Verb (used with object) : He drowsed away the morning. From Dictionary.com.
After a disturbed night's rest Burr awoke early and called his drowsing companion. From Wordnik.com. [A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett] Reference
Closed his death-drowsing eyes, and slept the sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Idylls of the King] Reference
By now, I spent most of the day drowsing and shivering. From Wordnik.com. [Water] Reference
He was drowsing, white and strengthless, when she heard the. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
I was drowsing, when suddenly I heard him give a frightened yell. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
“Land!” he bellowed to drowsing cabin-mates as he vaulted out. From Wordnik.com. [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference
Rabbi (Judah ha-Nasi) would sit and expound, and the public was drowsing. From Wordnik.com. [Jochebed: Midrash and Aggadah.] Reference
Littleton was still drowsing at the base of Lamana Ridge, waiting for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Leaving Pudding drowsing in front of the fire, she padded down the stairs. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
The sharpness of her voice roused old Mrs. Brenner, drowsing in her corner. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Alys looked around the barn at her contentedly drowsing charges, and sighed. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
They were so close to the dockyards, he thought, leaning back and drowsing off. From Wordnik.com. [Crystal Rain] Reference
That evening he sat, musingly drowsing by the fire, when the clock struck eight. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
But he could remember, night after night, drowsing off to the sound of Gus's voice. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Dove]
She grew restless drowsing there out of life and time while the summer months faded. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
They floated together in the cabin, drowsing, murmuring, touching tenderly for hours. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars My Destination]
Why would you think about managing your time when you could be drowsing on the grass?. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Vanderkam: The Art of Productivity] Reference
I waked thoroughly, sat up as Lance did, as all of us who had been drowsing came awake. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
He nodded at my tall mount drowsing in the shadows at the edge of the campfire's circle. From Wordnik.com. [Shaman's Crossing]
A row of unfamiliar vehicles lined the roadside, their horses drowsing in the noonday sun. From Wordnik.com. [Thief Of Hearts]
Miellyn had finished her brief recitation and was drowsing, her head pillowed on the table. From Wordnik.com. [The Door Through Space] Reference
I was enjoying myself again, half-drowsing despite the continuous jolts, when Holmes spoke. From Wordnik.com. [A Monstrous Regiment of Women]
The woman, completely wrapped up and covered with snow, sat drowsing and bumping at the back. From Wordnik.com. [Master and Man] Reference
There spun through her half-drowsing brain scenes of the Wild West Show they had attended this day. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies] Reference
But on this particular day his habit of drowsing through the empty hours was rudely broken through. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
Hugging the palisade, she slipped through the gate to find a small village drowsing in the midday sun. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
So low and trembling was the call that Isa, drowsing luxuriously as she rocked to and fro, took no heed. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce of the North Woods] Reference
He was drowsing in the warm sand beneath a cobalt sky, lulled by the whisper of the waves against the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Once An Angel]
The sultry air, charged with a scent of meadow-sweet, of river and roses, closed on his senses, drowsing them. From Wordnik.com. [To Let] Reference
After dinner I fell asleep and as I was drowsing off I clearly heard a voice saying in my left ear, “Thy day!”. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Afterwards, though, when we lay beneath the punkah, drowsing and drinking, there wasn't a scrap of news to be got out of her. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the Mountain of Light]
A certain famous preacher when preaching one Sunday in the summer time observed that many among the congregation ware drowsing. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
Four days later the green slopes of the Santiago City Veteran's Cemetery lay drowsing under mist and the shadows of rain clouds. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
But the creatures drowsing in the sun were not even as wholesome as the snakes most humans shrink from with age-old inbred horror. From Wordnik.com. [Star Flight]
He flung himself into a chair by the stove and drowsing after a while in a reactive sweep of exhaustion, awakened with a terrified jerk. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
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