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Teacher Pauline Rebel and her eight pupils were droning through a dull school day when It began.

From Time Magazine Archive

The twins had also been put to rest, and were droning themselves to sleep in a drowsy sing-song duet with which they always filled the house before subsiding into their nightly slumber.

From A Countess from Canada A Story of Life in the Backwoods by Marchant, Bessie

The clerks were droning everywhere, scarcely pretending to earn their salaries.

From Whirligigs by Henry, O.

Five or six minor dignitaries, deacons, precentors, or something of that sort, were droning out monotonous recitations like the buzzing of so many humble-bees in the warm summer air.

From The English in the West Indies or, The Bow of Ulysses by Froude, James Anthony

Bees were droning in the air, and softly over the land came the song of a happy field hand.

From Sunlight Patch by Harris, Credo Fitch