He lay quiet, somnolent after the day's exertions. From LearnThat.org. [ldoceonline.com]
Especially did he love to lie on his back and have his sleek, cream-coloured throat stroked gently while he purred in somnolent satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [Rilla of Ingleside] Reference
It means tired and lazy-sort of like "somnolent". From Wordnik.com. [He's Sarcastic] Reference
Now I have to look up "somnolent" in the dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Petzal's Picks For New Hunting Fashions] Reference
It isn't the weight of history I feel when I look at his paintings: it's a kind of somnolent. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
It did not come; but I fell into a kind of somnolent state, in which I suddenly felt as though I were sinking in swiftly flowing water. From Wordnik.com. [My Life — Volume 2] Reference
The somnolent boots will carry our things upstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891] Reference
Raikes, missing the somnolent monotone, looked up quickly. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
Lethargic, somnolent, torpid trading yesterday on Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2004] Reference
I would rather have a president more commanding than somnolent. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: New York Media Goes Nuts for Subway Series; Are the Pundits Picking the Real Winners in the Presidential Debates? - October 21, 2000] Reference
From the river it almost disappeared into its own somnolent ether. From Wordnik.com. [Gorky Park]
The enormous somnolent bulk behind her seemed to let out a vast sigh. From Wordnik.com. [Impossible Places]
Argonauts, transforming the somnolent Yerba Buena into the city, of San. From Wordnik.com. [Fascinating San Francisco] Reference
The debate on the new Vote of Credit dragged along in a thin and somnolent. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917] Reference
Grumps, with a groan which was very somnolent, as if it were a twin to a snore. From Wordnik.com. [The Brigade Commander] Reference
The tidy, brick-fronted Georgian seemed as somnolent as the rest of the neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Of Death]
The three eyes were half closed, giving the creature a decidedly somnolent appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Mid Flinx]
And as he looked there came driving into the somnolent square two men on a wagonload of bones. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
The great somnolent Vatican stared reproachfully down at me as I marched along the quiet streets. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
August came in, that summer of 1141, tawny as a lion and somnolent and purring as a hearthside cat. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
Much later, China went into a long, somnolent decline, and Occidentals were happy to leave it there. From Wordnik.com. [On To The Millennium] Reference
Above all, the defensiveness of their health claims should have tipped off even the most somnolent reader. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Pure Poppycock] Reference
"Poor Molly, laid her down to weep;" and then contemplate her the victim of somnolent consequences, when. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841] Reference
Two or three depressed and somnolent travelers yawned in the waiting room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
She-wolves are eyeing the somnolent underclass while the bearded Cialis bankers hawk municipal treachery, sip Arnold. From Wordnik.com. [The Learning Curve] Reference
For five thousand years Pao had been homogeneous, a planet directed by tradition, somnolent in an ageless tranquillity. From Wordnik.com. [The Languages of Pao]
His companion glanced down at him sharply, but in his tranquil and half-somnolent face there was no trace of evasiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
The morning became warm, the men somnolent; they leaned against the cork trees and slept with their muskets propped on their knees. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
I saw a bicycle on its side in the center of a half-dead lawn, a garden hose that lay unfurled like a somnolent snake-but no people. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
Milton is now a pleasant old-world place enough, somnolent and rarely visited by the stray tourist, but well worthy of his attention. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
The once somnolent Bolsa has become on of the world's hottest exchanges as investors fight for shares in companies privatized by the government. From Wordnik.com. [Trading In Glass Houses] Reference
Ted Stevens blamed "" antibiotics '' for his somnolent posture, and Fritz Hollings insisted his sunglasses masked an eye condition, not shut-eye. From Wordnik.com. [Zipped Lips] Reference
The clink of coin, the dry rattle and abrasion of brilliants, the rustle of bank notes could not have fascinated him more than the even, somnolent modulations of the speaker. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
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