How To Use Slumbrous In A Sentence
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They huddled in their old garments, slumbrously conscious of the march of the hours which for them had no meaning.
Men, Women, and Boats
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slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes
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He stood motionless, listening; but no sound broke the morning slumbrousness, except the faraway warbling of a thrush in the first light.
The Return
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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
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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
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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
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The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended.
Maurice Guest
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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
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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
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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
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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.
Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
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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
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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.
Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence
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My conjugal partner and I, attired in our nocturnal head coverings, were about to take slumbrous advantage of the hibernal darkness when upon the avenaceous exterior portion of the grounds there ascended such a cacaphony of dissonance that I felt compelled to arise with alacrity from my place of repose for the purpose of ascertaining the precise source thereof.
Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 1 Issue 6 (ANSI Edition)
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The Adriatic slumbrously tossed up its toy surges, and lo!
Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
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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
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The waking of the wood may mean that the slumbrous dream was not real anyway, that daytime reality has now supervened, replacing defiance with pleasant companionship.
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'Eh! it'll be grand to live here,' she thought drowsily, as she lay down in the cool clean sheets and heard the large clock on the wall of the landing ticking slumbrously in a measured activity that deepened the peace.
Gone to Earth
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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
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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
