forward!" Under Fire

The Earls of Leicester drowse in their own kitchens, or spread whole slices of bread on their broad, aristocratic palms. Journeys to Bagdad

The big fellow drowsed in the firelight, his four paws stretched evenly toward the man. Son of Power

What with the food and the warmth the little Italians soon grew so sleepy that they drowsed off before our eyes. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's

Here and there, in spaces enclosed by hurdles, sheep browsed or drowsed, still faintly a-blush from recent shearing. The Lady Paramount

They mounted and rode up the hill, looking for breaks in the fences and counting the colts, some of whom, luxuriously lazy in the heat of the sun, stood with lowered heads, drowsing. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail

His eyes, long, narrow and the color of pale smoke, drowsed beneath brows that met above his nose. Where the Sun Swings North

Miellyn had finished her brief recitation and was drowsing, her head pillowed on the table. The Door Through Space

She had enjoyed herself quite genuinely, and with her quick social perceptions had gathered a great deal from the visit, much of which she imparted to her drowsing husband on the train. One Woman's Life

I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson

If the settlement had drowsed, now its inhabitants were busy. Key Out of Time

In the edge of the first timber they pulled up and looked backward at the cabin drowsing silently under its sentinel tree. North of Fifty-Three

On the gray moss of the square, a few dried-looking old men, their faces as faded as their shirtcloaks and bearing the knife scars of a hundred forgotten fights, drowsed on the stone benches. The Door Through Space

Two men sat drowsing before the fire, their boot-heels among the embers, a black jack between them. The Long Night

There was no drowse in her wakefulness now. The Forfeit

He seemed to be drowsed with drink, and was fearfully emaciated. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont

The low song ceased gradually, softly, as a mother ceases her crooning lullaby, lest the very lack of the love-notes stir the drowsing baby brain to sudden waking. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier

So low and trembling was the call that Isa, drowsing luxuriously as she rocked to and fro, took no heed. Joyce of the North Woods

Was he not drowsing over his eyepiece in the meridian-circle room? The Man Who Rocked the Earth

Presently the drowse of utter weariness descended upon her. The Forfeit

He only approached a strange dreamy state in which he ate and drowsed, not caring for the world beyond his own bunk. The Time Traders

The drone of insect voices rose in a sleepy chorus and the men drowsed in the wagons. The Emigrant Trail

A brain surcharged with fires of hatred, drowsed with filthy drugs, and drenched with drunkenness, will teem, on the contrary, with vermin writhing in the meshes of decaying matter. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life

Behind his cage the night clerk was drowsing. Steve Yeager

I was just drowsing again when I heard some one yelling excitedly outside. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club

A soft mist rounded off all the bogland, holding in a drowse the sunbeams that steeped it, and letting them waken to their full golden glory at the very heart of noon. Strangers at Lisconnel

He had noticed that heat and mosquitoes would distract her attention from the hazy distances drowsing in the clear yellow of noon. The Emigrant Trail

The two rogues did not know that he was drowsing inside his snug home, because he had been out late the night before. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse

I’m in just the mood to drowse off now, and I don’t want to get roused up.” Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery

Bud Lee for a moment lost sight of the rows of rude shanties, the drowsing saddle-ponies, the street-lamps, and saw only the vision of a girl. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch

Caleb Hunter had been drowsing contentedly since early afternoon, his chin on his chest and the bowl of his pipe drooping down over his comfortably bulging, unbuttoned waistcoat. Then I'll Come Back to You

The afternoon was hot and the camp drowsed. The Emigrant Trail

Despite his efforts Dane did drowse again before morning, waking unrefreshed, and, to his secret dismay, with no lessening of his odd dislike for the country about them. Voodoo Planet

Then, left alone, he gradually yielded to the sedative effect of dinner and drink and fell into a drowse. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett

As he spoke the parson rose to his feet and stood with the two drowsing babies in his arms, looking down at me as I stood with his cup of tea in my hand. The Heart's Kingdom

In spring the clouds and the light hold races up their flanks; in summer they seem to drowse like weary monsters in the still and fervent heat. Lore of Proserpine

So, quite worn out at last with all this unwonted excitement, he drowsed off to sleep for as long as ten minutes and dreamed that he was a—bigamist. Molly Make-Believe

I could neither write nor read, and spent much of my time in the open air, and more in drowsing in misery over an unread book. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother

The householder at times emits a sleepy grunt of approval, relapses apparently into a drowse, and after several hours, rolls into his mat and feigns sleep. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir

Then the talk ran unbrokenly on for a while, and again dropped into laughs that recognized the drowse creeping upon the talkers. A Pair of Patient Lovers

Five minutes later he was drowsing stertorously on a lounge. The President A novel

At the stern he found a much larger company, most of whom had furnished themselves with novels and magazines from the stock on board and were drowsing over them. A Chance Acquaintance

Again the paddles were shipped, save those of the steersmen; and the crews lounged about, either smoking or drowsing. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure

The man opened his drowsing eyes and yawned expansively. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches

"A red rose," scoffed Peggy; and she felt herself drowsing in the mother arms. Old Kaskaskia

Every fine day brings them out as regularly as the worms rise after rain; they sit there all day long in the sky, each one apparently drowsing over his own stretch of country. Letters from France

Most of them are hanging by their hind legs and nibbling the pine-needles; they seem to be gently drowsing with the needles at their mouths. Social Life in the Insect World

The class he visited was drowsing through one of the less colorful sections of "Gone With The Wind." Null-ABC

Seek you where the woods are cool, Would you know the shady pool Where, throughout the lazy day, Speckled beauties drowse or play? The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

He smelled the fragrance of wild honeysuckle, the sharp, sweet smells blown out of the forest that drowsed in the summer heat. The Hidden Places

He did not walk in a daze as the old man rode, half numbness, half drowse. The Freebooters of the Wilderness

While the General drowsed she had put the collar safely away behind the Chinese scroll. The Tin Soldier

Not once, as the hours slipped by, did he drowse; not for an instant was he off his guard. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman

The day is one to drowse and dream And list the thrush's throttling note. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

One of the four quadrupeds drowsing under the brush shelter languidly turned an inquiring eye and interrogative ear in his direction, and conveyed, after the manner of the mule, a suggestion as to supper. Foes in Ambush

It was consciousness, delirious foolish consciousness, possible only to youth; and the consciousness slipped into a drowse between sleeping and waking. The Freebooters of the Wilderness

The courtesan's lazy, luxurious instinct drowsed within her soul, and her whole body responded to this perfumed warmth, to this atmosphere of riches created by the man before her in the core of desolation. Bella Donna A Novel

He drowsed, garrulous, with the blackened end of his cigarette hanging from his lower lip, swayed sideways—and let himself go over gently, pillowing his head on the stump of his arm. Romance

Then rang the bells as fled the night O'er dreaming land and drowsing deep, And coming with the morning light, They called, my child, to you asleep. Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

The plash of the waters in the brook, dancing and tumbling down the chasm, made sweet, drowsing music for his ears, a lulling, soothing sound that explained perhaps the deep slumber of his trooper friend. Foes in Ambush

There was the drowsy swash of saddle leather and the padded chug of dragging feet and the hum, the hypnotic hum, of the heat that drowsed from delirium to sleep. The Freebooters of the Wilderness

It can call to the imagination that lies drowsing, yet full of life, far down in the secret recesses of the soul. Bella Donna A Novel

The overheated little town of gray stones and red tiles was drowsing away its provincial afternoon under a blue sky. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale

Then, after all had had their fill, On their own ship they deeply drowsed, And slept away the time until, By Spidala disturbed, they roused.- Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse

I heard this fellow, Beasley, talk while lying drowsing on the bed, and not trying particularly to understand his words. The Blood Ship

There's a fellow asleep, the lout! in the shade of the hillock yonder; What a dog it must be to drowse in the midst of a time like this! Successful Recitations

The Living Skeleton, who had been drowsing on his chair, beat the flies off and groaned. The Missing Link

The leaves wherein true wisdom lies On living trees the sun are drinking; Those white clouds, drowsing through the skies, Grew not so beautiful by thinking. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations

The teller was visible in the cage, where now he appeared very busy though he had undoubtedly been drowsing when they entered. The Iron Furrow

I wasn't trying to listen; I was drowsing, and paying very little attention. The Blood Ship

Young Love lies dreaming Till summer days are gone,— Dreaming and drowsing Away to perfect sleep: He sees the beauty Sun hath not looked upon, And tastes the fountain Unutterably deep. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems

Nickie sat with his back to the wall of his compartment, sweltering in the hot garb of the Missing Link, drowsing and day-dreaming of beer. The Missing Link

While Queex still drowsed in its cage, Weeks went to work with fine cord. Plague Ship

How should he save her—save her from herself, clear the mist from her eyes, arouse her drowsing soul? The Iron Furrow

The sun was keen, and the day was still; The township drowsed in, a haze of heat. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse

Young Love lies drowsing Away to poppied death; 50 Cool shadows deepen Across the sleeping face: So fails the summer With warm, delicious breath; And what hath autumn To give us in its place? Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems

Siegfried comes, and, after commenting upon the drowsing steed, draws nearer still. Stories of the Wagner Opera

Down the liquid stream of lingual melody the dirge drifts dying—dying it echoes back into a ghostly after-life, as the yet throbbing sense wakes the drowsed mind once more. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar

The cat is as remote as if he were drowsing by the waters of the Nile. Americans and Others

Of soldiers resting by the road, Who smoked and drowsed, a muddy rout, One sprang alert, and forward strode, With eager eyes to seek us out. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse

