20 collocations for doze

I may have dozed a little, but the pain of my legs kept me from slumbering.

Here and there he would have met a razor-backed hog lazily rooting his way along the principal thoroughfare; and more than once he would probably have had to disturb the slumbers of some yellow dog, dozing away the hours in the ardent sunshine, and reluctantly yielding up his place in the middle of the dusty road.

[Illustration: A Veteran of the Chateau] The Château of Versailles, like the town, dozes through the winter, only half awakening on Sunday afternoons when the townsfolk make it their meeting-place.

Since then I have learned to care for foreign countries, for literatures foreign and ancient, for the life of Continental towns dozing round old cathedrals, for the life of London, half sleepless with eager thought and strife, with indigestion or with hunger; and now my consciousness is chiefly of the busy, anxious metropolitan sort.

Farther away some reeds were visible in the illusive light, and the meditative chatter of dozing ducks stirred the silence which wrapped the country like a cloak.

The neat white houses with green blinds set back in their flowered yards would be at this hour sheltering people who had eaten heavily of chicken for dinner and now dozed away its benign effects.

It now grew late; and the tobacco had, as I said, dozed my head so much, that I inclined to sleep: so I left my lamp burning in the cave, lest I should want any thing in the night, and went to bed.

Beside the window looking out upon a gray-brick wall almost within reach, a canary with a white-fluted curtain about the cage dozed headless.

Legions of unscrupulous lawyers, more heartless than pirates or brigands in Bulgaria, infested every city and town, busy as demons stirring up strife, drilling witnesses to perjury, bull-dozing the innocent even unto death with the full connivance of the plunder-sharing judges, until the jails were crowded with victims who could not pay their outrageous fees.

He had dozed the instant he sat down, though he had not slept thirty seconds.

"Father, oh, can't you understand that I couldn't doze my life away down on those plantations?

He went to sleephe used to read his literature in bed because it was warmer there, and over literature nowadays it did not matter as it did with science if one dozed a littlewith these lines stimulating his emotion: "So weeks grew months, years; gleam by gleam The glory dropped from their youth and love, And both perceived they had dreamed a dream.

He went to sleephe used to read his literature in bed because it was warmer there, and over literature nowadays it did not matter as it did with science if one dozed a littlewith these lines stimulating his emotion: "So weeks grew months, years; gleam by gleam The glory dropped from their youth and love, And both perceived they had dreamed a dream.

He did not abuse his advantage, however, rarely quitting the indicated station near his own effects, where he had been mainly content to repose in listless indolence, like the others, dozing away the minutes.

If he grew weary and dozed a moment, she would still be sitting there when he awoke.

So, on a fine bright Sunday, early in September, the drowsy congregation, who were dozing away the afternoon-service, were aroused by the publication of the banns of marriage between Henry Brooke and Nelly Curtis.

What stout Tory, indeed, would doze of an evening on such a sheet!

When the carriage drove up with Mrs. Carteret, her aunt was seated on the little front piazza, with her wrinkled hands folded in her lap, dozing the afternoon away in fitful slumber.

It was about half an hour after he dozed off that a window in the rear of the stable framed a face.

We was together in his room, and I just sot down for a minute to think what it could be as I had eaten, when I dozed off directlyand when I opened my eyes again, not quite a minute arterwards, I couldn't find him nowheresand

20 collocations for  doze