114 examples of drowsing in sentences

The drowsing city sparkles in the heat, And murmur in mine ears unceasingly The surging tides of that vast human sea The billows of life that break with muffled beat And vibrate through this high and lone retreat; While over all, serene, and fair, and free, Thy dome is reared in naked majesty Grey, old St Paul's ...

The porter was drowsing on his bench within the lodge, but at the knock he roused himself and, opening the wicket, came hobbling forth and greeted the Knight, while a tame starling that hung in a wicker cage within piped out, "In coelo quies!

But now, before starting on again, he turned from the more distant landscape and, remembering the immediate scene about him as he had viewed it last, drowsing in the Indian summer of last October, he noted everywhere the handiwork of young June.

Never, it seemed to her, had she seen a lonelier-looking place than old Coloma drowsing on the fringe of the wilderness.

On the electric train they were whizzed among many sleepy folk into a sleeping town, Oakland, drowsing and silent.

The Blackfoot was still conscious, though he was drowsing into that sleep which is fatal to Arctic travelers caught in a blizzard.

THE PHEASANT-HEN Ah!across yonder drowsing slope a stealing gleam CHANTECLER

Through long hours Thor kept his vigil alone, drowsing now and then, but kept from sound slumber by the restlessness that was in him.

They were Belgians, battered and worn out with their unbroken weeks of hopeless fighting; cavalrymen on their tired horses, artillerymen, heads sunk on their chests, drowsing on their lurching caissons; the patient little foot-soldiers, rifles slung across their shoulders, scuffling along in their heavy overcoats.

And the listless crowd, drowsing cynically in its tobacco smoke, broke into obedient applause, just as they would at home at the sight of the flag or a picture of the President.

" "Look till the heart is content, señorita," replied the Mexican, and he extended a slim, lazy hand towards the drowsing stallion.

It was midnight of a calm Sabbath, and low on the horizon smoked the drowsing red sun-ball, as my canvas skiff lightly chopped her little way through this silent sea.

It was my way to plant at the portal the big, carved chair from the chancel on the hot days, and rest my soul, refusing to think of anything, drowsing and smoking for hours.

But what are such matters to a swineherd?" "My lad, you are to-day a swineherd drowsing in the sun, as yesterday you were a baby squalling in the cradle, but to-morrow you will be neither of these if there by any truth whatever in the talking of the Norns as they gossip at the foot of their ash-tree beside the door of the Sylan's House.

The mate, drowsing on the hard stern, finally smiled with closed eyes.

Their footsteps on the tiled flags, separated by deep cracks filled with grass, awoke all the animal world that was drowsing there in the sun.

Slipping over the stones, introducing themselves into their caverns, drowsing, half buried in the sand,all the varied and tumultuous species of crustaceans were moving their cutting and tentacular grinders and making their Japanese armor gleam: some of their frames were redalmost blackas though guarding the dry blood of a remote combat; others were of a scarlet freshness as though reflecting the first fires of the flaming dawn.

He had sown the revolutionary seed in these outcasts of the Church, drowsing in the atmosphere of two centuries ago.

" "Do they come when you are just drowsing, or just waking from a drowse?" "They are not dreams," she said, almost with vexation.

As I was drowsing off again, she spoke very gently to me.

But it chanced that I passed through the higher terrace on my way to the lowera bosky place of woods, where the Prince loved to linger in of a summer afternoon, drowsing there to the singing of birds and the falling of waters.

My feet kept drowsing, drowsing still, My fingers were awake;

My feet kept drowsing, drowsing still, My fingers were awake;

Time passed serenely; I had fallen drowsing, soothed by the silvered silence; when through a dream I heard a cock-crow.

" The long drowsing days of summer had come.

114 examples of  drowsing  in sentences