"Somnolence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... head vigorously, which was one of his preliminaries of awakening, and then mournfully raised himself in bed, a pillar of somnolence. ...
— Young Lives • Richard Le Gallienne
... of Health will include it among "notifiable" epidemics?). Lord BLEDISLOE quoted the old tag about big fleas and little fleas. But after all there must be some check to the inveterate tendency to somnolence in the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, May 21, 1919. • Various
... their hiding-places in the rocks. The sea commenced to disappear beneath a thin mist. The lighthouse of Europe shone like a diamond from afar in the heavens above the Strait, which were still clear. A sweet somnolence seemed to arise from the dying day, enveloping all Nature. The two human atoms, lost in this immensity, felt themselves invaded by the universal tremor, oblivious to all that but a short time before had constituted their ...
— Luna Benamor • Vicente Blasco Ibanez
... Sometimes as the sun sloped there might come hollow blasts of wind that had careered for a brief space over the woods; but the brooding heat, the mastering silence, the feeling that multifarious quiescent living things were ready to start into action, all took the senses with somnolence. That drowsy joy, that soothing silence which seemed only intensified by the murmur of bees and the faint gurgle of water, were like medicine to the soul; and it seemed that the conception of Nirvana became easily understood as the delicious ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... middle of an oppressive afternoon. The days of late had assumed an extraordinary oppressiveness for the season of the year. She came amidst the peaceful calm when all farm life seems to be wrapped in a restful somnolence, when the animal world has spent its morning energies, and seeks rest that it may recuperate for the ...
— The Golden Woman - A Story of the Montana Hills • Ridgwell Cullum
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