half-daydreaming

Updated: February 16, 2026

Supper was evidently over, and the friends, amply feasted, were now luxuriating in the delicious indolence, half-dozing, half-daydreaming, of a calm sleepy smoke, modestly lubricated by an occasional sip of the cool beverage before them.

Henry William Herbert - Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago