| 单词 | slumberous |
| 例句 | Berners-Lee and Clark are clear-eyed, for instance, on the reasons for our slumberous lack of response, such as sabotage perpetrated by energy companies. Summer books 2013-07-11T15:50:23.720Z The warmth of September held through that November, brooding, slumberous, quiet in the sunshine that warmed like wine. A Pilgrim Maid A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 2012-04-02T02:00:24.090Z A slumberous cloud partially shrouded its dark heights. Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories 2012-03-28T02:00:24.407Z When it remained unmoved he went to the river-bank on the right, and breaking off some clods of earth, flung them at the slumberous creature, which completely blocked the way. Settlers and Scouts 2012-03-17T02:01:06.297Z One hot, slumberous morning in August I found myself in the town of Wells. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Embarking on the slumberous stream, we follow the course of Hawthorne's boat to many a scene made familiar by that dreamful romancer and by the poets and philosophers of Concord. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Her spirit, lulled by a slumberous sweetness, was sentimentally inclined. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z Long-legged natives wrapped in rough black blankets strode towards their tasks on the land, their brains still slumberous and their bodies still inert with sleep. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z He is a painter of sunshine, not as it idly falls on the slumberous streets of the Andalusian cities, but turbulent with the surging of the spirit, welling up and pressing on. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z Still as the silver cord gets worn and slender, Its lightened task-work tugs with lessening strain, Hands get more helpful, voices grown more tender, Soothe with their softened tones the slumberous brain. Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes 2011-11-01T02:00:25.563Z “Was nought around save images of rest, Sleep-soothing groves, and quiet lawns between, And flowery beds, that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed, and beds of pleasant green.” The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan 2011-10-11T02:01:13.517Z It still held its old childhood mystery of a vague oblivion between day and day, an unusual space of time peopled by slumberous dreams in the gloom of a warm, familiar bed. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z Alderbury passed out of their little world as suddenly as he came in, leaving them slumberous and quiescent. The Outcaste 2011-12-12T03:00:25.380Z Still moods and slumberous fanned on To dreams that rock to sleep, Unmerciful abandon, That haunts or makes one weep. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Hereabout, or in near counties, where he has parochial duties, he vegetates slumberously, for twenty years or more. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z How slumberous it is even in the morning! Greene Ferne Farm 2011-08-14T02:00:22.210Z Nothing of the kind: its annual fair is not nearly so important an event to the village mind as that of an old-world slumberous place removed from the current of civilisation. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z The woman's slumberous eyes only smiled the more deeply. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z The sun stealing through the eastern woods was slowly irradiating the sombre slumberous landscape. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z Wave thy wand of slumberous power, Moistened in Lethean dews, To charm the busy spirits of the hour, And brighten memory's malignant hues. Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness 2011-06-02T02:00:19.953Z Death is an angel whose magnetic palms Bring dreams of ecstasy and slumberous calms To smooth the beds of naked men and poor. The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker 2011-06-01T02:00:22.477Z Night is worn, And the morn Rises from the slumberous mass. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Despite the slumberous sunshine here, all the world was not so quiet. The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains 2011-03-22T02:00:18.637Z There is no noise less clean and harmless than that of the south wind delicately wagging the heads of the slumberous flowers. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z The heavy slumberous air has an effect upon Harry; his breath comes slowly, his veins tingle. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z The glow of the tropic sun lighted up the slumberous main spread out in azure vastness before me. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z It was slumberously stuffy, but comfortingly full of flavours of tobacco and food. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Only a cruiser off shore firing lazily at long intervals disturbed the slumberous stillness. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z Will not the slumberous apathy in which the Dark Continent broods away its æons surely fall upon the people that drink its blood into their own veins? The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The slumberous atmosphere of the bazaar, the mingled odors of fruit, fish and cologne, held no portent of the thunderbolt that very shortly was to jar Muhafiz Ali out of his peaceful sphere. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z There was only a faint rustle among the young leaves of the willows that sounded like slumberous breathing through half-closed lips; and a gentle splashing came up from the invisible river. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers As he progressed, the leaping rill grew to a gurgling brook, widened to a splashing stream, hurrying over pebbly bed until it deepened to a slumberous pool spanned by a rustic bridge. Our Admirable Betty A Romance He was clever enough, well read, kind, but he lacked magnetism; he had nothing of the slumberous fire which distinguished Farwell. A Bed of Roses Scarce a sound can be heard, save the distant lowing of cattle, and the drowsy drone of a slumberous bee as it floats idly by. Faith and Unfaith There was something slumberous and torpid in the scene. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Later still the breeze had died away, and slowly the bosom of the lake grew quiet, as though even the waters had drifted into slumberous repose. A Modern Wizard Suzanne looked up at him, and her brown eyes, usually so merry, were deeply slumberous, not with sleep, but with a look of utter abandon. The Medici Boots Sometimes I suspect that public pronouncements and suffrage manifestoes have had very much less to do with modern upheavals than these slumberous protests against the multiplicity of errands and the intricacies of the kitchen range. The Intelligence of Woman It promised to be a day of slumberous heat, for the haze lay long in the hollows, hesitating to disappear, and there was the brooding of thunder in the air. The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway All around him there was "A slumberous sound, a sound that brings The feeling of a dream, As when a bell no longer swings, Faint the hollow echo rings O'er meadow, lake, and stream." Little Frida A Tale of the Black Forest It spread in its wide, gradual, downward slope, bathed in the yellow sunshine of the new, mellow season, peacefully slumberous, infinitely beautiful. The Coming of the Law There is a strange and sweet hush in the air—a stillness full of life—but slumberous life. Rossmoyne At the feet of these slumberous old pines we find many of our last summer's friends looking as good as new. The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings The shrill notes pealed far among the slumberous dunes. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters And Cynthia's dark brown eyes, fixed upon the leafy vista of the road, were as slumberous as the noontide sunshine. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories You see only a collection of little legs, as if the hen were a banyan-tree, and presently even they disappear, she settles down comfortably, and all are wrapped in a slumberous silence. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 The street was empty, and right over it hung the setting moon, accurately round, yellow as an apricot, but slumberous, with an effect of afternoon you would not believe if you had not seen it. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature which now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke. Lords of the Housetops Thirteen Cat Tales Now a quick flash leaped into her slumberous eyes, only to die out almost immediately, hidden under that softer gleam which had so much humor in it. The Law-Breakers She did not answer; but he knew without looking that she had fixed those slumberous brown eyes upon him, waiting for him to go on. The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain and Other Stories Here Lady Hope lifted her slumberous eyelids, and was introduced. The Old Countess; or, The Two Proposals She had awaked at last out of her slumberous stupor, sorry to see the light and know that it was day again. Diana The quiet August noon has come; A slumberous silence fills the sky, The fields are still, the woods are dumb, In glassy sleep the waters lie. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition The slumberous pup was on its feet standing alertly defiant. The Law-Breakers His blue eyes had a slumberous warmth in them; when he smiled they half closed and looked down on you caressingly, and their expression proved no bar to favor with the opposite sex. The Bondwoman The village was taking her back into its slumberous comfortableness. In a Little Town To the intoxication of all this surrounding beauty they gave themselves up, and wandered, and scrambled, and raced, and chased one another about the slumberous town. Among the Brigands She was at this time a nuisance on the face of the earth, with her spasmodic passion and her slumberous torment. The Rainbow All night she watched the changing shores, silvery green or dark with slumberous shadow, and followed the moon in its tranquil journey through the sky. Moods The days of peace and slumberous calm are fled. