drowse
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Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep.
From Time Magazine Archive
The American cast keeps its English accents tidy but not its performances, and Director Alan Schneider lets the first act drowse.
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Once ashore, the voyagers were soon far too busy to lose themselves in the drowse of flowers.
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In Kearny, N.J., police were inclined to believe Station Attendant Louis Washington's story that he had slept through two burglaries of Red's Trucking Terminal when he fell into a drowse during questioning at police headquarters.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we once give in to it we shall just lie down and drowse forever and ever.”
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
Vocabulary lists containing drowse
Tolkien Reading Day, List 9
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Festival of Sleep Day
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