drowses

It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed.

Jack London's Kohler and Frohling Winery Ruins 2010

It is like a monster ever unsubdued, this stubborn land that drowses in this Indian summer weather and that survives them all, the men who scratched its surface and passed.

Chapter 37 2010

An 18-year-old girl drowses over "Mrs. Dalloway" and wishes to lead a virtuous life—an act of rebellion against her mother, Asha, who has mortgaged her own morality to become the premier power broker in the slum.

City of Lost Children Karan Mahajan 2012

When I visit the easy times are when I sit and play my harp while she drowses or sleeps.

Making Light: Open thread 135 2010

In this poem, we find a woman who “had drunk from the poppy-cup/and drowses in her world of dream.”

The Enigma : Don Share : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

He must have been whirled into the open below where the bridge used to be, and then swept into the underground deeps, where the Labongo drowses for thirty miles.

Prester John 2005

If he doesn't sleep let him sip a cup of hot milk, and sit beside him until he drowses off.

Armour's Monthly Cook Book, Volume 2, No. 12, October 1913 A Monthly Magazine of Household Interest Various

And so to-day Morocco drowses in an atmosphere of _laissez faire_, a decadent nation, a collection of lawless tribes, who have changed little for the last two thousand years, living still much after the manner of

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

The little old churches placed where Weir drowses out into the country, have hoarse, sweet bells like the voices of old women who whisper of the

The Faery Tales of Weir Anna McClure Sholl

We are interested in bad men, in courageous men, in poor men and rich men, but good men -- our interest lags here, nods, drowses, goes to sleep.

Sermons on Biblical Characters Clovis G. Chappell