These were called by the Spaniards baxos roncadores, droning or snoring basses.

But a minute passed and yet another, with no sound save the heavy, snoring breathing of the senseless wretch upon the floor.

So I returned to the bedroom where Grim and Jeremy were snoring a halleluja chorus; but Yussuf Dakmar hadn't returned yet.

They have been asleep,snoring off the effects of last night's diversions, and fortifying their constitutions against the influences to come.

Inside, West snored heavily, his ill-shaped head drooping on the big barrel chest of the man.

Noisily snored the dreaming men in the darkest parts.

And this agreeing mightily with Jack's natural turn for taking of short cuts out of difficulties, he fell in with my views at once, and so, bidding God bless me, he lays the clothes over his head and was snoring the next minute.

But the result would always be the same: a prolonged state of obese ecstasy culminating in the collapse of huge heaps of snoring muslin on the divans against the wall.

When the orient beam With blushes paints the dawn; and all the race 220 Carnivorous, with blood full-gorged, retire Into their darksome cells, there satiate snore O'er dripping offals, and the mangled limbs Of men and beasts; the painful forester 224 Climbs the high hills, whose proud aspiring tops, With the tall cedar crowned, and taper fir, Assail the clouds.

As to his snoring, why poets might snore as well as other people.