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Short sleep

noun

Sleeping for a short period of time (usually not in bed). Synonyms: cat sleep, catnap, forty winks, nap, snooze.

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"Short sleep" Quotes from Famous Books

... waited with him. I waited, watching his face, his eyes, his lips; listening to his words.—To the words I could not understand.—To the words he spoke in daylight; to the words he spoke at night in his short sleep. I listened. He spoke to himself walking up and down here—by the river; by the bushes. And I followed. I wanted to know—and I could not! He was tormented by things that made him speak in the words of his own people. Speak to himself—not to me. Not to me! What was he saying? What was ...

— An Outcast of the Islands • Joseph Conrad

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... not allow the people to expose themselves to the heat of the sun, it being near noon, everyone took his allotment of earth where it was shaded by the bushes for a short sleep. ...

— A Voyage to the South Sea • William Bligh

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... wide stillness, the stillness that brooded along her white ceiling and all round her and right out through the world; the faint scent of her soap-tablet reached her from the distant wash-stand. She felt that her short sleep must have been perfect, that it had carried her down and down into the heart of tranquillity where she still lay awake, and drinking as if at a source. Cool streams seemed to be flowing in her brain, through her heart, through every vein, her ...

— Pointed Roofs - Pilgrimage, Volume 1 • Dorothy Richardson

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... with the good fortune that had enabled him to get the fruit on board without the slightest difficulty, Bob returned into the town. It was but eleven o'clock now so—having had but a short sleep the night before, and no prospect of sleep the next night—he walked a mile along the road by the sea, then turned off among the sand hills and slept, till four in the afternoon; after which he returned to Marbella, and partook ...

— Held Fast For England - A Tale of the Siege of Gibraltar (1779-83) • G. A. Henty

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Words linked to "Short sleep" : snooze, cat sleep, zizz, sleeping, siesta, nap