In the shadows of the city her porters drowsed, and from the continuous wall of houses blankly facing one another from either side of the streets, there came no sound. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt

When at last he was quietly drowsing the doctor called Maud aside to give her instructions. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross

Fold on fold Pale laces drape her; and a frail perfume, As of a moonlit primrose brimmed with rain, Breathes from her presence, drowsing heart and brain. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses

Pete, drowsing in the sun, occasionally glanced up at the flock. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River

Only one sailor in the bow was left on watch, but he, too, drowsed, to wake up with a start, when finding all well, he dropped off to sleep again. The Princess Pocahontas

The watcher drowsed, the lamp flickered, tossing her shadow about the walls as if she, too, were turning feverishly from side to side. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes

We had been dreaming and drowsing away the morning, Königin, Kitty and I, in the jelly-fish-like state into which one naturally falls in Florida. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118

But the fire soon dies, the inspiration flags, "no man can be always on the heights," and the unhappy reader drowses in the company of his guide. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01

Unaccustomed to riding he grew weary and, despite the storm, he drowsed, to awaken with a start as gusts of wind swept against his face. Sundown Slim

His sleep was the drowse of incapacity, not the wholesome respite of elastic faculties. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

Though he did not know it, he had drowsed the whole day through and only just awakened to call for his ukulele and light a cigarette at Polly's hand. The Turtles of Tasman

Well," explained Philip comfortably, "Ras was drowsing by Sherrill's on a load of hay and I bought the cart and the hay and the horses and Ras at a bargain and set out. Diane of the Green Van

Nearer by were fields and corners of pasture land, with here and there the formless shapes of drowsing cows. A Man's Woman

In his spare time he built a lean-to of odds and ends, and beneath it Chance drowsed away the long, sunny hours while Sundown was rustling firewood or holding hot argument with an obstreperous dutch-oven. Sundown Slim

Languidly she curled up upon the sofa and pillowed her heavy head on the scented silk, and so, drowsing with fitful dreams, she lost the sense of the lagging hours. The Palace of Darkened Windows

He said it often, and often he drowsed in the big smooth-running machine. The Turtles of Tasman

He flung himself into a chair by the stove and drowsing after a while in a reactive sweep of exhaustion, awakened with a terrified jerk. Kenny

Once or twice the lad drowsed, and she stopped for a bit of a rest, until his insistent, "Sing more!" roused her from a momentary dream. Polly of the Hospital Staff

"Queer; I don't care a hoot," he told himself, watching with lazy eyes the smoke from his pipe drift blue between himself and the valley drowsing in the heat. The Vehement Flame

In consequence, towns like Appleboro take on the venerable aspect of antiquity, peacefully drowsing among immemorial oaks draped with long, gray, melancholy moss. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

And Captain Tom regretted the temporary indisposition that prevented immediate departure with them, and continued to sit and drowse more and more in the big chair. The Turtles of Tasman

On the homeward passage a little drowse fell upon the two charter members. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned

Overcome by fatigue, he had nodded, drowsed, and finally slumbered. Best Short Stories

By and by, through sheer fatigue, she did drowse, and when the wheels of Maurice's cab grated against the curb, she was asleep. The Vehement Flame

The garden was very still, steeped and drowsing in the bright clear sunlight; only the bees were busy there, calling from flower-door to flower-door, and sometimes a vireo's sweet whistle fluted through the leaves. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man

My boyhood should have been over; in body I had shot up to a great awkward height; but for the while the man within me drowsed and hung fire. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756

Now in the ungirt hour—now ere we blink and drowse, Mithras, also a soldier, keep us true to our vows! Songs from Books

The hills that bordered the moor drowsed and brooded, like ancient gods, clothed in a lordly radiance that was slowly consuming them as they meditated upon their coming oblivion. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner

The watchman missed him and found him asleep in the chapel in one of the seats, with the parrot drowsing on the altar. Love Stories

