He who blows through bronze, may breathe through silver, Fitly serenade a slumbrous princess.
There was no sound Except theslumbrous pulsing of a clock, The whisper of the garden and, far off, The sacred consolation of the sea.
O then in all the world there was no sound Except the slumbrous pulsing of a clock, The whisper of the leaves and far away, The infinite compassion of the sea.
Theodora regarded him contemptuously, her dark slumbrouseyes turning from him to the woman.
He saw before him a woman combining the charm of the girl with the maturity of the thirties, dark-haired, exquisitely proportioned, with clear-cut features and dark slumbrous eyes.
All the earth grows fire, White lips of desire Brushing cool on the forehead, croon slumbrous things.
There are strange lights in your eyes like the slumbrous fire of a volcano; even your voice seems to have lost its tenderness.
He lifted his slumbrous eyes for the first time to the master, and at the same time put himself between him and Harrison.
Kenneth McVeigh was wooing a woman who looked at him with slumbrous magnetic eyes and laughed at him.
Her beautiful eyes were not so slumbrous as usual; they were brilliant as from some inward fever, and, though she smiled and met his sombre gaze with a challenge, she smothered a sigh under her light words.
And I, thinking that I might so more swiftly strike, rose and seated myself some little way from her on the couch, while, flinging back her head, she gazed on me with her slumbrous eyes.
Her lovely face was dark, dark were her slumbrous eyes, and none might read their message, though all that Court searched them for a sign of what should come.
As well try to extinguish in full June the beating of the heart of summer; deny to the flowers their deepening hues, or to winged life its slumbrous buzzing, as stifle in such a lover his conviction of fulfilment.
The breath of the night-smelling flowers pierced the slumbrous air; the palace showed a faint shape, a marvellous tint; remote it looked and uncertain in outline.
In my nostrils is still the scent of that July afternoon, the perfume from the slumbrous grasses, the scent of the peaceful flowers.
The water showed no more diamonds, the lower slopes of the converging hills grew a deep and slumbrous green.
There was a great checkering of light and darkness and the slumbrous sound of water.
Bardolph Just himself, save that there was in hers a curious slumbrous quality, quite unlike the sparkle in the man's.
It was a slumbrous day in early summer, and the grounds being very wide and extensive, I had rather an enjoyable forenoon of it.
The slumbrousstarry eyes were meant to hold the memories of a thousand love-thoughts.
He dared not think of the beauty of that dead face, of its subtle slumbrous charm, and stung to a new sense of desperation he plunged recklessly into the dark aperture, which seemed to engulf him like the gateway of some magic cavern.
Earth, too, under the profound grass Sleeps and sleeps, and softly heaves her slumbrous mass.
Ah, heed not her songs in the still slumbrous air— Oh!
His naked feet One faintly moved as low she leant; and warm His slumbrous breath stirred ’gainst her circling arm, And slow aneath his closed lids slipped a waft Of wind, that loosed a trickling tear.
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