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Meanings of slumbrous in английском

Inclined to or marked by drowsiness.

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Usage of slumbrous in английском
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The heat of the slumbrous afternoon was oppressive; all animation seemed suspended.
Maurice Guest
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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
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Obedient to the slumbrous mandate, Lad turned and pattered mournfully away.
Further Adventures of Lad
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Blue Duck opened his slumbrous eyes a fraction wider and looked at Call.
Lonesome dove
6
Of the two slumbrous collies, one was slenderly graceful of outline; gold-and-white of hue.
Further Adventures of Lad
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It was a pleasant summer day, the air very clear, the place very slumbrous.
The Inheritors
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Lysia looked at him steadfastly, an under-gleam of malice shining in her slumbrous eyes.
Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self
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They were Oriental, slumbrous, meditative, and the black pupils were of an exaggerated size.
The Net
10
A slumbrous haze brooded over canals and palaces and churches.
Little Rivers: A Book of Essays in Profitable Idleness
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The wood, too, was full of a slumbrous murmur that I did not understand.
The Time Machine & The War of the Worlds
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Three or four messengers squatted beside the wall, with slumbrous heads between their knees.
The Path of a Star
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She smiled up at him, her darkly slumbrous, scarlet-lipped smile.
The Black Pearl
14
What a world of ferocity in those black, slumbrous eyes!
Ziska: The Problem of a Wicked Soul
15
Brightened, as in the slumbrous heart of the woods
The Poetry Of Robert Browning
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A low whistle floated through the slumbrous silence and died softly away among the sand-dunes.
The Tidal Wave and Other Stories
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