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Definition of Drowsier
1. drowsy [adj] - See also: drowsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drowsier
Literary usage of Drowsier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"... eating and sleeping in those cramped quarters and getting ever drowsier and
drowsier, at last losing consciousness altogether, to awake and become aware ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1884)
"Finally Jack finds himself getting drowsier and drowsier. Once, twice, his head
drops, and he brings himself up with a jerk, ..."
3. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"... eating and sleeping in those cramped quarters and getting ever drowsier and
drowsier, at last losing consciousness altogether, to awake and become aware ..."
4. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"drowsier. to wake pretensions drowsier than theirs, Agr. 104. Drowsy. drowsy tinklings
lull the distant folds: El. 8. Dryden's. where Dryden's less ..."
5. The Spinners' Book of Fiction by Spinners' Club, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton (1907)
"And while I looked, I grew drowsier and drowsier; my eyes would close, then half
open, and there would be the hantu sails and the fire for company, ..."
6. The English Illustrated Magazine (1907)
"Whoever goes there begins first of all to stretch and yawn and rub his eyes, and
then he gets drowsier and drowsier, until at last he tumbles down and the ..."
7. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1875)
"What with the hot sun, and what with the east wind, and what with the telegraphic
message, and what with one thing and the other, Belinda got drowsier and ..."
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