What is "somnolence"

Usage examples of "somnolence".

The resistance had to be subdued by Spanish soldiers, a process which was not finally completed until 1695, when the survivors were resettled on Guam to become a peonized peasantry, working under the centuries-long somnolence of Spanish colonial rule.

This somnolence did I disturb when I taught that no one yet knoweth what is good and bad:- unless it be the creating one!

Six had complained of impotence, five of canceled sex, four of bedwetting, three of false memory, two of insomnia, and one of somnolence.

Elena's voice, raised in a wordless cry, shot him out of somnolence into an adrenalin rush.

She also had squirreled away the ivory crochet hook, three of Frex's prayer beads because she liked the carvings, and the pretty green glass bottle left behind by some itinerant salesman selling, apparently, dreams and passion and somnolence.

THE FOLSOM BLUES: After Stark and I have returned to our encampment, the Elder trailing behind us muttering small, unheard confidences to the wind, after that same Elder has been placed in rude and hastily constructed quarters which adjoin our own but are walled off from them by protective devices, after I have held a brief explicatory meeting in which the other three have been informed of our abortive attempt to make contact once again and the sudden decision of the native to return with us, after Nina has retired to our tent and Stark to the one he shares with Closter, after the alien has been lulled into somnolence with the fruits and small gifts which we have been instructed to give them, Closter approaches me by the fire where I am sitting, meditating upon all of the events of the day and without being asked, kneels near, his joints trembling.

They both smelled each other, but whenever Baba Yaga thought of seeking him out, or Bear stirred in his somnolence, Mikola filled the air between them with so much of the forgetful haze of summer that they'd become distracted and think of something else, with only a feeling of fitfulness and ennui to remind them of their forgotten desire.

Soft gray and pink as the sky lightened, and then the sun would warm the night-closed blossoms, their fragrance drifting to beguile senses: and the rising lilts of bird, the gentle susurrus of waves on the shore, and the lift in the spirit for the pleasure of a new day, for the duties of the day: climbing the polly for the ripe fruit, fishing off the end of a headland, the bright sun on the water, the rising breeze, the colors of day, the aroma of frying fish, the somnolence of midday when the sun's heat sent people to hammock or mat .

Faintly at first, but more strongly as they went on, there came to them an insidious feeling of somnolence, such as might have been caused by mephitical effluvia.

Now, without electronic reveille electrically juicing up every fiber of his being, not to mention his body, at some repulsive early hour of the morning, he found that he could drift in the restful pools of somnolence for delirious long stretches, and so for awhile he did just that, putting paid to his sleep debt.

Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon's tearing-free and monument to her exile.

One of the girls and three of the boys took off and headed slowly along one of the shady walks that angled across the zocalo, in the somnolence of the warm siesta afternoon.