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Slumberous   Listen
adjective
Slumberous  adj.  
1.
Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade."
2.
Being in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. "His quiet and almost slumberous countenance."





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"Slumberous" Quotes from Famous Books



... A slumberous sound,—a sound that brings The feelings of a dream— As of innumerable wings, As, when a bell no longer swings, Paint the hollow murmur rings ...
— The Grateful Indian - And other Stories • W.H.G. Kingston
... the middle of the afternoon the young man unsaddled and picketed the animal near a water-hole. He lay down in the shadow of a cottonwood, flat on his back, face upturned to the deep cobalt sky. Presently the drowse of the afternoon crept over him. The slumberous valley grew hazy to his nodding eyes. The reluctant lids ceased to open ...
— A Texas Ranger • William MacLeod Raine
... even your anger in so good a cause. Ah, please don't be angry with me, Miss Hermione, because—" and here his sleepy voice grew positively slumberous, "you shall not go out ...
— The Definite Object - A Romance of New York • Jeffery Farnol
... with fantastic issues. Even the name breathed magic. Wizard spells hovered there; the railroad had not broken them—the cars and locomotives, entering, did not disturb the brooding vastness. A man might still ride errant into those slumberous spaces and discover for himself; might boldly awaken the realm and rule with ...
— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin
... sleepy manners comes to us from the north country. A short-sighted clergyman of what is known as the "old school" was preaching one winter afternoon to a slumberous congregation. Dusk was falling, the church was badly lighted, and his manuscript difficult to decipher. He managed to stumble along until he reached a passage which he rendered as follows: "Enthusiasm, my brethren, enthusiasm ...
— The Parish Clerk (1907) • Peter Hampson Ditchfield


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