Drowsing

After a disturbed night's rest Burr awoke early and called his drowsing companion. ❋ William Henry Venable (1878)

A bridge, scorched yellow palms from the summer-sleeping house drowsing through August. ❋ John Lundberg (2010)

Here we had carried many loads of gravel from the creek-bed, so that it was dry and warm, a pleasant basking place; and here, one afternoon, I was drowsing, half asleep, over a volume of Mendenhall. 4 I was so comfortable and secure that even his flaming lyrics failed to stir me. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No breath of wind stirred over the drowsing fields, from which arose the calls of quail and the notes of meadowlarks. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Some were drowsing standing up; half a score of them were stretched out on the stone steps in most painful postures, all of them sound asleep, the skin of their bodies showing red through the holes, and rents in their rags. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Passed out this evening on the couch, but didn't sleep all that long, maybe 90 minutes of broken drowsing. ❋ Archmage (2009)

But by the day following he found himself forced to give in, drowsing fitfully by the wheel and waking ever and anon to take a look at things. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Something about the powdery pallor, the intelligent brow, the drowsing accent. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Peon soldiers, drowsing in the sun or clustering around the cantinas, stared stupidly at them as they flashed past. ❋ Unknown (2010)

“Oh, nothing,” he added softly, as if he were drowsing; ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mebbe I was drowsing, with Seth running the engine; but he slammed on the brakes so sudden hard that I darn near went through the cab window. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last night, after drinks at Grey and drowsing (drunk and browsing) at the new Elliott Bay book store, I saw a bill of bands at the nearby Healthy Times Fun Club. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The novel fades out with Fang drowsing in the sun with puppies at his feet. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No cuckoos in Oberlin -- at least none that I have heard - although I did encounter a skunk who was drowsing under my car in the old shed that doubles as a garage behind my house ... you should have seen me run the other way as he woke up!!! ❋ Jean (2009)

Again Saxon was drowsing, when the rustling sound was heard, this time closer. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He shook himself, as might a drowsing man, and straightened up. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Christ's Church, where the stone pillars rise toward the sky in a stately row, were whole rows of men lying asleep or drowsing, and all too deep sunk in torpor to rouse or be made curious by our intrusion. ❋ Unknown (2010)