英语词汇“somnolent”造句子简单的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

He would go to work and perform his tasks in a somnolent haze. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She grew weak and somnolent, could spend hours lying in the shade looking up at the sun, uninterested in anything else. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The style is stripped-down, straightforward and somnolent in the classic Maxwell manner, but without — I’m sorry to report — the usual Maxwell impact. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z

Flanked by banks of windows to the north and south, the only interruption to the prevailing sense of order and calm is the somnolent hum of passing tube trains. A British Interior Designer’s Tricks for Staying Organized 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

There’s something somnolent, even funereal, about this work — and about Sargent’s Impressionist pictures in general, for all their vivid colors and vigorous brushwork. Art Review: John Singer Sargent, a Realist Who Tried Another Style 2010-12-01T07:45:00Z

The characters include a somnolent black brain surgeon, a robot who thinks he is a man, a Christian fundamentalist, and a reality TV show host billionaire who acts like a professional wrestler. The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z

Downtown was then a rather somnolent area, its historic core and business districts attracting rushes of people during office hours; the rest of it, half boarded up. Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

But it’s not always easy to tell how much her affectless mien is an acting choice and how much it comes from being infected by the somnolent rhythms of a leaden script. Review: Sleepwalking Through the ’70s in ‘Downtown Race Riot’ 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

She is prone to parroting her thesis and lapsing into somnolent praise. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z

Suddenly changing gears from somnolent piano lines to driving propulsion and back again, the music has the blank moodiness of a score for a nonexistent film. Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

Overall, the recording slides between hypnotic and somnolent. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z

In a somnolent Cannes season of too many disappointments from major directors and a tepid level of ambition, Mommy is precisely the electroshock jolt the festival needed. REVIEW: Mommy at Cannes: The One We've Been Waiting For 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Later, in the early evening, Mei returns, finding her roommate in the same somnolent state that she had left her nine hours earlier. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z

In the bargain that they reached, Palestinian statehood would be an objective achieved gradually, starting with autonomy for the Gaza Strip and the somnolent West Bank town of Jericho, both under Israeli control then. Seeing ‘Oslo,’ Remembering Hope 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z

The beauty slinks with somnolent calculation, spinning a silver hoop between her admirers. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z

In “Robinson in Ruins” a dry, almost somnolent Vanessa Redgrave plays the surviving partner to Robinson’s Boswell, now dead, and the gloom softens as she and Robinson set foot in rural England. | 'Robinson in Ruins': ?Robinson in Ruins? From Patrick Keiller ? Review? 2012-01-11T22:49:41Z

And the somnolent ballads like “Manhattan Bridge” and “Same Coin,” when he’s not letting studiousness interfere too much with melody, carry the day. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z

This somnolent sound makes you feel both relaxed and attentive, drowsy and giddy. Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

We passed griddles of salt pans, smallholdings of tobacco, and somnolent lagoons stained white and pink with flowering waterlilies. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Earth Angels of Darkness Demons of Light Southern Lord With their reverb-drenched, melancholic guitars and somnolent rhythms, Dylan Carson's revived Earth always seemed the perfect audio accompaniment to a photographic journey through America's hinterland. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 ? review 2011-02-17T22:20:01Z

You can hear all the words, too, which is deliberate – not for him the somnolent murmurings of the chillwave boys. New band of the day ? No 811: Diamond Rings 2010-06-18T16:16:00Z

Filmed in the town of Walton in upstate New York, "The Afterlight" moves to the somnolent rhythms of the changing landscape, the motility of the light creating hypnotic shifts of mood. 'The Afterlight': loss and alienation in farm country 2011-09-01T19:17:08Z

This could offer insight into Beethoven’s lifelong interest in the piano trio, but although the group’s performance was competent, this was a curiously somnolent concert. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series

Born and bred in South Africa, Hood won but did not earn an Oscar for the social drama Tsotsi, then directed the somnolent political film Rendition and the non-whelming X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’? 2013-11-01T23:16:53Z

His novel is weirdly somnolent given how portentously it primes us for danger, for the burning of mosques and blood in the streets. A Debut Novel Unfolds Over 48 Tense Hours in London 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

The piece began with waves of drumrolls, spiked with flecks of sounds from maracas and somnolent gongs. Music Review: ?Persephassa? by Xenakis, on Central Park Lake 2010-06-22T22:13:00Z

“Here in the suspended somnolent zone where I told my body to die.” Review: Eve Ensler Goes Deep ‘In the Body of the World’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

“South of Market,” as the photographer’s work is titled, today hangs in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in the very neighborhood whose somnolent state Jang once captured on film. South of Market: How the new SFMOMA reflects the sea change that has engulfed one San Francisco neighborhood 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z

That morsel of context sharpened the song’s lyrics, exposing his somnolent arrangement as a deadly lure. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z

In its mournful and death-steeped view of Monrovia’s somnolent and baffled residents, Wiseman’s film struck me as a documentary version of a zombie film. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

All that “blah blah blah” is steeped in a somnolent restlessness that promises sweet awakenings. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z

Amid skepticism that he couldn’t coach at the higher level, Jackson tore the program down to the studs, brought in 86 new players, and blanketed the somnolent program with passion and positivity. Plaschke: At Colorado, Deion Sanders is the only one ready for primetime 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z

Set against the backdrop of a somnolent downtown, says Ms. Respress, the McPherson Square encampment feeds the impression that homelessness is exploding in D.C. Opinion | It’s time to clear out the McPherson Square encampment 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z

Yet even with past experience as a guide, local officials still seem remarkably somnolent. Opinion | U.S. cities are failing to address the remote-work revolution 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z

The dairy cows also showed behavioral changes — yawning and salivating a lot, moving a little unsteadily on their hoofs, standing in one place for a protracted period, and having a “somnolent appearance.” Cows fed hemp produced milk with THC, researchers say 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z

While the Vance campaign was largely somnolent after the primary, Ryan cast his opponent as an extremist and opportunist with weak ties to Ohio. Opinion | Ohio’s Tim Ryan, with a glass of wine, rebrands the Democrats 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z

A low sun ignites the flat water behind her somnolent head, enhancing the atmosphere of morbid Shakespearean fantasy. Perspective | Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted this painting. His grandmother called it junk.

Just last week, many European countries were still so somnolent about the threat Russia posed to Ukraine that Germany’s spy chief was caught unawares in Kyiv when the Kremlin invasion started. In just 72 hours, Europe overhauled its entire post-Cold War relationship with Russia 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z

The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. Review: L.A. gallery-going during Omicron isn't optimal but offers excellent art along the way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z

Telfaz11 started out on YouTube, where its videos hooked young Saudis looking for a hip alternative to the somnolent broadcast television. As Other Arab States Falter, Saudi Arabia Seeks to Become a Cultural Hub 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

The Herald Examiner building remained standing, albeit in a somnolent state. Way better than a parking lot: Smart reuse revives Julia Morgan's Herald Examiner building 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z

There is a rather famous account of a World War I pilot who reported finding himself floating through a school of apparently somnolent swifts high above the clouds. Opinion | The last swifts of summer 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z

But it also brought youth, diversity and better wages — breathing new life into somnolent towns that had been losing population since the 1930s. Oil boom remakes N. Dakota county with fastest growth in US 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

And he played with a kind of brilliant camouflage, seeming to be somnolent for long stretches before asserting himself at urgent moments with a mesmerizing dribble, astounding pass or stabbing shot. Diego Maradona, One of Soccer’s Greatest Players, Is Dead at 60 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z

The U.S. bond market, however, was somnolent as investors looked past polling day and figured huge government borrowing for coronavirus relief spending will happen no matter who wins. Asia's COVID control tempers global stock selloff, U.S. futures jump 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

In late August, near the end of his somnolent address on the South Front of the White House accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: "The fact is, we're here – and they're not." The coming civil war caused by Trump’s ego 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z

In late August, near the end of a somnolent address on the South Lawn of the White House, accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: “The fact is, we’re here – and they’re not.” Amid talk of civil war, America is already split – Trump Nation has seceded | Robert Reich 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z

At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, its melody beyond compare. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z

The former vice president demonstrated more vigor than at many of the previous debates, when he often seemed somnolent. Amid Insults and Interruptions, Sanders Absorbs Burst of Attacks in Debate 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Without the feeding, Rafaela became more somnolent and her eyes were closed more often. Guilt drove him to keep his brain-injured wife alive. What would she have wanted? 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z

“I was yelling it and screaming it, so they would arise from their somnolent behavior,” he said. Rudy Giuliani, a New York Times reporter and me: When corrections go wrong 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

As it happened, I had wandered by Conforto’s locker before the game and asked if he sensed New Yorkers were taking his once somnolent team seriously. As Wins Pile Up, Mets and Their Fans Soak in the Moment 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z

Last Friday, with its ranks of moored leisure boats and mobility scooters sparkling in the midday sun, it looked like just the kind of somnolent retirement town you might expect from that result. In the safest Tory seat in the country, who do angry, alarmed voters want to be PM? 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z

And seeing that they did indeed give us the best show on television, it’s probably petty to pick holes in their strangely somnolent commentary. The biggest ‘Game of Thrones’ mystery: Why are those ‘Inside the Episodes’ so boring? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

West Jefferson, Alabama, a somnolent town of around 420 people northwest of Birmingham, was an unlikely venue to seize the national imagination. 'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z

If you got 18 survivors of that famous Alps trek and put them into two lineups, they’d have more zip than the exhausted, somnolent survivors of Game 4. Perspective | The Red Sox saved their manager — and themselves — to pull within a win of a World Series title 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

If these somnolent 21st-century Tokyo salarymen shock some of us into thinking more critically about our own role in the world, then Jaszczuk is not only succeeding by his own yardstick. Legless Japanese businessmen: the photographer who caught a Tokyo epidemic 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

State and local leaders “are carrying the flag while the big powers, the national guys, are rather somnolent.” They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It’s Their Moment of Truth. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

In the midst of the August doldrums, when the capital is normally somnolent amid the congressional recess, Sunday’s news-talk shows brought the usual mix of condemnation and praise for Trump. In new outburst over Mueller probe, Trump insists that White House counsel McGahn is no 'rat' 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Grimm accused the congressman of a somnolent approach to governance, both figuratively and literally. Beers, Burgers and Red-Meat Politics in N.Y.’s ‘Trump Country’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

The movie centers around Baby’s last summer before heading into the Peace Corps where she spends the summer with her family at a somnolent resort. 10 films and TV series to help get summer started right this holiday weekend 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z

“I prefer the term wonky,” the Republican said in a recent interview, his voice low and somewhat somnolent. Maryland’s low-key lieutenant governor embraces his dryness. 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

“I prefer the term ‘wonky,’ ” the Republican said in a recent interview, his voice low and somewhat somnolent. ‘Boyd who?’ Maryland’s low-key lieutenant governor embraces his dryness. 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z

It doesn’t totally work, but it was the quixotic shot in the arm that I needed to keep me awake during an unusually somnolent auto show. Nissan’s Xmotion SUV is rugged on the streets, zen in the sheets 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z

Several other lawmakers announced premature retirements and the somnolent Ethics Committee launched a handful of investigations, too. Often at odds, Trump and GOP relish tax win, court picks 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z

Despite the toll it takes, sleep trouble was a somnolent research area until the past decade or so. How to Get Children with Autism to Sleep 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z

“The debate that was quite spirited became somewhat somnolent in the post-Cold-War world,” he said. Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch is making a big bet on foreign policy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

All of this will remain one long, blurred, gruesome memory all winter, and perhaps longer, because the heretofore somnolent Nats offense did its job, battering out 14 hits. Perspective | An unforgettable night, at once ugly and beautiful, ends the Nationals’ season 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

This week in Soissons, a somnolent provincial town far from the gaudy cast-of-thousands extravaganzas of the campaign, Ms. Le Pen was greeted by a few dozen somber National Front activists in a drab meeting hall. Le Pen Loses Luster, Signaling Far Right’s Retreat in France, and Maybe Beyond 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z

Some facilities have informal rules to save scientists from somnolent stupidity. The pleasure, and paranoia, of the scientific night shift 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z

True, they are easy targets compared to our parents, which doesn't seem quite fair, but frankly they are just as somnolent. Because Punk Still Rocks 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z

Patrol cars filled with somnolent officers are a common sight. A policeman’s lot in a police state: not happy 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

Decades ago Máncora was little more than a somnolent fishing village surrounded by desert. Surfing to success 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z

Atlético slumbered through a somnolent first half but was far better in the second and looked more likely to win in regulation. Real Madrid Edges Atlético Madrid in Shootout for Champions League Title 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

The International Olympic Committee, a body happiest when somnolent and counting its cash, felt compelled to threaten Russia with suspension from the Olympics. Pervasive Doping in Summer Sports Is Likely Only the Half of It 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The somnolent pace has amazed even those accustomed to Albany’s inertia. A Leisurely Return for the New York State Legislature 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z

The first episode of the new miniseries moves at a somnolent pace The first episode moves at a somnolent pace, and is primarily concerned with retconning The X-Files mythology to match modern concerns. Review: The X-Files is back, but the fight for the future is over 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Normally low-key, even somnolent, in public, Leggett is more prone to a smile or a laugh when he shares a stage with Baker. How a law school dean and his student became political partners and peers 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z

The scene might have been discouraging for another candidate: Graham and his small entourage were positioned behind a somnolent band tootling jazz standards on a rolling trailer. Lindsey Graham is a joyful candidate with a bleak campaign message 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

This past week, in an effort to make his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination seem less somnolent, Jeb Bush released an ad attacking Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump’s Gomorrah Problem 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

The crowd was somnolent until a dropped ball by Bardsley led to the 155th international goal by Sinclair, the British Columbia product in her fourth World Cup. England eliminates host Canada in World Cup Q-final, 2-1 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

The sellout Game 7 crowd of 18,006 was loudest during the national anthem, then did little to help ignite the Rangers’ somnolent offense. Rangers Left to Digest Another Empty Result 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z

And judging by his speech, that someone was Santorum, who by comparison delivered a lackluster, somnolent performance that barely kept half of Rand’s audience. Last Call: Jeb Tames a CPAC Crowd Without Tossing (Much) Red Meat 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

Boxer said the committee and its peer in the House shared an urgency to push through a major transportation bill this spring, but she said the rest of Congress seemed remarkably somnolent on the need. Plan to shift transportation burden to states seems doomed 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z

And so with 64 minutes gone and the game scoreless: enter the somnolent one. Raheem Sterling may be ‘tired’ but he still finds time to stretch legs 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z

Still, the Golden Pass project remains a somnolent hub of high technology and giant structures perched incongruously in alligator-infested swampland. A U-Turn for a Terminal Built in Texas to Import Natural Gas 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z

Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s lavish lifestyle is rumored to include private "pillow parties" that see celebrities and fellow startup titans bedding down as if in some somnolent modern Bohemian Grove gathering. Inside alternate universe America's ban on sleep 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The result has been an outbreak of panic among the normally somnolent dogs of war. The case for Trident is absurd. Scotland may help us get rid of it 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z

Snooker, while carrying with it the somnolent pleasure of watching a game unfold gently before your eyes, is not a sport that is a particular hive of mavericks. The Joy of Six: Roger Federer to Phil Tufnell - ponytailed sportsmen 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Anger is an appropriate reaction to the somnolent response of Nigeria’s government. Nigerians seethe at the government’s failure to rescue abducted schoolgirls 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

In a somnolent week for sports news, Tony Dungy is taking a lot of grief for saying he would not have drafted Michael Sam. Is Tony Dungy Homophobic, or Just a Great Judge of Talent?