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature We rolled down from the plateau into that wizard basin lying all beautiful and slumberous and spell-locked like some land of heart’s desire. Desert Dust The yellow hair, the slumberous eyes, the full throat clasped about with a single strand of coral. Shapes that Haunt the Dusk But the pine forest, dark, spacious, slumberous, musical! The Foot-path Way Many disquieting thoughts oppressed Miss Sheila Langford as she halted her pony on the crest of a slight rise and swept the desolate and slumberous world with an anxious glance. The Trail to Yesterday At nightfall the village and its surrounding meadows soon become slumberous. The Cornwall Coast A man might still ride errant into those slumberous spaces and discover for himself; might boldly awaken the realm and rule with a princess by his side. Desert Dust As the glass door closed behind Dorian, Lord Henry turned and looked at the Duchess with his slumberous eyes. The Picture of Dorian Gray Peace brooded over the valley, a slumberous and placid drowsiness. The Fighting Edge She kept her gaze averted, and Duncan could not see her eyes—they were turned toward the slumberous plains that stretched away into the distance on the other side of the river. The Trail to Yesterday A delicious slumberous quiet reigned over all the scene. Vixen, Volume II. There was a nice pair of dark brown eyes, rather slumberous looking, a nose a trifle too short for perfection and a mouth a shade too wide. Left Guard Gilbert In the slumberous fire-light the parson and the itinerant preacher talked together of the dust and noise in the great world outside these sleepy mountains. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time It awoke the small German town from its habitual slumberous dullness, and a letter caused its recipient to be regarded as a person of consequence. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg The chill of the mountains contrasted sharply with the slumberous luxuriance and color of the plains. The Trail to Yesterday The whole place had the same slumberous out-of-season look she remembered so well of old in the days when hunting was over. Vixen, Volume II. The name of "Drake" twice repeated acted as a talisman on the slumberous senses of the sentinel. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea In the vicarage the slumberous fire was smoldering down. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Then the glens, such fairy spots, deep, solemn, musical with the slumberous waters, clad in dark mosses, brightened by the red fuchsia. The Little Manx Nation - 1891 The king, excited beyond measure, easily withstood the slumberous heaviness which the rest could scarce sustain. Wood Magic A Fable And he turned away, striding swiftly over the short burnt August grass in the direction of the Murewell woods, which rose in a blue haze of heat against the slumberous afternoon sky. Robert Elsmere As at first He put aside “the slumberous potion bland” and willed “to feel all, that He might pity all,” so, now His task is over, He craves, and accepts, alleviation of His bodily pain. Gloria Crucis addresses delivered in Lichfield Cathedral Holy Week and Good Friday, 1907 His low-crowned hat was drawn deep over his slumberous gray eyes. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Wooed by the slumberous music of the fall, sleep once more closed the dreamer's heavy eyes. Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada Sometimes I steal away from the pleadings of the saxophone, leaving even Stella O'Cleave with the slumberous eyes sitting alone at the log rail of Old Faithful Inn. Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone Uncheered by further copper showers, it droned again slumberously, while the murmur sent forth by the thousand activities of the great city waxed loud, for the moment, and hoarsely insistent. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The voice tailed away into a deep, slumberous groan. Men of Affairs In the slumberous atmosphere the bees droned, and the hot air quivered some feet above the long, lush grass. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time He almost pities them, as he thinks of the revelation that is about to dawn upon unsuspecting and slumberous minds. The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly I always feel a sense of Oriental luxury, as though I had bought a new rug, when Stella turns on me the slumberous midnight of her eyes. Maw's Vacation The Story of a Human Being in the Yellowstone A barrel-organ droned slumberously from the other side of the square, while to his ears, so long attuned to country silences or the quick, intermittent music of nature, the ceaseless roar of London became burdensome. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The curtains of white muslin fell in long, slumberous folds down to the floor, their fringes resting lifelessly on the carpet. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel Lace curtains sweep the floor with a slumberous sound when the sea breeze breathes in. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy I remembered him on a brighter trip in summer-time when I was a good deal younger and took the languors of the voyage less slumberously. Cinderella in the South Twenty-Five South African Tales This is the land of Shadows, of Sleep, and slumberous Night; no living body may the Stygian hull convey. The Aeneid of Virgil For they were very fair to look on, with jewel-bound hair and slumberous eyes, lithe as snakes, with bare shoulders and dress of strange clinging stuffs. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain In the morning the young doctor found his patient in the same feeble, slumberous state. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel It was one o'clock—noon of the slumberous hours. Despair's Last Journey I can see her now in profile against the open window, her eyes dark with their slumberous fires. Possessed Lo! the god shakes over either temple a bough dripping with Lethean dew and made slumberous with the might of Styx, and makes his swimming eyes relax their struggles. The Aeneid of Virgil She thought of many things—things which might have been sad, but for the slumberous peace that took away all pain. Olive A Novel “Good child—blessed child!” murmured she, closing her eyes beneath the slumberous weight of the anodyne, and sinking into a deep sleep. Helen and Arthur or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel The chestnuts sung and sighed, The solemn oaks replied, And distant pine-trees crooned in slumberous tones; While music low and clear Gushed from the darkness near, Where a shy brook went tinkling over stones. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 As Harlequin had smote the slumberous heap, And bade the rubbish to a fabric leap. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 Perhaps the sun itself remained pagan, but if so it only lent contrast to the slumberous restfulness where the shadows fell. The Tyranny of Weakness There was another pause, and the two pairs of eyes sought each other, and the heavy-lidded, slumberous eyes of Boris flickered and faltered beneath those of Paul. High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn In all this there is soothingness, indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. The Principles of English Versification The leafy sides of Tenedos had caught up the clear, green-tinted blue of the sea, and wore it in a noonday dream under the slumberous light that rested on earth and sea and sky. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 And surely he who thus spoke could not have conceived that a millennium-long parenthesis of slumberous unconsciousness was to intervene between the moment of his decease and the moment of his fellowship with Jesus. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. There is a slumberous Southern fire in the Mexican girls' eyes and love. Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development In thin curlings, the gray smoke floated upwards and lay slumberously among the fleecy clouds. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author How many that walk this verdant earth would fain lie locked in her slumberous arms forever! Eventide A Series of Tales and Poems It was slumberously stuffy, but comfortingly full of flavors of tobacco and food. The Literary World Seventh Reader Husband," said the lady with the slumberous eyelids, "go out with the pitcher and get us half a gallon of ale. Bohemian Days Three American Tales It was the Jewish opinion that the departed souls of men, on account of sin, were confined beneath the earth in Satan's and death's dark and slumberous cavern of shadows. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The murmur of the river came to them on the one hand, and the silence of the pine woods, on the other, lent a slumberous atmosphere to the whole place. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon Presently the door was flung open and Harrison stood blinking in the doorway, heavy-eyed and slumberous. Steve Yeager He would not permit his watchful nature to be beguiled into slumberous acceptance of conditions as presented through the mouth of this woman. The Substitute Prisoner The undefinable expression of the lips, together with the weight of the brows and slumberous half-closed eyes, gives a look of sulkiness or voluptuousness to the whole face. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The Hebrew Sheol or underworld, the common abode of the dead, is depicted in the Old Testament as a vast, slumberous, shadowy, subterranean realm, gloomy and silent. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life Sometimes a baby would send up a little wail of fatigue; but generally the slumberous air soothed and quieted them into sleep. By Berwen Banks But is this sweet, slumberous, half-melancholy day any nearer perfect than that day when "Announced by all the trumpets of the sky Arrives the snow"-- or the blizzard? The Hills of Hingham In no grassy mead was there a nook where I could stretch myself in slumberous ease and watch the swallows ever wheeling, wheeling in the sky. Nature Near London Nor Massic herbs, nor slumberous charms avail To cure the wound, that rankles in his heart. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor The borders of that country are slumberous and wide; And they are well who marry the fondlers of the tide. Ballads of Lost Haven A Book of the Sea How long he had intended to pursue his slumberous meditations it is impossible to say. Russian Rambles MY boat is still in the reedy cove Where the rushes hinder its onward course, For I care not now if we rest or move O'er the slumberous tide to the river's source. Poems Invisible in the brilliant beams above, vast legions of insects crowd the sky, but the product of their restless motion is a slumberous hum. Nature Near London A slumberous bough the god revealed to view, Thrice dipt in Styx, and drenched with Lethe's dew. The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor It was a very Lethe of a river, running oilily and with a slumberous sound, and its reputation for crocodiles was vile. The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Children are wilted into silence and slumberous nonentity; boys do not bathe to-day—they welter, hour after hour, in the dark water near the shaded rock. Gifts of Genius A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors Facts are the poorest and most slumberous evidences of passion or of affection. Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons I lay, and ever as my lids would close In dull forgetfulness to slumberous doze, Lone sounds of phantom tolling scared repose; Till wearied nature, sore oppressed, Slowly sank and dropped to rest. My Beautiful Lady. Nelly Dale Once a noisy, throbbing steamer, instinct with life and purpose, dashed by tumultuously, churning the still water with impatient wheels, and rupturing the slumberous air with its discordant whistle. Princess But these visitations were so infrequent as to create no disturbance in the dull, slumberous routine of Willets' citizens. The Trail Horde Back of the innocence lay some hint of slumberous passion. The Big-Town Round-Up But Mr. Molloy claims for Amboise something rarer in France than loveliness or romance, something which no French town has ever yet been known to possess,—a slumberous and soul-satisfying silence. Americans and Others Through the slumberous summer air came the whir of the machine. The Odds And Other Stories The quiet August noon has come, A slumberous silence fills the sky, The fields are still, the woods are dumb, In glassy sleep the waters lie. Poems In the slumberous old city of Williamsburg, three miles from Jamestown, stands the Bruton parish church, two hundred and two years old, and still the home of a parish of sixty communicants. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. "Fair name for a very foul thing, Mr. Flowers," repeated Ravenslee, glancing up at him from under slumberous, drooping lids—"anyway, Flowers you will remain!" The Definite Object A Romance of New York Lo, what wonders the day hath brought, Born of the soft and slumberous snow! The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 Was nought around but images of rest: Sleep-soothing groves and quiet lawns between; And flowery beds that slumberous influence kest, From poppies breathed; and beds of pleasant green, Where never yet was creeping creatures seen. A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century The daily greeting had been exchanged and the proud grey beast had marched away to the music of a slumberous purr. When William Came After a heavy spell of work, a seaman smokes for a few minutes before the slumberous lethargy creeps round his limbs, and he is all the better for the harmless narcotic. A Dream of the North Sea Miss Grimston, half lowering her eyes, looked at her visitor with slumberous suspension of expression, and made no reply. The Inner Shrine Yet endure unscathed Of changeful cycles the great Pyramids Broad-based amid the fleeting sands, and sloped Into the slumberous summer noon; but where, Mysterious Egypt, are thine obelisks Graven with gorgeous emblems undiscerned? The Suppressed Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson His face, with its eager eyes sometimes shining like the high lights in a deep pool or suddenly grown slumberous with dreams, began to proclaim him a Leighton of the Leightons. Through stained glass Another hour, and at last Felix, awakening from his slumberous condition, looked round and saw nothing but the waves. After London Or, Wild England Before the fortress, slumberous also, couched the long, low fortification of stone and earthwork commanding in its turn the road through the tunal. Sir Mortimer A dreamy, slumberous place, where the sedges slept, and the green flags bowed their pointed heads. The Amateur Poacher The tea-roses on the huge bush, faint in the heat, dropped slumberously from their stems. A Love Episode A long sea of gold seemed to slope away ever so gently, up and up, until it lost itself beneath the slumberous mass of clouds that curtained its farther shore. Through stained glass A dull, muffled sound, vast and mysterious, rose slumberously. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 In good truth, it is a wearied man, at least a dreadfully slothful and slumberous man, eager for sleep in any quantity, that now addresses you! The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. The house was very quiet, and through the curtained window there came to her the soft, slumberous splash of the waves. Greatheart A short-sighted clergyman of what is known as the "old school" was preaching one winter afternoon to a slumberous congregation. The Parish Clerk Sleepless, I see the slumberous boors Their blurred eyes blink, their eyelids fall: Thought's eager sight Aches—overbright! John Marr and Other Poems There was the wholly patriotic but slumberous, and for fighting purposes quite inefficient Congress still to be waked up and kept awake, and to be instructed. George Washington, Volume I With gentle words, in some sweet slumberous measure, Such as lone poet on some shady steep Sings to the silence in his noonday leisure. Yesterdays with Authors It was a slumberous afternoon, making for drowsiness. The Way of an Eagle Certainly the shade of the beech trees was infinitely preferable to the glare of the dusty roads, and the slumberous atmosphere made her feel undeniably languorous. The Knave of Diamonds The black panther's look, on its rare day of slumberous indifference when it condescends to come to the front of the cage, grew in her eyes, but the slightest touch could make her snarl. The Reason Why When we reached the rim the sunrise was just flushing the purple basin, flooding with exquisite gold and rose light the slumberous shadows. Tales of lonely trails Men with votes and influence compared this squire in their minds with other squires, whose lives seemed spent in a slumberous donothingness. Hodge and His Masters Half hidden in the green of fir and oak and maple, slumberous with midsummer heat, it lay when he left it. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 The Wilbur twin stared and speculated upon and mildly enjoyed this display, until a species of hypnotism overtook him, a mercifully deadening inertia that made him slumberous and almost happy. The Wrong Twin And then, from sorrow her expression changed to one of strange slumberous resentment at fate. The Reason Why She comes here to Washington, at precisely the time of our final compromise, when all is peaceful, even slumberous,—and she preaches the crusade of fire and sword. The Purchase Price That slumberous acquiescence, taken from all her Arab mothers, began to touch his nerves with the old uneasiness. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 From bath like this comes no unmanly kief, no sensuous, slumberous, dreamy indifference, but a nervous, intent, keen, joyous activity. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 And his slumberous propensities would not seem to be referable to the fatigue of carrying the bundle, for she carries it much oftener and further than he. The Uncommercial Traveller Her dress was pale gray to-night—with her uncle's pearls—and both Lady Anningford and Tristram noticed that her eyes were slumberous and had in them that smoldering fierceness of pain. The Reason Why I too felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat. Walden As the glass door closed behind Dorian, Lord Henry turned and looked at the duchess with his slumberous eyes. The Picture of Dorian Gray Darkness was about us now, and silence: a perfumed, slumberous darkness—a silence full of mystery. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu I stepped out of the door into the slumberous heat of the late afternoon, and walking past the main entrance—locked again, I noticed—turned the corner of the wall. The Island of Doctor Moreau And clasping him thus, she sighed over him and wept, though very silently, and stooped her lips to him to kiss his brow, his slumberous eyes, and, last of all, his mouth. The Amateur Gentleman He left, grumbling, and the staccato commands of the military evolutions on the Common rang through the slumberous afternoon. Java Head Yet when one faint, odd sound broke the slumberous silence of the salons, instantly he swung around and stood erect in a single movement, gaze to the curtains. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Beyond where the Thames tided slumberously seaward showed the roofs of Royal Windsor, the castle towers showing through the autumn haze. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The reader must not, from any testimony of mine, contract a dislike towards our slumberous stream. The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Not a sound reached him save the slumberous murmur that the River made lapping lazily against the piles, and Barnabas sighed and closed his eyes again. The Amateur Gentleman Heaven knows what charm he found in the shady slumberous old street, the low stone market-place, with rusty iron gates surmounted by the Jocelyn escutcheon. Henry Dunbar A Novel And he turned away, striding swiftly over the short burnt August grass, in the direction of the Murewell woods, which rose in a blue haze of heat against the slumberous afternoon sky. Robert Elsmere There, was the moon, there, was also the light from the gas-lamps in the deserted slumberous street. Pausanias, the Spartan The Haunted and the Haunters, an Unfinished Historical Romance In all this there is soothingness indeed, but no slumberous monotony; for Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Among My Books Second Series See, I remain, And I will sing a slumberous refrain, And you shall murmur like a child appeased. Poems of Paul Verlaine A slumberous heat from a sheet-iron wood-stove pervaded the place, and a clock ticked monotonously on a shelf in the corner. A Modern Instance Several Englishmen occupied the front apartments, but scorned to give themselves any trouble about the matter, except to breathe a slumberous execration against the disturbers of their sleep. Journal of an African Cruiser Calvin turned abruptly from her and faced the valley saturated with slumberous sunlight. The Happy End Our cats are sleek and slumberous; here they prowl about haggard, shifty and careworn, their fur in patches and their ears a-tremble from nervous anxiety. Old Calabria If the War Office was too lively, this place was too slumberous by half. Alone But his thoughts were gradually getting too busy for this slumberous state. