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Definition of Drowsily
1. Adverb. In a drowsy manner. "`Time to get up,' she said drowsily"
Definition of Drowsily
1. adv. In a drowsy manner.
Definition of Drowsily
1. Adverb. In a drowsy manner ¹
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Definition of Drowsily
1. drowsy [adv] - See also: drowsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drowsily
Literary usage of Drowsily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1892)
"(drowsily). stream." That's pretty ! ; Dimpling Which flies as odor-laden zephyrs
fly, O'er beds of infant roses — " Mas ..."
2. The Trespasser by David Herbert Lawrence (1912)
"THE afternoon of the blazing day passed drowsily. Lying close together on the
beach, Siegmund and Helena let the day exhale its hours like perfume, ..."
3. The New Magdalen: A Novel by Wilkie Collins (1873)
"... onous ticking of the clock on the mantel-piece grew drowsily fainter and
fainter on her ear. Little by little she dropped into slumber—slumber so light ..."
4. The Second Book of Modern Verse: A Selection from the Work of by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse (1919)
"drowsily come the sheep, And the shepherd is singing low: After eight comes nine
... First eight, then nine, by the paths of sleep drowsily come the sheep. ..."
5. Poems by Robert Williams Buchanan (1866)
"drowsily hum the honey-bees, drowsily murmur the birds in the trees, drowsily
drops the spicy breeze, drowsily I sit at mine ease. ..."
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