slumbrous

How To Use slumbrous In A Sentence

• They huddled in their old garments, slumbrously conscious of the march of the hours which for them had no meaning. Men, Women, and Boats
• slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes
• He stood motionless, listening; but no sound broke the morning slumbrousness, except the faraway warbling of a thrush in the first light. The Return
• 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
• Turning from the still, moonlit sheet, the silent reeds, the clear mimicker in the slumbrous wood, the two wayfarers plunged into the darkness beneath the spreading branches of the oak-trees. Audrey
• The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand. The Time Machine, by H. G. Wells
• The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended. Maurice Guest
• 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
• 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
• Every evening, Coast to Coast offers a running commentary on what keeps people awake, in fear or fascination, through what Keats called the “unslumbrous night.” The Listener