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Usage examples of "drowse off".
We'd lie in that bed, each with her own fright, and finally we'd drowse off together - her with me to keep the dust bunnies away, and me with her to keep away the sound of the china plate - and sometimes before I went to sleep I'd think, 'This is how.
When I finally drowse off, I dream over and over of finding my future bride flying above the irregular terrain of Jamaica's Cockpit Country and chasing her from valley to valley, skimming the ground, zooming high into the air, never quite catching her, never being able to make her slow, the girl ignoring all my pleas.
During my wanderfoot days, I watched many a one drowse off where he sat to try a lawsuit or preside over a folkmoot.
They were both beginning to drowse off, as nervous exhaustion drained away all energy.
Tented in her blankets and out of the wind, she began to warm up at last, and she managed to ignore the slight cramps in her legs enough to drowse off.
When we raised anchor and moved on, the tempo diminished, and the affair became a more sedate and comfortable and cozy arrangement, with ritual sup-planting invention, with morning kisses that could be affection without any overtone of demand, with waking in the broad bunk to feel the heated length of her asleep, spoon style, against my back, and be content she was there, and be content to drowse off again.
I stretched out on my cloak just beyond reach of the firelight, thinking to drowse off immediately.
And if you drowse off, I shall quietly take my leave, and come back to continue it tomorrow.
As I started to drowse off I suddenly realized that the Golden One might invade my dreams once again.
He would let the Englishman come in, let the camp settle down, let the fires die, and let the Hottentot sentries drowse off.