The yellow-hammer goes on with his sleepy tune, and the greenfinch in the elm above him with his yet sleepier drawl, while a linnet in the tree near by sings undisturbed his sweet and dainty song, that in itself is like a gleam of sunshine.
In the combe yonder, the little sleepy hollow that dies away among the quiet hills, the purple shadows deepen, and the last faint lingering glow fades slowly from the cliffs along its southern verge.
The sleepy eyes of the woman were raised expectantly to his face, and, deep down in their depths, a light of admiration, which had only his manhood for its object, was growing with each passing moment.
He was aware only of the deep sleepygrey eyes so exquisitely fringed.
She was known as Madame Vladimir, who occupied Redwithy Farm, standing in a sleepyhollow nearly two miles outside Wednesford.
He wanted to keep them hidden away and looked with amazement at the quiet inexpressive hands of other men who worked beside him in the fields, or passed, driving sleepyteams on country roads.
Two men came stumbling downstairs, and with a sleepy air entered the room.
Joe sneeringly, flashing a spark of hate out of his usually dull, sleepy black eyes.
Zamora is not many miles from Astorga and like the other sleepy towns of the province, it too seems to feel it has a right to a long pause in obscurity after its heroic centuries of Moorish warfare.
In the second one Abbe Paparelli saluted him with a little silent bow; in the first the sleepy lackey did not even seem to see him.
Your legs are not sleepy in the least; and your eyes are not tired.
Did you ever stop to think why you are sleepy when night comes?
And now there was one, and the very sound of the word was enough to make him rub open hissleepy eyes and jump out of bed in a hurry!
He saw the two little ones when first the sand-man began to drop his grains into their eyes, and noticed how they struggled against the sleepy influence, and tried to keep awake.
He was nodding like a sleepy man, and seemed with difficulty to retain his foot-hold.
Consternation immediately spread itself over the sleepy countenances of the Turks at this announcement.
I will walk here for half an hour," she said, "then I shall be sleepy enough.
Valenciennes, when I saw it before the outbreak of the great war in 1914, was a rather sleepy little town given over to most prosaic manufactures.
Ancient stronghold in past centuries, it had become a little old sleepy town given over to churches and the priesthood.
A chuckle of welcome followed his sleepy salutation.
Cecile; "not that I am sleepyat two o'clock in the day.
Quite early in that same long morning, before little Maurice had even opened his sleepy eyes, the woman whom Mrs. D'Albert called Aunt Lydia arrived.
After doing this Cecile sat very upright, gravely watching, with her sweet wide-open blue eyes, the darkness they rushed through, and the occasional lights of the sleepy little stations which they passed.
He looked out at the lawn and the sleepy house, but was aware of nothing except the girl beside him in her white dress and the letter in her hands.
It was a sleepy afternoon, even up here among the hills, and Jenny had not read many pages before she became aware of it.
These cries penetrated to the sleepy senses of Trescott, and he struggled with his captors, swearing, unknown to him and to them, all the deep blasphemies of his medical-student days.
I think my little girl is so tired and sleepy that she doesn't know what she wants," whispered Mrs. Sherman, in reply.
The sleepy coachman, who roused himself from his cold doze when he heard her coming, was as surprised as she, and declared he had not heard the carriage door open or the child slip out.
In a slow, sing-song tone, as monotonous as the droning of a bee, Betty began, accenting every other syllable with a sleepy drawl.
One pumpkin, in the hands of the headless rider, had been enough to banish him from Sleepy Hollow for ever.
Nagasaki, curled up like a feather ball, with his head under his wing, stirred once, with a sleepy twitter, but no other sound broke the stillness of the little room.
Elise was too tired and sleepy to talk about her adventures that night, and asked to be put to bed as soon as she had had the bowl of oyster soup that was being kept hot for her.
Pictures of shadowy studios and calm lakes, unfrequented coverts and sleepy wayside inns, covered my wall.
He did not recognise either of them; he was too sleepy to think where he was, or to take in the sense of what he heard, but long afterwards the words returned to him.
Con's habit of obedience made him start up, sleepy though he was.
Winny did not seem sleepy when she was in bed, and I wasn't either.
You can watch part of the time, and when you get sleepy I'll take my turn.
They were too sleepy to want to stay up and listen to the story of the bringing back of the Bluebird.
No one more worthy," he pursues, wiping his sleepyface with his napkin, "of being a princess.
