slumbrous

• A few slumbrous, half-smothered sounds from scattered nests preluded the general concert, and then the notes were taken up, and repeated by the entire feathered population for miles along the shore, until the clamour seemed like that of ten thousand awakening barn-yards. —  The Island Home
• But the heavy lashes hung low in the slumbrous, dreamy way that sees all and reveals nothing. —  Lords of the North
• But his extremities were cold, he thought, and placing a chair bottom upward on the floor, he put his feet to the fire For some minutes Mr. Hardesty stared steadily at the ceiling, beyond which Miss Sidebottom was sleeping in virgin security; and whether from the magnetic effect of his constant gaze, or the slumbrous air that pervaded the room, his eyelids soon closed, and he was again soundly asleep. —  The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1
• Poor Froggy III THE PICNIC IN THE GLEN I think we will go for a picnic, Romeo," said Priscilla It was a Saturday afternoon, warm and slumbrous, and Saturday was the day on which Raffold Abbey was open to the public when the family were away. —  The Swindler and Other Stories
• If any one thinks that within the brief period of a generation the visible supply of labor can be enormously augmented without profoundly affecting the stability of things and disastrously touching the interests of wage-workers let no rude voice dispel his dream of such maleficent agencies as his slumbrous understanding may joy to affirm. —  A Cynic Looks at Life

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