Around the boy floating in the water the drowsy afternoon was still and peaceful, the sun lowering, sunset not far away.

In the drowsy afternoon, most of the lepers lay in their rock dens asleep.

Too much of a task for this drowsy afternoon.

One day, on a dull, drowsy afternoon, the dream-child called.

Then followed the drowsy afternoon.

He packed away the sextant, rolled the map and went to join the slumbering trio beneath the wagon for what remained of the drowsy afternoon.

The soporific calm of the drowsy afternoon was shattered by the bell indicator above the kitchen door.

It was a drowsy, afternoon.

The sound startled the guards, who had been dozing on their feet in the quiet, drowsy afternoon.