What is "drowsiness"

Usage examples of "drowsiness".

I could no longer hold the oar, and the forerunning drowsiness of cold and exhaustion was stealing over me, Weak white stars broke through the fog which glided suddenly away, fading like a ghost of smoke, and we found ourselves afloat just outside the mouth of the bay.

As he entered the footpath leading from the prairie toward the house, he was forced to stoop to avoid the curtain of flowering moonvine which hung overhead, and once in the path he felt again the sickening drowsiness of the shut-in air.

The Buddhists used it extensively to prevent drowsiness during their long hours of meditation.

He went to his cubicle, attached the nodules to his temples as directed, felt a pleasant drowsiness come over him, and.

Every day, ever since he had taken possession of the house, he had supervised the milking in the cow barns to measure with his own hand the quantity of milk that the three presidential wagons would carry to the barracks in the city, in the kitchen he would have a mug of black coffee and some cassava without knowing too well the direction in which the whimsical winds of the new day would blow him, always attent on the gabbling of the servants, who were the people in the house who spoke the same language as he, whose serious blandishments he respected most, and whose hearts he best deciphered, and a short time before nine o'clock he would take a slow bath in water with boiled leaves in the granite cistern built in the shadow of the almond trees of his private courtyard, and only after eleven o'clock would he manage to overcome the drowsiness of dawn and confront the hazards of reality.

This smooth-bosomed nurse was pleased to fondle to drowsiness a loving mortal responsive to the blissfulness of enchantment.

Indeed in the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination: and remember this too, that we do not perceive that many things which are disagreeable to us are the same as pain, such as excessive drowsiness, and the being scorched by heat, and the having no appetite.

Over there, datura stramonium, belladonna, hemlock: they can bring on drowsiness, stimulation, or both.

Time was measured also by heartbeats, the rhythms of drowsiness and sleep, the recurrence of hunger, the menstrual cycles of women, the duration of loneliness.

But he decided to go for a walk to get rid of a certain drowsiness he felt and that he put down to an unexpectedly ample lunch with wine at the meal and brandy to follow.

The resulting drowsiness among the ship's company had produced an over-correction in the proportion of oxygen: a fire broke out in one of the freon refrigeration machines.

But if drowsiness have taken hold of him, he ought to rouse himself and to do what in him lieth.