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Definition of Drowsiest
1. drowsy [adj] - See also: drowsy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drowsiest
Literary usage of Drowsiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"Plenty of life there ! though this is the drowsiest time of the year, just before
hay-harvest; and it is the drowsiest time of the day too, for it is close ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"... with dismay, that it is the "hottest, dullest, drowsiest, frou-siest, and
least courtly of courts;" and nothing would induce the slave-owning Chandos to ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"Plenty of life there! though this is the drowsiest time of ... just before hay
harvest; and it is the drowsiest time of the day too, for it is close upon ..."
4. English Prose: Selections by Henry Craik (1907)
"Plenty of life there ! though this is the drowsiest time of the year, just before
the hay-harvest ; and it is the ..."
5. Specimens of Prose Composition by Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey, Chester Noyes Greenough (1907)
"... GEORGE ELIOT Plenty of life there ! though this is the drowsiest time of the
year, just before hay-harvest; ..."
6. From Chaucer to Arnold: Types of Literary Art in Prose and Verse; an by Andrew Jackson George (1898)
"Plenty of life there! though this is the drowsiest time of the year, just before
the hay-harvest; and it is the 65 drowsiest time of the day too, ..."
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