单词	drowse
例句	drowse They looked with fervent anticipation, and the dead city lay dead for them alone, drowsing in a hot silence of summer made on Mars by a Martian weatherman. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much braid, and here she lay drowsing. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She was just drowsing, but Tom Yew was snoring. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There was a heavy-breasted woman behind a bar in the garage and a lean yellow dog who lay drowsing by a pan of water, his ears twitching in sleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Taran drowsed with one hand on the iron brooch, the other grasping his sword. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse forever and ever.” The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Her exhaustion flowed into the hot water; she drowsed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At last wearied with his cares Sam drowsed, leaving the morrow till it came; he could do no more. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z That night, I drowse in my bed, fully dressed, waiting for the Ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z One night soon after we arrived, I was working on the puzzle and Grandma was drowsing in her platform rocker. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Tayo had been drowsing in the sun with his back against the cliff rock; he sat up stiffly and looked at her. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Sunshine flooded the thirsty lawn, flowers blazed, trees drowsed in the breeze. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The drowsing creature in Harry’s chest suddenly raised its head, sniffing the air hopefully. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The cattle lay drowsing all day long under the willows and only moved out at night to feed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Even when we went to the beach in the summer he never lay down to drowse in the sun the way I did. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He drowsed and saw the colors of the fire, the tints of green and blue and burning yellow. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Some nights she drowsed, but never for more than an hour. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I guess it is no surprise that he drowses during lectures. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He carried it back and dropped it in front of Bristle and Runt, who were drowsing at the burrow entrance in the last rays of afternoon sun. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z At times by night, as they cowered or drowsed uneasily in some hiding beside the road, they heard cries and the noise of many feet or the swift passing of some cruelly ridden steed. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His horse standing sleepily near the fence came to his whistle and stood drowsing while he saddled up. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z All of this was heady news of a world far removed from hankies and thimbles, patiently delivered to me under a tree amidst the drowsing bees and nodding wildflowers. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I drowse from the exhaustion of holding myself up on the jerking train. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z She worked slowly but steadily while the other creatures drowsed. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Nina was drowsing on a stool tucked into the corner by the table, Inej’s hand grasped loosely in her own. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Music spirals out of the radios, and it is splendid to drowse on the davenport, to be warm and fed, to feel the sentences hoist her up and carry her somewhere else. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But she’d been feeling lazy, and she’d allowed herself another few minutes to sleep in, drowsing beneath the thin cotton covers and listening to the rush and sigh of the waves. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The reporters, drowsing in the barn aisles, jumped up when they saw him. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z John, drowsing in the sunlight, put the toes of his right foot into his mouth and ran them along the place where his teeth were just beginning to come through. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Well after dark, a whistle sounds in the east and the drowsing soldiers stir. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As I argued fleetingly in my discussion of pathos, the joke can do more than just perk up a drowsing audience. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The greyhound lay on its side, drowsing, one chestnut-colored eye only partly closed and rolling grotesquely in the socket. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The real question, and the answer, becomes clear when you creep through hanging lianas and startle bats drowsing beneath the leaves and walk through the centers of clouds. T Magazine: Send in the Clouds 2011-11-18T13:08:53Z I sat up in bed, woke my drowsing boyfriend, shook him, and said, "Oh, my God! Oh, my God! This is so gorgeous." Authors Janet Fitch, Cynthia Bond share admiration for each other's work 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z Behind the walls, palms and red pines loomed above Ottoman mansions that drowsed in the leafy darkness. A Turkish Idyll Lost in Time 2011-07-08T19:03:11Z Luckily, I found a taxi driver named Ray drowsing by the plaza in his battered blue Lada. A Cuban Island That Has Played Both Paradise and Prison 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z “Dungan cuisine” says the sign, without fanfare, on a drowsing street. A House Built on Family and Dungan Food in Brooklyn 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z While summer often wakes me at 4am with dawn, in winter I can sleep for hours, surrendering to my bed shortly after 9pm, and drowsing there until my morning alarm. Human hibernation: the restoring effects of hiding away in winter 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z A man tells of drowsing on his bed in the heat of the day when his girlfriend arrives wearing next to nothing – and what happens next. Love poems: writers choose their favourites for Valentine's Day 2012-02-10T22:52:01Z Of the 63 subjects who dropped the glass as they drowsed, 26 did so after they had already passed through N1 sleep. Spark Creativity with Thomas Edison’s Napping Technique 2022-04-03T04:00:00Z Late one night the drowsing pro got a phone call at home. Mike Royko: Golf, Chicago-style - Golf Digest 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z Halime watches them eat, her youngest baby drowsing on her breast. 5 Men, a Sack of Beer and a Forest With a Magical Well 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Afternoon naps are a time-honored tradition in many child-care centers, as toddlers snuggle up on soft mats to drowse, daydream or fidget. Sleepy time: Some nap mats at Seattle child-care centers contain toxic chemicals 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z “Lot less, lot less than before,” said a bus agent, who declined to give his name, at the open-air Sonef station in Niamey, drowsing and empty in the late-afternoon heat. At French Outpost in African Migrant Hub, Asylum for a Select Few 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z He also wants to understand why accidents in this drowsing stage seem much more prevalent among people who are right-handed. The mysterious moments before falling asleep 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z João Lucas drowsed on his back, the green tape stretched on the backs of his fingers to unclench his fists giving his hands a skeletal look. Zika Twins: A Window Into Much More Than a Virus 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z I drive in the evening, when I am most alert, and my husband drives in the daytime while I drowse. Aroma of garlic can calm a cough, reader finds 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z One thing they have in common is a mastery in describing light in particular and optical phenomena in general; another is their inclination to evoke in-between states: drowsing, dreams, epiphanies, hallucinations. Far Away From Here 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Made of plastic from an MRI scan taken when Proctor was 16 weeks pregnant, it captured an exact likeness of the fetuses drowsing in her womb. 3-D Printing to the Rescue 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z She woke her drowsing husband and herded the children toward the fire escape outside the front of the building. A Family Suggests the First Responders to a Fire Were Thieves 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z On the rare occasions Mr. Nichols appeared, he would be sitting in his car in the driveway, drowsing or reading the paper or maybe doing nothing at all. Amid Junk at Hoarder’s House, His Missing Wife 2013-07-16T03:24:44Z But at least here, they said, the soldiers of the Republic of Niger are drowsing under a giant tree at the border, not pointing their guns at the civilians who continue to cross it. Nigerian Refugees Accuse Army of Excess Force 2013-06-06T00:05:06Z The stillness almost seemed to drowse and to make a soft noise, like the distant sound of locusts in August. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z How can you drowse, Lost in dreams, When Ashur’s rams Are battering the gates? Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z The poll-clerks sent out for pots of beer, the watchers drowsed, the candidates were invisible--some said that they had gone to dine with the mayor. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z The porter was drowsing in his lodge, the gate was ajar. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z All nature drowsed in the hot afternoon sun. A Safety Match 2012-03-19T02:00:23.817Z Did you never drowse and doze over your rod, when "sitting in a pleasant shade," on a sultry afternoon, not a nibble disturbed the equanimity of your float? Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z On market days the farmers crowded the square with their teams, the village awoke from its long sleep and became a modestly thriving little country town again,—drowsing on into life once more. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z Many a drowsing mallard has been caught by a lean fox or knocked on the head with a paddle. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z The place lay drowsing in the late heat of the summer afternoon. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z He had been attracted by the woman, by what was sombre and unexplained in her eyes, by the sleepy grace of her movements, by the magnetism that seemed to drowse in her. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z The village drowses in the darkness, But aloft in the temple There is a thud of gongs and a shuffle of hollow voices In the dark corridors. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z The roughnecks of the gas industry drowse in their parkas to the restful cadence of the helicopter blades clipping overhead. Gazprom's Empire at the End of the Earth 2012-02-09T23:00:17Z The horse at the street corner still drowses. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Awake or drowsing, stung to life by the smart of his hurt or lulled to sleep by the music of the stream, he had her face always before him. The Abbess Of Vlaye 2012-02-19T03:00:15.523Z The Mistress drowsed over her book by the fire. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z The village drowses in the darkness: Like a vast black cube The temple looms above it, There is no light on its fa�ade. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z All winter long in its leaf bud the baby tulip leaf drowses, curled up tight. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z The silent bird is hid in the boughs, The scythe is hid in the corn, The lazy oxen wink and drowse, The grateful sheep are shorn. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume XV, No. 3 Volume XV (Jan 1886-Jul 1886) 2012-01-23T03:00:12.223Z Here and there small knots of men discussed the more obscure points of the Koran or of Mohammedan law, while others sat in shady corners, lazily drinking sherbet or drowsing away the hot morning hours. Legends & Romances of Spain 2012-01-10T03:00:18.593Z And the name brings back those kindly hills And the drowsing life so new to me; And the welcome that those purple blossoms With their tiny trumpets blew to me. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z The older people lay at full length in steamer chairs and drowsed like so many hibernating bears. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z THE carriage stopped, unheeded by O'Byrn, who drowsed, huddled in a corner. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z If I left her to her own devices she drowsed, stumbling, through the dust; if I corrected her, she pranced and pulled, and kicked up behind like a donkey. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z The city was wrapt all day in a torrid drowse; the pavements lay either in bleak glare or breathless shadow. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z While through the glade an insect army drones And birds from neighboring boughs their notes repeat, These patriarchs, drowsing as in bliss complete, Rest on the flowery sward their tranquil bones. