half-doze

Towards morning Philip's second in command, a border knight from near Berkeley named Guy Camville, touched him on the shoulder, rousing him out of a half-doze of exhaustion, and told him to get away into comparative quiet in the keep, and snatch a couple of hours of honest sleep, while it was possible.

A River So Long 2010

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If Norah doesn't untwist them pearls, she's gonna kill the half-doze brain cells she's functioning on.

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The heat put me into a half-doze and I began dreamily to wonder what other people were doing.

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The sound of someone running and voices raised in anger snapped her out of her half-doze.

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One day when Thea was in a restless half-doze, I unearthed a photograph in her scrapbook that had been lodged behind another.

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Call had relaxed and slipped into a half-doze by the time Therese Wanz got around to the extraction of his nose hairs.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Call had relaxed and slipped into a half-doze by the time Therese Wanz got around to the extraction of his nose hairs.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Call had relaxed and slipped into a half-doze by the time Therese Wanz got around to the extraction of his nose hairs.

Comanche Moon Larry McMurtry 1997

Call had relaxed and slipped into a half-doze by the time Therese Wanz got around to the extraction of his nose hairs.

The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995