It came like a murmurous wind drifting up from the south, waking men sunk in the apathy of despair.

"Indeed he has been, and as I had a sample of a cake she baked for him, I can tell you any man who swallows more than a mouthful of what she makes in her kitchen is a man sunk to his ears in love."

Slouching against a convenient tree stump, the bears sit on their bottoms - tummy out, legs akimbo like an enormously fat man sunk into an old armchair - and eat; methodically stripping the bamboo of its tough, green outer skin, before noisily crunching up the yellow inside.

Three young men sunk picks and shovels into a rocky hillside near this village, looking for treasure and grimacing when all they turned up were pottery shards and bone fragments.

She had seen before men sunk to this extremity of neglect - many in the south.

We keep the ancient faith The words rolled on-the solemn, dedicated words of a man sunk deep in faith.

Simon re- membered Aldis, her hands tight upon the Kolder talis- man, so deeply sunk in her voiceless call for aid that she was unaware of action about her.

Perhaps, conceivably, a man (or woman) so sunk in savagery or psychosis that he (or she) didn't need light.

There might be scattered bands of men already sunk in savagery, but not enough of them to form any sort of economic base.

You may by degrees weaken a real sorrow, till it totally disappears; yet in none of its graduations will it ever give pleasure; except, perhaps, by accident, to a man sunk under lethargic indolence, whom it rouzes from that languid state.