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A Woman or a Goddess? a rainbow Flame in mortal shape? a spirit of earth, air, fire, water? ... or a Thought of Beauty embodied into human sweetness and made perfect? ... Clothed in gold attire, and girdled with gems, she stood, leaning indolently against the middle mast of the vessel, her great, sombre, dusky eyes resting drowsily on the swarming masses of people, whose frenzied roar of rapture and admiration sounded like the breaking of billows.
He ordered some beer, handed one bottle up to his secretary, downed his own bottle at one gulp. Then, drowsily, he half closed his eyes, and soon fell sound asleep. "Hey!" a man called to Pancracio from the threshold. "When can I see your general?" "You can't see him. He's got a hangover this morning. What the hell do you want?" "I want to buy some of those books you're burning."
The cathedral clock struck twelve and was answered again from the convent belfry; and as the notes died away he suddenly became aware that the weird, drowsy throb of the African song and dance had been swinging drowsily in his brain for an unknown lapse of time. The apothecary nodded once or twice, and thereupon rose up and prepared for bed, thinking to sleep till morning.
All the country of the South is good a great and a terrible world, mumbled the lama drowsily. 'Let him sleep, said Kim, 'but look to it that we are well fed when he wakes. He is a very holy man. Again one of the Ooryas said something contemptuously. 'He is not a fakir. He is not a down-country beggar, Kim went on severely, addressing the stars. 'He is the most holy of holy men.
As Marise felt her eyelids falling shut again it seemed to her, half-awake, half-asleep, that the wind was shouting out the refrain of an old song she had heard in her childhood, "There's room for all! There's room for all! What had it meant, that refrain? She tried drowsily to remember, but instead felt herself richly falling asleep again, her hands, her arms, her body. "There's room for all!
The sun was pouring down with fervid intensity. The yard was very still and quiet. Everything that had leisure was resting drowsily in the trifling shade obtainable. The swine had ceased to make themselves heard and were sleeping upon each other's abdomens.
Seeing that its mother still slept, she took the baby gently into her own fair arms, and rocked it to and fro with many a sobbing murmur of tenderness; the little thing smiled drowsily and soon fell asleep again, all unconscious that its timely look and innocent touch had saved poor Thelma's life and reason.
To the last, as his eyes closed drowsily, he seemed to hear the slow drip, drip of the water behind the rocky cavern, and the desolate cry of the incomprehensible Sigurd, while through these sounds that mingled with the gurgle of little waves lapping against the sides of the Eulalie, the name of "Thelma" murmured itself in his ears till slumber drowned his senses in oblivion.
Tom and Nat jumped up as quickly, Nat with revolver in hand, and Tom grasping the hatchet. "I certainly saw a light at the end of the hall," whispered Nat to Tom. "Don't alarm the girls just watch." "What was it?" asked Dorothy again. "Oh, I was dreaming," replied Tavia drowsily, "and that heavy old chandelier came right down and hit me in the face."
In the nights Marie did not now reach out in the darkness to her baby and, gathering it to herself, nourish it quietly, without the certainty of waking Osborn; but there had to be a nightlight, there had to be business with a little spirit stove and saucepan, the unlucky jingle of a spoon against the bottle, so that Osborn began to mutter drowsily: "Hang that row!" and she longed to scream at him, "It's your baby, isn't it, as well as mine?"
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