Two waterfalls that fell against the sunset flashed like falling flame, and a soft haze tinged the slumberous solitudes of wood and pasture with the dream-like loveliness of a picture.
The reader must not, from any testimony of mine, contract a dislike towards our slumberous stream.
But that 'twas she indeed who uttered the words he scarce could credit, so soft and sweetly slumberous was her voice: "My lord is a-weary and sleepeth.
The sea is pale blue and its surface glassy smooth; but the passage of a storm somewhere to the eastward causes long slumberous undulations to lapse shorewards.
The sun had been shining in their eyes, and the place looked very slumberous in the white hazy glory of a northern day.
A solemn slumberous reverberation heard at intervals split the dull general roar apart.
Kubla Khan, with its slumberous melody and vague music, embodies the Asiatic sentiment.
And it was only now, before that dim hearth, and in that black room, where never a sound of wheels disturbed the silence of the slumberous past, that she dared to speak.
Never had paler and more callous light entered by the large glazed doors, behind which one espied the little slumberous garden with its meagre, wintry lawns.
When therefore he came to practise in Glaston, he brought his quota of yeast into the old bottle of that ancient and slumberous town.
She rose at once and went, creeping through the slumberous house, light and noiseless as a shadow, but with a heart that seemed not her own lying hard in her bosom.
Over all a warm but softened sunshine melted down from a slumberous autumnal sky.
There was only a faint rustle among the young leaves of the willows that sounded like slumberous breathing through half-closed lips; and a gentle splashing came up from the invisible river.
But his thoughts were gradually getting too busy for this slumberous state.
In the vicarage the slumberous fire was smoldering down.
In the slumberous atmosphere the bees droned, and the hot air quivered some feet above the long, lush grass.
In the slumberous fire-light the parson and the itinerant preacher talked together of the dust and noise in the great world outside these sleepy mountains.
His low-crowned hat was drawn deep over his slumberous gray eyes.
Everywhere was the same slumberous content, the same peaceful buzz of bees and birds and soft-toned human voices.
He was in good time, it seemed, for hardly had he taken his customary station before the Cathedral bells awoke the slumberous echoes of the city.
With rapid step the goddess urged her way; There every eye with slumberous chains she bound, And dash'd the flowing goblet to the ground.
With tapers flaming day his train attends, His bright alcove the obsequious youth ascends: Soft slumberous shades his drooping eyelids close, Till on her eastern throne Aurora glows.
Their drooping eyes the slumberous shade oppress'd, Sated they rose, and all retired to rest.
Almost immediately the door swung noiselessly inwards, while from behind its corner appeared the searching, slumberous eyes of a great nigger.
There was another pause, and the two pairs of eyes sought each other, and the heavy-lidded, slumberous eyes of Melun flickered and faltered beneath those of the man who had so correctly jumped to a menacing conclusion.
His blue eyes had a slumberous warmth in them; when he smiled they half closed and looked down on you caressingly, and their expression proved no bar to favor with the opposite sex.
The face was delicate and dark as a fine bronze, a low forehead set in shadowy waves of hair, eyes full of slumberous fire, and a passionate yet haughty mouth that seemed shaped alike for caresses and commands.
All night she watched the changing shores, silvery green or dark with slumberous shadow, and followed the moon in its tranquil journey through the sky.
And she just lay there in his arms, in one of her silences, only her eyes were slumberous with love.
And then, from sorrow her expression changed to one of strange slumberous resentment at fate.
The black panther's look, on its rare day of slumberous indifference when it condescends to come to the front of the cage, grew in her eyes, but the slightest touch could make her snarl.
Slumberous little coast hamlet as it was, it had also its characteristics.
We rolled down from the plateau into that wizard basin lying all beautiful and slumberous and spell-locked like some land of heart's desire.
A man might still ride errant into those slumberous spaces and discover for himself; might boldly awaken the realm and rule with a princess by his side.
The chill of the mountains contrasted sharply with the slumberous luxuriance and color of the plains.
She kept her gaze averted, and Duncan could not see her eyes--they were turned toward the slumberous plains that stretched away into the distance on the other side of the river.
