drowse away

She drowsed away half the day but could not sleep at night.

The old box tortoise was still there, drowsing away the hours and years.

Even such shadows of sound had drowsed away to nothingness.

I had drowsed away that afternoon and now I could not sleep.

His last few words drowsed away into a deep, regular purr, and he was asleep with the one eye partly open.

There were days when he ate only one light meal and drowsed away the rest of the hours in a lethargy which was not normal.

She shoved the thought of drowsing away resolutely, and pushed the blankets aside.

He went to bed and drowsed away.

They drowsed away a few moments in each other's arms, tingling as if joined by a low voltage circuit.

There, he would fling himself down and sleep or watch the blue haze fill the river valley as the afternoon drowsed away.

The overheated little town of grey stones and red tiles was drowsing away its provincial afternoon under a blue sky.

Totally unsuspicious of what had occurred, the Scotland Yard man decided to drowse away the time.

Thou hast drowsed away thy manhood in the lap of vice, .

Beth's arms tightened about him to comfort him, and they drowsed away another delicious hour until the sunlight woke them.

Half-sitting, half-lying there he seemed curiously peaceful, a man drowsing away a summer afternoon by a sun-warmed wall.

I drowsed away the noontime, and in the afternoon called again on Capt. Norrys, who became exceedingly interested in what I told him.

Nothing in town; it was drowsing away the late afternoon under a sky that peculiar shade of deep blue that graces New England on fine late summer days.

Just before she drowsed away she thought, in a sudden flash of remembering, that she recognised the small bright object that in her dream had been the Greenwitch's secret.

After Coresan had buried herself in her hot sand to drowse away her second meal of the day, Vetch fed and groomed Kashet to within an inch of his life.

First, from 'Piers Ploughman' (c.1375) by William Langland: So I drowsed away until it was Lent, and slept for a long time, and lay there snoring heavily until Palm Sunday.

As she drowsed away in the tropic languor of morphia, he sat on the edge of her bed, holding her hand, and for the first time in many weeks her hand abode trustfully in his.

Nestling his head upon his mother's arm, Jack lay quiet till, lulled by the music of his mates, he drowsed away into the dreamless sleep which is Nurse Nature's healthiest soothing sirup for weary souls and bodies.

Yet the Temple's proximity meant the church was undeniably all but forgotten by the vast majority of the Faithful, and so it was left to itself most of the time, drowsing away in the shadows of its larger, newer, and more prestigious brothers and sisters.

Although crowded with prospectors and pan-handlers looking for gold when that English bank-clerk, Robert W. Service, was writing his 'Songs of a Sourdough' and 'The Cremation of Dan McGrew', Whitehorse and Dawson City were now drowsing away the years as forgotten towns.