half-dozing

Myra sat on the back porch, half-listening, half-dozing, with a big glass of red zinger tea.

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Allegra looked into the flames and felt herself stuck in that half-dozing, half-waking state where memories surfaced and bobbed against the present.

The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006

Allegra looked into the flames and felt herself stuck in that half-dozing, half-waking state where memories surfaced and bobbed against the present.

The Owl and Moon Cafe Jo-Ann Mapson 2006

EACH NIGHT BEFORE going to sleep in the room she shared with several other women, Shahina set her alarm for five thirty A.M. She lay in bed, thinking and half-dozing, until six, when she finally got up.

The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

All round the room and the galleries were matted inclosures, fitted with numerous neat beds and cushions for reposing on, where lay a dozen of true believers smoking, or sleeping, or in the happy half-dozing state.

Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo 2004

They both ate; she grew warm and sleepy, and leaned back half-dozing.

Look Back on Happiness 2003

They put her in an armchair in the sitting room, lighting every candle because the day was overcast and dreary, and there she waited half-dozing until King Olmigon, borne in a litter and attended by his lords-in-waiting, entered the room.

Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

An hour later, he was half-dozing when he heard a tap-tap on the bedroom door.

Hoot Hiaasen, Carl 2002

He was half-dozing in the wake of a four - chop dinner, thinking of how he would tell his brother (and his brother's wife, who was killing pretty) in the next Barony about this heroic day.

Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

He listened, half-dozing, while Curdis and Brenda talked to the Bednacourt girls and Cloochi boys.

Destiny's Road Niven, Larry 1997