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance A hot, stilly afternoon full of the drowsy hum of insects and droning bees; birds chirped sleepily from motionless tree and thicket; even the brook seemed lulled to a slumberous hush. Peregrine's Progress The youth that guided home The ponderous load of sheaves, higher than wont, Daring the slumberous lightning, with a start Awoke, by falling full against the wheel, That circled slow after the sleepy horse. A Hidden Life and Other Poems Perro had risen from a slumberous contemplation of the tumbling water and now stood awaiting orders, his near hind leg shaking with eagerness to please, by running anywhere at any pace. The Velvet Glove Things afloat, in the slumberous procession of all Eastern rivers, swam downward imperceptibly, now blurred, now outlined in corrosive sharpness. Dragon's blood After a while, however, the slumberous tendency left him more entirely, and, without having been consciously awake, he found himself contemplating the old man, with wide-open eyes. Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic. The Century Vocabulary Builder Wondering yet, he sighed, and because of the sun's radiance, closed slumberous eyes again and would have slept; but, of a sudden the whistling ceased, and a rich, sweet voice fell to gentle singing. Beltane the Smith Thus, we looked upon the face of the slumberous deeps, and were alone. The House on the Borderland The slumberous old town of Niagara has also an air of calm repose. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812 "What nonsense!" she said, with a flash of scorn in her slumberous hazel eyes. Betty Wales, Sophomore "I too," he says, "felt a slumberous influence after watching him half an hour, as he sat thus with his eyes half open, like a cat, winged brother of the cat." History of American Literature As the day advanced the sun grew ever hotter; birds chirped drowsily from hedge and thicket, and the warm, still air was full of the slumberous drone of a myriad unseen wings. Beltane the Smith From the foliage above and around them came a soft, slumberous sound, evoked by the balmy wind that fanned their cheeks. Nature's Serial Story The lyric poem is appreciated by us as an expression of our own inner life; music as an expression of our own slumberous or subconscious moods. The Principles of Aesthetics In this rush of self-approval she sat up, and looked blindly off over the orchard below her at the distant hills, blue and slumberous in the sunshine. The Awakening of Helena Richie The slumberous eyes glowed, the square head came up. John Enderby Bells—wedding-bells—were ringing also, and the jubilant sounds, like the call of the newsboy, were out of accord with the slumberous feeling of the afternoon. The Right of Way — Complete Bells—wedding- bells—were ringing also, and the jubilant sounds, like the call of the newsboy, were out of accord with the slumberous feeling of the afternoon. The Right of Way — Volume 01 A slumberous silence of abundant light, of the full summer day, of the high flood of summer hours whose tide can rise no higher. The Life of the Fields While he began to write more than a dozen dancing women swept into the room from behind the silk hangings in a concerted movement that was all lithe slumberous grace. King of the Khyber Rifles In Enderby's brain ideas worked somewhat heavily; but to-day his slumberous strength was infused with a spirit of action and the warmth of a pervasive idea. John Enderby I called to the watch to trim sail, and in a few moments the decks were busy with the figures of men pulling and hauling and surging out at the ropes in sulky, slumberous growlings. Stories by English Authors: the Sea The sea was slumberously calm, bathed in hazy autumnal sunshine. Many Kingdoms Either the light subdues the sound, or perhaps rather it renders the senses slumberous and less sensitive, but the great sunlit square is silent—silent, that is, for the largest city on earth. The Life of the Fields Sing to us, cedars; your voice is so lowly, Your breathing so fragrant, your branches so strong; Our little nest-cradles are swaying so slowly, While zephyrs are breathing their slumberous song. Flint and Feather He was in good time, it seemed, for hardly had he taken his customary station before the Cathedral bells awoke the slumberous echoes of the city. The Ne'er-Do-Well The trees, now gaunt and bare, creaked and groaned in the passing gale, clashing their icy branches together with sounds sadly unlike the slumberous rustle of their foliage in June. Taken Alive The poor child was too weary to indulge in many terrors, the beneficent torpor of excessive fatigue was upon her, happily bringing slumberous oblivion instead of feverish restlessness. The Chaplet of Pearls I am not so young as Carlotta, and I awakened to the fact of a circumambient universe so many years ago that I have grown slumberous. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel The slumberous valley grew hazy to his nodding eyes. A Texas Ranger Everywhere was the same slumberous content, the same peaceful buzz of bees and birds and soft-toned human voices. The Ne'er-Do-Well A clear shrill whistle rang through the slumberous summer air. The Lilac Sunbonnet His first gentle, slumberous breath sounded like a small boy sliding down the sheet-iron roof of 35. Zone Policeman 88; a close range study of the Panama canal and its workers Sometimes"—discontent dulled for an instant the slow fire of her slumberous eyes—"sometimes my life seems one long sleep. Angel Island Then murmurs a voice, an Amen rises in full concord, and as it dies away the slumberous thunder of a pedal note rolls on the air; the casements whirr, the organ speaks. The Upton Letters The houses, when not whitewashed, showed their building stone of red volcanic tufa; windows were aflame with cacti and carnations; slumberous oranges glowed in courtyards; the roadways underfoot were of lava—pitch-black. South Wind A slumberous fire gleamed momentarily in his eye. The Lilac Sunbonnet She looked at him seductively out of her great, slumberous blue eyes, even as she had looked, on occasion, at him, Paul. The Fortunate Youth Earth breathed its many perfumes upon the slumberous air. In the Year of Jubilee The roo-hooing of the pigeons fills the whole place with a slumberous sound. The Upton Letters The few remaining shopkeepers wore an air of slumberous benevolence. South Wind Rickstead consisted of twenty or thirty scattered houses; an ancient, slumberous place, remarkable chiefly for its time-honoured inn, which stood at the crossing of two high roads. Denzil Quarrier He lay but opened a red eye unsleeping, deep and slowly breathing, slumberous but awake. Ulysses The passionate glow of your splendid eyes Shines into my heart as it shone that night, And its slumberous billows surge and rise As the ocean is stirred by the tempest’s might. Yesterdays "I've no doubt Madame Brandt could train him to dance to whatever tune she played," said I. She turned her dark golden eyes lazily, slumberously on me. Simon the Jester A flood of sunshine fell upon the slumberous, shining river. Yvette The fateful slumber floats and flows About the tangle of the rose; But lo! the fated hand and heart To rend the slumberous curse apart! Poems By the Way His eyes watched it, lowlying on the horizon, eastward of the bear, as he walked by the slumberous summer fields at midnight returning from Shottery and from her arms. Ulysses "I don't believe he's dead," murmured Kergenven with closed, slumberous eyes. Under Two Flags Their drooping eyes the slumberous shade oppress'd, Sated they rose, and all retired to rest. The Odyssey The vast clouds went by majestically, far above the treetops, and the snap and buzzing and ringing whir of July insects made a ceaseless, slumberous undertone of song solvent of all else. Main-Travelled Roads A sense of delicious coolness came with the afternoon breeze, that faintly trilled the slanting slats of the blind with a slumberous humming as of bees. Sally Dows The water was slumberously smooth, and under the tawny haze of the morning it shone with the sheen of burnished brass. Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan The mighty frame of Chateauroy, almost as unclothed as an athlete's, started from its slumberous, panting rest; his eyes lightened hungrily; he muttered a fiery oath; "Mort de Dieu!—they have the woman!" Under Two Flags With tapers flaming day his train attends, His bright alcove the obsequious youth ascends: Soft slumberous shades his drooping eyelids close, Till on her eastern throne Aurora glows. The Odyssey I recalled, in the midst of this noisy picnic, the slumberous coolness of its long corridors and soundless courtyard, and hailed it as a relief. Stories in Light and Shadow He gazed down at the slumberous pair for a space, while he fought and conquered an impulse toward fair play. Bruce The errant prince might have entered the slumberous halls unchallenged, and walked into any of the darkened rooms whose open doors gaped for more air, without awakening the veriest Greyport flirt with his salutation. By Shore and Sedge Rohdich burst into tears: the King again lay slumberous;—the rattle of death beginning soon after, which lasted at intervals all day. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 With rapid step the goddess urged her way; There every eye with slumberous chains she bound, And dash'd the flowing goblet to the ground. The Odyssey What a slumberous, delightful, lazy place it is! An Old Town By the Sea There was the moon, there was also the light from the gas lamps in the deserted slumberous street. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English A slumberous weariness, a dreamy pleasure stole over me, and then I knew nothing. Lilith, a romance Not only will bad decisions turn the tide by putting a point in the wrong columns, but slow decisions will often upset players, so they dare not play to the line kept by slumberous linesmen. The Art of Lawn Tennis Surprise Valley, like a valley of dreams, lay mystically soft and beautiful, awakening to the golden flood which was rolling away its slumberous bands of mist, brightening its walled faces. Riders of the Purple Sage Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature that now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke. Penrod and Sam Then there were two or three upholsterers', deep in dust, and a smoky, sleepy reading room and library, the shaded lamps in which cast a green and slumberous light all the evening through. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola And the revolt within him ceased, for this warm and slumberous sickroom, with its all-pervading scent of ether, had ended by lulling him into a mere longing for happiness and peace. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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