Dozing

Examples

• Soon after, Mrs. Reed grew more composed, and sank into a dozing state. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• I have not been in town half-a-dozen hours, and those I have been dozing and grumbling away at the play. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I seemed to have been dozing a whole night when the clocks struck six. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Oliver had been dozing; but looked worse, and was more feverish than he had appeared yet. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Is she dozing, old lady? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Your servant, gentlemen; I've been dozing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Sir John was dozing, when I entered the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I say, Augustine, said Marie after dozing a while, I must send to the city after my old Doctor Posey; I'm sure I've got the complaint of the heart. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• To whom, likewise, the shadows of the night revealed themselves, in the forms their dozing eyes and wandering thoughts suggested. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Frankenstein, who was dozing, awoke, and asked the cause of the tumult. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Night time is the best and offers the only slender chance we have, for then men sleep, and only a dozing watch nods in the tops of the battleships. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• His fits of dozing were as sudden as they had been overnight, and were as short and profound. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The poker got into my dozing thoughts besides, and wouldn't come out. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre: Buried how long? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• In it he sat dozing, while the old woman who arranged his room went through her morning's work. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She is dozing probably, for she gives no heed to his steps as he comes toward her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was not sleeping, nor what a person would term correctly, dozing. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Even Mrs. Vesey, dozing in her chair, woke at the sudden cessation of the music, and inquired what had happened. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.

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