Taking short sleep

Usage examples of napping.

He had hopes, too, of ultimately catching the good attorney napping, and leading him too, bound and docile, into his ergastulum, although he was himself just now in jeopardy from that quarter.

While some children will suddenly announce one day that they no longer need a nap, most children gradually begin a process of napping one day and skipping the next.

Alice, sometimes napping on the daybed in her bedroom, the picture of the devoted husband.

Everything was going along very satisfactory to the Fenian leaders, and it seemed to them as if Uncle Sam and the Canadian Government would both be caught napping.

In fact, the little white hen catapulted halfway across the yard, feathers flying like the sparks from a comet, before gaining control of its wildly napping wings and coming to an upright halt: then, clucking terri-fiedly, it ran away.

Thank God he was napping when the doorbell rang, & thank God Herb's at work, because the SLB eavesdrops on Herb's mind sometimes, I know he does.

He wandered off along the landing, silk dressing gown napping, and Lady Belling ham started to shoo the others out of the room with a mixture of clucking and scolding.

As Milo checked the freezer, Bosc chuckled again, but when Milo turned to look at him, the guy’s eyes were shut tight and his body had gone loose and he might’ve been napping.

Knapps thinks to catch me napping, but the Plot is discovered, and Barnaby Bracegirdle is obliged to loosen his braces for the second time on my account —Drawing caricatures ends in drawing blood —The Usher is ushered out of the school, and I am nearly ushered into the next world, but instead of being bound on so long a journey, I am bound "'Prentice to a Waterman.

As soon as I saw it I raced upstairs to check on Seth, who was supposedly napping.

She would have gladly spent the day in that room, soaking in the deep tub of hot water, sitting by the window and daydreaming, or napping on one of the daybeds and not feeling awkward about the folded towels under her hips.

Time was, therefore, denoted by such appellations as the dynasts breakfast hour or the dynasts audience hour or the dynasts napping hour.

Audience hour marked a last moments flurry of activity before the city shut down for the dynasts luncheon hour and the dynasts napping hour.

He's a damned good man - but it's decidedly questionable whether he has got whatever it is that made Tugwell, Wanacek and Charlevoix work straight through for seventy two hours, napping now and then on benches and grabbing coffee and sandwiches when they could, until they got that frag bomb straightened out.

He's a damned good man — but it's decidedly questionable whether he has got whatever it is that made Tugwell, Wanacek and Charlevoix work straight through for seventy two hours, napping now and then on benches and grabbing coffee and sandwiches when they could, until they got that frag bomb straightened out.