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I grew impatient; and, feeling a little provoked by the inexplicable somnolency of the owner of the cabin, I determined to try whether my voice might not rouse him.

From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Reid, Mayne

This old soldier, Lincoln, who had passed very creditably through the Revolution, was, like the fat boy in "Pickwick," afflicted with somnolency.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

Weeng is the spirit of somnolency in the lodge stories.

From The Myth of Hiawatha, and Other Oral Legends, Mythologic and Allegoric, of the North American Indians by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

There was a man named Hibbets in our party, who, from his habits of somnolency, had earned the sobriquet of “Sleepy-head.”

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.

By their incantations they caused him to be afflicted with somnolency.

From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Holmes, Daniel Turner