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Definition of Dozing
1. doze [v] - See also: doze
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dozing
Literary usage of Dozing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason (1901)
"dozing WHILE LISZT PLATED A LITTLE later some one asked Liszt to play his own
sonata, a work which was quite recent at that time, and of which he was very ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... at twilight, « whore several ducks were quietly dozing upon its surface, and
some sprawling old terrapins were floating down the stream ..."
3. The Village: Russian Impressions by Ernest Poole (1918)
"Dog tired from the night before, I lay half dozing, drifting there, high up in
the mist and the light of the dawn. Higher and higher, lighter, lighter — now ..."
4. Life of Benjamin Robert Haydon, Historical Painter, from His Autobiography by Benjamin Robert Haydon (1853)
"I went in, and there was this Birmingham man, half dozing, and telling me all
about the energy of the Union, and what they meant to do. ..."
5. Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor by Wayne E. Burton (1867)
"been kindly awakened by the considerate Rebecca, and invited by her to come to
the front room and listen to the music ; on which the half dozing matron made ..."
6. Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun by George Wilbur Peck (1882)
"WOMAN-dozing A DEMOCRAT. A FEARFUL tale comes to us from Columbus. A party of
prominent citizens of that place took a trip to the Dells of Wisconsin one day ..."
7. Fraser's Magazine by Thomas Carlyle (1843)
"... '(¡гая given ere last night, and ye'vc sat here tippling, and smoking, and
dozing for two days. It's a thruth I toll ycz, captain. Honour bright. ..."
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