Granny, who had been in a semi-coma, called a doze, roused herself on the big, soft couch and put her cap straight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

Shortly after he relapsed into a kind of doze, but now he groans again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference

All day the Iron Shirts would ride in a kind of doze of sun and weariness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail Book] Reference

Particularly interesting is the mention of "doze" mode, which I'd never heard of before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

I fell into a kind of doze, from which I was almost instantly awakened by the opening of the door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference

So they started on, and the German, who had been drinking, settled into a kind of doze at the wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ma Pettengill] Reference

Maria sat entranced, with her mouth open; and presently Mrs. Fulmort looked up from a kind of doze to ask who was playing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster] Reference

"As I prayed I dropped into a kind of doze from utter weariness, and then I had the strangest dream.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allan's Wife] Reference

He fell into a doze, and when he woke the sun was up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Somewhere in there, Mike the Angel managed to doze off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

    We doze together, and when we wake up, the men are gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [House] Reference

  No way to count up and be ready, doze off until it's your turn.    From Wordnik.com.  [And We Sell Apples 1977] Reference

Hiram rested his face on his hands and his knees, inclined to doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference

It is easy, too, when roused out of a doze, to imagine one has only.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference

Did you doze off near an office shredder and wake up with a haircut?.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOARD GAMES: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO, SUE ME?] Reference

As the time wore on, without any disturbance, the watches began to doze until.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference

Brett folded his jacket and tucked it under his head and tried to doze off.    From Wordnik.com.  [It Could Be Anything] Reference

Billy nodded once more and hunkered his weight down to a comfortable crouch to doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another Metamorphosis: A Moral Tale about Obsession] Reference

She thought she was in the old home orchard, where she used to doze, dream, and play.    From Wordnik.com.  [Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes] Reference

For years, Bob Cloud, a 58-year-old Cincinnati lawyer, would doze off in mid-sentence.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search Of Sleep] Reference

He lay awake awhile regretting the quarrel with Jellup, and then he sank into a doze again.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference

But I'm disappointed in its styling; it's so dull that I could doze off just looking at it.    From Wordnik.com.  [ROAD TEST: ACCORD] Reference

Mrs. Onyango, probably bored by the monotony of the introductions, was beginning to doze off.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE RICH RIVER] Reference

 Improving and all, but sometimes you just have to let the words flow over you and doze a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [Who Do You Say I Am] Reference

He becomes hungry and takes a few small cakes to eat, he is weary and lies down to doze and sleep.    From Wordnik.com.  [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference

He has been known to doze off at official functions, and can be strangely aloof and unpredictable.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Guiding Light] Reference

I couldn't sleep very well, but I fell into a doze, and then I heard the buzzer of the alarm go off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone or the Picture That Saved a Fortune] Reference

The comparative stillness was gone, and the inside of the submarine seemed to have awakened from a doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Naval Yarns] Reference

There are flashes of insight that make the reader grin and feel like pushing on, after an occasional doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writer's Workshop] Reference

It became more wonderful every day, and one evening it startled the rabbi from a doze by beginning to speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends] Reference

For consumptives, taken at about 6 A. M., often prevents the exhaustive sweats which accompany the morning doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Suffrage Cook Book] Reference

After returning home, he still had trouble falling asleep and usually couldn't doze off until 1 or 2 in the morning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Daniel Amen, M.D.: Changing the Brain of an Iraq Veteran] Reference

I roll over and doze off, trying to will myself back into that dream, but a few minutes later, the phone rings again.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rubble Fever, continued] Reference

At least it had seemed so until the monotony of the rain and cold deadened his senses, allowing him to fall into a doze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom of the Raiders] Reference

To the surprise of no one who did not doze through the last decade, Iran immediately backed away from its faux commitment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frayed Nerves, Short Tempers] Reference

I was overwhelmed by fatigue, and continually fell into a doze, but as often as I did so, some sinister idea awoke me with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847] Reference