He waited somnolently until Maximillian closed the door leading to the ship. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Hole]
Its waterfront lay somnolently along a raised foundation of mammoth stone blocks. From Wordnik.com. [Conan and the Emerald Lotus]
Butterflies sailed from blossom to blossom, and bees droned somnolently through the scented air. From Wordnik.com. [Call Of The Heart]
The cruiser was almost silent, rocking somnolently with its lines tapping as the breeze flicked them. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
To the man reposing somnolently in the broken old chair beside the door she said she had a letter for Mr. Noyes. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Light passed through this translucent barrier, bringing with it anonymous shadows moving slowly, somnolently in the enormous pool beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The White Ninja]
They talked for a little, and presently Tim, whose eyelids had been blinking somnolently for some time, gave vent to an unmistakable yawn. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
Tanks were set up, filled with seaweedy water in which somnolently swam fish big, medium, and small, shellfish such as giant prawn and abalone, conch and crab. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
He would come away from the reunions, happily fogged on his alcohol limit, whistling one of the old songs that sounded so damned embarrassing any other time, feeling somnolently good; they were a good bunch of guys. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
When undisturbed by foreign sounds, they congregate in shallow water on the sand bars, with the fore half of their bodies exposed to the warm sunshine, and are in appearance, when thus somnolently reposing, very like a herd of enormous swine. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
She didn't even turn her head as I slipped out into the passage, which seemed empty except for a couple of darkies clinging somnolently to their brooms - and then at one end there was a nondescript white man who turned his back just a shade too hurriedly at the sight of me. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and the angel of the lord]
But in fact most of the appearances of the pompaoured tribune of justice went off peacefully, not to say somnolently, save for the arrest of one drunken white youth, who was charged with the peculiarly British crime of waving a banana (or "inciting racial hatred") at Sharpton's entourage. From Wordnik.com. [Mouth Of The Thames] Reference
He pursed up his lips and gazed somnolently at the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hope] Reference
The judge bowed somnolently, and then Mr. Heath rose to address the. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Here Conyngham wandered, or else he sat somnolently on a seat in the. From Wordnik.com. [In Kedar's Tents] Reference
He did it somnolently, his eyes vacant, his expression that of a child. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Places] Reference
Between naps, the sergeant somnolently went over what he knew about the alien race. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Importance] Reference
We drove on down the lane, eyed somnolently by spotted cows and incurious sheep, and all the way. From Wordnik.com. [The Confession] Reference
In doing this he passed from the range of the lazy punkah flapping somnolently over table and bed. From Wordnik.com. [From One Generation to Another] Reference
The girl wakened, descended, smiling uncertainly at Susie O'Toole, blinking somnolently at her surroundings. From Wordnik.com. [Arizona Nights] Reference
They wandered off to shady nooks in the grass-grown ramparts where woolly sheep looked up somnolently to watch them. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
The light may make people consider it a Jack-o'-lantern or a will-o'-the-wisp, for it blinks coolly and somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper] Reference
The afternoon was generally given up to some excursion or charabanc drive, and the day finished rather somnolently in the lounge. From Wordnik.com. [Joanna Godden] Reference
A stable-boy was exercising a young horse in the street, leading it back and forth, but otherwise the thoroughfare seemed somnolently quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Children of the Desert] Reference
Here, however, the listener is confronted with a nearly 50-year-old reggae artist somnolently delivering well-worn themes atop even more well-worn rhythms. From Wordnik.com. [Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue] Reference
If WTJU is playing something I dislike (rare) or an announcer is speaking somnolently, I tune in to 106.1 and listen until it switches to a DJ or commercial. From Wordnik.com. [Charlottesville Blogs] Reference
He reflected somnolently when awake that it was fitting for Timmy's father to be on the job when Timmy's girl was in difficulty, since Timmy was off somewhere else. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Importance] Reference
She was leaning back idly in a swing of vines to which she had braided a flexible back, and was blinking somnolently in the sunshine as the visitor leaped from the wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ab A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man] Reference
It's a dull business this, overdrive, "he said somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [A Matter of Importance] Reference
"In first-order feedback," Egtverchi said somnolently, "if the connections are reversed, any small disturbance will be self-aggravating. From Wordnik.com. [A Case Of Conscience]
The winter moved on somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [The Rules of the Game] Reference
The men lolled in chairs somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
"We won't need to cook," I suggested somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest] Reference
"Sometimes," replied the man somnolently. From Wordnik.com. [The Blazed Trail] Reference
Jove-like approval, but somnolently, started up, exclaiming, "What! what! what's that?". From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859] Reference
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