We dozed peacefully in the green shade, and smoked our pipes, waiting for the return of our envoys.

After wandering over Italy he finally settled in Pisa, beloved of so many English poets,beautiful, sleepy Pisa, where one looks out of his window on the main street at the busiest hour of the day, and the only living thing in sight is a donkey, dozing lazily, with his head in the shade and his body in the sunshine.

CHAPTER IV Norgate dozed fitfully as the train sped on through the darkness.

He got his breakfast early, and afterwards dozed awhile, resting his aching bones in a corner of the coffee-room.

During April and May he permitted himself to doze considerably in the warmth of sunny rocks, but from the beginning of June until the middle of September he closed his eyes in real sleep just about four hours out of every twelve.

But after a time the incessant motion affected him, and he dozed gradually into a sound slumber.

In fact, I and the corn chandler, who was looking a bit fagged I thought, as if he had had a hard morning chandling the corn, were beginning to doze lightly when things suddenly brisked up, bringing Gussie into the picture for the first time.

" Meantime she dozed upright, walking, talking, and dozing again, like a crafty old parrot.

An indescribable sound rose from the funeral train; the transition noise of anguished wailing turning into uncontrollable laughter; then such a shout went up that the birds dozing in the trees overhead flew out in startled circles and went darting away with loud squawks of alarm.

When he had bundled himself out over the side of the bunk, he saw the Colonel seemingly dozing by the fire.

Quite honestly, therefore, the American lawyer has come to believe that a sheet of paper soiled with printers' ink and interpreted by half-a-dozen elderly gentlemen snugly dozing in armchairs, has some inherent and marvellous virtue by which it can arrest the march of omnipotent Nature.

On the hearth-rug before the fire were stretched Godolphus and three of Miss Sally's prize setters; but Godolphus had the warmest corner, and dozed there stertorously.

I got so that I could sleep through, pretty calmly; I would just say to myself when he fetched me to the surface with a yell, 'That's Melford dreaming,' and doze off sweetly.

I dozed uneasily with horrid dreams as I sat on three inches of hard box, with my head jogging sideways.

" Meantime she dozed upright, walking, talking, and dozing again, like a crafty old parrot.

So he sat in his bedroom dozing wretchedly in his arm-chair.

Mrs. Drane intended now to get up sooner in the morning, but she did not do it; and she resolved that she would not drop asleep in her chair early in the evening, as she had felt perfectly free to do when Miriam was with them; but she calmly dozed all the same.

" She got up, and Cartwright dozed until he heard a step and Lister crossed the floor.

I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the barroom stove of the dilapidated tavern in the decayed mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance.