The best results can be obtained about the midnight hour, when the dew is on the rose, the jasmine bud drunken with its own perfume and the mock- bird trilling a last good night to his drowsy mate.
The song dies out and the languorous stillness is broken only by the splashing of the fountains in the great marble basins and the drowsy hum of a bee among the blossoms.
The drowsy slave starts up as from a dream, quivering in every limb like a coward looking upon his death.
But she stood behind me (why I did not turn my head I never knew), pacing backward and forward by the spinning-wheel, just as I had a hundred times seen her in childhood in the old kitchen on drowsy summer afternoons.
A soft south wind was blowing, and all the air was drowsy with the hum of bees.
We sit down on the dock, where the fresh sea-breeze comes up the harbor, watch the lazily swinging crane on the vessel, and meditate upon the greatness of England and the peacefulness of the drowsy after noon.
On a distant hillside cattle browsed, and sheep wandered; and the drowsy tinkle of bells, as the herd wended homeward, seemed a nocturne of rest, for the closing day.
Under that fervent touch, consciousness came back, and the lids lifted, the dull eyes looked into his withdrowsy wonder.
So brief had been that movement, the drowsy brain had not been quick enough to interpret the cipher message of the eye.
We, weary of the idle watch we keep, Turn from the window to our sure repose And pass into the pleasant realms of sleep, Or snug and drowsy muse upon their woes.
But to come to particulars: the great road as far as Stamford is superb; in any other country it would furnish medals, and immortalize any drowsy monarch in whose reign it was executed.
The Fountain All through the deep blue night The fountain sang alone; It sang to the drowsyheart Of the satyr carved in stone.
Spring Night The park is filled with night and fog, The veils are drawn about the world, The drowsy lights along the paths Are dim and pearled.
Immediately a drowsy feeling came over him, a desire for sleep, a desire to be at rest in body and mind, in heart and pulses.
He felt the clouds lifting from his brain and the drowsy heaviness of limb leaving him.
The princess made a faint noise like the drowsy call of a bird and Ben Heer caught it up at once.
Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Thin gray clouds, through rifts of which a star sparkled keenly here and there, veiled the heavens; shadowy bluffs loomed up on either hand; in a hollow on the left twinkled a drowsy little town; a beautiful stillness lay on all.
The Colonel's voice seemed scarcely to have died away upon Basil's drowsy ear, when suddenly the sounds of music and laughter from the invalid's room startled him wide awake.
Her gentle memory was with me when all the rest yielded to the drowsy god, and in sheer exhaustion I slept--to dream.
I felt drowsy too, so I put my arm about the slumbering Seraph and soon fell fast asleep.
One fancied how it would surge through the dim aisles of cathedral-like forests, ruffling the plumage of drowsy birds, stirring the surface of some dark pool, where the trout still slept, and making sibilant music among the drooping reeds.
Her little Jack was sleeping in her arms, made drowsyby the fever.
The child was drowsy and faded-looking during the intermittent periods, and was sad to see.
A twinkling light showed from the stables, a drowsy exclamation rose from within the hut.
A drowsy servant dozed against the long coffin-like dhooli, the bearers crouched outside, nodding in a circle round a solitary hookah.
Tinklings of a drowsy rill Come from the upland orchard hill, Niches in her dreams to fill.
My eyelids at last begin to feel dry and heavy; and you, I am sure, are perishing under the tortures of resistance to the drowsy god.
Half-way to Winchester he grew drowsy and fancied himself in his dreams once more kneeling on the floor beside the sofa, with his arms round Barbara's shoulders.
She opened her eyes, and theirdrowsy contentment faded away.
The smell of the pine logs filled Eric with old memories; he slipped on to a foot-stool and sat with his head resting against his mother's knees, drowsy and a little wistful.
In the first drowsy moments after waking, Eric realized that he was starting at a disadvantage.
Nothing clamorous, vehement or emphatic seemed able to live in the drowsy atmosphere of soft dreaming that soothed this little hill-town into its sleep.
I sit in my cell now, while the flies hum in the drowsysummer afternoon, and I know that my time is short.
I sit here in Murderers' Row in Folsom, the drowsy hum of flies in my ears as I ponder that thought of Pascal.
Shadows congregated here, and in the gloom Domini saw a bent white figure hunched against the blackened wall, and heard an old voice murmuring like a drowsy bee.
Then the quick explosions of his bicycle disturbed once more the quiet, drowsy street, as he flashed through the village on his homeward way.
The northland Indian Summer held the world in its drowsy arms, and the sun-filled days and the starry nights seemed overflowing with the promise of all time.
A drowsy reposeful quiet reigned in the back streets which made strolling through them very pleasant, barring the almost unbearable heat of the sun.
