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Updated: May 10, 2025
They roused themselves from their semi-somnolent condition and sat up to receive him, with glances of mute enquiry in their eyes. For a few moments Dick remained silent, absolutely speechless with disappointment. Then he remarked: "What, lads, has the Captain not yet returned, then?" "No, sir," they answered in chorus.
Now and again an empty cab returning to its stable, with weary horse and semi-somnolent coachman, crawled through the street. But at night it was otherwise.
She was in a semi-unconscious, semi-somnolent state, half syncope, half sleep, and there was nothing to be gained by rousing her just then, so we wrapped her up warmly in shawls, sent for my dogcart, and lifted her on the back seat, where I supported her as best I could, while my man drove us to As-You-Like-It.
The captain, whom his anxiety had finally aroused from his semi-somnolent state, asked: "What were you saying, major?" Bouroche's tactics, whenever an amputation became necessary, were never to appeal directly to the patient for the customary authorization. He preferred to have the patient accede to it voluntarily.
We were put into litters hung on long poles, supported on men's shoulders; and the journey occupied several days, though I can give very little account of it. Some of the time, indeed, I was in a semi-somnolent state, caused by weakness. The only striking scene I can recall was our passage on a bamboo bridge over a river in our course.
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