Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
slumberous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Slumberous.
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- adjective
slumberous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective quiet and tranquil
- adjective inclined to or marked by drowsiness
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Examples
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Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley.
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Then the slumbrous quiet would fall, to be broken by the far call of a foreign tongue or by a gasoline fishing boat chugging in through the mouth of the slough.
CHAPTER XI 2010
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And also, as you have perceived, if but you have attended my way, the air was grown warm, and oft were the rocks pleasant to the seat, and all of these matters did contrive to make me slumbrous.
The Night Land 2007
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And after that, I made ready, and went to my sleep, having sweet thoughts and slumbrous, of the Maid.
The Night Land 2007
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The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.
The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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The drive back here was delightful, from the wintry height, where I must confess that we shivered, to the slumbrous calm of an endless summer, the glorious tropical trees, the distant view of cool chasm-like valleys, with Honolulu sleeping in perpetual shade, and the still blue ocean, without a single sail to disturb its profound solitude.
The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004
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She was the deep, slumbrous lodestone which set all his bones glittering with the energy of relentless pride.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended.
Maurice Guest 2003
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And the drops falling from this sudden and unthinking fountain of joy fell here and there on the dark, the slumbrous shapes in her mind; shapes of
To the Lighthouse 2002
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He lifted his head and stared down at her, the dark eyes slumbrous, a flush of deeper colour along the high cheekbones, as if he was waiting for some sign from her.
The Tycoon's Mistress Craven, Sara 2000
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"The wood ... was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand."
- Wells, The Time Machine
June 5, 2008