The buzzing went on: the sound of a sleepy afternoon, far from here.
To us the place is sleepy afternoons by the pool, expeditions to the nearby market, and long boozy meals under the terrace of vines.
Eve [sic] seemed to exist in a transparent envelope, protecting her against all outside weather and influences, and through which you peered at her in her unbroken, sunny, sleepy afternoon.
Until this sleepy afternoon, our Christmas is much like any other family's.
Yama and Pandaras talked for hours during those long, hot, sleepy afternoons, telling each other of their adventures in the time they had been parted.
A random survey of my colleagues on a sleepy afternoon turned up college degrees in rhetoric, English literature, general liberal arts, and then law, as well as journalism, biochemistry and physics.
But the human side tends toward the stuffy, somewhat like an exclusive club on a sleepy afternoon.
The murmur was the kind of restrained and deeply unenthusiastic applause one normally only hears in England on sleepy sunny Sunday afternoons, at village cricket matches.
It was a hot, sleepy afternoon.
She wriggled close and smelt the warmth of a sleepy afternoon on his skin.