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z There came the same sudden start, stricken, panting, perspiring, out of deep sleep; the same frantic search of the apartment with all the lights burning; the same late, broken drowse; the same jaded awakening. Out of the Air 2011-11-21T03:00:14.460Z He dare not drowse, for he cannot tell at what moment the quarry may appear. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z She pressed him tightly in the embrace of her slender, white arms; she kissed his raspberry mouth, his drowsed eyes. Ecstasy: A Study of Happiness A Novel 2011-10-18T02:00:20.340Z But when she had promised to come, and William, slapping a rein down on the mare's flank, was jogging along under the sycamore branches, he did not fall into his pleasant drowse again. Dr. Lavendar's People 2011-10-13T02:00:52.167Z They hid in the thicket all the hours till darkness came again, drowsing by turns. From School to Battle-field A Story of the War Days 2011-10-10T02:00:19.987Z But Lamme, who was thoroughly drowsed by all that he had been drinking, lay down straightway and went to sleep; and on the morrow he departed to Ghent together with Ulenspiegel. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z For a couple of hours I sat drowsing in the intense heat. Life in an Indian Outpost 2011-10-19T02:00:19.943Z The blessed Sabbath stillness falls on all within our ken; our steeds are blinking, our men are drowsing in the leafy shades below. Campaigning with Crook and Stories of Army Life 2011-09-21T02:00:34.517Z We knew we must not tell you ere the hour, Or ... or ... too many hinds might creep to be Their own drowsed leering loutish prophecies. King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z Men laboured on the meagre defences of the county as though weighted by a nightmare—as though drowsing awake and not believing in their ghostly dream. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z It was a Sunday afternoon, warm and still, and until their present conversation roused them from their lethargy they had both seemed more inclined to drowse than talk. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z I wasn't exactly asleep, I was pleasantly drowsed, and I had a sort of feeling that something was going to happen. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z Oh, and how pleasant the fulness of the afternoon sun flooding this round, fast-sleeping harbour, along whose side the tall palms drowse, and whose waters are fast asleep. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z The sentinel at the gate drowsed against the carriage of the saucy brass cannon. The Argus Pheasant 2011-08-27T02:00:20.160Z As a rule he drowsed happily all evening, for then there was peace in the kitchen, and no fear of heavy felt-shod feet descending upon his tail. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z He lay for a short time drowsing and enjoying the unaccustomed rest, but being unable to content himself, arose, and after dressing stepped outside in the crisp morning air. The Land of Lure A Story of the Columbia River Basin 2011-08-09T02:00:24.217Z She had transformed Bess’s pillowed couch into a bed, and these hot nights she fanned her until she drowsed away herself. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Over everything there was a sense of autumn peace which comes when the world is drowsing off into his deep sleep. Molly Brown's Freshman Days 2011-07-12T02:00:31.110Z So the days drowsed on quietly and peacefully, seeming, to my youthful ignorance, as nearly perfection as they could possibly be. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z “Well, you couldn’t expect her to have a warm one, could you?” drowsed Tarleton, who was half asleep. The Sirdar's Oath A Tale of the North-West Frontier 2011-07-05T02:00:25.780Z The sleeping waters bathe her sides, The warm, blue streams of the Adrian Sea; She dreams and drowses languorously, Swayed in the swaying of the tides. Eight Harvard Poets 2011-06-26T02:00:08.617Z An infinitesimal odour of the most exquisite choice, mingled with a floating humidity, swims in this atmosphere where the drowsing spirit is lulled by the sensations one feels in a hothouse. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z The Sun hung like a red balloon As if he would not rise; For listless Helios drowsed and yawned. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z The swift, inexplicable change of countenance could be compared only with the startled alertness of a drowsing fox when his dim, snug covert echoes the first far-off blast of the coming hunter's horn. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z In weather like this, it was good just to lie still and watch and listen, or drowse off with the sun warm on one’s fur and the spicy earth smells in one’s nostrils. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z He drowsed with the music of the grinding floes in his ears, then heard a racking shiver which came from the north and east; it was the great North pack breaking along its entire length. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z A road bordered by flower-faced fields with drowsing villages, now and then, like ancient inns with bread and cheese and milk. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-09T03:00:44.777Z Then he would creep back to drowse by the warmth of his fire and dream that the blue-eyed stranger had come back and brought the luck of the Golden Fortune. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z At the other end of the wooded space we found a little pond opening out, and a score of wild ducks drowsing placidly on its smooth surface. Neighbours 2011-03-05T03:00:27.277Z Even the little monkeys and parrakeets, that had seemed so gay, moped and drowsed like they was sick. Friend Island 2011-02-28T03:00:33.693Z Who was the woman behind the lattice—yes, it was a woman——Then Swinton drowsed off. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z Tell me not you've never heard him by the river bank o' quiet days, when the squirrels sleep, and the chipmunks drowse, and the birds forget their tunes. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It seemed to the old man most good to rest, and he drowsed upon his feet. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z An aged black and white dog drowsed on its sunny deck. Saboteurs on the River 2011-01-28T03:00:23.967Z Overhead on a bare tree branch, two racoons drowsed after their midday meal. Swamp Island 2011-01-28T03:00:22.400Z I entered noiselessly, and made out, in the dim light, the broad figure of Becker, the forester, sprawled out leisurely in his armchair beside the bed and drowsing over his vigil. The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian 2011-01-20T03:00:07.967Z He handed her a fly-whisk, and placed a small stool beside the couch; and here she sat herself, while her patient closed his eyes and drowsed in some degree of comfort. Burning Sands 2011-01-17T03:00:53.930Z With the dropping of the sun and the sinking of the winds the fires drowse and flicker and smoulder. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z She was unconscious of her physical suffering; and she had already undergone such mental suffering that this supreme ordeal did not awaken her drowsing senses. The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z Well and clearly he saw now that mild good, undemonstrative, unaggressive good—seventy years of bovine plodding, sunning, grazing, drowsing—is a step toward the Top. She Buildeth Her House 2011-01-04T03:01:05.167Z On one end, peddlers were besieging a group of tourists; on the other, a girl with bronze-colored hair sat reading, a native in a flowered chintz coat drowsing at her feet. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z She no longer started out of a drowse with a cry because some picture of her paradise lost stood before her with horrible vividness. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Joe leaned against the door jamb and drowsed for a second. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The slow train crept around a bend and puffed to a standstill at the drowsing little station of Hobostein. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z Morgan's wife drowsed for eight weeks and never woke up; he donated a tremendous amount of money to a neurological institute to study the disease. Q&A: Why Can't We Sleep? 2010-05-17T08:00:00Z The stars drowsed above them, like sleepy eyes, and the ship was a dim, prowling world when they parted. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z When unable to fall asleep, she pictured herself drowsing off with her head under his shoulder—that was bliss enough. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z Dimples played merrily in the flushed cheeks, and Gabrielle was smiling as she looked from the window where westwards a golden sunset flung a halo of glory over the drowsing landscape. A Blot on the Scutcheon And Tempest there, who houses Within them, like a cave, Lies down and dreams and drowses Upon the Earth's huge grave, With wandering wind and wave. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy Tossing, throughout this tense and nervous night Sleepless I drowse. Challenge She kept up this babble during the whole of tea in the lee of that motor on the downs where Mr. Burke had come upon me as I drowsed after lunch. Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune The moon drowsed between the trees like a great yellow moth, and the shadows of the branches lay on the ground like sharp bluish etchings on light green paper. The Valiants of Virginia A drowse gradually laid itself upon the delicate maternal face; under the scant light beginning to smell of smoke, it looked almost like a mummy's. Woman From bloom to bloom the languid butterflies drowse; The sleepy bees make hardly any sound; The only things the sunrays can arouse, It seems, are two black beetles rolling 'round Upon the dusty ground. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems He could not read, but tobacco was no hindrance to the brave play of memory and imagination, and with a luxurious smile he lighted a pipe and drowsed. The Gay Adventure A Romance Here grew, dipping down to the water, sprays of dewberries, and here, remote even from twittering warblers and the distant harvest cries, Michael and Alan drowsed away the afternoon. Sinister Street, vol. 1 In her lap was an infant, which she had been suckling, though now it had fallen asleep; so had the young mother herself for a few minutes, under the drowsing effects of solitude. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 He had decided to avoid Dalrymple as far as possible, but that first night, as he drowsed over a book, he heard a knock at his door, not loud, and suggestive of reluctance and indecision. The Guarded Heights Nor did Pedro, drowsing, exhausted, beside him, dream of the test that was to be made of his courage while he remained behind. Unexplored! I drowsed and time passed; stealing as for one Whose drowsy life dreams in Avilion. Accolon of Gaul with Other Poems That evening as I drowsed over the hearth after dinner, still holding Desire's letter in my hand and pondering over it, the card of young Dr. Arnold Ackroyd was brought up to me. The Preliminaries And Other Stories Then he drowsed again, just the short nap of a man who had been up too long. Last Words Compare daze, dazed, dazzle, doze, drowse, drowsy. deceived. Stories from Tagore The boys drowsed off that night to dream of fire mountains and explorations in the nether regions. Unexplored! Then she drowsed again, and seemed to be listening to the wailing song with some one whose hand she held. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop The leaves wherein true wisdom lies On living trees the sun are drinking, Those white clouds drowsing through the skies Grew not so beautiful by thinking. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 Time and again he caught himself drowsing and threw off the temptation just in time. The Crimson Sweater The song is hushed in every woodland throat; Moveless the lilies float; Even the ancient ever-murmuring sea Sighs only fitfully; The cattle drowse in the field-corner's shade; Peace on the world is laid. Later Poems Just as she was drowsing off, however, a consoling thought occurred to her: "But he must have made divine love!" she reflected, smiling. Shadows of Flames A Novel And if they add “on Earth” they deem Thee impotent, Seeing Thee drowse thus long and leave men to their bent. Satan Absolved And at last on one of the bunks he found him, stretched out in a stupor of sleep or drowsed by the stifle of gases. Careers of Danger and Daring How long he lay in darkness, a second, an hour, he could not afterward recall; it seemed to him that he had drowsed off at once, but suddenly he started, trembling from head to foot. