The low song ceased gradually, softly, as a mother ceases her crooning lullaby, lest the very lack of the love-notes stir the drowsing baby brain to sudden waking.
Pyjamas were then unknown in army circles, else even the single sheet that covered the drowsing soldier might have been dispensed with.
Distil their soundless syrup drop by drop, While 'twixt the starry bracket of their lips The black bee drowsing floats and drowsing sips.
Stirred only by the passion of the breeze, That, like a warm wave welling over rocks, Loosens and lifts the mass of drowsing locks.
And the listless crowd, drowsing cynically in its tobacco smoke, broke into obedient applause, just as they would at home at the sight of the flag or a picture of the President.
On the other side of the little circle, Tristram sat with Wickie drowsing at his feet, his hands outstretched as though, to please her fancy, he warmed them at the firelight.
A syce, drowsing on the steps of the old bungalow, ran out to meet them and caught the restive, sweating animal by the head.
In fact, a little golden-haired fairy with a silver wand had just whispered to a butterfly that when it came to drowsing in an interesting way there was nobody in the world who could excel Jimmieboy in that accomplishment.
Like the sound of falling rain, they would patter through the drowsing country, searching for their ancient dwellings.
He glanced at his drowsing companion; he had pledged his word to her.
I imagined myself a death-sentinel drowsingthere alone, far in the dragging watches of some wailing, gusty night, and having in a twinkling all my body stricken to quivering jelly by the sudden clamor of that awful summons!
Young Love lies dreaming Till summer days are gone, Dreaming and drowsing Away to perfect sleep: He sees the beauty Sun hath not looked upon, And tastes the fountain Unutterably deep.
Young Love liesdrowsing Away to poppied death; Cool shadows deepen Across the sleeping face: So fails the summer With warm, delicious breath; And what hath autumn To give us in its place?
The teller was visible in the cage, where now he appeared very busy though he had undoubtedly been drowsing when they entered.
How should he save her--save her from herself, clear the mist from her eyes, arouse her drowsing soul?
Many a drowsing mallard has been caught by a lean fox or knocked on the head with a paddle.
In vain I heard a sing-song drowsing in my ears: "They will kill you!
The Living Skeleton, who had beendrowsing on his chair, beat the flies off and groaned.
It was early in the day, and the township had lain drowsing in its dust under the shimmer of a great yellow sun till this astonishing invasion struck it, and startled it from its accustomed lethargy.
Nickie sat with his back to the wall of his compartment, sweltering in the hot garb of the Missing Link, drowsing and day-dreaming of beer.
I had been drowsing in the sun, taking no notice of what was happening, when I was suddenly awakened by a sharp rat-a-tat-tat.
Men laboured on the meagre defences of the county as though weighted by a nightmare--as though drowsing awake and not believing in their ghostly dream.
I've written books myself, and who reads them but a wheen of graybeards, and they drowsing by the fire?
Perhaps I wasdrowsing over my book and dreamed it.
He woke at the usual breakfast-hour, and then went about drowsing throughout the day till the tea began again in the afternoon.
The fat huckster-women drowsing beside their wares, scarce send their voices beyond the borders of their broad-brimmed straw hats, as they softly haggle with purchasers, or tranquilly gossip together.
A delicious freshness breathed from the lake, which lying so smooth, faded into the sky at last, with no line between sharper than that which divides drowsing from dreaming.
There they stumbled upon a little bookseller's shop blinking in a quiet corner, and bought three or four guides and small histories of Ansbach, which they carried home, and studied between drowsing and waking.
In front of the Palacio Municipal, where the becottoned National Guard weredrowsing in the verandah-shade, was an avenue of orange trees loaded with fruit.
He scanned once more the drowsing landscape; he smiled on Art; he sprang aloft and abroad and sped upwards in a blinding gleam.
The hill was thickly wooded, massive clumps of trees were dotted every little distance, and through these one could see quiet, green spaces drowsing in the sun.
Whether drowsing in the sun, walking the streets, doing a little stroke of work, fishing, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were upon the whole as cheerful and as comical a lot of people as I ever saw.
She set down Simon Cameron, who was drowsing in her lap, and got to her feet.
If he was drowsing there, it's a sign no intruders have tried to get into the house yet.
