slumberous

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So powerfully does Author O'Donnell evoke the slumberous qualities in his scene that readers may often find their eyes closing softly, their breathing growing regular and even, the book slipping from their nerveless fingers.

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But even as the city was modernized, Stalingrad's color and flavor still derived from the life teeming on the many-storied landing stages of the broad, slumberous Volga.

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After a slumberous afternoon in which the gallery attendants glared at dozers,* the bill came to passage.

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None of the songs on Spice, from the slumberous ballad 2 Become 1 to the bass-heavy party jam Something Kinda Funny, come across as deeply felt; they all seem designed to amuse, titillate, ingratiate.

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Still moods and slumberous fanned on To dreams that rock to sleep, Unmerciful abandon, That haunts or makes one weep.

From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Cawein, Madison Julius