Nearby, five Siberian tigers, somnolent after lunch, lie in small cages. Worry Under the Big Top as Mexico City Moves to Ban Circus Animals 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

And even a somnolent Congress could get involved at some point. John Oliver, Net Neutrality, and the Ghost of SOPA-PIPA 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z

In the madness of 20th-century China, the Tiananmen protests were a moment of sublime sanity, when the individual emerged from the somnolent collective and found their true voice. Tiananmen Square 25 years on: 'Every person in the crowd was a victim of the massacre' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z

For months, the race was shaping up as a somnolent affair, and many assumed that Mr. Santos would win fairly easily over a field of competitors that included Mr. Zuluaga and several other candidates. In Colombia, an Election May Turn on a Dirty War 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

But in mid-May, the roses remain grim, somnolent; and the conifer displays properly leave us more amazed by the trees than their elegant surroundings. ‘Groundbreakers’ Pays Tribute to Female Landscape Designers 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

He upheld this notoriety Monday, if only for three somnolent innings, while the Mets fell to the Atlanta Braves, 13-5 in a game that took 3 hours 41 minutes to complete. Braves 13, Mets 5: Matsuzaka Makes a Long Day Even Longer for the Mets 2013-09-02T22:54:28Z

A somnolent offense has had a residual effect on the pitching staff, the manager and the Cell's fireworks operator, who appears to be as lonely as the Maytag repairman. White Sox won't tear it all down 2013-08-09T02:10:00Z

He remains in a hospital psychiatric unit, where doctors are trying to adjust his medications so that he is calm but not somnolent. The New Old Age Blog: When Aggression Follows Dementia 2013-07-12T20:38:06Z

Sometimes, he shoots a somnolent look at the club in his hand with an expression that seems to say, Why are you doing this to me? On Golf: The Majors Seem to Sap the Energy From Woods 2013-06-16T00:48:28Z

Those drinking at the well of economic pessimism see an economy hobbled by zombie banks, debt-drenched households, fiscal austerity, and a somnolent export sector. The politics of full employment are the progressive answer to austerity 2013-06-12T14:30:02Z

“New, spectacular and symbolic gestures will surely be needed to rattle the somnolent, shake anesthetized consciences and reawaken the memory of our origins,” Mr. Venner wrote. | Europe: Right-Wing Writer Kills Himself in Notre-Dame in Paris 2013-05-21T18:34:37Z

Even as he has catapulted across the regions and threatened a somnolent Long Island Power Authority with extinction if it does not restore electricity service faster, he has spoken of the global-warming challenge. Gotham: The Storm Had Heroes, but Can the Mayoral Campaign? 2012-11-13T03:08:09Z

Today, there’s a long lick of sunlight coursing up the western slope of Vesuvius, the bay is somnolent, but the barman, Alessandro Recano, is vigilant—and good company. Naples: The Hotel Terrace with the Best View of Vesuvius 2012-10-15T21:44:38Z

Things got so bad that the otherwise somnolent Federal Reserve actually banned Citi from making any more acquisitions while it sorted out its mess. The Trade: Few Repercussions in the Conversion of a Former Wall St. Titan 2012-08-01T16:00:40Z

Then in his somnolent condition he began muttering his wandering sentences, punctuated with many "Achs!" The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z

Instantly the somnolent men were roused into activity. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z

As I never slept at night, I wore a somnolent expression in the day-time which did not augur well for me with my uncle. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z

The Lord of Lulworth, a somnolent Earl, Gave his moustache an extra curl As he woke in the morn, and ope'd his eye, A passing fair lady was passing by! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z

Wrongly directed, we burst into the somnolent quarters of the city authorities and made our request for a permit. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z

The patients appear somnolent, are restless in bed, have light delirium, and respond only when spoken to loudly. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z

He seemed to be in a somewhat somnolent mood. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z

Alas, the inn here was awake, indeed, in a somnolent, grumpy, sullen fashion, but there were no horses. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z

But the somnolent Earl and the testy Lord Pursued and caught, ere they got aboard The pirate vessel, the lovers twain, Who leapt from the boat! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z

It is a placid, almost somnolent village of villas, abounding with delightful lawns and gardens, with great elms shading its old-fashioned thoroughfares and drooping their pliant boughs above its comfortable homes. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z

Dickens's exposure of the schools led to their extinction and to the consignment of Bowes to its present somnolent condition. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z

Even his appearance sets him apart: at 49, Beltagy looks sleek and youthful next to the Brotherhood’s bearded, pot-bellied, somnolent top men. Mohamed Beltagy, Egypt?s Human Bellwether 2012-01-19T22:25:10Z

In the basin below somnolent streets spread away and lose themselves in glistening turnpikes between bluegrass farms where velvet lawns and shaded woodlands surround old mansions that mirror the charm and flavor of rural England. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z

Tolstoy's teachings can not at present shake the somnolent conscience of America. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z

Elderly Fijians are somnolent, and the pigeon's cooing at sunrise was useful in arousing him from slumber. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z

Within this squalid pen, women in bedraggled black gowns, children in semi-attire and closely attended by swarms of flies, two or three emaciated goats, a few chickens, and a somnolent burro. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z

Preachers use such artifices when pews grow somnolent, and why not teachers? Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z

This question had the same loitering, somnolent intonation that always belonged to her speech, and contrasted so quaintly with her nervous, volatile turns and poses. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z

Sometimes, from one of the somnolent offices, a friendly figure would step into the somnolent street to lighten me on my way, and it was pleasanter to walk up Walnut in company than alone. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z

Or had she, lying in bed, in a half somnolent condition, been the unconscious witness of an actual occurrence? Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z

It is difficult to account for the somnolent tendencies of the soldiers on this occasion. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z

In other words, he had been dozing, and in a somnolent state had unconsciously placed his iron-shod boot upon the long-suffering main switch. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z

He is more yellow and blacker than ever, and he has grown stout, heavy, and somnolent. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z

They heard the train whistle shriekingly in the distance, and the somnolent porters roused themselves. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z

So I found a terrific audio metaphor for all that was hapless about David I. Weprin’s losing Democratic campaign, and for the somnolent state of politics in this city. Gotham: New York City Voters Proving They Could Care Less 2011-09-20T01:07:16Z

The whole aspect of the place was that of somnolent respectability. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z

But Damascus, be it at the beauty salon, in its somnolent neighborhoods or in its fear-stricken mosques, remains the linchpin, a reality that even activists acknowledge. In Damascus, Amid Uprising, Syrians Act Like Nothing?s Amiss 2011-09-06T00:14:20Z

That could inject some life into a somnolent offense. The Fifth Down: A.F.C. Scouting Report 2011-09-04T05:15:40Z

In the intense, somnolent silence of the little provincial square its tinkle sounded loud and clear. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z

The silence, the inaction of the place hurt him to the core, and the remark that suddenly ripped the somnolent atmosphere was so electric that the Maestra sprang to her feet. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z

Redknapp will be less concerned with history, however, and more with the current state of his squad after an unusually somnolent summer transfer window. Tottenham may lack new faces but they can wing it at Old Trafford 2011-08-20T21:57:00Z

For once the little, somnolent village awoke, and, as before pointed out, a Prince awoke it. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z

It seemed that all the other saloons and stores in sight, including the Three Star Grocery, were somnolent. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z

The elder lady shook off her somnolent expression, and nodded sagaciously. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z

And day by day the artlessness of this exotic humanity touches you more;—day by day this savage, somnolent, splendid Nature—delighting in furious colour—bewitches you more. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z

Of the American poets he "could bear to read" certain parts of Walt Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, while he referred to our most beloved poet as "the somnolent Longfellow." Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z

The Potman filled their tankards With the liquor each preferred, Torpid and somnolent they sat, And spake not one rude word. Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z

Having been at work all night it might be supposed that he would need sleep; but when he looked on Betty Hunt his gaze was anything but somnolent. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z

When she concluded, the lady lapsed into a somnolent silence, which, if assumed, was tactful, leaving the man, who was glad of a respite from conversational effort, to digest the information. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z

The single tilt appears in the camping-place, set up as a tent; and inside it the chief, somnolent after a sleepless night, and wearied with the work of the morning, is reclining in siesta. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z

The somnolent place which Dickens drew—its High Street a narrow lane, its houses abodes of gloom and mystery—has not much existence in fact. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z

Then a thought, a thought which his somnolent daydreaming over the fishing lines had driven away for the time, crossed his mind, and he paled. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z

It was still too early for the cabarets and gambling places to be open, and even the saloon bars were somnolent save for the flies buzzing about them or drunkenly crawling in the spilled beer. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z

This being so, I am sure that Bazzard, who is not only “particularly angular, but also somnolent, dull, incompetent, egotistical, is wholly incapable of playing the part of the supple, quick-witted, resolute, dignified Datchery.” The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z

The somnolent hum of insect life, the whisper of a light wind in the corn, were alike conducive to sleep. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z

A beautiful castle our Dana shall raise On a futile foundation of hope, And its glories shall blaze In the somnolent haze Of the mythical lake del y Soap. Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z

And the warble of the blue-birds filled the odoriferous somnolent air. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z

Perhaps her trouble is that she is a little bit too prosperous with an olden-time prosperity; a little bit too somnolent and satisfied. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z

She had reached a stage of fatigue when blows would not have quickened her steps, whilst her rider, roused from his own somnolent weariness, was suddenly alert and eager. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z

He stared in slow astonishment, his lower lip quivered; he closed his great, somnolent eyes as if to give himself up to the dreamlike ecstasy of the moment. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z

I came upon this remedy for the United States’ somnolent electoral politics while attending the annual gathering of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago News Cooperative: Want to Increase Voting? Discounts Seem to Work 2011-04-02T20:49:18Z

Equities remain the best asset class in town, but somnolent activity very often precedes a sharp correction. Broker tips Barclays to move to US, as FTSE edges higher for fifth day 2011-03-29T16:47:40Z

This part of the deck was occupied by somnolent, basking figures. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z

Her expression lapsed more and more towards an almost somnolent reverie. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z

Go back to Florence; she is so calm, so sweet, so—somnolent,"—with a sneer,—"that she will not ruffle your temper. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z

"No end of a somnolent old India—what!" he said ironically, sitting on Swinton's bed. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z

They dashed through, Swickey’s paddle flashing as she fended off, now to the left, now to the right, and before they realized it they were in the listless drift of the somnolent dead waters below. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z

Minutes, hours perhaps, passed before he felt even somnolent. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z

No doubt before long the bicycle and the motor-car will enliven its somnolent neighbourhood, but at present it is free from the summer jaunts of tourists. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z

There was no evidence Wednesday on the crowded but otherwise somnolent grounds of the hotel, baking in the near-equatorial heat, that military training was going on. Ivory Coast Leader?s Rival Remains Under Blockade 2011-01-06T00:20:28Z

But the restful churn of the engines had a somnolent effect upon him, and presently he tossed the news-sheet away, put out the light and settled himself for sleep. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z

She left his side, crossed the room, and stood by the square, ugly window, looking out, but as blind as Carrados to the details of the somnolent landscape. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z

At last the hand of peace-loving and somnolent Headmasters has been forced by the action of a higher power. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z

I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z

Yes, outdraws Jersey Shore—and it's making the somnolent History Channel, a network previously known for Hitler documentaries and Ice Road Truckers, one of cable's hottest networks. Pawn Stars: Our Most Revealing Reality Show 2010-10-21T21:00:00Z

How concerned should the Cowboys be about preseason injuries, particularly on the line for an already somnolent offense? N.F.L. Preview: N.F.C. East 2010-09-04T22:46:00Z

Myeloma is a disease of many stages, including one called smoldering or somnolent that is rarely treated unless it starts to progress. Personal Health: Cancer Survival Demands Steady Scientific Progress 2010-04-12T20:54:00Z

The Communist Party compiles lists of names and submits them to citizens for approval in local elections so somnolent that few notice them. Annual Chinese Legislative Meeting Begins 2010-03-04T20:18:00Z

This, however, was also checked, and he settled down once more into a slow jig-jog of the most somnolent nature for those who were behind. A Little World

Elsie was therefore able to follow the somnolent progress of the adventures of the late Nicholas, M.D., a gentleman whose travels had led him to the Island of Trinidad. Deep Moat Grange

A moment later, a somnolent and rotund lady in one of the rockers started up furiously as another whiff drifted in her direction. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life

The third outdoor man was Thomas Price, generally known as the Dormouse on account of his somnolent manner of working. Springtime and Other Essays

The Major, leaning back somnolent in his great elbow-chair, fingers joined and head bowed, listened lethargically to the Sergeant who, sitting bolt upright, read aloud from the manuscript he held. Our Admirable Betty A Romance

He had struggled against the somnolent god, but in vain; and at last passed into slumberland unconsciously and overcome. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind

His eyes, somnolent as a rule, fixed Garth with a lively reproach. The Gray Mask

He had departed in tears, leaving her alone with a somnolent old serving-woman. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second

So soon as he awoke his nurse brought him some nourishment, his wounds were dressed afresh, after which he immediately sank into his somnolent state. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle

Fortunately for the somnolent soldier, the sharp looks of Lazarus Seaman were not bent in his direction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845

For twenty years the Upper Fourth had passed a somnolent existence under the direction of an amiable and unassuming cleric. Years of Plenty

Moreover, the good merchant's Madeira had its power of somnolent charm, and, thus soothed, De Courval passed into a world of visionless slumber. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington

Through the landward aperture, the great house all through the long, sunny morning seemed somnolent, almost deserted, but towards luncheon time a motor-car arrived from the direction of the station, containing a single passenger. Jacob's Ladder

Of a somnolent summer morning while Chauncey was scrubbing his long yellow teeth he glimpsed blurred movement through the starched white bathroom curtain. Here Lies

At last, as if determined to remain in doubt no longer, he touched the somnolent first person lightly on the shoulder. The History and Records of the Elephant Club

The Hudson's Bay remained in its somnolent state till the very extremity of outrage brought such a mighty awakening that it put its rivals to an eternal sleep. The Story of the Trapper

He had left his painting to bring her a glass of water from the house, and she rested in a somnolent calm. Rose MacLeod

There were aviaries of doves, about which strollers were gathered, and a distant somnolent military guard. The Bright Shawl

The scene, at this hour just before dawn, was somnolent and peaceful. Astounding Stories, June, 1931

They had had their cold bite, rested the mules and Molly, and the latter was plodding along in the shade of the wagon-top all but asleep, and her rider was in a like somnolent condition. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure

But, as ever, the disinterested grew somnolent with content, and gave no heed to the burrowing of the hungry recuperated and wiser rats in that prolific underworld whence never a high-minded citizen emerges. Ancestors A Novel

It was mid-afternoon, which, in Aden, seemed to be a glaring, shadeless hour and, but for these occasional somnolent starers, a deserted one. The House of Fulfilment

But the weary physical being sunk to rest, and then in the midst of his somnolent mental impressions was wrought a change. The Story of Old Fort Loudon

The palace was somnolent; the officials were asleep: none had heard of the murder. Astounding Stories, June, 1931

Lithe-looking as a panther—a somnolent animal now to all appearances—an occasional gleam of the half masked eyes suggested that this show of indifference concealed a mind of no inferior order. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch

Then he went out and home again, and fulfilled his destiny for the day by another somnolent hour with Milly before the fire. Old Crow

Having no leader, it is vague, somnolent, and takes little interest in current events. The Forerunners

He came to Demer�'s bedside that night as he lay sleeping in quiet peace, even his somnolent nerves realizing the prospect of release. The Story of Old Fort Loudon

The Ballot Question—oldest of dialectic nightmares—is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers

Alas! there was more luxury than life in these somnolent vagaries. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871

A somnolent fat man, bulging, like a feather-bed, on a three-legged stool, dozed 336 at the receipt of custom, with a deal table and a bowl of sixpences before him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25)

As a fact, I believe there was another somnolent interval of an hour or so before I did actually reach this stage of taking refreshment and asking questions. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography

There was a calm over it, and a somnolent peace. The Bondboy

A scream echoed over the somnolent night—a voice from the rear of the house. Astounding Stories, May, 1931

In the other was posted Orpheus, his body, which was convulsively in motion, forming an odd contrast to his somnolent, imperturbable Scots face. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25)

In the hands of the Government it is apt to lose a good deal of its fructifying energy and ceaseless striving and to sink instead into placid and somnolent repose. Right Above Race

A moonlit landscape lay somnolent around the cage. Astounding Stories, April, 1931

The peacefully somnolent Social Era, he thought, might awaken to new things under the stimulus of such fresh writing as hers. Carmen Ariza

More minutes had gone by in the suave swinging of their steps to Offenbach's somnolent measures when she asked, abruptly, "Do you skate?" The Side Of The Angels A Novel

Two large Japanese gold tench, whose somnolent existence was now for the first time made interesting, dashed about looking for an exit, and there was a general noise of splashing and laughter. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work

He had hardly realised his pleasantly tired and rather somnolent condition when his daughter entered carrying a large Teddy-bear, two dolls, a toy trumpet and a box containing a wooden tea-set. Jan and Her Job

Every man under his own fig-tree, forsooth, obese and somnolent, the spirit disintegrated! Dreamers of the Ghetto

This is a style of construction peculiar to Warwick, and adds to the oddity of this somnolent old town, that seems to have been practically asleep for centuries. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel

Extreme heat after extreme cold always has a somnolent effect on those who experience it. The Hound From The North

The soft glow of a few misty, somnolent stars gave no light among the trees, no light shone from the house. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek

The heavy eyes, the languid stretch, the unmeaning contemplation of the noontide sunlight, the slow struggles of a somnolent brain. The Twins of Suffering Creek

It's time, too, that we goes on record as a whole public in some manner an' form best calk'lated to make a somnolent East set up an' notice us.' Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories

He turned another knob, watched the marching, playing, whirling of somnolent colors on the domed ceiling of his room. The Martian Cabal

And a bandit flyer could not very well land unseen or unnoticed, even in somnolent Nareda. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930

They were somnolent in the darkness, but one hand stung as if in white-hot metal as he went on. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930

His eyes opened wider, and interested thought stirred in his somnolent brain. The Twins of Suffering Creek

Collecting himself and glancing almost guiltily round the somnolent carriage, he turned back to the beginning. The Education of Eric Lane

Accordingly, he got an automobile and started for that somnolent village on the next day. Louisiana Lou A Western Story

He sat, somnolent, in a comfortable chair, his long legs stretched out before him, smoking a clay pipe. Mr. Wicker's Window

It is a sleepy, somnolent little town in which the most pretentious building was begun as the Presidential Palace and wound up as the home of a bank. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930

Motor-car traffic had practically ceased; foot-passengers there were none; on each side of the street the houses were somber and somnolent. The Dust Flower

I think that Lambert's enormous and somnolent bulk must have annoyed Ransome, for he went on to make an attack which was virulently sarcastic. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate

