drowse
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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the Japanese Diet, Premier Yoshida will often drowse through the opposition speeches, sometimes bestirring himself to deal with questions: "I will not answer that."
From Time Magazine Archive
Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
In Kearny, N.J., police were inclined to believe Station Attendant Louis Washington's story that he had slept through two burglaries of Red's Trucking Terminal when he fell into a drowse during questioning at police headquarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
The next morning I blearily awoke after two hours of sleep, bundled myself onto one of the wagons and proceeded to drowse away the morning.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Vocabulary lists containing drowse
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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Festival of Sleep Day
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