slumberous

• “We are suffering in Britain, I will not say from a decay of patriotism, but from what might be described as a slumberous condition of patriotism today.”

  England's Greatest Needs

• “However, we're not here to Taser these slumberous baseball icons.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Wake Me Up for the Ninth Inning

• “A wicked glow lit a stare that lingered too long on me, a slow, slumberous perusal that made my mouth go dry.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Darkest Edge of Dawn

• “She blinked once, slumberous and slow, as she rolled to her side facing him.”

  Simon & Schuster: Deadly Promises

• “Her freckled cheeks were flushed, her lips still slightly swollen from his loving, her eyes slumberous.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Devil Wears Plaid

• “While he began to write more than a dozen dancing women swept into the room from behind the silk hangings in a concerted movement that was all lithe slumberous grace.”

  Fictionaut: In The Time Of Light

• “He lay but opened a red eye unsleeping, deep and slowly breathing, slumberous but awake.”

  Nick Mamatas' Journal

• “Culpepper roused a slumberous offense just enough in the fourth quarter Sunday, directing a 50-yard drive that set up a field goal to help Miami beat hapless Tennessee 13-10.”

  USATODAY.com - Football - Tennessee vs. Miami

• “SHORTLY AFTER 3:00 A.M. Washington time, on November 4, 1979, Elizabeth Ann Swift, the political officer in the United States embassy in Tehran, got through by phone to the Operations Center, the communications nerve point on the seventh floor of the State Department in Washington, D.C. Her words jolted the officials at the Washington end of the line out of the slumberous quiet.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Prize

• “And sure enough, the flip side of the panel reveals the poem itself: I had often, cowled in the slumberous heavy air”

  "bfa after Durer - the Ern Malley piece"

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