The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slumbrous \Slum"brous\, a.
Slumberous.
--Keats.
Wiktionary
a. slumberous.
WordNet
adj. quiet and tranquil; "a slumberous June morning" [syn: slumberous]
inclined to or marked by drowsiness; "slumberous (or slumbrous) eyes"; "`slumbery' is archaic"; "the sound had a a somnolent effect" [syn: slumberous, slumbery, somnolent]
Usage examples of "slumbrous".
Ingryl to full wakefulness if treacherous barons or anyone else hurled weapons at the slumbrous wizard, or spells, or tried to blast Ambelter with a Dwaer-Stone.
Then its glowing bars of magic streamed at the slumbrous form of the Lady Silvertree like the boldly reaching tentacles of the great glistening sea-beasts who were wont to snatch and drag sailors and their ships down beneath the waves.
Her clothes were all of deep, dark, slumbrous colours -- profound pinks, crimson and the vibrating purple with which she was synonymous, a purple the colour of blood in a love suicide.
A vine was covered with slumbrous, purple flowers that, as they passed, sang out in a rich contralto with all the voluptuous wildness of flamenco -- and then fell silent.
The water showed no more diamonds, the lower slopes of the converging hills grew a deep and slumbrous green.
There was a great checkering of light and darkness and the slumbrous sound of water.
And he felt upon his forehead Blows of little airy war-clubs, Wielded by the slumbrous legions Of the Spirit of Sleep, Nepahwin, As of some one breathing on him.
That night, he patted his children, settled his modest anatomy beside the slumbrous bulk of his wife, and prepared his mind for pauk.
Lucille was again staring at the slumbrous landscape, though it was very doubtful if she was aware of the great view.
He finds it hard to imagine her reaching a final depth, that warm-blooded slumbrous culmination, the point where sleep becomes the tidal life of the unconscious, a state beyond dreaming.
She fed Napoleon, and let him purr in slumbrous luxury for a while on her lap.
Zeralenn murmured, with such convincingly languid indifference that only those who knew her best would have noted the rigid set of neck and shoulders, the defiant hazel glint beneath slumbrous lids.
He half opened his slumbrous eyes on the Tree Mother as the boat floated away, but before the smile in them faded he was asleep.
Like the slumbrous image of some mighty unrelenting Power, it passed, proud that its monstrous bulk contained all the joy and blessing those shadows on the pavement had ever known.
It might be the Scotch that made her seem so, but her smooth face and slumbrous eyes had a beauty that held him.