In these modern days men have lost the pleasures of the orchard; yet an old-fashioned orchard is the most delicious of places wherein to idle away the afternoon of a hazy autumn day, when the sun seems to shine with a soft slumberous warmth without glare, as if the rays came through an aerial spider's web spun across the sky, letting all the beauty, but not the heat, slip through its invisible meshes.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
Such, in brief, was the terrifying creature that now elongated its neck, and, over the top step of the porch, bent a calculating scrutiny upon the wistful and slumberous Duke.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
All their sluggish half-slumberous being will be roused and wrought into conscious life-nor the unconscious whence it arises be therein exhausted, for that will be ever supplied and upheld by the indwelling Deity.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald