Definition of "slumbrous" [slum•brous]

• Slumberous. (adjective)

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• "Lawrence considers these questions through the medium of English rural life, beginning his story in the small Midlands village of Cossethay just as a canal has been built through it to connect the new collieries, bringing the first signs of the "commotion" – the violation, in Lawrence's sexual-topographical vision – of industrialisation to the slumbrous valley."
• "Then the slumbrous quiet would fall, to be broken by the far call of a foreign tongue or by a gasoline fishing boat chugging in through the mouth of the slough."
• "And after that, I made ready, and went to my sleep, having sweet thoughts and slumbrous, of the Maid."