He heard the low breathing of the cattle as they dozed in the fields on either side, and the soft whirr of downy plumage as the great owl which had built its nest among the eaves of the new barn flew past him.

I had stayed up, in my study, reading; and must have dozed over the book.

He was dozing on his post, though, now and then he aroused himself to listen to the comments of the men at the fire.

And yet the dragon dozes at its post like a sleepy dog.

Alice dozed for an hour or so on the sofa, and Priam read by her side in an easy-chair, and about two o'clock, just before the first beginnings of dawn, they stimulated themselves into a feverish activity beneath the parlour gas.

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

The cat was the audience, who dozed with an ear twitching toward your activity.

I was awakened from the doze into which I had fallen by the sound of rapid hoof-beats down the road.

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

Bed, that had for some time been calling us, unheeded as Juliet's nurse, had at last to be obeyed; but how grudgingly; and how eagerly we sprang from it at no late hour in the morning, at the first thought of the sweet new thing that had come into the worldlike children who, half in a doze before waking, suddenly remember last night's new wonder of a toy, to awake in an instant, and scramble into clothes to look at it again.

In this one, travellers from the bled are camping in one corner, donkeys grazing (on heaven knows what), a camel dozing under its pack; in another, about a new-made grave, there are ritual movements of muffled figures and wailings of a funeral hymn half drowned by the waves.

On the far side of the hall, before the fire, Endymion dozed after a long day with the partridges.

[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.

"He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast, and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, dozed to the sound of a love whose delicacies he no longer noted.

And it was in the still hour just before the dawn, when all the islands were hushed, the wind and sea still dreaming, and the stars visible through clearing mists, that a figure crept silently over the ridge and reached the door of the tent where I dozed beside the sufferer, before I was aware of its presence.

It is very hard that I can't get a doze without being meddled with!"

Shaggy horses dozed against the gun trucks, and the men of artillery, some stretched at full length in the sun, others sitting bolt upright with arms folded, slept soundly on the gun carriages.

But the widow Broadnax seemed to be dozing among her cushions, and Miss Penelope felt it quite safe to go on with the softly uttered threats which scattered the small dark servitors, who were still flying about her like a flock of frightened blackbirds, although the basket was packed.

" He paused for a moment or two, and, receiving no answer, said: "He seems to be dozing as usual.

He sat down in his own particular easy-chair, dozing behind the shelter of a newspaper, and lulled agreeably by the low sound of Gilbert and Marian's conversation.

At least I know I found it dull, and half dozed during its monotonous delivery.

There he took a night train, and dozed from Jacksonville until a little north of New Smyrna.

" "Mi-frien'," said Raoul, with mingled pity and superiority, "you haven't got doze inside nooz; Louisiana is goin' to state w'at she want.

Pipa, expecting to be summoned to her mistressPipa, wondering greatly indeed what Enrica can be about, and why she does not go to bed, when she, the blessed dear, was so faint and tired, and cryingoh, so pitifully!when she left herPipa, leaning against the door-post near the half-open door, dozing like a dog with one eye open in case she should be calledlistened and looked out into the passage.

Mrs. Weldon was dozing near little Jack, who was sleeping soundly.