It was a pretty but rather somnolent place, just a string of white-painted, green-blinded houses and two or three stores along both sides of an oiled highway. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air

One cannot blame them for being so dumbfounded at such actions, such incomprehensible disturbing actions in a somnolent town of long ago. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders

They lived in a quiet old house on a silent old street, with a sleepy old servant and two somnolent old cats. 'Lizbeth of the Dale

He looked across at her quickly, a keen flash of interest in his somnolent brown eyes. Malcolm Sage, Detective

Once, however, on the way and alone, it might have been observed that the somnolent coast-guard walked with an energetic and active step, very unlike his usual gait! Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora

As for the man on the lookout, he was notorious for his somnolent powers. The Voyage of the Aurora

Here on this occasion it looked so tranquil, so somnolent, that we tarried all unwilling to lose its flavor of the unusual. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders

All are good examples, but the longest, soundest sleeper of the whole somnolent brotherhood is the Jumping Mouse. Wild Animals at Home

He is actually somnolent, deprived of the power of movement by an internal disturbance which my teasing produced at the outset and which is prolonged beyond its usual limits by the surrounding coolness. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles

The captain soon learnt all about my somnolent habits, and chose me for his favourite sentinel.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora

It was very dreary sitting alone evening after evening beside the stove, and the company of the somnolent Sproatly was not much more cheerful. Hawtrey's Deputy

If sensitive, let the subject sit in a passive state, while you touch the somnolent region on the temples, one inch horizontally behind the brow. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6

The spirit of revolutionary France had not yet touched the heart of the Habsburg empire, and national rivalries were expressed, not so much in expansive ambitions, as in a somnolent clinging to traditional privileges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"

He made his way to where Greenstream village lay somnolent beneath the refulgent day. Mountain Blood A Novel

On the contrary, however—whether from a malady or some other cause—the man appeared as somnolent and immobile as if both his visage and body were carved out of marble. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora

So with no attention to my roommates I hastily washed and dressed, buckled on my armament, and stumped freely forth, down the somnolent hall, down the creaking stairs, and into the silent lobby. Desert Dust

But the cultivation of the sand-rush, arundo arenaria, has done what the other "devises" failed to do; and the rushy towans have now provided an ideal golf-course, which prospers though the little town is somnolent. The Cornwall Coast

Ah! in a somnolent cocoon of sensual languidness, from which in after life she was hard put to it to escape. Terribly Intimate Portraits

A frowzy old hobo poked a somnolent head up from a pile of lumber near the tracks and yawned welcome to the recruit. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life

Two or three depressed and somnolent travelers yawned in the waiting room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories

The Duchess remembered being read to one evening after dinner, but the debates, as delivered by the Duke, had generally a somnolent effect upon his wife. Vixen, Volume II.

Reasonably sure that tomorrow would lug in new brands of trouble to pester a boy with, the Wildcat steered his somnolent mentality clear of the shoals of surmise and let tomorrow take care of itself. Lady Luck

Walter alone was at ease, with digestive and somnolent capabilities proof against any invasion. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America

It was very dreary sitting alone evening after evening beside the stove, and the company of the somnolent 14 Sproatly was not cheerful. Masters of the Wheat-Lands

It was the hour of siesta—though why one hour should be considered more somnolent than another in this place the girl from Vermont could not imagine. The Mission of Janice Day

Percy, in extremely somnolent tones, answered that he intended to go on. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot

Beholding the somnolent proprietor, he advanced quietly to the middle of the big room. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play

She sat down at the piano and began mechanically to play scales, but the somnolent monotony of the tones only added to her nervousness. The Comedienne

She did not move from where she stood confronting her late employer, still preserving his attitude of somnolent detachment. The Green Rust

The Constance Colfax boasted no staterooms; but the few all-night passengers from up the lake were sprawled about the unventilated cabin in a somnolent state. The Mission of Janice Day

The little village of Bixby was in its usual condition of somnolent cheerfulness, that same afternoon. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls

But Theodore Bertram was human, and this is tantamount to saying that he was not capable of ignoring the somnolent influences of human nature. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains

The twitter of birds sounded at rare intervals from the thickets, and only the cry of the water-fowls on the marshes and the somnolent hum of insects filled the air. The Comedienne

At the somnolent little village of Burlington we found our guides waiting for us. Days Off And Other Digressions

He had contentedly become a part of his camel; its somnolent tread had lulled his senses like the gentle movement of an ocean steamer on the high seas. There was a King in Egypt

Then, fearing he was forgetting his part and becoming amiable too rapidly, he made a gallant effort to whip up his somnolent indignation. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance

The clink of coin, the dry rattle and abrasion of brilliants, the rustle of bank notes could not38 have fascinated him more than the even, somnolent modulations of the speaker. The Flaw in the Sapphire

The birds twittered only at rare intervals with somnolent voices. The Comedienne

Two or three depressed and somnolent travellers yawned in the waiting-room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps. Days Off And Other Digressions

Something somnolent seemed to be here, and he wondered. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story

The lady smiled, and made a guttural reply; then, with a somnolent wink at me, she waddled onward, flapping the blood-red hands and stamping heavily upon the earthen floor. Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905

He was always in the habit of giving precedence to his mistress, and he really had forgotten for a moment that the somnolent Nym was to be regarded as his Sovereign. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time

Janina longed for them now and listened through the nights, for it seemed to her that she heard the grave autumnal murmur of the forest, the somnolent rustling of its branches. The Comedienne

"Get it covered over," said the somnolent commander, "and let me know what the weather's like at daylight." The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century

Lily Pearl was a somnolent soul in many senses. Peggy Stewart at School

Then came a sort of torpor of the soul, a somnolent sense of comfort in spite of the pains which still continued, but which, however, had ceased to make themselves felt. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII.

An innocent line of railway darted past Kingcombe, in the vain hope of waking that somnolent town. Agatha's Husband A Novel

We would first locate the rhino, usually somnolent under a thorn tree or browsing soberly out in the open. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country

There was growing, however, a tremendous uprising in which hitherto somnolent Fate was about to lay her belated hands upon nearly all the actors of the great drama which had heretofore been so successfully played. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure

Three or four times in the course of the next hour he shifted his position and half opened his eyes, but drooped back quickly into the most comfortable appearance of somnolent lassitude. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation

Certainly, it does not immediately affect reason; but through the nerves of the eye it very powerfully operates on the organ of reason, the brain, and induces an impressive, passive, and somnolent condition. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852

Life quickened in the somnolent town as to the sound of a fire bell as he passed; people stood watching after him; came to doors and windows to lean and look. Trail's End

Steve yawned frankly, viewed again the somnolent street and idly turned the pages. Left End Edwards

But at this hour of the brooding, sultry fall, there was a bitter fragrance in the air, and the world seemed tuned to the somnolent sound of crickets, singing the fields to sleep. Tiverton Tales

He was a fine scholar of Latin and could quote Terence, Horace, and Plautus in a way that could stir the somnolent soul even of a school-boy. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

Even the somnolent gurgle of the bullfrog, around the ponds of Manayunk, as he signals to his mate in the mud, is often preferable to music made by earthly hands. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques

And as he looked there came driving into the somnolent square two men on a wagonload of bones. Trail's End

He, the professor, and Stump were very languid, and, in spite of their anxiety, they could not shake off the somnolent effects of their long walk. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean

His house, white and neat and comfortable, seemed basking like some still, somnolent animal in the warm sunshine. The Calico Cat

The street, save for a distant and presumably somnolent policeman, was deserted. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble

I have had specimens brought to me by the Gonds, but found them very somnolent during the day, being, as most of the above authors state, nocturnal in its habits. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

Then he stretched himself and sank back on his chair in a somnolent state, thinking over the experiences of the night. Banzai! by Parabellum

A somnolent thought that she would go to bed passed dully through her mind. The Forfeit

But generally it comes just as the attitude necessary to comfort has been discovered, and the somnolent individual is ready for the luxury of what I may call a half and half snooze. With The Immortal Seventh Division

She remained so long without speaking that Justine began to think she was falling back into the somnolent state that intervened between her moments of complete consciousness. The Fruit of the Tree

They were somnolent by day, active by night, and did not hybernate in Nepal. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

A stout and somnolent gentleman, with red cheeks and eyes half closed, was the only mourner from the outside world at the funeral. The Prelude to Adventure

One might hope to find such a haven in some somnolent cathedral town, but scarcely in the grimy, smoky, restless metropolis of London. The Silent House

Small intelligent scholars came up and passed by on their way to Balliol Scholarships; but the faces at the back of the room remained terribly somnolent and happy. The Loom of Youth

From its clerical occupants the place had inherited a mild mustiness of theological association—a vague reverberation of old Calvinistic sermons, which served to deepen its extra-mundane and somnolent quality. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series)

This is as high up, apparently, as the private dares to go, unless he considers the somnolent iniquity of the Colonel quite beyond the range of the bugle. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War

Mrs. Krauss was a charming, indolent, clinging sort of individual, who had latterly sunken into a somnolent existence and rarely appeared above the social surface. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma

I was sitting by the fire, somewhat somnolent, and he was lying on the hearthrug. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

In the second over he made a superb drive over shortslip's head to the boundary, and his next shot nearly ended FitzMorris' somnolent existence. The Loom of Youth

I should shun the cat as I should shun the tiger; and even the good cow, solemn and somnolent, would inspire me with but a wary confidence. Our Friend the Dog

We might do far worse than to go back—" "Excuse me for having an opinion," said the Idiot, "but the man of enterprise can't afford to indulge in the luxury of the somnolent cowpath. Coffee and Repartee

With the coming of midwinter a somnolent period seemed also to occur in Hollister's affairs. The Hidden Places

No longer life coursed somnolent through unconscious veins. The Freebooters of the Wilderness

At the farther end of the lane thus made, a flashy young gypsy was seen, with a somnolent old mare on a halter. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs

Again the little room sang with the song of the river, the wind in the trees, and the cat's somnolent note. The Debtor A Novel

They were always relieved when, at last, he would creep into a corner and fall asleep from sheer weariness, for his anxiety made him more and more somnolent as he grew older. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul

Berry, usually somnolent at this hour, sat upon the club kerb and toyed with The Times. Berry And Co.

It was growing dusk, and the distant rumbling of the carriages in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysées sounded like some somnolent rhythm. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2

Then for some minutes he continued in somnolent contemplation of the courthouse front. The Iron Furrow

It was one of those warm, somnolent New Mexico days as peaceful as old age. The Sheriff's Son

The British Legation, allowed to sink into a somewhat somnolent condition owing to its immunity from direct attack, has been now rudely awakened. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation

Finally, a languorous journey by punt from the Barges to Magdalen Bridge more than compensated us for the somnolent half-hour which we had been proposing to spend under the shadow of the City Wall. Berry And Co.

The flight seemed to have exhausted the last flicker of vitality in the old man, for he sank down upon the blankets in a somnolent condition. Jacqueline of Golden River

A clerk as slow of intellect as the first, and even more somnolent, approached and leaned over the counter. Mike Fletcher A Novel

Two minutes later Mrs. Odell-Carney was back at the spring where they had left her somnolent husband, who had refused to climb a hill because all of his breath was required to smoke a cigaret. The Husbands of Edith

All the seats are delightfully soft, and as somnolent as church pews, to which they bear a close resemblance. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two

The whistling, regular snores of the sleeper suddenly wound up with a gasping gurgle; he opened his eyes and, in a strong cereal accent gave vent to a somnolent peevish protest. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police

Here and there lonely electric bulbs made visible somnolent ranks of motor-cars. The Day of Days An Extravaganza

More of it was renounced and a slave a real slave is somnolent, a real slave rests in potatos and anything onion. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories

Though he could compass the hardihood to discourse to an assemblage of distracting schoolboys several hours every week-day, he could not summon the courage to address an audience of somnolent adults two hours on Sunday. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

The world was all unchanged about her, the town somnolent. The Bells of San Juan

A thin, gray, somnolent elder at the end of the table, whose nobly cut face was seared with lines of physical pain endured and outlived, withdrew a very small pipe from his mouth and grunted. Success A Novel

There I found a cab-rank with three or four cabs drawn up in line, the horses somnolent, the drivers snoring inside their vehicles. The Man with the Clubfoot

Do we sense somnolent writhings in black Africa or angry groans in India or triumphant banzais in Japan? Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil

His voice was sunk to a somnolent monotone, his hands folded over his waistcoat moved slowly and rhythmically with his breathing. The Brimming Cup

The nations of the North, still torpid and somnolent in their semi-barbarism, needed the magnetic touch of Italy before they could awake to intellectual life. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series

The human voice, in the stillness of the night, has a somnolent effect upon cattle, and even mosquitoes, unless they are very thick, fail to counteract the effect. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest

If it was night time they were tethered to the long chain, where they lay in a somnolent double row. African Camp Fires

Lord Rosebery had the disadvantage of following upon a speaker who had reduced the House to a state of somnolent despair. Sketches in the House (1893)

He was blind to the charms of Harfleur, famous and somnolent, on the banks of a still more somnolent stream. The Street Called Straight

Rateau, somnolent and pacific in his lodge, became a demon when he got a broom in his hand. Là-bas

He could hear no sound but the voice of Jim Bowley and the steady plodding of his horse's feet as he ceaselessly circled the band of somnolent cattle. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest

A somnolent atmosphere, still touched by the smell of gunpowder, greeted him as he strode majestically down the halls. Truxton King A Story of Graustark

A somnolent city covered their fertile acres, catching but a whiff at angels' intervals of the metropolis of nerves and pulse and feverish corpuscles across the bay. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories

She stopped to chat for a little while and, finding her uncle apparently somnolent and disinclined to talk, turned to Mark and spoke under her breath. The Red Redmaynes

Without possibility of defence, since it is by now a somnolent grub or a helpless pupa, the embryo weevil is eaten until nothing but skin remains. A Book of Exposition

Sir Wilfrid remembered him as a lazy, rather somnolent youth; the man's advance in expression, in significant power, of itself, told much. Lady Rose's Daughter

Had a writer of the age of Charles II. written a verse like that, Mr. Gosse’s chortles would have disturbed the somnolent peace of the House of Peers. The Art of Letters

Here he had sat, that arrogant lover of hers, and slipped from somnolent enjoyment into that dreadful gulf. The Lamp in the Desert

I knows these chickens an' they ain't so somnolent as all that. Wolfville Nights

To many it seems better than a cart-load of dull tracts or somnolent homilies. A Love Episode

Amy nodded drowsily once or twice and Clint stared out the sunny window with the somnolent gaze of a well-fed cat. Left Tackle Thayer

The somnolent boots will carry our things upstairs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891

Once or twice, being somnolent, on a hot afternoon he woke up suddenly with a loud "Amen" in the middle of the sermon. The Parish Clerk

If we, as a people, are so indolent and so somnolent that Antonio gets away with all our wild birds, then do we deserve to be robbed. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation

Her conscience drowsed like this heavy, somnolent evening, and a red moon rose behind the tall trees. Evelyn Innes

Finally he gained the top … The street, somnolent with approaching noon, was deserted—the child had disappeared. Broken to the Plow

A stiff cloudy vapor seemed to have settled on my forehead and temples, which usually occasions a sort of somnolent pressure upon my eyes, and particularly from dinner till evening. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850

I took a surface car up Lexington Avenue and stood between the distended knees of a fat and somnolent Italian gentleman for thirty blocks. The "Goldfish"

Every evening after that Deidrick proposed in perfect good faith, the girl repeated her objections with equal candour, and they were received with somnolent approval. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull

He nearly blushed as, in an attempt to seem at ease, he gazed negligently round at the rows of chairs and marble tables, and at the sparse traffic of the somnolent Place. The Roll-Call

On these occasions she felt weak and somnolent. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts

So far he had only occupied the pulpit on Sunday afternoons, when a country congregation is liable to be both scanty and somnolent. Deadham Hard

A stiff cloudy vapour seemed to have settled on my forehead and temples, which usually occasions a sort of somnolent pressure upon my eyes, and particularly from dinner till the evening. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)

It is the most somnolent animal on earth. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

No; I mean to give my room a somnolent aspect. The Morgesons

Thereafter, for a day and a night and half a day, the patient had lain somnolent, breathing hard, at intervals feebly conscious. True Tilda

When I unbolted the parlor door and found a somnolent navvy waiting to be shaved, I realized with astonishment how brief the interlude had been. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta

Amidst these clouds and mists we create for ourselves a separate world, a world torn off from the immensity of all life, shut up within itself, a little empty and somnolent. Without Dogma

There was no moon; the stars were gone; the sky was inky and the air somnolent. The Man from Brodney's

She recovered and before noon sank into a somnolent state from which she never awoke. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss

From the, sea also came the Argonauts, transforming the somnolent Yerba Buena into the city, of San Francisco. Fascinating San Francisco

Time has softened the formality of the plan, and Milton is now a pleasant old-world place enough, somnolent and rarely visited by the stray tourist, but well worthy of his attention. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter

It was, indeed, a somewhat somnolent discourse, and his audience hardly seemed to wake up till he reached his peroration, which closed with a telling quotation from Oliver Goldsmith. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald"

That great region of island-dotted sea spread between the rugged Olympics and the foot of the Coast range lay bathed in summer sun, untroubled, somnolent. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest

After the luncheon interval, I was pleased to observe that for one cause or another—I repeat, for one cause or another—he was distinctly—shall I say somnolent, gentlemen? Essays in Rebellion

Mr Verloc directed a casual and somnolent glance at Stevie, who sat on his right, delicate, pale-faced, his rosy mouth open vacantly. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale

The stewards had almost to force the doors of the staterooms to make the somnolent appreciate their peril, and many of them, it is believed, were drowned like rats in a trap. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

He would sit swaying with the rolling of the ship and suck at his pipe of blond tobacco and look with an inexpressibly sage but somnolent blue eye at the captain by the hour together. Tono Bungay

By dint of much persuasion I dragged from the somnolent George various details. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies

Wherever it has not been recently Americanized, its beauty is that of sunbaked, somnolent decay. Poems

In less than an hour the delirium ceased; then there was an interval of somnolent painlessness and soft breathing, at the end of which Winterborne passed quietly away. The Woodlanders

I sent below the second mate and his watch and remained in charge, walking the deck through the chill, somnolent hours that precede the dawn. The Shadow Line; a confession

He saw, in a vision, the family pew, the somnolent cushions, the Bibles, the psalm-books, Maria with her smelling-salts, his father sitting spectacled and critical; and at once he was struck with indignation, not unjustly. Tales and Fantasies

The Ballot Question—oldest of dialectic nightmares—is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. Lay Morals

One’s first home impression after a season of lazy Continental travelling and visiting in somnolent English country houses, is that an emblematical Ethiopian should be quartered on our national arms. The Ways of Men

At long intervals the prolonged drone of an insect developed out of the silence, vibrated a moment in a soothing, somnolent, long note, then trailed slowly into the quiet again. The Octopus : A story of California

The clock now had a silent hall to tick in, and an audience of four or five somnolent merchants. The Voyage Out

The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which her husband had whisp�red in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Les Misérables

When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground. Tess of the d'Urbervilles

In a narrow, drowsy side street at Rotterdam, bisected by a somnolent canal, stood flush with the red-brick sidewalk a small clean house. The Yellow Streak

Then came spells of card and checker playing, story-telling, or hours of silent inertia when, man fashion, they brooded over pipes in a patch of sun, somnolent, the mind empty of all thought. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West

A beautiful castle our Dana shall raise On a futile foundation of hope, And its glories shall blaze In the somnolent haze Of the mythical lake del y Soap. Songs and Other Verse

Up in Rachael's long front room a low fire and two lamps shaded with orange silk gave all the light, so that the corners were full of deep and somnolent shadows. The Beautiful and Damned

As I looked, the aspect of the day had changed The soft, somnolent haze had vanished from the air. In the Valley

"It's tramp it or cab it, then," mused the young man mournfully, his longing gaze seeking a nearby cab-rank—just then occupied by a solitary hansom, driver somnolent on the box. The Black Bag

Animals that had dozed through the hot hours and grazed through the cooler hours in somnolent content now quivered alert. The Leopard Woman

The rumble of the train had a very somnolent effect, and once or twice she started up, fearing that she had been slumbering. Jennie Baxter, Journalist

And presently Jack Meredith, lying comfortably somnolent on the outskirts of life, heard light footsteps, but hardly heeded them. With Edged Tools

Gazing round the room, in half somnolent dismay, he saw that he was indeed alone. The Strong Arm

The voice of London sounded in Kirkwood's ears, like the ominous purring of a somnolent brute beast, resting, gorged and satiated, ere rising again to devour. The Black Bag

During a whole sunny afternoon, which I once spent in those pastoral surroundings, I can scarcely remember the slightest movement taking place among the somnolent herd. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3

In the midst of this silence a church bell began its merry pealing, but the chimes were lost in the somnolent city. The Quest

Down the quiet, tree-shaped sidewalk, Mr. Penfield Evans strode into the somnolent afternoon, turning down Huron Street. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors

But the United States would be mistaken to indulge in Schadenfreude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism

If Rome was to be freed from Papal slavery, it would no longer be the somnolent and unupbraiding haunt of quietness which the Norwegian desired for the healing of his spleen and his moral hypochondria. Henrik Ibsen

Christophe was surprised by their indifference: these stiff, somnolent creatures were so utterly unlike the French of his imagination! Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House

Those soft, dark eyes, eyes almost somnolent under their dusky brows and half-drooped lashes,—how different they were from Imogen's, as different as dusk from daylight. A Fountain Sealed

A man regarded him with a peering suspicious gaze; but any doubts were apparently laid, for the other silently resumed a somnolent indifference. The Happy End

For what is immigration if not the importation of ambitious indigents, certain to revitalize the EU's rich and somnolent economies? The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism

Felicity the idle, the somnolent, the alluring, gave place to Felicity the inventor, and again to Felicity the woman of business. The Nest Builder

Every morning he took his outing in Washington Square where, from his invalid's chair, he surveyed somnolent Italians and roller-skating children with his old air of kindly approval. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories

A comfortable, rather somnolent feeling settled upon the school. Mike

When old gentlemen wax garrulous over actors dead and gone, young gentlemen grow somnolent. Obiter Dicta

Much of this town had recently been destroyed in the revolution, and close to the track stood a crowded cemetery with hundreds of gorged and somnolent zopilotes, the carrion-crow of Mexico, about it. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

"Good morrow to thee, Thomas!" quoth he to the portly and somnolent landlord who responded to the summons. Peregrine's Progress

He had his spring work and his autumn work; in the winter he ordained various small indoor jobs for himself; and in the summer, in common with the rest of the place, he grew somnolent. Gone to Earth

When the heavy bolts are drawn back you and everybody can look in from the street on the family gathering, basking in rocking-chairs around the fountain, and in oriental, somnolent conversation. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters

Thor could not undo the giant's wallet, and in his wrath he smote the somnolent lubber with his mallet, a crushing blow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859

As the mountains died down and faded away in the west there opened out many broad meadows in which were countless sleek cattle tended by somnolent herdsmen on horseback. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond

Obediently I clambered into the cart, whereupon Diana prodded the somnolent Diogenes into motion. Peregrine's Progress

He seemed somnolent; but I have seen him worse. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II

He felt in a kind of dazed, somnolent condition. Three John Silence Stories

From that time on, the day had been somnolent, enlivened in the Carey household only by the solemn rite of paying the annual rent of the Yellow House. Mother Carey's Chickens

In certain parts of Russia, where there is a scarcity of food during the winter months, the peasants pass weeks at a time in a somnolent state, arousing once a day for a scant meal. The Glands Regulating Personality

Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic. The Century Vocabulary Builder

Out of the mentions made of this effusion I gathered that it was like a moonlit expanse, quiet, somnolent, cool, and flat as a month of prairies. Memories of Hawthorne

There was a house party and they amused themselves in the somnolent way peculiar to Alta. Sleeping Fires: a Novel

Another personality looked out from the deep-set, somnolent, gray eyes; a personality resolute, forceful and quietly alert. Average Jones

Many crushed souls have these fits of somnolent depression; and it does no good either to reproach them, or to point out that physical infirmity is the cause. The Hallam Succession

Mr Galloway surveyed the somnolent occupants of the room with spirited scorn. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

However, there it was, and perhaps some shrewder psychologist may be able to explain how such a passion could be begotten in a nature otherwise so somnolent. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane

Refreshed by a somnolent Sunday, she would rush furiously into business on Monday morning, and Mr. Robert Ferguson, who never went to church, followed in her wake, doing her bidding with grim and admiring thoroughness. The Iron Woman

Bailey Prentice's disappearance it was set forth, was the lesser of two simultaneous phenomena which violently jarred the somnolent New England village of Harwick from its wonted calm. Average Jones

The wind, which tans even a creole of St. Pierre to an unnatural brown within forty-eight hours of his sojourn in the village, has also a peculiarly somnolent effect. Two Years in the French West Indies

It is a somnolent town; and, as a rule, young men born there follow in their father's footsteps, working on the paternal farm or helping in the paternal store. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories

It was driven by a somnolent negro, who finally halted his team and stared in dull lack of comprehension at what he saw approaching. The Net

This left Billy Smith and me free to make up a somewhat somnolent two-some. A Fool and His Money

It was very hot in the Park, and young Van Bibber, who has a good heart and a great deal more money than good-hearted people generally get, was cross and somnolent. Gallegher and Other Stories

A man walked across the street, from the darkness of a deserted hallway: he gave the somnolent one a kick. The Voice on the Wire

It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. My Life — Volume 2

On his return to his native place, folks found him less heavy and somnolent than formerly. The Fortune of the Rougons

But, after awhile, the old lady was asleep, and the bird, having once or twice attempted to imitate the somnolent sounds which his mistress was making, seemed also to go to sleep himself. The American Senator

There was noise here, but the town as a whole was somnolent, peaceful. Rainbow's End

She lapsed into silence as the somnolent drone of the motor and the whirr of the wheels caused the tired eyes to close sleepily. The Voice on the Wire

She was noisily somnolent; her stays creaked regularly as she breathed, except when she moved slightly and groaned. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man

This big fellow, Eugene, usually preserved a heavy somnolent demeanour. The Fortune of the Rougons

He suggested the attempt to perform an operation on the somnolent raccoon by removing, under the influence of the drug, an internal growth, which was considered the probable cause of his illness. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose

A mist of acrid smoke bathed, drowned them, and they seemed to sink into a somnolent and sad inebriety, in that taciturn and morose intoxication peculiar to men who have nothing to do. Mademoiselle Fifi

"It was a good place back there for sleeping," reflected Walker Farr, remembering the brook, singing over the stones, the whispering alders, the old-fashioned house, and the somnolent landscape. The Landloper

Business of some sort there must be, for the little town, though somnolent, is evidently holding its own; but there seems to be infinite time in which to accomplish whatever the necessities of life demand. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country

I am not quoting the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women to recognize that the Comic Muse is one of their best friends. Complete Short Works of George Meredith

Afterward they walked slowly back together, while on the corners twilight played at somnolent black-and-white checkers with the end of day. Flappers and Philosophers

The long somnolent game was suddenly awakened by two blissful errors, which gave the audience something to jeer at. Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation. Ulysses

The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

If Blucher's force retreat, and Wellington's Lie somnolent in Brussels one day more, I gain that city sans a single shot!... The Dynasts

The "hero" of the story will be a man born and "raised" in a somnolent little southern town. Rolling Stones

The galleries roared; the somnolent Senator shambled over to his own side of the aisle and Senator Penrose was given credit, by the unwise, for humor quite unintended. The Mirrors of Washington

Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible gulpings, the salt somnolent inexhaustible flood. Ulysses

Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction. Rilla of Ingleside

The main thing is to retain one's hold of the prize, which is not difficult in somnolent darkness. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects

Picture the large, ponderous structure of black granite—erected at the expense of millions and suggesting somewhat the somnolent architecture of ancient Egypt—which served as the city hall and county court-house combined. The Titan

As though somnolent, they did not stir unless excited by my teasing them with a bit of straw. More Hunting Wasps

While the somnolent youth finished this task, Thorpe listened for the messenger boy on the stairs. The Blazed Trail

Cursing us for being so early abroad—a curse to which I responded with a sonorous "Pax Domini sit tecum" the still somnolent sentinel opened the post and let us pass. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro

Of course they do not all take part simultaneously in the day's work; the majority remain underground, somnolent, or occupied in setting their cellars in order. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects

The captain had been there once before when he first returned to Bayport, but the sermon was more somnolent than edifying, and he hadn't repeated the experiment. Cy Whittaker's Place

The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization

Thorpe ate, his eyes half closed, in somnolent satisfaction. The Blazed Trail

‘I have just heard news that explains all that,’ said the giant, eyeing her movements with somnolent irascibility. The Trumpet-Major

He gave me another somnolent grin, and fell into deeper slumber. Sixes and Sevens

The cool breath of the wet leaves without slightly stirred the white dimity curtains, and somewhere from the darkened eaves there was a still, somnolent drip. A First Family of Tasajara

Mrs. Ruck was a large, plump, light-coloured person, with a smooth fair face, a somnolent eye, and an elaborate coiffure. The Pension Beaurepas

But watching that red-cheeked, white-haired, somnolent figure, his smile was not so contemptuous as might have been expected. Five Tales

That pig, now a plump and somnolent porker, was Georgie's especial favorite. Thankful's Inheritance

The snug "High Streets," the red brick "Parades" and "Broadways," with their lines of houses with blinds drawn, seemed to have their eyes shut, so blank, so somnolent was their aspect. Okewood of the Secret Service

Yet, owing to the somnolent stillness settled upon the river, these sounds escaped, failed to catch one's attention. Through Russia

Hamilcar," I said to him, as I stretched my legs—"Hamilcar, somnolent Prince of the City of Books—thou guardian nocturnal! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

Ziska's uncle and aunt were both large, stout, and somnolent people, very good-natured and kind, but a trifle dull. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)

Casey muttered, staring down upon a somnolent wilderness blanketed with hushed midnight. The Trail of the White Mule

With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none

He is the Turk of the intellect made somnolent by meditation. Beatrix

His footsteps died out forward, and a somnolent, unbreathing repose took possession of the stranded yacht. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows

To the right and to the left it breathed through slender tubes of exit—narrow, somnolent ravines, cobble paved and unlighted. Roads of Destiny

More than once he crossed the seas; the Hague knew him, and Amsterdam, though these somnolent cities gave small occasion for the display of his talents. A Book of Scoundrels

Sweet Cecilia had yielded to the somnolent influences of the supper and the night. I Say No

And yet, in this somnolent condition, my mind was able to pursue lazy trains of pleasant thought. The Two Destinies

"Shag!" he suddenly exclaimed, thereby galvanizing into life the somnolent negro. The Golf Course Mystery

By no means," answered the soldier; "I am no whit somnolent; I always hear best with my eyes shut. A Legend of Montrose

And I must do Anton the justice to say that he served me well in his own somnolent fashion. Russia

The excitability is opposed to slowness and one-sidedness in thought; he is easily surprised by irrelevancies; he is torn from his drowse, and behaves like a somnolent drunkard…. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students

"Can you prescribe a draught for me—some mild opiate which will always keep me in a somnolent condition, a draught that will not be injurious although taken constantly." The Magic Skin

For a somnolent person it requires no effort to counterfeit death,—as Dame de Stael and Friends of Liberty can see the King's Government long doing, faisant le mort. The French Revolution

I am not quoting the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women to recognize that the Comic Muse is one of their best friends. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit

There he sat, gentle, and stolid, and somnolent. The Iron Heel

The little town slept in the sun, and the somnolent storekeeper and postmaster scarcely kept his eyes open long enough to make up the packet of letters and newspapers. Moon-Face

Armchairs wide as beds and sofas deep as alcoves suggested voluptuous idleness and the somnolent life of the seraglio. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

Come forth, my lovely seneschal! so somnolent,so statuesque!Come forth you exquisite grotesque! half womanand half animal! Ballad of Reading Gaol

I lay waiting for death in a state of somnolent pain. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

With half-closed eyes this cat was keeping solitary watch over the house, where the close and now frozen odors which the women nightly left behind them had rendered him somnolent. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola

In her ears was the voice of the stream—a hoarse-throated, sleepy old giant, muttering and mumbling his somnolent fancies. Moon-Face

单词	somnolent
例句	somnolent He would go to work and perform his tasks in a somnolent haze. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z There are three Smart Aids in Englewood, the small, somnolent beach town where I live. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She grew weak and somnolent, could spend hours lying in the shade looking up at the sun, uninterested in anything else. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The style is stripped-down, straightforward and somnolent in the classic Maxwell manner, but without — I’m sorry to report — the usual Maxwell impact. Theater Review: ?Early Plays? by O?Neill From Wooster Group at St. Ann?s 2012-02-23T05:07:20Z Flanked by banks of windows to the north and south, the only interruption to the prevailing sense of order and calm is the somnolent hum of passing tube trains. A British Interior Designer’s Tricks for Staying Organized 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z There’s something somnolent, even funereal, about this work — and about Sargent’s Impressionist pictures in general, for all their vivid colors and vigorous brushwork. Art Review: John Singer Sargent, a Realist Who Tried Another Style 2010-12-01T07:45:00Z The characters include a somnolent black brain surgeon, a robot who thinks he is a man, a Christian fundamentalist, and a reality TV show host billionaire who acts like a professional wrestler. The GOP’s gross Adam Sandler primary: Donald Trump, penis jokes and the pathetic state of conservatism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z Downtown was then a rather somnolent area, its historic core and business districts attracting rushes of people during office hours; the rest of it, half boarded up. Downtown L.A.'s hot art scene? It was just as happening in the '70s 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z But it’s not always easy to tell how much her affectless mien is an acting choice and how much it comes from being infected by the somnolent rhythms of a leaden script. Review: Sleepwalking Through the ’70s in ‘Downtown Race Riot’ 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z She is prone to parroting her thesis and lapsing into somnolent praise. What Made Leonardo Such a Great Artist? Science, Says a New Book 2020-12-08T05:00:00Z Suddenly changing gears from somnolent piano lines to driving propulsion and back again, the music has the blank moodiness of a score for a nonexistent film. Yanni Is Still Chilling, 25 Years After the Acropolis 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z Overall, the recording slides between hypnotic and somnolent. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In a somnolent Cannes season of too many disappointments from major directors and a tepid level of ambition, Mommy is precisely the electroshock jolt the festival needed. REVIEW: Mommy at Cannes: The One We've Been Waiting For 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Later, in the early evening, Mei returns, finding her roommate in the same somnolent state that she had left her nine hours earlier. An Ominous Sleeping Sickness Paralyzes a Small California Town in ‘The Dreamers’ 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z In the bargain that they reached, Palestinian statehood would be an objective achieved gradually, starting with autonomy for the Gaza Strip and the somnolent West Bank town of Jericho, both under Israeli control then. Seeing ‘Oslo,’ Remembering Hope 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The beauty slinks with somnolent calculation, spinning a silver hoop between her admirers. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z In “Robinson in Ruins” a dry, almost somnolent Vanessa Redgrave plays the surviving partner to Robinson’s Boswell, now dead, and the gloom softens as she and Robinson set foot in rural England. \| 'Robinson in Ruins': ?Robinson in Ruins? From Patrick Keiller ? Review? 2012-01-11T22:49:41Z And the somnolent ballads like “Manhattan Bridge” and “Same Coin,” when he’s not letting studiousness interfere too much with melody, carry the day. The Passions and Travails of a Jazzy Everywoman 2011-06-20T21:40:37Z This somnolent sound makes you feel both relaxed and attentive, drowsy and giddy. Review: Mike Birbiglia Is a Very Nervous Dad in ‘The New One’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z We passed griddles of salt pans, smallholdings of tobacco, and somnolent lagoons stained white and pink with flowering waterlilies. With civil war and a tsunami behind it, Sri Lanka’s east coast is opening up to tourism 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Earth Angels of Darkness Demons of Light Southern Lord With their reverb-drenched, melancholic guitars and somnolent rhythms, Dylan Carson's revived Earth always seemed the perfect audio accompaniment to a photographic journey through America's hinterland. Earth: Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light 1 ? review 2011-02-17T22:20:01Z You can hear all the words, too, which is deliberate – not for him the somnolent murmurings of the chillwave boys. New band of the day ? No 811: Diamond Rings 2010-06-18T16:16:00Z Filmed in the town of Walton in upstate New York, "The Afterlight" moves to the somnolent rhythms of the changing landscape, the motility of the light creating hypnotic shifts of mood. 'The Afterlight': loss and alienation in farm country 2011-09-01T19:17:08Z This could offer insight into Beethoven’s lifelong interest in the piano trio, but although the group’s performance was competent, this was a curiously somnolent concert. Mendelssohn Piano Trio Studies Beethoven at American Art Museum’s Steinway Series Born and bred in South Africa, Hood won but did not earn an Oscar for the social drama Tsotsi, then directed the somnolent political film Rendition and the non-whelming X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Ender’s Game: Is This Boy ‘The One’? 2013-11-01T23:16:53Z His novel is weirdly somnolent given how portentously it primes us for danger, for the burning of mosques and blood in the streets. A Debut Novel Unfolds Over 48 Tense Hours in London 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The piece began with waves of drumrolls, spiked with flecks of sounds from maracas and somnolent gongs. Music Review: ?Persephassa? by Xenakis, on Central Park Lake 2010-06-22T22:13:00Z “Here in the suspended somnolent zone where I told my body to die.” Review: Eve Ensler Goes Deep ‘In the Body of the World’ 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z “South of Market,” as the photographer’s work is titled, today hangs in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in the very neighborhood whose somnolent state Jang once captured on film. South of Market: How the new SFMOMA reflects the sea change that has engulfed one San Francisco neighborhood 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z That morsel of context sharpened the song’s lyrics, exposing his somnolent arrangement as a deadly lure. Music Review: Tangled in a Dreamscape With Friends in Tow 2010-09-23T21:21:00Z In its mournful and death-steeped view of Monrovia’s somnolent and baffled residents, Wiseman’s film struck me as a documentary version of a zombie film. “The Dead Don’t Die,” Reviewed: Jim Jarmusch’s Fiercely Political Zombie Comedy 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z All that “blah blah blah” is steeped in a somnolent restlessness that promises sweet awakenings. Review: Desert Awakening in ‘The Band’s Visit’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Amid skepticism that he couldn’t coach at the higher level, Jackson tore the program down to the studs, brought in 86 new players, and blanketed the somnolent program with passion and positivity. Plaschke: At Colorado, Deion Sanders is the only one ready for primetime 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Set against the backdrop of a somnolent downtown, says Ms. Respress, the McPherson Square encampment feeds the impression that homelessness is exploding in D.C. Opinion \| It’s time to clear out the McPherson Square encampment 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Yet even with past experience as a guide, local officials still seem remarkably somnolent. Opinion \| U.S. cities are failing to address the remote-work revolution 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The dairy cows also showed behavioral changes — yawning and salivating a lot, moving a little unsteadily on their hoofs, standing in one place for a protracted period, and having a “somnolent appearance.” Cows fed hemp produced milk with THC, researchers say 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z While the Vance campaign was largely somnolent after the primary, Ryan cast his opponent as an extremist and opportunist with weak ties to Ohio. Opinion \| Ohio’s Tim Ryan, with a glass of wine, rebrands the Democrats 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z A low sun ignites the flat water behind her somnolent head, enhancing the atmosphere of morbid Shakespearean fantasy. Perspective \| Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted this painting. His grandmother called it junk. Just last week, many European countries were still so somnolent about the threat Russia posed to Ukraine that Germany’s spy chief was caught unawares in Kyiv when the Kremlin invasion started. In just 72 hours, Europe overhauled its entire post-Cold War relationship with Russia 2022-02-28T05:00:00Z The carved channels delineate in negative space the pendulous breasts, somnolent grimace and agitated body. Review: L.A. gallery-going during Omicron isn't optimal but offers excellent art along the way 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Telfaz11 started out on YouTube, where its videos hooked young Saudis looking for a hip alternative to the somnolent broadcast television. As Other Arab States Falter, Saudi Arabia Seeks to Become a Cultural Hub 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z The Herald Examiner building remained standing, albeit in a somnolent state. Way better than a parking lot: Smart reuse revives Julia Morgan's Herald Examiner building 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z There is a rather famous account of a World War I pilot who reported finding himself floating through a school of apparently somnolent swifts high above the clouds. Opinion \| The last swifts of summer 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z But it also brought youth, diversity and better wages — breathing new life into somnolent towns that had been losing population since the 1930s. Oil boom remakes N. Dakota county with fastest growth in US 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z And he played with a kind of brilliant camouflage, seeming to be somnolent for long stretches before asserting himself at urgent moments with a mesmerizing dribble, astounding pass or stabbing shot. Diego Maradona, One of Soccer’s Greatest Players, Is Dead at 60 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z The U.S. bond market, however, was somnolent as investors looked past polling day and figured huge government borrowing for coronavirus relief spending will happen no matter who wins. Asia's COVID control tempers global stock selloff, U.S. futures jump 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z In late August, near the end of his somnolent address on the South Front of the White House accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: "The fact is, we're here – and they're not." The coming civil war caused by Trump’s ego 2020-09-30T04:00:00Z In late August, near the end of a somnolent address on the South Lawn of the White House, accepting the Republican nomination, Trump extemporized: “The fact is, we’re here – and they’re not.” Amid talk of civil war, America is already split – Trump Nation has seceded \| Robert Reich 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, its melody beyond compare. Commentary: Bach wrote BWV 82 to transcend tragedy. It's a lullaby for our times too 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z The former vice president demonstrated more vigor than at many of the previous debates, when he often seemed somnolent. Amid Insults and Interruptions, Sanders Absorbs Burst of Attacks in Debate 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Without the feeding, Rafaela became more somnolent and her eyes were closed more often. Guilt drove him to keep his brain-injured wife alive. What would she have wanted? 2019-11-25T05:00:00Z “I was yelling it and screaming it, so they would arise from their somnolent behavior,” he said. Rudy Giuliani, a New York Times reporter and me: When corrections go wrong 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z As it happened, I had wandered by Conforto’s locker before the game and asked if he sensed New Yorkers were taking his once somnolent team seriously. As Wins Pile Up, Mets and Their Fans Soak in the Moment 2019-08-10T04:00:00Z Last Friday, with its ranks of moored leisure boats and mobility scooters sparkling in the midday sun, it looked like just the kind of somnolent retirement town you might expect from that result. In the safest Tory seat in the country, who do angry, alarmed voters want to be PM? 2019-05-25T04:00:00Z And seeing that they did indeed give us the best show on television, it’s probably petty to pick holes in their strangely somnolent commentary. The biggest ‘Game of Thrones’ mystery: Why are those ‘Inside the Episodes’ so boring? 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z West Jefferson, Alabama, a somnolent town of around 420 people northwest of Birmingham, was an unlikely venue to seize the national imagination. 'We're not a dump' – poor Alabama towns struggle under the stench of toxic landfills 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z If you got 18 survivors of that famous Alps trek and put them into two lineups, they’d have more zip than the exhausted, somnolent survivors of Game 4. Perspective \| The Red Sox saved their manager — and themselves — to pull within a win of a World Series title 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z If these somnolent 21st-century Tokyo salarymen shock some of us into thinking more critically about our own role in the world, then Jaszczuk is not only succeeding by his own yardstick. Legless Japanese businessmen: the photographer who caught a Tokyo epidemic 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z State and local leaders “are carrying the flag while the big powers, the national guys, are rather somnolent.” They Defied Trump on Climate Change. Now, It’s Their Moment of Truth. 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z In the midst of the August doldrums, when the capital is normally somnolent amid the congressional recess, Sunday’s news-talk shows brought the usual mix of condemnation and praise for Trump. In new outburst over Mueller probe, Trump insists that White House counsel McGahn is no 'rat' 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Grimm accused the congressman of a somnolent approach to governance, both figuratively and literally. Beers, Burgers and Red-Meat Politics in N.Y.’s ‘Trump Country’ 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z The movie centers around Baby’s last summer before heading into the Peace Corps where she spends the summer with her family at a somnolent resort. 10 films and TV series to help get summer started right this holiday weekend 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z “I prefer the term wonky,” the Republican said in a recent interview, his voice low and somewhat somnolent. Maryland’s low-key lieutenant governor embraces his dryness. 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z “I prefer the term ‘wonky,’ ” the Republican said in a recent interview, his voice low and somewhat somnolent. ‘Boyd who?’ Maryland’s low-key lieutenant governor embraces his dryness. 2018-01-27T05:00:00Z It doesn’t totally work, but it was the quixotic shot in the arm that I needed to keep me awake during an unusually somnolent auto show. Nissan’s Xmotion SUV is rugged on the streets, zen in the sheets 2018-01-16T05:00:00Z Several other lawmakers announced premature retirements and the somnolent Ethics Committee launched a handful of investigations, too. Often at odds, Trump and GOP relish tax win, court picks 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z Despite the toll it takes, sleep trouble was a somnolent research area until the past decade or so. How to Get Children with Autism to Sleep 2017-11-18T05:00:00Z “The debate that was quite spirited became somewhat somnolent in the post-Cold-War world,” he said. Libertarian billionaire Charles Koch is making a big bet on foreign policy 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z All of this will remain one long, blurred, gruesome memory all winter, and perhaps longer, because the heretofore somnolent Nats offense did its job, battering out 14 hits. Perspective \| An unforgettable night, at once ugly and beautiful, ends the Nationals’ season 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z This week in Soissons, a somnolent provincial town far from the gaudy cast-of-thousands extravaganzas of the campaign, Ms. Le Pen was greeted by a few dozen somber National Front activists in a drab meeting hall. Le Pen Loses Luster, Signaling Far Right’s Retreat in France, and Maybe Beyond 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z Some facilities have informal rules to save scientists from somnolent stupidity. The pleasure, and paranoia, of the scientific night shift 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z True, they are easy targets compared to our parents, which doesn't seem quite fair, but frankly they are just as somnolent. Because Punk Still Rocks 2016-09-17T04:00:00Z Patrol cars filled with somnolent officers are a common sight. A policeman’s lot in a police state: not happy 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Decades ago Máncora was little more than a somnolent fishing village surrounded by desert. Surfing to success 2016-08-08T04:00:00Z Atlético slumbered through a somnolent first half but was far better in the second and looked more likely to win in regulation. Real Madrid Edges Atlético Madrid in Shootout for Champions League Title 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z The International Olympic Committee, a body happiest when somnolent and counting its cash, felt compelled to threaten Russia with suspension from the Olympics. Pervasive Doping in Summer Sports Is Likely Only the Half of It 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z The somnolent pace has amazed even those accustomed to Albany’s inertia. A Leisurely Return for the New York State Legislature 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The first episode of the new miniseries moves at a somnolent pace The first episode moves at a somnolent pace, and is primarily concerned with retconning The X-Files mythology to match modern concerns. Review: The X-Files is back, but the fight for the future is over 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z Normally low-key, even somnolent, in public, Leggett is more prone to a smile or a laugh when he shares a stage with Baker. How a law school dean and his student became political partners and peers 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z The scene might have been discouraging for another candidate: Graham and his small entourage were positioned behind a somnolent band tootling jazz standards on a rolling trailer. Lindsey Graham is a joyful candidate with a bleak campaign message 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z This past week, in an effort to make his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination seem less somnolent, Jeb Bush released an ad attacking Donald J. Trump. Donald Trump’s Gomorrah Problem 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z The crowd was somnolent until a dropped ball by Bardsley led to the 155th international goal by Sinclair, the British Columbia product in her fourth World Cup. England eliminates host Canada in World Cup Q-final, 2-1 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z The sellout Game 7 crowd of 18,006 was loudest during the national anthem, then did little to help ignite the Rangers’ somnolent offense. Rangers Left to Digest Another Empty Result 2015-05-30T04:00:00Z And judging by his speech, that someone was Santorum, who by comparison delivered a lackluster, somnolent performance that barely kept half of Rand’s audience. Last Call: Jeb Tames a CPAC Crowd Without Tossing (Much) Red Meat 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Boxer said the committee and its peer in the House shared an urgency to push through a major transportation bill this spring, but she said the rest of Congress seemed remarkably somnolent on the need. Plan to shift transportation burden to states seems doomed 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z And so with 64 minutes gone and the game scoreless: enter the somnolent one. Raheem Sterling may be ‘tired’ but he still finds time to stretch legs 2014-10-12T04:00:00Z Still, the Golden Pass project remains a somnolent hub of high technology and giant structures perched incongruously in alligator-infested swampland. A U-Turn for a Terminal Built in Texas to Import Natural Gas 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt’s lavish lifestyle is rumored to include private "pillow parties" that see celebrities and fellow startup titans bedding down as if in some somnolent modern Bohemian Grove gathering. Inside alternate universe America's ban on sleep 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z The result has been an outbreak of panic among the normally somnolent dogs of war. The case for Trident is absurd. Scotland may help us get rid of it 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Snooker, while carrying with it the somnolent pleasure of watching a game unfold gently before your eyes, is not a sport that is a particular hive of mavericks. The Joy of Six: Roger Federer to Phil Tufnell - ponytailed sportsmen 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Anger is an appropriate reaction to the somnolent response of Nigeria’s government. Nigerians seethe at the government’s failure to rescue abducted schoolgirls 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z In a somnolent week for sports news, Tony Dungy is taking a lot of grief for saying he would not have drafted Michael Sam. Is Tony Dungy Homophobic, or Just a Great Judge of Talent? Nearby, five Siberian tigers, somnolent after lunch, lie in small cages. Worry Under the Big Top as Mexico City Moves to Ban Circus Animals 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z And even a somnolent Congress could get involved at some point. John Oliver, Net Neutrality, and the Ghost of SOPA-PIPA 2014-06-09T04:00:00Z In the madness of 20th-century China, the Tiananmen protests were a moment of sublime sanity, when the individual emerged from the somnolent collective and found their true voice. Tiananmen Square 25 years on: 'Every person in the crowd was a victim of the massacre' 2014-06-01T04:00:00Z For months, the race was shaping up as a somnolent affair, and many assumed that Mr. Santos would win fairly easily over a field of competitors that included Mr. Zuluaga and several other candidates. In Colombia, an Election May Turn on a Dirty War 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z But in mid-May, the roses remain grim, somnolent; and the conifer displays properly leave us more amazed by the trees than their elegant surroundings. ‘Groundbreakers’ Pays Tribute to Female Landscape Designers 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z He upheld this notoriety Monday, if only for three somnolent innings, while the Mets fell to the Atlanta Braves, 13-5 in a game that took 3 hours 41 minutes to complete. Braves 13, Mets 5: Matsuzaka Makes a Long Day Even Longer for the Mets 2013-09-02T22:54:28Z A somnolent offense has had a residual effect on the pitching staff, the manager and the Cell's fireworks operator, who appears to be as lonely as the Maytag repairman. White Sox won't tear it all down 2013-08-09T02:10:00Z He remains in a hospital psychiatric unit, where doctors are trying to adjust his medications so that he is calm but not somnolent. The New Old Age Blog: When Aggression Follows Dementia 2013-07-12T20:38:06Z Sometimes, he shoots a somnolent look at the club in his hand with an expression that seems to say, Why are you doing this to me? On Golf: The Majors Seem to Sap the Energy From Woods 2013-06-16T00:48:28Z Those drinking at the well of economic pessimism see an economy hobbled by zombie banks, debt-drenched households, fiscal austerity, and a somnolent export sector. The politics of full employment are the progressive answer to austerity 2013-06-12T14:30:02Z “New, spectacular and symbolic gestures will surely be needed to rattle the somnolent, shake anesthetized consciences and reawaken the memory of our origins,” Mr. Venner wrote. \| Europe: Right-Wing Writer Kills Himself in Notre-Dame in Paris 2013-05-21T18:34:37Z Even as he has catapulted across the regions and threatened a somnolent Long Island Power Authority with extinction if it does not restore electricity service faster, he has spoken of the global-warming challenge. Gotham: The Storm Had Heroes, but Can the Mayoral Campaign? 2012-11-13T03:08:09Z Today, there’s a long lick of sunlight coursing up the western slope of Vesuvius, the bay is somnolent, but the barman, Alessandro Recano, is vigilant—and good company. Naples: The Hotel Terrace with the Best View of Vesuvius 2012-10-15T21:44:38Z Things got so bad that the otherwise somnolent Federal Reserve actually banned Citi from making any more acquisitions while it sorted out its mess. The Trade: Few Repercussions in the Conversion of a Former Wall St. Titan 2012-08-01T16:00:40Z Then in his somnolent condition he began muttering his wandering sentences, punctuated with many "Achs!" The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z Instantly the somnolent men were roused into activity. With Beatty off Jutland A Romance of the Great Sea Fight 2012-04-21T02:00:25.260Z As I never slept at night, I wore a somnolent expression in the day-time which did not augur well for me with my uncle. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z The Lord of Lulworth, a somnolent Earl, Gave his moustache an extra curl As he woke in the morn, and ope'd his eye, A passing fair lady was passing by! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z Wrongly directed, we burst into the somnolent quarters of the city authorities and made our request for a permit. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The patients appear somnolent, are restless in bed, have light delirium, and respond only when spoken to loudly. A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases 2012-03-17T02:00:54.097Z He seemed to be in a somewhat somnolent mood. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z Alas, the inn here was awake, indeed, in a somnolent, grumpy, sullen fashion, but there were no horses. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z But the somnolent Earl and the testy Lord Pursued and caught, ere they got aboard The pirate vessel, the lovers twain, Who leapt from the boat! Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z It is a placid, almost somnolent village of villas, abounding with delightful lawns and gardens, with great elms shading its old-fashioned thoroughfares and drooping their pliant boughs above its comfortable homes. Literary Shrines The Haunts of Some Famous American Authors 2012-02-18T03:00:15.287Z Dickens's exposure of the schools led to their extinction and to the consignment of Bowes to its present somnolent condition. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z Even his appearance sets him apart: at 49, Beltagy looks sleek and youthful next to the Brotherhood’s bearded, pot-bellied, somnolent top men. Mohamed Beltagy, Egypt?s Human Bellwether 2012-01-19T22:25:10Z In the basin below somnolent streets spread away and lose themselves in glistening turnpikes between bluegrass farms where velvet lawns and shaded woodlands surround old mansions that mirror the charm and flavor of rural England. The Code of the Mountains 2012-01-07T03:00:15.050Z Tolstoy's teachings can not at present shake the somnolent conscience of America. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Elderly Fijians are somnolent, and the pigeon's cooing at sunrise was useful in arousing him from slumber. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z Within this squalid pen, women in bedraggled black gowns, children in semi-attire and closely attended by swarms of flies, two or three emaciated goats, a few chickens, and a somnolent burro. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Preachers use such artifices when pews grow somnolent, and why not teachers? Sunday-School Success A Book of Practical Methods for Sunday-School Teachers and Officers 2011-12-21T03:00:45.660Z This question had the same loitering, somnolent intonation that always belonged to her speech, and contrasted so quaintly with her nervous, volatile turns and poses. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Sometimes, from one of the somnolent offices, a friendly figure would step into the somnolent street to lighten me on my way, and it was pleasanter to walk up Walnut in company than alone. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z Or had she, lying in bed, in a half somnolent condition, been the unconscious witness of an actual occurrence? Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z It is difficult to account for the somnolent tendencies of the soldiers on this occasion. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z In other words, he had been dozing, and in a somnolent state had unconsciously placed his iron-shod boot upon the long-suffering main switch. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z He is more yellow and blacker than ever, and he has grown stout, heavy, and somnolent. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z They heard the train whistle shriekingly in the distance, and the somnolent porters roused themselves. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z So I found a terrific audio metaphor for all that was hapless about David I. Weprin’s losing Democratic campaign, and for the somnolent state of politics in this city. Gotham: New York City Voters Proving They Could Care Less 2011-09-20T01:07:16Z The whole aspect of the place was that of somnolent respectability. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z But Damascus, be it at the beauty salon, in its somnolent neighborhoods or in its fear-stricken mosques, remains the linchpin, a reality that even activists acknowledge. In Damascus, Amid Uprising, Syrians Act Like Nothing?s Amiss 2011-09-06T00:14:20Z That could inject some life into a somnolent offense. The Fifth Down: A.F.C. Scouting Report 2011-09-04T05:15:40Z In the intense, somnolent silence of the little provincial square its tinkle sounded loud and clear. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The silence, the inaction of the place hurt him to the core, and the remark that suddenly ripped the somnolent atmosphere was so electric that the Maestra sprang to her feet. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z Redknapp will be less concerned with history, however, and more with the current state of his squad after an unusually somnolent summer transfer window. Tottenham may lack new faces but they can wing it at Old Trafford 2011-08-20T21:57:00Z For once the little, somnolent village awoke, and, as before pointed out, a Prince awoke it. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It seemed that all the other saloons and stores in sight, including the Three Star Grocery, were somnolent. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z The elder lady shook off her somnolent expression, and nodded sagaciously. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z And day by day the artlessness of this exotic humanity touches you more;—day by day this savage, somnolent, splendid Nature—delighting in furious colour—bewitches you more. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z Of the American poets he "could bear to read" certain parts of Walt Whitman, Poe, and Hawthorne, while he referred to our most beloved poet as "the somnolent Longfellow." Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The Potman filled their tankards With the liquor each preferred, Torpid and somnolent they sat, And spake not one rude word. Verse and Worse 2011-07-12T02:00:34.607Z Having been at work all night it might be supposed that he would need sleep; but when he looked on Betty Hunt his gaze was anything but somnolent. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z When she concluded, the lady lapsed into a somnolent silence, which, if assumed, was tactful, leaving the man, who was glad of a respite from conversational effort, to digest the information. The League of the Leopard 2011-07-23T02:00:12.490Z The single tilt appears in the camping-place, set up as a tent; and inside it the chief, somnolent after a sleepless night, and wearied with the work of the morning, is reclining in siesta. The Yellow Chief 2011-07-05T02:00:27.013Z The somnolent place which Dickens drew—its High Street a narrow lane, its houses abodes of gloom and mystery—has not much existence in fact. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z Then a thought, a thought which his somnolent daydreaming over the fishing lines had driven away for the time, crossed his mind, and he paled. The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition 2011-06-06T02:00:10.330Z It was still too early for the cabarets and gambling places to be open, and even the saloon bars were somnolent save for the flies buzzing about them or drunkenly crawling in the spilled beer. The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z This being so, I am sure that Bazzard, who is not only “particularly angular, but also somnolent, dull, incompetent, egotistical, is wholly incapable of playing the part of the supple, quick-witted, resolute, dignified Datchery.” The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens 2011-06-05T02:00:15.443Z The somnolent hum of insect life, the whisper of a light wind in the corn, were alike conducive to sleep. The Mystery of The Barranca 2011-05-25T02:00:16.720Z A beautiful castle our Dana shall raise On a futile foundation of hope, And its glories shall blaze In the somnolent haze Of the mythical lake del y Soap. Hoosier Lyrics 2011-05-20T02:00:38.353Z And the warble of the blue-birds filled the odoriferous somnolent air. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Perhaps her trouble is that she is a little bit too prosperous with an olden-time prosperity; a little bit too somnolent and satisfied. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z She had reached a stage of fatigue when blows would not have quickened her steps, whilst her rider, roused from his own somnolent weariness, was suddenly alert and eager. Petticoat Rule 2011-04-18T02:00:14.507Z He stared in slow astonishment, his lower lip quivered; he closed his great, somnolent eyes as if to give himself up to the dreamlike ecstasy of the moment. The Hills of Refuge A Novel 2011-04-09T02:00:10.530Z I came upon this remedy for the United States’ somnolent electoral politics while attending the annual gathering of the Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago News Cooperative: Want to Increase Voting? Discounts Seem to Work 2011-04-02T20:49:18Z Equities remain the best asset class in town, but somnolent activity very often precedes a sharp correction. Broker tips Barclays to move to US, as FTSE edges higher for fifth day 2011-03-29T16:47:40Z This part of the deck was occupied by somnolent, basking figures. Anna of the Five Towns 2011-03-08T03:00:38.117Z Her expression lapsed more and more towards an almost somnolent reverie. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Go back to Florence; she is so calm, so sweet, so—somnolent,"—with a sneer,—"that she will not ruffle your temper. Airy Fairy Lilian 2011-02-11T03:00:31.760Z "No end of a somnolent old India—what!" he said ironically, sitting on Swinton's bed. The Three Sapphires 2011-02-07T03:00:24.770Z They dashed through, Swickey’s paddle flashing as she fended off, now to the left, now to the right, and before they realized it they were in the listless drift of the somnolent dead waters below. Lost Farm Camp 2011-01-23T03:00:16.437Z Minutes, hours perhaps, passed before he felt even somnolent. Vision House 2011-01-13T03:01:00.407Z No doubt before long the bicycle and the motor-car will enliven its somnolent neighbourhood, but at present it is free from the summer jaunts of tourists. The Pagan's Cup 2011-01-06T03:00:42.697Z There was no evidence Wednesday on the crowded but otherwise somnolent grounds of the hotel, baking in the near-equatorial heat, that military training was going on. Ivory Coast Leader?s Rival Remains Under Blockade 2011-01-06T00:20:28Z But the restful churn of the engines had a somnolent effect upon him, and presently he tossed the news-sheet away, put out the light and settled himself for sleep. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z She left his side, crossed the room, and stood by the square, ugly window, looking out, but as blind as Carrados to the details of the somnolent landscape. Max Carrados 2010-12-24T03:00:32.117Z At last the hand of peace-loving and somnolent Headmasters has been forced by the action of a higher power. The Lighter Side of School Life 2010-12-24T03:00:31.150Z I cried, hurriedly, as I poked at the somnolent wretch with my cane. Christmas Penny Readings Original Sketches for the Season 2010-12-20T17:11:47.497Z Yes, outdraws Jersey Shore—and it's making the somnolent History Channel, a network previously known for Hitler documentaries and Ice Road Truckers, one of cable's hottest networks. Pawn Stars: Our Most Revealing Reality Show 2010-10-21T21:00:00Z How concerned should the Cowboys be about preseason injuries, particularly on the line for an already somnolent offense? N.F.L. Preview: N.F.C. East 2010-09-04T22:46:00Z Myeloma is a disease of many stages, including one called smoldering or somnolent that is rarely treated unless it starts to progress. Personal Health: Cancer Survival Demands Steady Scientific Progress 2010-04-12T20:54:00Z The Communist Party compiles lists of names and submits them to citizens for approval in local elections so somnolent that few notice them. Annual Chinese Legislative Meeting Begins 2010-03-04T20:18:00Z This, however, was also checked, and he settled down once more into a slow jig-jog of the most somnolent nature for those who were behind. A Little World Elsie was therefore able to follow the somnolent progress of the adventures of the late Nicholas, M.D., a gentleman whose travels had led him to the Island of Trinidad. Deep Moat Grange A moment later, a somnolent and rotund lady in one of the rockers started up furiously as another whiff drifted in her direction. A Star for a Night A Story of Stage Life The third outdoor man was Thomas Price, generally known as the Dormouse on account of his somnolent manner of working. Springtime and Other Essays The Major, leaning back somnolent in his great elbow-chair, fingers joined and head bowed, listened lethargically to the Sergeant who, sitting bolt upright, read aloud from the manuscript he held. Our Admirable Betty A Romance He had struggled against the somnolent god, but in vain; and at last passed into slumberland unconsciously and overcome. Little Oskaloo or, The White Whirlwind His eyes, somnolent as a rule, fixed Garth with a lively reproach. The Gray Mask He had departed in tears, leaving her alone with a somnolent old serving-woman. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second So soon as he awoke his nurse brought him some nourishment, his wounds were dressed afresh, after which he immediately sank into his somnolent state. Klytia A Story of Heidelberg Castle Fortunately for the somnolent soldier, the sharp looks of Lazarus Seaman were not bent in his direction. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 For twenty years the Upper Fourth had passed a somnolent existence under the direction of an amiable and unassuming cleric. Years of Plenty Moreover, the good merchant's Madeira had its power of somnolent charm, and, thus soothed, De Courval passed into a world of visionless slumber. The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington Through the landward aperture, the great house all through the long, sunny morning seemed somnolent, almost deserted, but towards luncheon time a motor-car arrived from the direction of the station, containing a single passenger. Jacob's Ladder Of a somnolent summer morning while Chauncey was scrubbing his long yellow teeth he glimpsed blurred movement through the starched white bathroom curtain. Here Lies At last, as if determined to remain in doubt no longer, he touched the somnolent first person lightly on the shoulder. The History and Records of the Elephant Club The Hudson's Bay remained in its somnolent state till the very extremity of outrage brought such a mighty awakening that it put its rivals to an eternal sleep. The Story of the Trapper He had left his painting to bring her a glass of water from the house, and she rested in a somnolent calm. Rose MacLeod There were aviaries of doves, about which strollers were gathered, and a distant somnolent military guard. The Bright Shawl The scene, at this hour just before dawn, was somnolent and peaceful. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 They had had their cold bite, rested the mules and Molly, and the latter was plodding along in the shade of the wagon-top all but asleep, and her rider was in a like somnolent condition. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure But, as ever, the disinterested grew somnolent with content, and gave no heed to the burrowing of the hungry recuperated and wiser rats in that prolific underworld whence never a high-minded citizen emerges. Ancestors A Novel It was mid-afternoon, which, in Aden, seemed to be a glaring, shadeless hour and, but for these occasional somnolent starers, a deserted one. The House of Fulfilment But the weary physical being sunk to rest, and then in the midst of his somnolent mental impressions was wrought a change. The Story of Old Fort Loudon The palace was somnolent; the officials were asleep: none had heard of the murder. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 Lithe-looking as a panther—a somnolent animal now to all appearances—an occasional gleam of the half masked eyes suggested that this show of indifference concealed a mind of no inferior order. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch Then he went out and home again, and fulfilled his destiny for the day by another somnolent hour with Milly before the fire. Old Crow Having no leader, it is vague, somnolent, and takes little interest in current events. The Forerunners He came to Demer�'s bedside that night as he lay sleeping in quiet peace, even his somnolent nerves realizing the prospect of release. The Story of Old Fort Loudon The Ballot Question—oldest of dialectic nightmares—is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Alas! there was more luxury than life in these somnolent vagaries. Thirty-Seven Days of Peril from Scribner's Monthly Vol III Nov. 1871 A somnolent fat man, bulging, like a feather-bed, on a three-legged stool, dozed 336 at the receipt of custom, with a deal table and a bowl of sixpences before him. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) As a fact, I believe there was another somnolent interval of an hour or so before I did actually reach this stage of taking refreshment and asking questions. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography There was a calm over it, and a somnolent peace. The Bondboy A scream echoed over the somnolent night—a voice from the rear of the house. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 In the other was posted Orpheus, his body, which was convulsively in motion, forming an odd contrast to his somnolent, imperturbable Scots face. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) In the hands of the Government it is apt to lose a good deal of its fructifying energy and ceaseless striving and to sink instead into placid and somnolent repose. Right Above Race A moonlit landscape lay somnolent around the cage. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The peacefully somnolent Social Era, he thought, might awaken to new things under the stimulus of such fresh writing as hers. Carmen Ariza More minutes had gone by in the suave swinging of their steps to Offenbach's somnolent measures when she asked, abruptly, "Do you skate?" The Side Of The Angels A Novel Two large Japanese gold tench, whose somnolent existence was now for the first time made interesting, dashed about looking for an exit, and there was a general noise of splashing and laughter. Frederic Lord Leighton An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work He had hardly realised his pleasantly tired and rather somnolent condition when his daughter entered carrying a large Teddy-bear, two dolls, a toy trumpet and a box containing a wooden tea-set. Jan and Her Job Every man under his own fig-tree, forsooth, obese and somnolent, the spirit disintegrated! Dreamers of the Ghetto This is a style of construction peculiar to Warwick, and adds to the oddity of this somnolent old town, that seems to have been practically asleep for centuries. England, Picturesque and Descriptive A Reminiscence of Foreign Travel Extreme heat after extreme cold always has a somnolent effect on those who experience it. The Hound From The North The soft glow of a few misty, somnolent stars gave no light among the trees, no light shone from the house. The Flockmaster of Poison Creek The heavy eyes, the languid stretch, the unmeaning contemplation of the noontide sunlight, the slow struggles of a somnolent brain. The Twins of Suffering Creek It's time, too, that we goes on record as a whole public in some manner an' form best calk'lated to make a somnolent East set up an' notice us.' Faro Nell and Her Friends Wolfville Stories He turned another knob, watched the marching, playing, whirling of somnolent colors on the domed ceiling of his room. The Martian Cabal And a bandit flyer could not very well land unseen or unnoticed, even in somnolent Nareda. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 They were somnolent in the darkness, but one hand stung as if in white-hot metal as he went on. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 His eyes opened wider, and interested thought stirred in his somnolent brain. The Twins of Suffering Creek Collecting himself and glancing almost guiltily round the somnolent carriage, he turned back to the beginning. The Education of Eric Lane Accordingly, he got an automobile and started for that somnolent village on the next day. Louisiana Lou A Western Story He sat, somnolent, in a comfortable chair, his long legs stretched out before him, smoking a clay pipe. Mr. Wicker's Window It is a sleepy, somnolent little town in which the most pretentious building was begun as the Presidential Palace and wound up as the home of a bank. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Motor-car traffic had practically ceased; foot-passengers there were none; on each side of the street the houses were somber and somnolent. The Dust Flower I think that Lambert's enormous and somnolent bulk must have annoyed Ransome, for he went on to make an attack which was virulently sarcastic. Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate It was a pretty but rather somnolent place, just a string of white-painted, green-blinded houses and two or three stores along both sides of an oiled highway. The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air One cannot blame them for being so dumbfounded at such actions, such incomprehensible disturbing actions in a somnolent town of long ago. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders They lived in a quiet old house on a silent old street, with a sleepy old servant and two somnolent old cats. 'Lizbeth of the Dale He looked across at her quickly, a keen flash of interest in his somnolent brown eyes. Malcolm Sage, Detective Once, however, on the way and alone, it might have been observed that the somnolent coast-guard walked with an energetic and active step, very unlike his usual gait! Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora As for the man on the lookout, he was notorious for his somnolent powers. The Voyage of the Aurora Here on this occasion it looked so tranquil, so somnolent, that we tarried all unwilling to lose its flavor of the unusual. Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders All are good examples, but the longest, soundest sleeper of the whole somnolent brotherhood is the Jumping Mouse. Wild Animals at Home He is actually somnolent, deprived of the power of movement by an internal disturbance which my teasing produced at the outset and which is prolonged beyond its usual limits by the surrounding coolness. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles The captain soon learnt all about my somnolent habits, and chose me for his favourite sentinel.” Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora It was very dreary sitting alone evening after evening beside the stove, and the company of the somnolent Sproatly was not much more cheerful. Hawtrey's Deputy If sensitive, let the subject sit in a passive state, while you touch the somnolent region on the temples, one inch horizontally behind the brow. Buchanan's Journal of Man, June 1887 Volume 1, Number 6 The spirit of revolutionary France had not yet touched the heart of the Habsburg empire, and national rivalries were expressed, not so much in expansive ambitions, as in a somnolent clinging to traditional privileges. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" He made his way to where Greenstream village lay somnolent beneath the refulgent day. Mountain Blood A Novel On the contrary, however—whether from a malady or some other cause—the man appeared as somnolent and immobile as if both his visage and body were carved out of marble. Wood Rangers The Trappers of Sonora So with no attention to my roommates I hastily washed and dressed, buckled on my armament, and stumped freely forth, down the somnolent hall, down the creaking stairs, and into the silent lobby. Desert Dust But the cultivation of the sand-rush, arundo arenaria, has done what the other "devises" failed to do; and the rushy towans have now provided an ideal golf-course, which prospers though the little town is somnolent. The Cornwall Coast Ah! in a somnolent cocoon of sensual languidness, from which in after life she was hard put to it to escape. Terribly Intimate Portraits A frowzy old hobo poked a somnolent head up from a pile of lumber near the tracks and yawned welcome to the recruit. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Two or three depressed and somnolent travelers yawned in the waiting room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories The Duchess remembered being read to one evening after dinner, but the debates, as delivered by the Duke, had generally a somnolent effect upon his wife. Vixen, Volume II. Reasonably sure that tomorrow would lug in new brands of trouble to pester a boy with, the Wildcat steered his somnolent mentality clear of the shoals of surmise and let tomorrow take care of itself. Lady Luck Walter alone was at ease, with digestive and somnolent capabilities proof against any invasion. The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America It was very dreary sitting alone evening after evening beside the stove, and the company of the somnolent 14 Sproatly was not cheerful. Masters of the Wheat-Lands It was the hour of siesta—though why one hour should be considered more somnolent than another in this place the girl from Vermont could not imagine. The Mission of Janice Day Percy, in extremely somnolent tones, answered that he intended to go on. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot Beholding the somnolent proprietor, he advanced quietly to the middle of the big room. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play She sat down at the piano and began mechanically to play scales, but the somnolent monotony of the tones only added to her nervousness. The Comedienne She did not move from where she stood confronting her late employer, still preserving his attitude of somnolent detachment. The Green Rust The Constance Colfax boasted no staterooms; but the few all-night passengers from up the lake were sprawled about the unventilated cabin in a somnolent state. The Mission of Janice Day The little village of Bixby was in its usual condition of somnolent cheerfulness, that same afternoon. Hildegarde's Holiday a story for girls But Theodore Bertram was human, and this is tantamount to saying that he was not capable of ignoring the somnolent influences of human nature. The Wild Man of the West A Tale of the Rocky Mountains The twitter of birds sounded at rare intervals from the thickets, and only the cry of the water-fowls on the marshes and the somnolent hum of insects filled the air. The Comedienne At the somnolent little village of Burlington we found our guides waiting for us. Days Off And Other Digressions He had contentedly become a part of his camel; its somnolent tread had lulled his senses like the gentle movement of an ocean steamer on the high seas. There was a King in Egypt Then, fearing he was forgetting his part and becoming amiable too rapidly, he made a gallant effort to whip up his somnolent indignation. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The clink of coin, the dry rattle and abrasion of brilliants, the rustle of bank notes could not38 have fascinated him more than the even, somnolent modulations of the speaker. The Flaw in the Sapphire The birds twittered only at rare intervals with somnolent voices. The Comedienne Two or three depressed and somnolent travellers yawned in the waiting-room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps. Days Off And Other Digressions Something somnolent seemed to be here, and he wondered. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story The lady smiled, and made a guttural reply; then, with a somnolent wink at me, she waddled onward, flapping the blood-red hands and stamping heavily upon the earthen floor. Smaïn; and Safti's Summer Day 1905 He was always in the habit of giving precedence to his mistress, and he really had forgotten for a moment that the somnolent Nym was to be regarded as his Sovereign. The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Janina longed for them now and listened through the nights, for it seemed to her that she heard the grave autumnal murmur of the forest, the somnolent rustling of its branches. The Comedienne "Get it covered over," said the somnolent commander, "and let me know what the weather's like at daylight." The Shellback's Progress In the Nineteenth Century Lily Pearl was a somnolent soul in many senses. Peggy Stewart at School Then came a sort of torpor of the soul, a somnolent sense of comfort in spite of the pains which still continued, but which, however, had ceased to make themselves felt. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. An innocent line of railway darted past Kingcombe, in the vain hope of waking that somnolent town. Agatha's Husband A Novel We would first locate the rhino, usually somnolent under a thorn tree or browsing soberly out in the open. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country There was growing, however, a tremendous uprising in which hitherto somnolent Fate was about to lay her belated hands upon nearly all the actors of the great drama which had heretofore been so successfully played. South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Three or four times in the course of the next hour he shifted his position and half opened his eyes, but drooped back quickly into the most comfortable appearance of somnolent lassitude. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation Certainly, it does not immediately affect reason; but through the nerves of the eye it very powerfully operates on the organ of reason, the brain, and induces an impressive, passive, and somnolent condition. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 446 Volume 18, New Series, July 17, 1852 Life quickened in the somnolent town as to the sound of a fire bell as he passed; people stood watching after him; came to doors and windows to lean and look. Trail's End Steve yawned frankly, viewed again the somnolent street and idly turned the pages. Left End Edwards But at this hour of the brooding, sultry fall, there was a bitter fragrance in the air, and the world seemed tuned to the somnolent sound of crickets, singing the fields to sleep. Tiverton Tales He was a fine scholar of Latin and could quote Terence, Horace, and Plautus in a way that could stir the somnolent soul even of a school-boy. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Even the somnolent gurgle of the bullfrog, around the ponds of Manayunk, as he signals to his mate in the mud, is often preferable to music made by earthly hands. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques And as he looked there came driving into the somnolent square two men on a wagonload of bones. Trail's End He, the professor, and Stump were very languid, and, in spite of their anxiety, they could not shake off the somnolent effects of their long walk. The Wizard of the Sea A Trip Under the Ocean His house, white and neat and comfortable, seemed basking like some still, somnolent animal in the warm sunshine. The Calico Cat The street, save for a distant and presumably somnolent policeman, was deserted. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble I have had specimens brought to me by the Gonds, but found them very somnolent during the day, being, as most of the above authors state, nocturnal in its habits. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Then he stretched himself and sank back on his chair in a somnolent state, thinking over the experiences of the night. Banzai! by Parabellum A somnolent thought that she would go to bed passed dully through her mind. The Forfeit But generally it comes just as the attitude necessary to comfort has been discovered, and the somnolent individual is ready for the luxury of what I may call a half and half snooze. With The Immortal Seventh Division She remained so long without speaking that Justine began to think she was falling back into the somnolent state that intervened between her moments of complete consciousness. The Fruit of the Tree They were somnolent by day, active by night, and did not hybernate in Nepal. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon A stout and somnolent gentleman, with red cheeks and eyes half closed, was the only mourner from the outside world at the funeral. The Prelude to Adventure One might hope to find such a haven in some somnolent cathedral town, but scarcely in the grimy, smoky, restless metropolis of London. The Silent House Small intelligent scholars came up and passed by on their way to Balliol Scholarships; but the faces at the back of the room remained terribly somnolent and happy. The Loom of Youth From its clerical occupants the place had inherited a mild mustiness of theological association—a vague reverberation of old Calvinistic sermons, which served to deepen its extra-mundane and somnolent quality. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) This is as high up, apparently, as the private dares to go, unless he considers the somnolent iniquity of the Colonel quite beyond the range of the bugle. Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War Mrs. Krauss was a charming, indolent, clinging sort of individual, who had latterly sunken into a somnolent existence and rarely appeared above the social surface. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma I was sitting by the fire, somewhat somnolent, and he was lying on the hearthrug. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter In the second over he made a superb drive over shortslip's head to the boundary, and his next shot nearly ended FitzMorris' somnolent existence. The Loom of Youth I should shun the cat as I should shun the tiger; and even the good cow, solemn and somnolent, would inspire me with but a wary confidence. Our Friend the Dog We might do far worse than to go back—" "Excuse me for having an opinion," said the Idiot, "but the man of enterprise can't afford to indulge in the luxury of the somnolent cowpath. Coffee and Repartee With the coming of midwinter a somnolent period seemed also to occur in Hollister's affairs. The Hidden Places No longer life coursed somnolent through unconscious veins. The Freebooters of the Wilderness At the farther end of the lane thus made, a flashy young gypsy was seen, with a somnolent old mare on a halter. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs Again the little room sang with the song of the river, the wind in the trees, and the cat's somnolent note. The Debtor A Novel They were always relieved when, at last, he would creep into a corner and fall asleep from sheer weariness, for his anxiety made him more and more somnolent as he grew older. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul Berry, usually somnolent at this hour, sat upon the club kerb and toyed with The Times. Berry And Co. It was growing dusk, and the distant rumbling of the carriages in the Avenue of the Champs-Elysées sounded like some somnolent rhythm. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 Then for some minutes he continued in somnolent contemplation of the courthouse front. The Iron Furrow It was one of those warm, somnolent New Mexico days as peaceful as old age. The Sheriff's Son The British Legation, allowed to sink into a somewhat somnolent condition owing to its immunity from direct attack, has been now rudely awakened. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation Finally, a languorous journey by punt from the Barges to Magdalen Bridge more than compensated us for the somnolent half-hour which we had been proposing to spend under the shadow of the City Wall. Berry And Co. The flight seemed to have exhausted the last flicker of vitality in the old man, for he sank down upon the blankets in a somnolent condition. Jacqueline of Golden River A clerk as slow of intellect as the first, and even more somnolent, approached and leaned over the counter. Mike Fletcher A Novel Two minutes later Mrs. Odell-Carney was back at the spring where they had left her somnolent husband, who had refused to climb a hill because all of his breath was required to smoke a cigaret. The Husbands of Edith All the seats are delightfully soft, and as somnolent as church pews, to which they bear a close resemblance. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two The whistling, regular snores of the sleeper suddenly wound up with a gasping gurgle; he opened his eyes and, in a strong cereal accent gave vent to a somnolent peevish protest. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Here and there lonely electric bulbs made visible somnolent ranks of motor-cars. The Day of Days An Extravaganza More of it was renounced and a slave a real slave is somnolent, a real slave rests in potatos and anything onion. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein With Two Shorter Stories Though he could compass the hardihood to discourse to an assemblage of distracting schoolboys several hours every week-day, he could not summon the courage to address an audience of somnolent adults two hours on Sunday. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. The world was all unchanged about her, the town somnolent. The Bells of San Juan A thin, gray, somnolent elder at the end of the table, whose nobly cut face was seared with lines of physical pain endured and outlived, withdrew a very small pipe from his mouth and grunted. Success A Novel There I found a cab-rank with three or four cabs drawn up in line, the horses somnolent, the drivers snoring inside their vehicles. The Man with the Clubfoot Do we sense somnolent writhings in black Africa or angry groans in India or triumphant banzais in Japan? Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil His voice was sunk to a somnolent monotone, his hands folded over his waistcoat moved slowly and rhythmically with his breathing. The Brimming Cup The nations of the North, still torpid and somnolent in their semi-barbarism, needed the magnetic touch of Italy before they could awake to intellectual life. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The human voice, in the stillness of the night, has a somnolent effect upon cattle, and even mosquitoes, unless they are very thick, fail to counteract the effect. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest If it was night time they were tethered to the long chain, where they lay in a somnolent double row. African Camp Fires Lord Rosebery had the disadvantage of following upon a speaker who had reduced the House to a state of somnolent despair. Sketches in the House (1893) He was blind to the charms of Harfleur, famous and somnolent, on the banks of a still more somnolent stream. The Street Called Straight Rateau, somnolent and pacific in his lodge, became a demon when he got a broom in his hand. Là-bas He could hear no sound but the voice of Jim Bowley and the steady plodding of his horse's feet as he ceaselessly circled the band of somnolent cattle. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest A somnolent atmosphere, still touched by the smell of gunpowder, greeted him as he strode majestically down the halls. Truxton King A Story of Graustark A somnolent city covered their fertile acres, catching but a whiff at angels' intervals of the metropolis of nerves and pulse and feverish corpuscles across the bay. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories She stopped to chat for a little while and, finding her uncle apparently somnolent and disinclined to talk, turned to Mark and spoke under her breath. The Red Redmaynes Without possibility of defence, since it is by now a somnolent grub or a helpless pupa, the embryo weevil is eaten until nothing but skin remains. A Book of Exposition Sir Wilfrid remembered him as a lazy, rather somnolent youth; the man's advance in expression, in significant power, of itself, told much. Lady Rose's Daughter Had a writer of the age of Charles II. written a verse like that, Mr. Gosse’s chortles would have disturbed the somnolent peace of the House of Peers. The Art of Letters Here he had sat, that arrogant lover of hers, and slipped from somnolent enjoyment into that dreadful gulf. The Lamp in the Desert I knows these chickens an' they ain't so somnolent as all that. Wolfville Nights To many it seems better than a cart-load of dull tracts or somnolent homilies. A Love Episode Amy nodded drowsily once or twice and Clint stared out the sunny window with the somnolent gaze of a well-fed cat. Left Tackle Thayer The somnolent boots will carry our things upstairs. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 Once or twice, being somnolent, on a hot afternoon he woke up suddenly with a loud "Amen" in the middle of the sermon. The Parish Clerk If we, as a people, are so indolent and so somnolent that Antonio gets away with all our wild birds, then do we deserve to be robbed. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Her conscience drowsed like this heavy, somnolent evening, and a red moon rose behind the tall trees. Evelyn Innes Finally he gained the top … The street, somnolent with approaching noon, was deserted—the child had disappeared. Broken to the Plow A stiff cloudy vapor seemed to have settled on my forehead and temples, which usually occasions a sort of somnolent pressure upon my eyes, and particularly from dinner till evening. International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850 I took a surface car up Lexington Avenue and stood between the distended knees of a fat and somnolent Italian gentleman for thirty blocks. The "Goldfish" Every evening after that Deidrick proposed in perfect good faith, the girl repeated her objections with equal candour, and they were received with somnolent approval. Cobwebs from an Empty Skull He nearly blushed as, in an attempt to seem at ease, he gazed negligently round at the rows of chairs and marble tables, and at the sparse traffic of the somnolent Place. The Roll-Call On these occasions she felt weak and somnolent. The Book of Dreams and Ghosts So far he had only occupied the pulpit on Sunday afternoons, when a country congregation is liable to be both scanty and somnolent. Deadham Hard A stiff cloudy vapour seemed to have settled on my forehead and temples, which usually occasions a sort of somnolent pressure upon my eyes, and particularly from dinner till the evening. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) It is the most somnolent animal on earth. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 No; I mean to give my room a somnolent aspect. The Morgesons Thereafter, for a day and a night and half a day, the patient had lain somnolent, breathing hard, at intervals feebly conscious. True Tilda When I unbolted the parlor door and found a somnolent navvy waiting to be shaved, I realized with astonishment how brief the interlude had been. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta Amidst these clouds and mists we create for ourselves a separate world, a world torn off from the immensity of all life, shut up within itself, a little empty and somnolent. Without Dogma There was no moon; the stars were gone; the sky was inky and the air somnolent. The Man from Brodney's She recovered and before noon sank into a somnolent state from which she never awoke. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss From the, sea also came the Argonauts, transforming the somnolent Yerba Buena into the city, of San Francisco. Fascinating San Francisco Time has softened the formality of the plan, and Milton is now a pleasant old-world place enough, somnolent and rarely visited by the stray tourist, but well worthy of his attention. Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter It was, indeed, a somewhat somnolent discourse, and his audience hardly seemed to wake up till he reached his peroration, which closed with a telling quotation from Oliver Goldsmith. A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" That great region of island-dotted sea spread between the rugged Olympics and the foot of the Coast range lay bathed in summer sun, untroubled, somnolent. Big Timber A Story of the Northwest After the luncheon interval, I was pleased to observe that for one cause or another—I repeat, for one cause or another—he was distinctly—shall I say somnolent, gentlemen? Essays in Rebellion Mr Verloc directed a casual and somnolent glance at Stevie, who sat on his right, delicate, pale-faced, his rosy mouth open vacantly. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale The stewards had almost to force the doors of the staterooms to make the somnolent appreciate their peril, and many of them, it is believed, were drowned like rats in a trap. Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters He would sit swaying with the rolling of the ship and suck at his pipe of blond tobacco and look with an inexpressibly sage but somnolent blue eye at the captain by the hour together. Tono Bungay By dint of much persuasion I dragged from the somnolent George various details. The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies Wherever it has not been recently Americanized, its beauty is that of sunbaked, somnolent decay. Poems In less than an hour the delirium ceased; then there was an interval of somnolent painlessness and soft breathing, at the end of which Winterborne passed quietly away. The Woodlanders I sent below the second mate and his watch and remained in charge, walking the deck through the chill, somnolent hours that precede the dawn. The Shadow Line; a confession He saw, in a vision, the family pew, the somnolent cushions, the Bibles, the psalm-books, Maria with her smelling-salts, his father sitting spectacled and critical; and at once he was struck with indignation, not unjustly. Tales and Fantasies The Ballot Question—oldest of dialectic nightmares—is often found astride of a somnolent sederunt. Lay Morals One’s first home impression after a season of lazy Continental travelling and visiting in somnolent English country houses, is that an emblematical Ethiopian should be quartered on our national arms. The Ways of Men At long intervals the prolonged drone of an insect developed out of the silence, vibrated a moment in a soothing, somnolent, long note, then trailed slowly into the quiet again. The Octopus : A story of California The clock now had a silent hall to tick in, and an audience of four or five somnolent merchants. The Voyage Out The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which her husband had whisp�red in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. Les Misérables When they had passed the little town of Stourcastle, dumbly somnolent under its thick brown thatch, they reached higher ground. Tess of the d'Urbervilles In a narrow, drowsy side street at Rotterdam, bisected by a somnolent canal, stood flush with the red-brick sidewalk a small clean house. The Yellow Streak Then came spells of card and checker playing, story-telling, or hours of silent inertia when, man fashion, they brooded over pipes in a patch of sun, somnolent, the mind empty of all thought. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West A beautiful castle our Dana shall raise On a futile foundation of hope, And its glories shall blaze In the somnolent haze Of the mythical lake del y Soap. Songs and Other Verse Up in Rachael's long front room a low fire and two lamps shaded with orange silk gave all the light, so that the corners were full of deep and somnolent shadows. The Beautiful and Damned As I looked, the aspect of the day had changed The soft, somnolent haze had vanished from the air. In the Valley "It's tramp it or cab it, then," mused the young man mournfully, his longing gaze seeking a nearby cab-rank—just then occupied by a solitary hansom, driver somnolent on the box. The Black Bag Animals that had dozed through the hot hours and grazed through the cooler hours in somnolent content now quivered alert. The Leopard Woman The rumble of the train had a very somnolent effect, and once or twice she started up, fearing that she had been slumbering. Jennie Baxter, Journalist And presently Jack Meredith, lying comfortably somnolent on the outskirts of life, heard light footsteps, but hardly heeded them. With Edged Tools Gazing round the room, in half somnolent dismay, he saw that he was indeed alone. The Strong Arm The voice of London sounded in Kirkwood's ears, like the ominous purring of a somnolent brute beast, resting, gorged and satiated, ere rising again to devour. The Black Bag During a whole sunny afternoon, which I once spent in those pastoral surroundings, I can scarcely remember the slightest movement taking place among the somnolent herd. Normandy, Illustrated, Part 3 In the midst of this silence a church bell began its merry pealing, but the chimes were lost in the somnolent city. The Quest Down the quiet, tree-shaped sidewalk, Mr. Penfield Evans strode into the somnolent afternoon, turning down Huron Street. The Sturdy Oak A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors But the United States would be mistaken to indulge in Schadenfreude or to gleefully assume that it has finally succeeded in isolating the insolent French and the somnolent Germans. The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism If Rome was to be freed from Papal slavery, it would no longer be the somnolent and unupbraiding haunt of quietness which the Norwegian desired for the healing of his spleen and his moral hypochondria. Henrik Ibsen Christophe was surprised by their indifference: these stiff, somnolent creatures were so utterly unlike the French of his imagination! Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Those soft, dark eyes, eyes almost somnolent under their dusky brows and half-drooped lashes,—how different they were from Imogen's, as different as dusk from daylight. A Fountain Sealed A man regarded him with a peering suspicious gaze; but any doubts were apparently laid, for the other silently resumed a somnolent indifference. The Happy End For what is immigration if not the importation of ambitious indigents, certain to revitalize the EU's rich and somnolent economies? The Belgian Curtain Europe after Communism Felicity the idle, the somnolent, the alluring, gave place to Felicity the inventor, and again to Felicity the woman of business. The Nest Builder Every morning he took his outing in Washington Square where, from his invalid's chair, he surveyed somnolent Italians and roller-skating children with his old air of kindly approval. The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories A comfortable, rather somnolent feeling settled upon the school. Mike When old gentlemen wax garrulous over actors dead and gone, young gentlemen grow somnolent. Obiter Dicta Much of this town had recently been destroyed in the revolution, and close to the track stood a crowded cemetery with hundreds of gorged and somnolent zopilotes, the carrion-crow of Mexico, about it. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond "Good morrow to thee, Thomas!" quoth he to the portly and somnolent landlord who responded to the summons. Peregrine's Progress He had his spring work and his autumn work; in the winter he ordained various small indoor jobs for himself; and in the summer, in common with the rest of the place, he grew somnolent. Gone to Earth When the heavy bolts are drawn back you and everybody can look in from the street on the family gathering, basking in rocking-chairs around the fountain, and in oriental, somnolent conversation. In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters Thor could not undo the giant's wallet, and in his wrath he smote the somnolent lubber with his mallet, a crushing blow. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 As the mountains died down and faded away in the west there opened out many broad meadows in which were countless sleek cattle tended by somnolent herdsmen on horseback. Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Obediently I clambered into the cart, whereupon Diana prodded the somnolent Diogenes into motion. Peregrine's Progress He seemed somnolent; but I have seen him worse. A Political Diary 1828-1830, Volume II He felt in a kind of dazed, somnolent condition. Three John Silence Stories From that time on, the day had been somnolent, enlivened in the Carey household only by the solemn rite of paying the annual rent of the Yellow House. Mother Carey's Chickens In certain parts of Russia, where there is a scarcity of food during the winter months, the peasants pass weeks at a time in a somnolent state, arousing once a day for a scant meal. The Glands Regulating Personality Sleepy, drowsy, slumberous, somnolent, sluggish, torpid, dull, lethargic. The Century Vocabulary Builder Out of the mentions made of this effusion I gathered that it was like a moonlit expanse, quiet, somnolent, cool, and flat as a month of prairies. Memories of Hawthorne There was a house party and they amused themselves in the somnolent way peculiar to Alta. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Another personality looked out from the deep-set, somnolent, gray eyes; a personality resolute, forceful and quietly alert. Average Jones Many crushed souls have these fits of somnolent depression; and it does no good either to reproach them, or to point out that physical infirmity is the cause. The Hallam Succession Mr Galloway surveyed the somnolent occupants of the room with spirited scorn. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories However, there it was, and perhaps some shrewder psychologist may be able to explain how such a passion could be begotten in a nature otherwise so somnolent. The Revolution in Tanner's Lane Refreshed by a somnolent Sunday, she would rush furiously into business on Monday morning, and Mr. Robert Ferguson, who never went to church, followed in her wake, doing her bidding with grim and admiring thoroughness. The Iron Woman Bailey Prentice's disappearance it was set forth, was the lesser of two simultaneous phenomena which violently jarred the somnolent New England village of Harwick from its wonted calm. Average Jones The wind, which tans even a creole of St. Pierre to an unnatural brown within forty-eight hours of his sojourn in the village, has also a peculiarly somnolent effect. Two Years in the French West Indies It is a somnolent town; and, as a rule, young men born there follow in their father's footsteps, working on the paternal farm or helping in the paternal store. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories It was driven by a somnolent negro, who finally halted his team and stared in dull lack of comprehension at what he saw approaching. The Net This left Billy Smith and me free to make up a somewhat somnolent two-some. A Fool and His Money It was very hot in the Park, and young Van Bibber, who has a good heart and a great deal more money than good-hearted people generally get, was cross and somnolent. Gallegher and Other Stories A man walked across the street, from the darkness of a deserted hallway: he gave the somnolent one a kick. The Voice on the Wire It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. My Life — Volume 2 On his return to his native place, folks found him less heavy and somnolent than formerly. The Fortune of the Rougons But, after awhile, the old lady was asleep, and the bird, having once or twice attempted to imitate the somnolent sounds which his mistress was making, seemed also to go to sleep himself. The American Senator There was noise here, but the town as a whole was somnolent, peaceful. Rainbow's End She lapsed into silence as the somnolent drone of the motor and the whirr of the wheels caused the tired eyes to close sleepily. The Voice on the Wire She was noisily somnolent; her stays creaked regularly as she breathed, except when she moved slightly and groaned. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man This big fellow, Eugene, usually preserved a heavy somnolent demeanour. The Fortune of the Rougons He suggested the attempt to perform an operation on the somnolent raccoon by removing, under the influence of the drug, an internal growth, which was considered the probable cause of his illness. Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose A mist of acrid smoke bathed, drowned them, and they seemed to sink into a somnolent and sad inebriety, in that taciturn and morose intoxication peculiar to men who have nothing to do. Mademoiselle Fifi "It was a good place back there for sleeping," reflected Walker Farr, remembering the brook, singing over the stones, the whispering alders, the old-fashioned house, and the somnolent landscape. The Landloper Business of some sort there must be, for the little town, though somnolent, is evidently holding its own; but there seems to be infinite time in which to accomplish whatever the necessities of life demand. A Tramp Through the Bret Harte Country I am not quoting the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women to recognize that the Comic Muse is one of their best friends. Complete Short Works of George Meredith Afterward they walked slowly back together, while on the corners twilight played at somnolent black-and-white checkers with the end of day. Flappers and Philosophers The long somnolent game was suddenly awakened by two blissful errors, which gave the audience something to jeer at. Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation. Ulysses The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man If Blucher's force retreat, and Wellington's Lie somnolent in Brussels one day more, I gain that city sans a single shot!... The Dynasts The "hero" of the story will be a man born and "raised" in a somnolent little southern town. Rolling Stones The galleries roared; the somnolent Senator shambled over to his own side of the aisle and Senator Penrose was given credit, by the unwise, for humor quite unintended. The Mirrors of Washington Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible gulpings, the salt somnolent inexhaustible flood. Ulysses Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction. Rilla of Ingleside The main thing is to retain one's hold of the prize, which is not difficult in somnolent darkness. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects Picture the large, ponderous structure of black granite—erected at the expense of millions and suggesting somewhat the somnolent architecture of ancient Egypt—which served as the city hall and county court-house combined. The Titan As though somnolent, they did not stir unless excited by my teasing them with a bit of straw. More Hunting Wasps While the somnolent youth finished this task, Thorpe listened for the messenger boy on the stairs. The Blazed Trail Cursing us for being so early abroad—a curse to which I responded with a sonorous "Pax Domini sit tecum" the still somnolent sentinel opened the post and let us pass. The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Of course they do not all take part simultaneously in the day's work; the majority remain underground, somnolent, or occupied in setting their cellars in order. The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects The captain had been there once before when he first returned to Bayport, but the sermon was more somnolent than edifying, and he hadn't repeated the experiment. Cy Whittaker's Place The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way. The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization Thorpe ate, his eyes half closed, in somnolent satisfaction. The Blazed Trail ‘I have just heard news that explains all that,’ said the giant, eyeing her movements with somnolent irascibility. The Trumpet-Major He gave me another somnolent grin, and fell into deeper slumber. Sixes and Sevens The cool breath of the wet leaves without slightly stirred the white dimity curtains, and somewhere from the darkened eaves there was a still, somnolent drip. A First Family of Tasajara Mrs. Ruck was a large, plump, light-coloured person, with a smooth fair face, a somnolent eye, and an elaborate coiffure. The Pension Beaurepas But watching that red-cheeked, white-haired, somnolent figure, his smile was not so contemptuous as might have been expected. Five Tales That pig, now a plump and somnolent porker, was Georgie's especial favorite. Thankful's Inheritance The snug "High Streets," the red brick "Parades" and "Broadways," with their lines of houses with blinds drawn, seemed to have their eyes shut, so blank, so somnolent was their aspect. Okewood of the Secret Service Yet, owing to the somnolent stillness settled upon the river, these sounds escaped, failed to catch one's attention. Through Russia Hamilcar," I said to him, as I stretched my legs—"Hamilcar, somnolent Prince of the City of Books—thou guardian nocturnal! The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard Ziska's uncle and aunt were both large, stout, and somnolent people, very good-natured and kind, but a trifle dull. Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners) Casey muttered, staring down upon a somnolent wilderness blanketed with hushed midnight. The Trail of the White Mule With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none He is the Turk of the intellect made somnolent by meditation. Beatrix His footsteps died out forward, and a somnolent, unbreathing repose took possession of the stranded yacht. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows To the right and to the left it breathed through slender tubes of exit—narrow, somnolent ravines, cobble paved and unlighted. Roads of Destiny More than once he crossed the seas; the Hague knew him, and Amsterdam, though these somnolent cities gave small occasion for the display of his talents. A Book of Scoundrels Sweet Cecilia had yielded to the somnolent influences of the supper and the night. I Say No And yet, in this somnolent condition, my mind was able to pursue lazy trains of pleasant thought. The Two Destinies "Shag!" he suddenly exclaimed, thereby galvanizing into life the somnolent negro. The Golf Course Mystery By no means," answered the soldier; "I am no whit somnolent; I always hear best with my eyes shut. A Legend of Montrose And I must do Anton the justice to say that he served me well in his own somnolent fashion. Russia The excitability is opposed to slowness and one-sidedness in thought; he is easily surprised by irrelevancies; he is torn from his drowse, and behaves like a somnolent drunkard…. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students "Can you prescribe a draught for me—some mild opiate which will always keep me in a somnolent condition, a draught that will not be injurious although taken constantly." The Magic Skin For a somnolent person it requires no effort to counterfeit death,—as Dame de Stael and Friends of Liberty can see the King's Government long doing, faisant le mort. The French Revolution I am not quoting the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women to recognize that the Comic Muse is one of their best friends. An Essay on comedy and the uses of the comic spirit There he sat, gentle, and stolid, and somnolent. The Iron Heel The little town slept in the sun, and the somnolent storekeeper and postmaster scarcely kept his eyes open long enough to make up the packet of letters and newspapers. Moon-Face Armchairs wide as beds and sofas deep as alcoves suggested voluptuous idleness and the somnolent life of the seraglio. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola Come forth, my lovely seneschal! so somnolent,so statuesque!Come forth you exquisite grotesque! half womanand half animal! Ballad of Reading Gaol I lay waiting for death in a state of somnolent pain. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola With half-closed eyes this cat was keeping solitary watch over the house, where the close and now frozen odors which the women nightly left behind them had rendered him somnolent. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola In her ears was the voice of the stream—a hoarse-throated, sleepy old giant, muttering and mumbling his somnolent fancies. Moon-Face
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