"Doze off" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for his afternoon nap. Something restless and fretful in Sir Charles's manner caught her attention for a moment, but when she had sat with him a little he quieted down so that she was sure when she left him he was about to doze off. She was glad not to encounter the doctor, although the flame of her anger had died down, leaving only the cold ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... have been stupid with fatigue, or perhaps I did doze off for a time," he said. The first thing he knew was his canoe coming to the bank. He became instantaneously aware of the forest having been left behind, of the first houses being visible higher up, of a stockade on his left, and of his boatmen leaping out together upon a ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad
... are going to stop, Bertie, you had better go back and fetch a blanket, it is chilly here; then if you like you can doze off again till your ...
— The Treasure of the Incas • G. A. Henty
... I lay last night— Which (being insured) is my delight— I happened to doze off just as I got to The singular fact which forms my motto. Only think, thought I, as I dozed away, Of a party of Churchmen dancing the hay! Clerks, curates and rectors capering all With a neat-legged Bishop to open the ball! Scarce had my eyelids time to close, When the scene I had fancied before ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al
... I must have been stupid with fatigue, or perhaps I did doze off for a time," he said. The first thing he knew was his canoe coming to the bank. He became instantaneously aware of the forest having been left behind, of the first houses being visible higher up, of a stockade ...
— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad |
