1 Clym stepped before her into the passage, and Eustacia waited, her somnolent manner covering her inner heat and agitation.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 4: 4 Rough Coercion Is Employed 2 The droning voice of the professor continued to wind itself slowly round and round the coils it spoke of, doubling, trebling, quadrupling its somnolent energy as the coil multiplied its ohms of resistance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 3 A lazy somnolence descended on the crowd.
4 In an instant, the somnolence had fled from the lounging throng and something electric went snapping through the air.
5 A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.
6 They were activities which, beside those of a town, a village, or even a farm, would have appeared as the ferment of stagnation merely, a creeping of the flesh of somnolence.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 2: 1 Tidings of the Comer 7 The porter watched them take their departure as he had watched their arrival, in terrified somnolence.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER X—RETURN OF THE SON WHO WAS PRODIGAL OF HIS LIFE