Some steamed despite the hot day; others enclosed pools of green brine where pickles
drowsed like crocodiles."
He
drowsed, smoking his Populars and listening to conversations and the sound of the television behind the wall, and then finally fell asleep until morning.
After all, even within Maria Petrovna there
drowsed a future mother, and along with that a link to the adolescent--how they love the boyish, even childish, the man worthy of being protected, of being taken care of and of being led, oh my dear ones!
Later that afternoon, while Mattie
drowsed, she risked a shallow bath.
as I, still steeped with you,
drowsed back to sleep.
The feminist, ecology and New Left movements were mocked, ignored and misreported in both the mainstream and the established alternative press (The Nation, under previous management,
drowsed through the sixties entirely); they flourished all the same, and in the process created their own media, which eventually affected the larger culture.
As when the woman
drowsed after having tea in her warm dining-room, her reaction to comfort is sleep.
drowsed soul fleeing Feeling all the talk half dream half phantom to actual
The sound of a lawn mower
drowsed through my open window.
And she
drowsed in her mother Shellie's arms while they sat for two hours in the waiting area at Oregon Health & Science University's imaging lab.
He always
drowsed for a while in the afternoon--after his
In a more autobiographical context, the island is St Lucia, where Brathwaite and Mexican lived "among the gushin(g) Pitons of that vulcan island
drowsed in trees" in 1962 when Brathwaite was employed at the extramural department of the University of the West Indies (DreamStories 75).
with a less menacing "tobacco trance," a
drowsed mental state
This theme accompanies Egan's account as she travels first to Basra and then up the Tigris River to Baghdad (and her eventual rendezvous with General Maude and history), stopping along the way to relate bits of ancient and recent history (in fact the two get conflated) and to ponder the industrious improvements the British army has brought to destroy "for all time the somnolent peace of a world that has
drowsed for ages in Eastern dreams" (85).
