Dozing [verb]

In the entrance hall of the Savoy, where large and lonely porters were dozing, he learnt that she was at home.

Both animal and man seemed to be dozing, but they woke into activity when the sahib approached.

Out of the darkening sky rang the twanging call of a night-hawk, and the cluck of a dozing hen sounded from the foliage overhead.

A fourth lives upon rent, dozing in his chair, and neither toils nor spins.

To solve this one I stopped on the tavern steps, leaned against a pillar, and gazed through the dozing village.

On the sheepskin rug before the fire a Manx cat was dozing beside a pair of carpet slippers.

Worse gazed at her, but finding no consolation in her distracted looks, he shut his eyes, and seemed as if dozing.

Presently Kari's walk slackened into a slow pace, and we felt quite sure that he was dozing.

The young nurse was asleep on the couch, and the elder sat dozing in her chair; the two were alone—all alone!

Toward the first filtering in of the dawn, King OLeary, dozing at his post, woke up at a touch on his shoulder.