But with civilisation close to their gates, the old system means a degraded somnolent life for the man, and the continuance of a real, though not necessarily unpleasant, form of slavery for the woman.
His life was so monotonous that the tale of how his fathers first came into the land inspired him by its unlikeness to his own somnolent traditions.
It is a placid, almost somnolent village of villas, abounding with delightful lawns and gardens, with great elms shading its old-fashioned thoroughfares and drooping their pliant boughs above its comfortable homes.
The yacht, rocking gently as a cradle, set the Japanese lanterns around the awnings nodding in languorous lines, and, above and beyond, clouds and stars rubbed lazily against each other in somnolent jumble.
The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way.
Rather more pressure was needed on the somnolentmandarins of Pekin; but, under the threat of war with Russia if the lease of the Liao-tung Peninsula were not granted by March 27, it was signed on that day.
Simon leaned against a somnolent white cow, with an arm flung lengthways down her back, his other hand fretting the ground with the worn remnant of a crooked stick.
The sudden pressure of his arm moved thesomnolent cow to a sharp kick.
At the somnolent little village of Burlington we found our guides waiting for us.
Two or three depressed and somnolent travellers yawned in the waiting-room, which smelled horribly of smoky lamps.
But we never did; and the somnolent effects of the last "bumpers" of anise they had drunk were so complete that we were left to eat our lunch in peace.
The Constance Colfax boasted no staterooms; but the few all-night passengers from up the lake were sprawled about the unventilated cabin in a somnolent state.
It was the hour of siesta--though why one hour should be considered moresomnolent than another in this place the girl from Vermont could not imagine.
They were somnolent in the darkness, but one hand stung as if in white-hot metal as he went on.
It is a sleepy, somnolent little town in which the most pretentious building was begun as the Presidential Palace and wound up as the home of a bank.
Finally, a languorous journey by punt from the Barges to Magdalen Bridge more than compensated us for the somnolent half-hour which we had been proposing to spend under the shadow of the City Wall.
Berry, usuallysomnolent at this hour, sat upon the club kerb and toyed with The Times.
One’s first home impression after a season of lazy Continental travelling and visiting in somnolent English country houses, is that an emblematical Ethiopian should be quartered on our national arms.
My name," I screamed at the somnolent dodo, "is Isadore Summers.
I slid back into the crater, sat leaning against a somnolent dodo and ate a lunch package with a cupful of melted snow.
All the same, it was very pleasant wandering through a land purely given over to agriculture, somnolent and restful.
Perhaps her trouble is that she is a little bit too prosperous with an olden-time prosperity; a little bit too somnolent and satisfied.
The suddenness with which Gilbert could awaken to lively interest the most somnolent and indifferent student, by means of a long brass pin in the calf of the leg, had to be felt to be appreciated.
It was all double-Dutch to me then, but now I can see that Jaimsie must have been marshalling the mountains of Scripture to bear solemn witness against an evil and exceedingly somnolent generation.
Colton's ill-humor was now somnolent under some two pounds of peanuts.
But, as ever, the disinterested grew somnolent with content, and gave no heed to the burrowing of the hungry recuperated and wiser rats in that prolific underworld whence never a high-minded citizen emerges.
The wind, which tans even a creole of St. Pierre to an unnatural brown within forty-eight hours of his sojourn in the village, has also a peculiarly somnolent effect.
Also the somnolent chant of the engines--do-do, hey!
Up in Rachael's long front room a low fire and two lamps shaded with orange silk gave all the light, so that the corners were full of deep and somnolent shadows.
They signed a lease that night and, in the agent's car, returned jubilantly to the somnolent and dilapidated Marietta Inn, which was too broken for even the chance immoralities and consequent gaieties of a country road-house.
On his return to his native place, folks found him less heavy and somnolent than formerly.
The one thing that had momentarily aroused his somnolent intelligence was a revival of his wife’s plaint anent the unbuilt bird-house.
I thought of saying that I was going to buy medicine for Robin, but in that case one of the sentries (probably Robin's, for my own had grown very somnolent with beer and bromide) would certainly accompany me.
If one reflects how many ghosts and other miraculous apparitions are seen at night, and when the mind is in a more or less somnolent condition, the idea is forcibly suggested that a good proportion of these visions are the débris of dreams.
Oddly enough, she now learnt for the first time that the house at which she was staying had the reputation of being haunted, and by the very same somewhat repulsive-looking mediæval personage that had troubled her inter-somnolent moments.
Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible gulpings, the salt somnolentinexhaustible flood.
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