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Meanings of slumbery in English

Inclined to or marked by drowsiness.

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        Examples for "somnolent"
        Examples for "somnolent"
        1
        From within comes the steady, somnolent buzz of a great many flies.
        Black house
        2
        The electorate was somnolent and permitted the politician to have his way.
        The Boss and the Machine: A Chronicle of the Politicians and Par...
        3
        There was a most enormous, somnolent, loudly-snoring mastiff there when we met.
        For Honor We Stand
        4
        The street, save for a distant and presumably somnolent policeman, was deserted.
        The Confessions of Artemas Quibble / Being the Ingenuous and Unv...
        5
        Casey muttered, staring down upon a somnolent wilderness blanketed with hushed midnight.
        The Trail of the White Mule
        1
        But his thoughts were gradually getting too busy for this slumberous state.
        Doctor Grimshawe's Secret — a Romance
        2
        The soft background hum of the camp blended into a slumberous blur.
        Frontier courtship
        3
        A solemn twilight, heavy and oppressive, was closing a dull, slumberous day.
        The Light That Lures
        4
        The roo-hooing of the pigeons fills the whole place with a slumberous sound.
        The Upton Letters
        5
        Through the slumberous summer air came the whir of the machine.
        The Odds / And Other Stories
        1
        The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended.
        Maurice Guest
        2
        She looked at me with a singular expression in her slumbrous eyes.
        Simon the Jester
        3
        It was slumbrous, being a slave town, but it was not dead.
        The Boys' Life of Mark Twain
        4
        Obedient to the slumbrous mandate, Lad turned and pattered mournfully away.
        Further Adventures of Lad
        5
        Blue Duck opened his slumbrous eyes a fraction wider and looked at Call.
        Lonesome dove
        Usage of slumbery in English
        1
        So the passage down the full and slumbery Fal seemed nearly a soundless thing.
        Tell England / A Study in a Generation
        2
        7 Fair Chrysogone in slumbery trance whilere:
        The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
        Slumbery through the time