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  • Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Then I enjoy laying down on my bed in my towel and dozing off for a while, especially if my room is at that right temperature where its not uncomfortably warm, but enough to make you a little drowzy.

    naima101 Diary Entry naima101 2005

  • The awakening, then, of the human soul, to an effectual apprehension of eternal realities, must take its first issue from some other Being than the drowzy and slumbering creature himself.

    Sermons to the Natural Man 1857

  • Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow.

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

  • Nothing seemed to be going on but the clocks, and they had such drowzy faces, such heavy lazy hands, and such cracked voices that they surely must have been too slow.

    Old Curiosity Shop 1800

  • The church hath lost much ground, and is still upon the losing hand, and it seems will continue so until it pleases the Lord to pour down his Spirit from on high, or else by some sharp awakening dispensation rouse up drowzy souls out of the lethargy wherein they are fallen, &c.

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

  • I know he needs counciling and meds, but everytime he tries a med, it makes he drowzy and he says he can't be drowzy and work.

    Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes 2010

  • Then again, such overall drowzier atmosphere is as much smart starting over for their next phase as it is just plain drowzy sometimes.

    CMJ New Music News 2009

  • Still humming on, their drowzy courfe they keep, 600

    The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical 1779

  • Dost thou doubt it, and think me to be boasting? then try me, and I will prove to thee my power by experiment, in any way thou wilt I will soothe and shampoo [17] thee with a hand softer than a snowflake's fall and cooler than the icy moon: or, if thou wilt, I will croon to thee old airs, and put thee to sleep like a tired child, resting thy head on this bosom which once was thy delight, with melodies that shall speak to thee of drowzy bees and moaning winds: or I will steal thy waking senses from thee and lure them into slumber as it were against thy will by snaring them with fragrances more luscious than that _párijáta_ blossom, which

    An Essence of the Dusk, 5th Edition Francis William Bain 1901

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