`Time to get up,' she said drowsily. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective, : drowsy spring weather. From Dictionary.com.
As they float embraced, toward darkness, he calls drowsily, "Don't grieve too long, you there. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
"Methinks I dream," the first guard said drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of the King] Reference
"I don't want to understand," I answered drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [St. Cuthbert's] Reference
"Has it got a moral?" asked MacShaugnassy, drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
He sipped his black coffee as drowsily as an old man. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
Her voice died out and her eyes closed drowsily again. From Wordnik.com. [Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense] Reference
The stories ended when the golden head drooped, drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [Old Valentines A Love Story] Reference
Convalescent leave had its good points, he thought drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Honor A Terran Empire novel] Reference
"That sounds almost like the sun-ship," said Athalia drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930] Reference
"Don't know -- wish they would," Nort answered, half drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Ranchers or Solving the Mystery at Diamond X] Reference
"I hope," said Ned drowsily as they were dropping off to sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
"Yes, if you've anything int'resting to say," she murmured drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Gold] Reference
"This ain't the only iron he has in the fire," answered Norman drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Janet, opening her eyes upon daylight, sat up drowsily and looked about. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Woman] Reference
He noticed after a while that the woman replied to his questions drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons on Biblical Characters] Reference
"Oh, you are dreaming," drowsily murmured the weary girl in the other bed. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha at Ivy Hall] Reference
It was warm in the sun, and the locusts were droning drowsily in the grass. From Wordnik.com. [The Goody-Naughty Book] Reference
He laughed drowsily in quiet happiness, as he feebly patted the devoted head. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
"Well, now, I believe as how I do, Martha," was the drowsily uttered response. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
The sea fell rapidly to a long, lazy swell, on which the buoy rocked drowsily. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Ahead of us was a comfortable fat farmer, jogging drowsily to market in his gig. From Wordnik.com. [Kate Coventry An Autobiography] Reference
Rosamond turned drowsily on her pillows, pulling the satin coverlet up to her chin. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge] Reference
"Like stars," he finished drowsily, then fell asleep, her hand still on his forehead. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
She got up, dragged the instrument from its stand and spoke drowsily into the receiver. From Wordnik.com. [The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue] Reference
Shann turned over drowsily in that welcome heat, stretching a little as might a cat at ease. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
All were slowly raising their hands in salute as another color guard drowsily made its way by. From Wordnik.com. [Martian V.F.W.] Reference
"Why, of course it is," she answered, stretching her arms drowsily over her head and laughing lazily. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference
For a moment he lay drowsily in his blankets there on the sand, with memory of the nightmare still vivid. From Wordnik.com. [The Cavern of the Shining Ones] Reference
"Why is it," smiled Pao-yü, from outside the window, "that your feelings day after day slumber drowsily?". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
A hansom drove up, and Preston stepped into it heavily, glancing drowsily askance at the driver as he did so. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
The captain stirred uneasily in his sleep and Chris opened his eyes drowsily but soon fell off to sleep again. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades] Reference
At four this morning I was awakened to have a fomentation on my leg, and drowsily realised it was Christmas Day. From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
He smiled drowsily, thinking that he'd shared sleeprooms with a lot of Traiti, and he'd never heard one snore. From Wordnik.com. [Fearful Symmetry A Terran Empire novel] Reference
Some were stretched out drowsily upon the filthy floor, their natures apparently stupefied to the level of brutes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858] Reference
Irrelatively, one of the children murmured drowsily in sleep, and the little human sound braced the girl's nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
"I'll see if Constance will go to the matinee Saturday," she planned drowsily that night as she prepared for sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
Suddenly Benjamin, half asleep and numb with the cold, stirred a little and complained drowsily that he was hungry. From Wordnik.com. [The New Land Stories of Jews Who Had a Part in the Making of Our Country] Reference
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