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel She was the only European nation that did not drowse. The Spanish Pioneers Sophy said, looking at the lake that drowsed under the faint breath of a listless Tramontana. Shadows of Flames A Novel Ye drowse here in your choirs, Sleep-walkers all,—while these, glad messengers, go forth Upon new joyous errands, Earthwards, South and North, To visit men and cities. Satan Absolved This ardor of merely sensuous love had lasted long enough to carry her off to sleep drowsed by a passionate content. Carnival The house seemed to drowse in a comfortable lethargy, confident of the rectitude of builders long dead who had roughhewn its beams and joined them with wooden pins before a day of nails. Ewing\\'s Lady And the garden drowsed in the warmth of a forenoon brilliant, heavy-scented, tropical!... Where the Pavement Ends There were the guards, too, drowsing near one of the fires, their weapons dangling beside them. With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War Trask was asleep, and I was just drowsing off, when a tap at the door and Brian’s voice started me wide awake again. A Veldt Vendetta The hot afternoon drowsed on, and the assailants, or besiegers rather, after the first few volleys made no further sign. In the Whirl of the Rising The thought sent a wave of panic coursing through her, but she was too tired to experience any emotion for long, and she soon drowsed off. Bedside Manner Still drowsing, she wondered, without any real interest, what they felt they must tell her. A Woman's Place The plaid danced before his eyes, became a signal flag, and, watching it, he drowsed and then fell into the profound sleep which means recovery. Fairfax and His Pride The night wore on, and Stark lay drowsing. Black Amazon of Mars The next day I pleaded indisposition and spent most of the hours idling and drowsing in my chamber. Tiger Cat Yet once more into his drowsing ear fell a peculiar sound. Dorothy on a House Boat They drowsed on the doorsteps or scampered about the neat gardens. The Golden Amazons of Venus Everywhere on the reddish-brown plush sofas, ladies and gentlemen with steamer-rugs over them lay drowsing. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself The scene lay silent and slumbrous in the brooding noon-day sun: the drowsing peacock squatted humped on the lawn, no fish leaped in the pools, no bird declared himself from the trim secluding hedges. The Golden Age They sleep upon the barren plain, drowsing in a timeless ocean. The Legion of Lazarus At dawn, now, from dripping spires, white-throats and hermit thrush, fleeter than the spring, startled the drowsing forest with a reveille of song. The Whelps of the Wolf And all in vain, for, with the dawn of a bleak to-morrow, Private Blenke, no one could begin to say how, had slipped by his possibly drowsing guard and escaped. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade They drowsed and nodded and curled up tight into a long sleep, in which they missed nothing at all of the later day. The Flower Princess The Flower Princess; The Little Friend; The Mermaid's Child; The Ten Blowers The place drowsed in a slow and comfortable silence. Assignment's End Past midnight he suddenly was startled from his drowse and sat bolt upright in terror. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making That person was, as Plouff expected, drowsing comfortably over the galley fire. Command Puffed within the belfry tower Hungry owls drowse out their hour.... Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems Another telegram woke him as he was drowsing off. Grenfell: Knight-Errant of the North And once while I drowsed for a spell I was aware of her as she stepped softly up to me, peered into my face, and then, as I opened my eyes, withdrew without speaking. Captain Macedoine's Daughter The room held a faint whisper of mechanical music. arry stood at one of the windows gazing out over the drowsing city. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 The garden drowsing lies, The stars fold down their eyes,— In this dear spot, my steed, neigh not, Nor stamp in restless wise! Second Book of Verse Though I seem to cease Outside myself and sleep in peace, I drowse awake and wonder. Days and Dreams Poems Suddenly, on the other side of the water somewhere, but evidently far away, a voice, untrained, but of peculiar sweetness, broke into my drowsing. My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia Yes, I drowsed time and again; but toward dawn I grew wakeful and the necessity of returning to the ship became urgent once more. Captain Macedoine's Daughter Set in sad walls, all mossy with the past, An old stone gateway with a crumbling crest; A garden where death drowses manifest; And in gaunt yews the shadowy house at last. The Garden of Dreams The influence of Sleep made the winged horses drowse, and also Endymion and the Bacchante. Life of John Keats Dozing in the truck, an odd lapse of consciousness had come over me ... myself yet not myself, drowsing over thoughts I did not recognize as my own. The Planet Savers In the stifling heat of the lazy June afternoon it drowsed, seemingly deserted except for the ponies and the two wagons, and the few incurious cowboys who had rewarded the young man with their glances. The Coming of the Law In happy case, she may yet remain afloat—a sheer hulk, drowsing the tides away in some remote harbour, coal-hulking for her steam-pressed successor. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea As they rolled homeward through the night, the little boy drowsed off into slumber. Rollo in Society A Guide for Youth Yet he must have drowsed at last, for when suddenly he saw his wife standing, draped in some dark wrapping, hearkening at one of the open windows, the moon was sinking. John March, Southerner On his right loomed a large horse; behind him stood a drowsing team; on his left was a dirt-cart; while immediately in front, such was his position now, stood his mother. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance There he installed her, and when she reminded him that the room had been wakened from its winter drowse to this exhilaration for Amelia, he bade her "hush up and stay put." Old Crow Toward morning I fell into a drowse, and was awakened out of it by the reveille. Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry The others are drowsed with weariness, stupefied with sorrow. A Journal of Impressions in Belgium He found a seat in front of them, and sat stiff beside a man who drowsed. John March, Southerner At such times the round-faced man, the white’s master, would drag him away mightily, or, if he was not quick enough, then the sorrel, drowsing along behind on a lead-rope, would unconsciously offer resistance. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Then, as if this had been as commonplace an interlude in her night as the baby's waking and drowsing off again, she felt herself surging happily away to sleep. Old Crow What is taking place to-day is horribly abnormal for those alone who were drowsing in the abnormal peace of a society equally devoid of foresight and of remembrance. The Forerunners Shivering, with chattering teeth, There I stood beside the hearth, Till the fire drowsed me quite, Then upon the straw I sank. Atta Troll The drowse of noon seemed to put them all to sleep. Old Plymouth Trails He stepped down off the curb, roused the drowsing mare with a vigorous clap, again looked about him worriedly. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance As I drowsed that night I registered a vague resolve to see Mr. Carville again and broach the subject to him. Aliens Beneath that shell, the collective soul, suffering, overwhelmed with fatigue, brutalised by the noise, poisoned by the smoke, endures infinite boredom, drowses, waits, waits unendingly. The Forerunners Father and sister drowsed, and she put the story aside to study over the predicament in which she felt herself at fault. The Plow-Woman I contrasted the activity in the store of Stibbs with the drowse that hung over another shop in the North Country where, in earlier years, I used to buy my supplies. The So-called Human Race But after a time, made sluggish by the attitude of the men, he himself attempted to drowse. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance Sometimes, away out East, when I've been drowsing in a hammock listening to the sweat dripping on the deck and watching the blue hills in the distance, it has come upon me. Aliens Russian brothers, your revolution has come to awaken this Europe of ours, drowsing over the arrogant memories of whilom revolutions. The Forerunners "To-night, huh?" murmured Buck Elk, as he and Little Fat Bear fished together, and the two old Indians drowsed in the shade, or wove baskets of reeds. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters Peggy sat up quickly as the foregoing words penetrated her drowsed consciousness, and parting the curtains of the bed looked out. Peggy Owen and Liberty It was, perhaps, an hour later when Donald, just beginning to drowse before his little fire, heard someone approach and unlock his door, for the second time that night. The Wilderness Trail Here the brown thrashers hide, The chat and cat-bird chide; The blue kingfisher houses Above the stream, And here the heron drowses Lost in his dream; The vireo's flitting note Haunts all the wild remote. Weeds by the Wall Verses They drove in silence for some time, Kessler intent on the evening flood of traffic, Margaret almost drowsing in the evening sunlight and the cool of the breeze in her hair. The Last Straw Here one would drowse–there another lose consciousness and sink to the ground, but always men were talking. In the Heart of a Fool Presently he came across the Bull drowsing in the moonlight after a hard day's work, and looking through half-shut eyes at the beautiful straight furrows that he had made. Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II It pulled people up out of the drowse of a generation, and set them talking as they had not talked in twenty years. The Bondboy Into a quietness as of fallen bloom Their feet sank in that chamber; and, all round, Soft hills of Moorish cushions dimly drowsed On glimmering crimson couches. Collected Poems Volume One At eight o’clock Hitty came in to her, and roused her from the light drowse into which she had fallen at last. Outside Inn There she saw waiting a hired trap, with its driver drowsing in the sunlight. A Manifest Destiny Mrs. Lawrence drowsed away when the confusion of re-arrangement had subsided. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart The day’s work was begun, while Davidge drowsed and smiled contentedly at the side of the strange, sleeping woman as if they had been married for years. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Song had touched his lips with flame, And his eyes were drowsed and dim; And we kissed the hours away Till night grew rosier than the day.— Collected Poems Volume One And with no further ado he shut his eyes and drowsed. The Pathless Trail The Lost Island villages had been drowsing in the sun that afternoon, as this town was drowsing now— The Helpful Hand of God At times it seemed that she was in the little, old, gray house in the valley, and that her father's sharp voice might come at any moment to break her delicious drowse. Money Magic A Novel Davidge drowsed and smiled contentedly in the dark and did not know that he was not awake until at some later time he was half aroused by the meteoric glow and whiz of another automobile. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Yet in his dream's desire He drowsed away the hours: His lyre Lay buried in the flowers. Collected Poems Volume One The late moon peeped timidly above the drowsing treetops. Carmen Ariza Fever still drowsed in her blood and a haze of half delirious visions often accompanied her waking. Tante He smiled gayly, and went out, closing the door softly after him, and Northwick drowsed. The Quality of Mercy Then sleepy little Danton awoke from its September drowse and was aware that something real had happened. The Shepherd of the North Often she had drowsed the summer noon in the coolness, unheeding the dinner call, until busy Martha roused her with the sisterly scolding she knew she deserved and took in good part. The Eye of Dread Simití, drab and shabby, a crumbling and abandoned relique of ancient Spanish pride and arrogance, drowsed undisturbed in the ardent embrace of the tropical sun. Carmen Ariza The elder seemed to drowse off from the time and place, but he was recalled by the younger saying, "It is certainly astonishing weather for this season of the year." The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse She had not slept, either; it was from her first drowse that Adeline had wakened her. The Quality of Mercy The drowsing birds, even, had finished their evensong. The Law-Breakers The clang of trains, the feathery whirr of motors, the echo of footsteps, the immense, indefinable breathing vibration of the iron monster, drowsing on its rock between three rivers and the sea, ceases utterly. The Crimson Tide A Novel Mud hovels; ragged, thatched roofs; lowly peones drowsing away life’s little hour within! Carmen Ariza He had begun to drowse after a 282 good home dinner and sixty hours without sleep, but this acted like an electric shock. The Harbor of Doubt The car was old and worn, and badly hung; but in spite of all, Northwick drowsed in the fervor of the glowing stove, and towards morning he fell into a long and dreamless sleep. The Quality of Mercy Apparently he shared his mother's apathy towards all things, and he lay by the hour in a sluggish drowse, leaving his mother free to allow her thoughts to wander at will. The Dominant Strain It looked very sleepy, drowsing in the silence of the noon sun. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The care-free children of this tropic realm drowsed through the long, hot days and gossiped and danced in the soft airs of night. Carmen Ariza The sound of the shot awakened the drowsing street and many who ran to their doorways saw the murderer riding away at a swinging gallop. When the West Was Young He must be going out of his mind, or else he was drowsing. The Quality of Mercy There were many of them, the horses blanketed and unblanketed, drowsing where they stood. Mixed Faces The man’s eyes were half-closed, yet he was by no means drowsing. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills Nature changed her garb with monotonous regularity; the drowsing children of this tropic region passed their days in dull torpidity; Josè saw nothing of it all. Carmen Ariza Away below them, the little 371 town, with its long Main Street of business houses and its stretch of regular shade trees, drowsed in an adolescent contentment. The Spoilers of the Valley Perhaps he was freezing, and this was the beginning of the death drowse. The Quality of Mercy And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heard the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems The smoke from the burning wood made his eyes grow heavy; he began to drowse. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Anne went back and forth from china closet to piles of dishes left ready washed by Mary Nellen, and the colonel, in the library, drowsed off the morning's work. The Prisoner Don't I drowse The week away down with the Aunt and Niece? Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning He got into the hammock, and after a while he drowsed, with a delicious, poetic sense of her capricious charm, as she drifted back to the farmhouse, over the sloping meadow. The Quality of Mercy We either drowse or vegetate in and for the past. England and Germany Yes, here are my three friends, in the quaint little garden of the hotel, with its purple-flowering vines of Bougainvillea, fragrant orange-trees, drooping palms, and long-tailed cockatoos drowsing on their perches. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit He was conscious of having drowsed away in his chair, into one of those intervals he found so inevitable, and that were, at the same time, so irritatingly foreign to his previous habits of life. The Prisoner The outer garden drowsed; there seemed no one about. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 It was the season of threshing, and all day long to the drowse of the air was added, near and afar, all-pervading through the stillness, the sleepy hum of the separator. A Breath of Prairie and other stories It was a pastoral, peaceful scene—a little country-side drowsing in the warm rosy twilight. The World Beyond And as she lay she became conscious of something else in the drowsing land beside herself and her horse. Tharon of Lost Valley Brangwen continued in a kind of rich drowse of physical heat, in connection with his wife. The Rainbow The scent of the flowers, the street lined in one place by arching giant fronds drowsing and nodding overhead—there seemed a strange exotic romance to it. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 She was due at six o’clock, and here’ve I been drowsing like a more-pork on this couch, when I might have been in bed. The Tale of Timber Town Lee had left the table and again was standing at the latticed window, beyond which the drowsing little garden lay silent, and empty now. The World Beyond Then he shut his eyes and drowsed off. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Till gradually a sleep, a heaviness settled on them, a drowse, and out of the drowse, a small light of consciousness woke up. The Rainbow The little rocky islands drowsed in the mist like some strange monsters sleeping on the bosom of the water. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse I drowsed in my chair, feeling comfortably tired after my all night journey. The Belovéd Vagabond It was a little garden, drowsing in the twilight. The World Beyond It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon, And we two dreaming the dusk away, Beneath the drift of a twilight grey— Beneath the drowse of an ending day. Legends of Vancouver For this house was always quivering with darkness, they put off their puppet form when they came home, to lie and drowse in the sun. The Rainbow It’s just a kind of drowsing life away. A Modern Cinderella Only the parched world drowsed in drought, And a fat bee, there, Prying and probing at a poppy’s mouth That drooped a-swoon. viii What did you hear there, Na�a? The Dark Star And Kate, watching them and listening, even while she drowsed over the Woman's Page, decided that after all they were nothing but a pack of children. The Beloved Woman We know not which; still drowsing, dreaming, but yet strongly conscious that in a moment we shall be awake to reality. The Countess of Albany Mother Death, says Baka, like an onion, brings tears from the dears she embraces, and fondles alike both the baby that drowses and the rake that carouses! Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 They spent an hour or two talking or drowsing luxuriously on the grass; then the springing up of a fresh breeze roused them all, and weighing anchor they set sail for another port. Moods So it came out to us in the dream and drowse of summer, which the little bubble of water cooled. Tatterdemalion Mrs. Melrose, who had been contentedly rocking and drowsing in the heat, paled with sudden terror and apprehension, and looked around her with sick and uneasy eyes. The Beloved Woman It was not until she lay drowsing in utter exhaustion on her own bed that she thought of all of the rest that must be done to that boat-load of precious freight. Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Before Saxham rise the bony brown and bay and chestnut hindquarters of half a dozen lean horses, that are drowsing or fidgeting before their emptied mangers. The Dop Doctor Dear old soul, I'll be good by-and-by, but now I'm tired and cross, so let me keep out of every one's way and drowse myself into a cheerier frame of mind. Moods Meanwhile his wife sat quietly on her eggs—there were three of them this year—and drowsed away the warm spring afternoon. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals Doubtless, then, she drowsed again, for she was awakened once more by a voice and a vehement pair of knuckles on her door. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 “I shall lose Blossom—no, I mean Blossom will lose—oh, yes, Blossom will lose her legs, if I don’t get up,” she drowsed, and fell asleep. Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea He had drowsed through the evening and at the first opportunity had managed to slip away quickly. A Royal Prisoner Daisy thought the rain would be a capital excuse for lying in bed; for she still liked to cuddle and drowse in her cosey, warm nest. Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. The mellow dip! dip! of the paddle woke the drowsing red-winged blackbirds from the reeds; the gray snipe wheeled out across the marsh in flickering flight. A Young Man in a Hurry and Other Short Stories Now I——” And he had already drowsed off into sleep. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Paloma Springs in its entirety lay there in full view, drowsing in the torrid heat of mid-September. Shoe-Bar Stratton I dozed and drowsed, while East and West in my mind wove a web whose pattern I cannot trace. Appearances Being Notes of Travel She came on valiantly, and, when within a hundred yards, pumped a shot across the bow of the drowsing Emilie. Famous Privateersmen and Adventurers of the Sea Their rovings, cruises, escapades, and fierce battling upon the ocean for patriotism and for treasure Nothing like it, for sheer, deadly, draining, maddening, drowsing witchery of beauty. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Her father was easily tired, but he drowsed through the early afternoons when a none-too-digestible small-town lunch was as lead within him. Free Air At the third entrance the four men were already asleep—all but one of them, and he was drowsing; and Nick, in his character of Handsome, pretended to be angry at first. A Woman at Bay Or, a Fiend in Skirts The afternoon drowsed slowly past, a spell of sapping at the sap-head occasionally breaking the monotony. The Tale of a Trooper I was drowsing, when suddenly I heard him give a frightened yell. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Oh! but now they stir and rouse Like a girl who has bin dreamin' of her lover in a drowse, And wakes up to feel 'is kisses on 'er softly poutin' lips. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, May 6, 1893 The stupid sort will prefer to drowse in the shade, and the light-minded will care only for the gay round of social pleasures. Our Bird Comrades His mind luxuriated in these details till he fell into an uneasy drowse. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range At the depot, he persuaded the water-guard to let him fill his water-bottle, and then, while the Quarters calculated together, he drowsed in the shade of a bank. The Tale of a Trooper A torrid drowse is in the receding landscape. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 The atmosphere was dense with fog in the dusky chamber of a London police court; the lights were bleared and the voices drowsed. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time If he doesn't sleep let him sip a cup of hot milk, and sit beside him until he drowses off. Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest He yielded again to the force of her will, and fell back into a luxurious drowse hearing the stove roar and the bacon sizzle in the pan. The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range And chained to the oak by a staple driven into the trunk, drowsing in the heat of the summer mid-afternoon, lay a bloodhound. Frank of Freedom Hill Once a year, surely, reason might nod and drowse. Chimney-Pot Papers "Have you got an outside room?" demanded Trask of the drowsing English clerk behind the railing, as he pulled the register toward him and scanned the open page. Isle o' Dreams It seemed to her that she was slowly drowsing away and that her thoughts were fading, for her consciousness had begun to disintegrate and she was already ceasing to feel and to know. The Comedienne But while Sandy was ranging afield he lay on the edge of the basin drowsing and watching the valley, for he did not intend to be taken by surprise. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters He smoked, while she almost drowsed into slumber to the lullaby of the afternoon. The Job An American Novel The dullest nose, even if it had drowsed like a Stoic through the day, perked and quivered when the breath came off the kitchen. Chimney-Pot Papers The few men of the watch drowsed at their stations or wistfully gazed at the fires ashore and the mob of pirates who moved in the red glare. Blackbeard: Buccaneer They were looking at a cluster of white-washed cottages, with tall thatched roofs and with great stone chimneys: a lonely little hamlet drowsing in the sun. Drolls From Shadowland We made the passage stealthily; all the world seemed drowsing on that hazy Sunday afternoon. Explorers of the Dawn The child's head drooped, and he drowsed in her arms. The Uncalled A Novel He shook the drowsing man and roused him, and plied him with sips from a dipper of the unhallowed white corn whisky of a mountain still-house. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights This left them really in worse spirits than before, and they drowsed off to sleep, and no wonder, after such a night as they had passed. Blackbeard: Buccaneer Already I am drowsing; early then To-morrow I will come to you. Nero Just after the war, as if tired with its exertions to repel the invader, the old place had fallen asleep and was still drowsing. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories But in the late afternoon while she sat beside the bed and Sabrina drowsed, there was a clear whistle very near. Country Neighbors Will not one puff of that narcotic breath drowse deep all watching dragons, and make for him the sleeping beauties of his will? Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce In the small hours of the night, the twain drowsed upon their frail platform which floated as a speck on the shrouded ocean. Blackbeard: Buccaneer O Lydia, I am drowsing, and my hands Can scarcely wreathe the Emperor as Apollo. 2ND MAIDEN. Nero She was half drowsing when a brisk knock startled her into wakefulness. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Violet drowses in her hammock and dreams away the happy hours. Floyd Grandon's Honor The world and the friends that lived in it Are shadows: you alone remain Real in this drowsing room, Full of the whispers of distant rain And candles staring into the gloom. The Defeat of Youth and Other Poems One day the little frontier town of Pierre drowsed through a hot afternoon, and the broad plains lay tenantless, devoid of any sign that men had passed that way. Land of the Burnt Thigh He was a Portuguese, it seemed, of some little town on the coast of East Africa, where a land-locked bay drowsed below the windows of the houses under the day-long sun. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Through the slow, hot days it drowsed along like a lazy dog, only half rousing now and then to snap at some flying rumour, and relapsing at once into its pristine somnolence. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories To outer senses they are geese, Dull drowsing by a weedy pool; But try the impression trick. The Book of Humorous Verse She sat in her high-backed chair wrapped in furs listening to his reading aloud or appearing to, though she often drowsed off. A Little Girl in Old Quebec While we had drowsed through the lazy autumn days, advertising campaigns were shrieking to the people all over the country of the last frontier. Land of the Burnt Thigh Strong men grow through opposition—the plummet of feeling goes deeper, thought soars higher—vivid and stern personalities make enemies because they need them, otherwise they drowse. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Even Patsy Ann drowsed and finally dropped into the deep slumber of childhood. The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories He finished with a Villa Villa and a double Napoleon and sat back with folded arms, a pleasant smile and eyes that drowsed comfortably over the agreeable quiet of the café. Men of Affairs Brushy Creek gorge was no longer dark and cool, with its double sky-line of trees drowsing toward one another, like eyelashes, from the friendly cliffs. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic The wrinkled old farmer looked up from his drowse. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 For several minutes he lay in a delicious drowse, idly watching the old man as he hobbled deftly from stove to cupboard, and from cupboard to table. The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest Aunt Selina nodded cheerfully, and sat watching the little girl write until her eyelids drowsed slowly over her eyes. 24The first and most important letter was written to Ruth’s dear father and mother. The Blue Birds' Winter Nest All day long I would drowse under a tree which stood within a few yards of the hut door, with Indogozan or his companion waving a bough to keep off the flies. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer "See what?" sort of drowsed out the man at the wheel. The U-boat hunters Mary Carew drew the child,—drowsing in her arms,—to her quickly. The Angel of the Tenement Natheless my soul's bright passions interchange As the red flames in opal drowse and speak: In beautiful twilight paths the elusive strange Phantoms of personality I seek. The Hours of Fiammetta A Sonnet Sequence When her anguish became unbearable a double dose of it would enable her to drowse away the hours. And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses My life hung on a hair; so too did that of the watchman drowsing by the mast. The Pirate of Panama A Tale of the Fight for Buried Treasure The boat itself stirs only when I break This drowse of heat and solitude afloat To prove if what I see be bird or mote, Or learn if yet the shore woods be awake. Last Poems A lady was standing on the corner, lost in pleasant drowse. Pipefuls In the innermost room of all, on an ebony couch draped with sable curtains, the god of sleep lay drowsing. A Book of Myths Paints an Age of Gold Yon cloud with prophecies of linked ease— Lulling this Land, with hills drawn up like knees, To drowse beside her implements of war? Poems of To-Day: an Anthology At last, drowsing in the warmth of the sunlit land, the Ranger's eyes closed, opened, and shut again. Oh, You Tex! Then there were long, quiet evenings by the fire, when the Hermit studied and Pal drowsed beside him, one eye on the man, ready to respond to the least sign of attention. Followers of the Trail The long ridges of surf crumble about their knees and the sun and keen vital air lull them into a cheerful drowse of the faculties. Pipefuls His hives stood empty and silent, and no more did “the murmuring of innumerable bees” drowse the ears of the herds who watched their flocks cropping the red clover and the asphodel of the meadows. A Book of Myths Once they went through a bit of rolling pasture-land where the cattle drowsed, dim, misty bulks on either hand, and the steaming breath of a curious horse bathed her startled face. In the Border Country So suddenly did she appear that at first he did not move, believing himself still drowsing. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain The cold north-light of the studio showed that it was broad day when a tap at the door roused Cornelia from a thin drowse she had fallen into at dawn. The Coast of Bohemia After this he drowsed off again into a half torpor of sleep and exhaustion. Bloom of Cactus The stall's phlegmatic proprietor drowsed with the glass mouthpiece of his narghilly between his lips. An Old Meerschaum From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) My prolonged drowse half refreshed me, and the cold, wet air which blew up from the river through the window Brunow had opened fell freshly on my cheek. In Direst Peril The sunshine drew out the strong, life-giving odour of the pines, the ground was dry and warm, it should have been a pleasant place to drowse in and be happy. The Long Roll Several times he drowsed forward, and almost fell into the fire. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance All things drowsed, like a dog before the fire, relaxed but not asleep.... The Wind Bloweth The temperature is usually high, and the little patient when he drowses off to sleep is quite apt to become more or less delirious. Preventable Diseases Unceremoniously Stair Garland awaked Louis from his drowse in the cave's mouth. Patsy Eben Tollman stood declaiming on his hearth with his clenched hands stretched high above his head while his victims drowsed peacefully. The Tyranny of Weakness On this day I was drowsing on my bench when some one addressed me. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance It was a very adventurous thing to go up the glen while other boys were droning their Latin like a bagpipe being inflated, while the red-bearded schoolmaster drowsed like a dog. The Wind Bloweth During the nine days while the rebels lay on the burning lake, drowsed by its fumes, the World was created. Milton III Dwindling day and drowsing birds, O my child! A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry You, placed afar from each extreme, Nor dully drowse nor wildly dream, But, ever flowing with good-humour, Are bright as spring and warm as summer. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection For the moment, half drowsed still by his desire for sleep, Mark could not make out what it meant. The Black Bar As the cold intensified, the crickets ceased to cry, and the pony, having filled his stomach, turned tail to the wind and humped his back in drowse. The Eagle's Heart And then jest as I was gettin' into a drowse, I heered the cat in the buttery, and I got up to let her out. Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I A certain famous preacher when preaching one Sunday in the summer time observed that many among the congregation ware drowsing. Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers She half closed her eyes, half opened her lips, smiled and drowsed and waited. Little Novels of Italy More than once in the pleasant summer I stole out of bed when even the cow was still drowsing, and went barefoot through the dripping grass and stood at the gate, awaiting the morning. The Promised Land They arose slowly to sniff lazily at Mose's garments, and then returned to their drowse before the fire. The Eagle's Heart It was as if Dizful drowsed sullenly in that July blaze brewing something, like a geyser, and burst out with it at the end of the unendurable day. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Near the Dutchman stood Morgan's borrowed horse, drowsing in the sun with head down, its weight on three legs, one ear set in its inherited caution to catch the least alarm. Trail's End Safe at last there, she shivered and drowsed the night away; but waking or sleeping she did not cease her dreary moan. Little Novels of Italy We are interested in bad men, in courageous men, in poor men and rich men, but good men—our interest lags here, nods, drowses, goes to sleep. Sermons on Biblical Characters We must not drowse and brood in our own sombre corner, when life is flowing free and full outside, as in some flashing river. Joyous Gard Then he remembered that voice of the drowsing city, bursting out with the pent-up brew of the day. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Wrapping my blanket about me, half propped by a bale of stuff and breathing deep of the clear air with frequent resinous whiffs from the forest I drowsed off. Lords of the North A flock of white ducks lay drowsing on a grassy spot. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Towards morning they drowsed a little, but at their time of life the loss of a night's sleep means nothing, and they rose as glad as they had lain down. The Story of a Play A Novel What would be the joy of heaven to a soul full of energy and love, condemned to such luxurious apathy, forced to drowse through the ages in epicurean ease? Joyous Gard Again the lids closed, and he fell into a light drowse, during which Florence Howard flitted before him in countless variety of forms. Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems Then I would lose grip of the pole and come to myself clutching at it with wild terror; and again the drowse of life's borderland would overpower me. Lords of the North At last I drowsed, waking now and then to raise my head and just glance down at those waves—they certainly sounded as if they were lapping the sand close by my ear. More Jonathan Papers There followed a silence which drowsed and buzzed to eternity, and during which Mr. Morrissy's curled moustaches straightened and grew limp and drooped. Here are Ladies And this time even Chrome was convinced, and the next instant guards and pickets, sleeping troopers, and drowsing steeds all came staggering to their feet, roused by the shrill blast from Cranston's trumpet sounding "Forward!" Under Fire The Earls of Leicester drowse in their own kitchens, or spread whole slices of bread on their broad, aristocratic palms. Journeys to Bagdad The big fellow drowsed in the firelight, his four paws stretched evenly toward the man. Son of Power What with the food and the warmth the little Italians soon grew so sleepy that they drowsed off before our eyes. A Busy Year at the Old Squire's Here and there, in spaces enclosed by hurdles, sheep browsed or drowsed, still faintly a-blush from recent shearing. The Lady Paramount They mounted and rode up the hill, looking for breaks in the fences and counting the colts, some of whom, luxuriously lazy in the heat of the sun, stood with lowered heads, drowsing. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail His eyes, long, narrow and the color of pale smoke, drowsed beneath brows that met above his nose. Where the Sun Swings North Miellyn had finished her brief recitation and was drowsing, her head pillowed on the table. The Door Through Space She had enjoyed herself quite genuinely, and with her quick social perceptions had gathered a great deal from the visit, much of which she imparted to her drowsing husband on the train. One Woman's Life I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud rack. A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson If the settlement had drowsed, now its inhabitants were busy. Key Out of Time In the edge of the first timber they pulled up and looked backward at the cabin drowsing silently under its sentinel tree. North of Fifty-Three On the gray moss of the square, a few dried-looking old men, their faces as faded as their shirtcloaks and bearing the knife scars of a hundred forgotten fights, drowsed on the stone benches. The Door Through Space Two men sat drowsing before the fire, their boot-heels among the embers, a black jack between them. The Long Night There was no drowse in her wakefulness now. The Forfeit He seemed to be drowsed with drink, and was fearfully emaciated. The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont The low song ceased gradually, softly, as a mother ceases her crooning lullaby, lest the very lack of the love-notes stir the drowsing baby brain to sudden waking. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier So low and trembling was the call that Isa, drowsing luxuriously as she rocked to and fro, took no heed. Joyce of the North Woods Was he not drowsing over his eyepiece in the meridian-circle room? The Man Who Rocked the Earth Presently the drowse of utter weariness descended upon her. The Forfeit He only approached a strange dreamy state in which he ate and drowsed, not caring for the world beyond his own bunk. The Time Traders The drone of insect voices rose in a sleepy chorus and the men drowsed in the wagons. The Emigrant Trail A brain surcharged with fires of hatred, drowsed with filthy drugs, and drenched with drunkenness, will teem, on the contrary, with vermin writhing in the meshes of decaying matter. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Behind his cage the night clerk was drowsing. Steve Yeager I was just drowsing again when I heard some one yelling excitedly outside. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club A soft mist rounded off all the bogland, holding in a drowse the sunbeams that steeped it, and letting them waken to their full golden glory at the very heart of noon. Strangers at Lisconnel He had noticed that heat and mosquitoes would distract her attention from the hazy distances drowsing in the clear yellow of noon. The Emigrant Trail The two rogues did not know that he was drowsing inside his snug home, because he had been out late the night before. The Tale of Dickie Deer Mouse I’m in just the mood to drowse off now, and I don’t want to get roused up.” Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery Bud Lee for a moment lost sight of the rows of rude shanties, the drowsing saddle-ponies, the street-lamps, and saw only the vision of a girl. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch Caleb Hunter had been drowsing contentedly since early afternoon, his chin on his chest and the bowl of his pipe drooping down over his comfortably bulging, unbuttoned waistcoat. Then I'll Come Back to You The afternoon was hot and the camp drowsed. The Emigrant Trail Despite his efforts Dane did drowse again before morning, waking unrefreshed, and, to his secret dismay, with no lessening of his odd dislike for the country about them. Voodoo Planet Then, left alone, he gradually yielded to the sedative effect of dinner and drink and fell into a drowse. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett As he spoke the parson rose to his feet and stood with the two drowsing babies in his arms, looking down at me as I stood with his cup of tea in my hand. The Heart's Kingdom In spring the clouds and the light hold races up their flanks; in summer they seem to drowse like weary monsters in the still and fervent heat. Lore of Proserpine So, quite worn out at last with all this unwonted excitement, he drowsed off to sleep for as long as ten minutes and dreamed that he was a—bigamist. Molly Make-Believe I could neither write nor read, and spent much of my time in the open air, and more in drowsing in misery over an unread book. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother The householder at times emits a sleepy grunt of approval, relapses apparently into a drowse, and after several hours, rolls into his mat and feigns sleep. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir Then the talk ran unbrokenly on for a while, and again dropped into laughs that recognized the drowse creeping upon the talkers. A Pair of Patient Lovers Five minutes later he was drowsing stertorously on a lounge. The President A novel At the stern he found a much larger company, most of whom had furnished themselves with novels and magazines from the stock on board and were drowsing over them. A Chance Acquaintance Again the paddles were shipped, save those of the steersmen; and the crews lounged about, either smoking or drowsing. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure The man opened his drowsing eyes and yawned expansively. The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches "A red rose," scoffed Peggy; and she felt herself drowsing in the mother arms. Old Kaskaskia Every fine day brings them out as regularly as the worms rise after rain; they sit there all day long in the sky, each one apparently drowsing over his own stretch of country. Letters from France Most of them are hanging by their hind legs and nibbling the pine-needles; they seem to be gently drowsing with the needles at their mouths. Social Life in the Insect World The class he visited was drowsing through one of the less colorful sections of "Gone With The Wind." Null-ABC Seek you where the woods are cool, Would you know the shady pool Where, throughout the lazy day, Speckled beauties drowse or play? The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar He smelled the fragrance of wild honeysuckle, the sharp, sweet smells blown out of the forest that drowsed in the summer heat. The Hidden Places He did not walk in a daze as the old man rode, half numbness, half drowse. The Freebooters of the Wilderness While the General drowsed she had put the collar safely away behind the Chinese scroll. The Tin Soldier Not once, as the hours slipped by, did he drowse; not for an instant was he off his guard. Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman The day is one to drowse and dream And list the thrush's throttling note. The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar One of the four quadrupeds drowsing under the brush shelter languidly turned an inquiring eye and interrogative ear in his direction, and conveyed, after the manner of the mule, a suggestion as to supper. Foes in Ambush It was consciousness, delirious foolish consciousness, possible only to youth; and the consciousness slipped into a drowse between sleeping and waking. The Freebooters of the Wilderness The courtesan's lazy, luxurious instinct drowsed within her soul, and her whole body responded to this perfumed warmth, to this atmosphere of riches created by the man before her in the core of desolation. Bella Donna A Novel He drowsed, garrulous, with the blackened end of his cigarette hanging from his lower lip, swayed sideways—and let himself go over gently, pillowing his head on the stump of his arm. Romance Then rang the bells as fled the night O'er dreaming land and drowsing deep, And coming with the morning light, They called, my child, to you asleep. Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse The plash of the waters in the brook, dancing and tumbling down the chasm, made sweet, drowsing music for his ears, a lulling, soothing sound that explained perhaps the deep slumber of his trooper friend. Foes in Ambush There was the drowsy swash of saddle leather and the padded chug of dragging feet and the hum, the hypnotic hum, of the heat that drowsed from delirium to sleep. The Freebooters of the Wilderness It can call to the imagination that lies drowsing, yet full of life, far down in the secret recesses of the soul. Bella Donna A Novel The overheated little town of gray stones and red tiles was drowsing away its provincial afternoon under a blue sky. The Point Of Honor A Military Tale Then, after all had had their fill, On their own ship they deeply drowsed, And slept away the time until, By Spidala disturbed, they roused.- Bearslayer A free translation from the unrhymed Latvian into English heroic verse I heard this fellow, Beasley, talk while lying drowsing on the bed, and not trying particularly to understand his words. The Blood Ship There's a fellow asleep, the lout! in the shade of the hillock yonder; What a dog it must be to drowse in the midst of a time like this! Successful Recitations The Living Skeleton, who had been drowsing on his chair, beat the flies off and groaned. The Missing Link The leaves wherein true wisdom lies On living trees the sun are drinking; Those white clouds, drowsing through the skies, Grew not so beautiful by thinking. The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations The teller was visible in the cage, where now he appeared very busy though he had undoubtedly been drowsing when they entered. The Iron Furrow I wasn't trying to listen; I was drowsing, and paying very little attention. The Blood Ship Young Love lies dreaming Till summer days are gone,— Dreaming and drowsing Away to perfect sleep: He sees the beauty Sun hath not looked upon, And tastes the fountain Unutterably deep. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems Nickie sat with his back to the wall of his compartment, sweltering in the hot garb of the Missing Link, drowsing and day-dreaming of beer. The Missing Link While Queex still drowsed in its cage, Weeks went to work with fine cord. Plague Ship How should he save her—save her from herself, clear the mist from her eyes, arouse her drowsing soul? The Iron Furrow The sun was keen, and the day was still; The township drowsed in, a haze of heat. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Young Love lies drowsing Away to poppied death; 50 Cool shadows deepen Across the sleeping face: So fails the summer With warm, delicious breath; And what hath autumn To give us in its place? Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems Siegfried comes, and, after commenting upon the drowsing steed, draws nearer still. Stories of the Wagner Opera Down the liquid stream of lingual melody the dirge drifts dying—dying it echoes back into a ghostly after-life, as the yet throbbing sense wakes the drowsed mind once more. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar The cat is as remote as if he were drowsing by the waters of the Nile. Americans and Others Of soldiers resting by the road, Who smoked and drowsed, a muddy rout, One sprang alert, and forward strode, With eager eyes to seek us out. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse In the shadows of the city her porters drowsed, and from the continuous wall of houses blankly facing one another from either side of the streets, there came no sound. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt When at last he was quietly drowsing the doctor called Maud aside to give her instructions. Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross Fold on fold Pale laces drape her; and a frail perfume, As of a moonlit primrose brimmed with rain, Breathes from her presence, drowsing heart and brain. Myth and Romance Being a Book of Verses Pete, drowsing in the sun, occasionally glanced up at the flock. The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Only one sailor in the bow was left on watch, but he, too, drowsed, to wake up with a start, when finding all well, he dropped off to sleep again. The Princess Pocahontas The watcher drowsed, the lamp flickered, tossing her shadow about the walls as if she, too, were turning feverishly from side to side. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes We had been dreaming and drowsing away the morning, Königin, Kitty and I, in the jelly-fish-like state into which one naturally falls in Florida. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 But the fire soon dies, the inspiration flags, "no man can be always on the heights," and the unhappy reader drowses in the company of his guide. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01 Unaccustomed to riding he grew weary and, despite the storm, he drowsed, to awaken with a start as gusts of wind swept against his face. Sundown Slim His sleep was the drowse of incapacity, not the wholesome respite of elastic faculties. Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia Though he did not know it, he had drowsed the whole day through and only just awakened to call for his ukulele and light a cigarette at Polly's hand. The Turtles of Tasman Well," explained Philip comfortably, "Ras was drowsing by Sherrill's on a load of hay and I bought the cart and the hay and the horses and Ras at a bargain and set out. Diane of the Green Van Nearer by were fields and corners of pasture land, with here and there the formless shapes of drowsing cows. A Man's Woman In his spare time he built a lean-to of odds and ends, and beneath it Chance drowsed away the long, sunny hours while Sundown was rustling firewood or holding hot argument with an obstreperous dutch-oven. Sundown Slim Languidly she curled up upon the sofa and pillowed her heavy head on the scented silk, and so, drowsing with fitful dreams, she lost the sense of the lagging hours. The Palace of Darkened Windows He said it often, and often he drowsed in the big smooth-running machine. The Turtles of Tasman He flung himself into a chair by the stove and drowsing after a while in a reactive sweep of exhaustion, awakened with a terrified jerk. Kenny Once or twice the lad drowsed, and she stopped for a bit of a rest, until his insistent, "Sing more!" roused her from a momentary dream. Polly of the Hospital Staff "Queer; I don't care a hoot," he told himself, watching with lazy eyes the smoke from his pipe drift blue between himself and the valley drowsing in the heat. The Vehement Flame In consequence, towns like Appleboro take on the venerable aspect of antiquity, peacefully drowsing among immemorial oaks draped with long, gray, melancholy moss. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man And Captain Tom regretted the temporary indisposition that prevented immediate departure with them, and continued to sit and drowse more and more in the big chair. The Turtles of Tasman On the homeward passage a little drowse fell upon the two charter members. Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Overcome by fatigue, he had nodded, drowsed, and finally slumbered. Best Short Stories By and by, through sheer fatigue, she did drowse, and when the wheels of Maurice's cab grated against the curb, she was asleep. The Vehement Flame The garden was very still, steeped and drowsing in the bright clear sunlight; only the bees were busy there, calling from flower-door to flower-door, and sometimes a vireo's sweet whistle fluted through the leaves. Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man My boyhood should have been over; in body I had shot up to a great awkward height; but for the while the man within me drowsed and hung fire. Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Now in the ungirt hour—now ere we blink and drowse, Mithras, also a soldier, keep us true to our vows! Songs from Books The hills that bordered the moor drowsed and brooded, like ancient gods, clothed in a lordly radiance that was slowly consuming them as they meditated upon their coming oblivion. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner The watchman missed him and found him asleep in the chapel in one of the seats, with the parrot drowsing on the altar. Love Stories
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