He dozed off into a pleasant slumber before being woken up to the sound of Klaxon sirens and flashing red lights from the hallway. |
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Afraid he'd sneak up on her while she slept, she dozed, a part of her alert to every sound. |
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In the darkened theatre, I asked myself what became of her, but I found her in the seat behind me, gin-soaked and belching while she dozed. |
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I allowed myself to take some pleasure from the contact of the cloth on my arm, and dozed lightly. |
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He had finally dozed into a fitful sleep only to be awakened by a horrible dream, his only problem, he couldn't remember it. |
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She must have dozed off, because the sound of a knock at the door made her nearly jump a foot in the air. |
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Samuel smiled and wrapped his arms around her as he too dozed off and fell asleep. |
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He dozed lightly in a rickety wooden chair tilted precariously back on the far stable wall. |
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Wild flowers lined the sides of the road, the stock tanks were full of water, and fat bulls dozed in clumps of live oaks. |
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I nearly dozed, although I did notice a surprising amount of female laughter in the audience. |
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They dozed with their black-and-white ringed tails flung over their shoulders like feather boas. |
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Instead, he watched her sleep and dozed fitfully thinking about her and what to do next. |
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Her head lied flaccidly upon Paul's shoulder, as she dozed into a fragile state of sleep. |
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He had asked to be kept updated during the night as he dozed lightly in his room. |
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The darkness was starting to lighten before she dozed, then slept fitfully, tossing and turning. |
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Closing her eyes, Geneva nearly dozed to sleep until a sharp knock on the door awakened her. |
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She knew the other two were tired, and let them sprawl on the couch, Mark fell asleep and even Isaac dozed off. |
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I figured I had just dozed off in one of my classes and must have fallen out of the desk and hit my head on something. |
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Others dozed in overstuffed armchairs among stacks of suitcases, waking intermittently to drink espresso or whiskey and smoke cigarettes. |
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We dozed, never quite letting ourselves go, ready to jump into confused wakefulness, anticipating action of some kind. |
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At dawn, just when one has forgotten about him for a minute and dozed off, a crow caws loudly. |
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I dozed fitfully and uncomfortably at first and then fell into a deep, heavy sleep. |
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Next came dinner, followed by a walk or a game, another snack, then back to work while I dozed by the fire. |
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Charlie had almost dozed off into a restless sleep when Richie's voice startled him out of his slumberous state. |
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But he was content to just lie in his cot and suck and slobber on his tiny little fingers, and stare at the soft toys until he dozed off. |
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The dancing became more frantic, the lounges filled while people rested and dozed. |
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In the park outside, an old olive grove, people dozed or picnicked under the trees, and a group of old men played boules. |
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Some people dozed during this eerie calm only to be awakened by rushing, howling winds when the back side of the hurricane struck. |
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The return train journey was equally as efficient as the outbound, although I think we all dozed through most of it. |
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After a long walk back to Piccadilly Circus and a stuffy train journey home during which I dozed off, I was glad of a soak in a cool, deep bath. |
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Midnight struck, and I was somehow still alone, as they dozed at my side unresponsively. |
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Every inning seemed to feature runners on base, full counts, pickoff throws, pitching changes, and breaks to go wake up spectators who may have dozed off. |
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His disciples also suffered from the same problems and often dozed off during meditation. |
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A couple of seconds are enough to dream a little, but I think we all dozed off now and again. |
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I dozed lightly, the sound of her voice and her strokes in my hair and over my neck pulling me gently into a place that seemed very much like heaven. |
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She cried herself to sleep then, though she only dozed for a few hours. |
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I dozed fitfully until Stephen tapped on our door after 7am with a tray of tea and biscuits. |
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Figures dozed on the dirty floor as clothes hung out to dry. |
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It has literally endangered his health: two years ago he nearly lost his hand when he dozed off grinding chickpeas. |
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At Sergeant Spencer's gun some of us dozed off to sleep for a moment or two. |
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My guess is he developed some irritation from flying and forgot to take his contact lenses out as he dozed off. |
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I dozed off twice while watching Zero Hour and kept having to rewind to the beginning to this tepid and snooze-inducing pilot. |
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Meanwhile, the fire was busy, the wood was dry and free, and his thoughts ran just as freely on future good times until he too dozed in front of the blaze. |
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Snakes burrowed into the sand, and owls dozed inside the hollows of cacti. |
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If I had realized I would soon become intimately familiar with one of these little sand-whipped desert oases, I might not have dozed through that particular brief. |
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The hippos snorted, the rhinos dozed and the giraffes nervously darted about as the hammer fell yesterday at Africa's largest wild animal auction. |
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Rector was attending a Sunday night game between the Yankees and Red Sox when he dozed off. |
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The E-Class even has a feature to combat dozed driving. |
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The same words rejuvenated the jury, several of whom had dozed off during the course of testimony. Mr Tourre's lawyer, Sean Coffey, responded that the SEC had proved nothing that was beyond common industry practice. |
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I laid my head on John's lap and dozed a bit until we came to a stop. |
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Early experiments such as the automated highway in California on which electronically linked cars were whizzing along while the drivers dozed off or read the paper will probably never lead anywhere. |
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Days on end, stuffed into ancient, sooty Pullman cars, we rolled and clacked westward, while we dozed, played cards, talked, laughed, got depressed, wrote letters, and read endlessly. |
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On his father's canvases, cowboys galloped after stray dogies or dozed in bluebonnets, Indians rode in canyon shadow, and longhorn and buffalo stood as proud as stock-show champions. |
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Frederick Kekule, the 19th century German chemist, in reaching an impasse studying the structure of the benzine molecule, dozed off in front of a fire. |
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Guys actually closed their eyes and dozed off while they ran. |
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They watched us from a distance as we dozed on kilim rugs after lunch. |
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In the blue chair, with his work on his lapboard, after a pleasant dinner of macaroni and sausage and salad, he dozed off. |
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Conditions were dangerous, with some children killed when they dozed off and fell into the path of the carts, while others died from gas explosions. |
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An older man dozed alone in his wheelchair in front of a relief map of the Valley of the Kings, perhaps lulled by the dulcet voice of Omar Sharif on his audio tour headset. |
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