dozily

First they woke dozily from their daytime snooze as we sat and waited.

The cold white sheets are twisted around me like ropes; dozily I try to roll over, to become comfortable, but cannot.

Don't go to sleep, she told herself dozily.

I found him sitting dozily in the bedroom, looking mildly surprised but a lot more relaxed than I felt.

She laughed quietly, dozily, amused at such comparisons.

Grumbling to himself, he shouldered his spear and lurched dozily along the corridor.

Dozily she felt her arm ache.

'You always pump me when I'm dozily full of food and drink,' I teased.

Blaggut poked his head from beneath the pillow, giggling dozily as he watched the proceedings.

At five to eleven, yawning massively, I bid goodnight to the barman dozily wiping the counter down and made for the lobby.

The quieter "Names" bogs dozily down from time to time; periodically roused, though, by the lilting surprises of this intensely mischievous and intensely humane writer.

Sometimes they had speculated on how she would develop but not often: mostly she was taken for granted because she had been such a quiet child, sitting dozily in her pram outside the Dog and Duck while the sun went down.

You'd dearly love to claim them as one of ours, the latest American band to owe an unpayable debt to Brit-rock's influence - in this case My Bloody Valentine and what that yanks dozily call 'Dream Pop'- but that would be too simple.

At the Latvian border, our arrival by car only seemed to discomfit a Latvian guard, interrupting his midmorning reverie as he sprawled on a wooden bench, dozily listening to a large tape deck blasting a steady stream of Western rock and roll across the frontier into friendly Estonia.