| 1. | With thunder and heavenly fireworks must one speak to indolent and somnolent senses. - from Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 2. | Somnolent invocation, less somnolent recognition, incipient excitation, catechetical interrogation. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 3. | Onward to the dead sea they tramp to drink, unslaked and with horrible gulpings, the salt somnolent inexhaustible flood. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | The pronunciation of a few words, the name, no doubt, which her husband had whispered in her ear, had sufficed to rouse this huge, somnolent woman, and from being repulsive she became terrible. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |