In the kitchen an ill-looking fellow was dozing by the fire:—he was a bailiff's man in possession—for there was an execution levied on my property.
She was dozingover a comfortable fire; and her huge cat slept upon her lap.
About an hour after dinner everybody was dozing around, some in their chairs and some in their rooms, and it got to be pretty dull.
Well, I was dozing off again when I thinks I hears a deep sound of "boom!
Hadow himself, pacing the quarter-deck in his boat cloak, was lost in reverie, while the wardroom and the steerage in unredeemed darkness held nothing but dozing men.
I was in this miserable mood when the turnkey awoke me one day as I was dozing on my bed.
I can almost conceive of a dozing and dreamy centenarian saying to one he loves, "Go, darling, go!
Some are settling the tariff and fixing the laws of suffrage and taxation while he is dozing over the weather bulletin, and going to sleep over the obituaries in his morning or evening paper.
At this point as our lorry started weaving we discovered that our co-driver was missing, there was only one man in the cab, the driver, and he was dozing off.
All this we mention only to explain how it was that Roger was dozing at his desk about midnight, the evening after the call paid by Aubrey Gilbert.
Bock, who had been dozing under his master's chair, rose politely and wagged a deferential tail.
He lay there by Murph's side, dozing with one eye open; then, suddenly starting wide awake in a panic, he would touch his friend with exploring fingers to see if he was still asleep.
Just as we were dozing deliciously, an agonized yell brought every soldier to his feet.
A sailor, half dozing on the deck, heard a slight splash on the waters.
Sallust nodded assent, and led the way to a small chamber, guarded without by two dozing slaves.
Even in the daytime you will find the wood-owl dozing in the deep twilight of a holly-bush growing in the shade of a huge oak or elm.
The chef and his wife were dozingin an inner room.
The enfeebled horse in the waggon had an air of dozing on his twisted legs.
Madame Bernstein was alreadydozing on her cushions.
It was a still, warm day in mid-winter, and the ducks were dozing on the green bank in a beautiful crowd, and as the land near them was covered with long grass, I saw it would be possible to get quite close to them.
Seems to be dozing a little now, miss; but she keeps asking for the news.
Damn your snuff," quoth Sir Miles, in great choler, as he rejected the proffered courtesy with a vehemence that sent half the contents of the box upon the joint eyes and noses of the two canine favourites dozing at his feet.
Percival St. John threw aside his book (a volume of Voyages), whistled to a spaniel dozingby his side, and descended lightly.
He found her dozing on a chair in the beer-shop, which was almost deserted.
Papagris, the boatman, commonly called Jean Bart, wasdozing in the bottom of the boat, which he was required to have in readiness every day at noon when they had not been out fishing in the morning.
Sophy's books so brought Sophy's self, that I saw her touching face quite plainly, before I dropped off dozing by the fire.
I ween we were both very tired; and when the good housekeeper came in for to fetch away his plate he had fallen asleep, with his head resting on his hands; and I was likewise dozing in a high-backed chair opposite to him.
But the whistle had a more subtle intention than emphasis, and within doors Uncle Zack, dozing in a kitchen chair, became at once active.
They were early, and the chapel seemed to be dozing in a cool gloom which was softly set in motion as she glided, like a graceful shadow, up the aisle.
At home again, she got her own luncheon, for Kathleen was away for the day, and spent the afternoon in bed, dozing and day-dreaming and dozing again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dozing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
