...sestear, to take a siesta, take an after-dinner nap (or rest)...
Gustavo Adolfo Becquer 「Legends, Tales and Poems」
...The tropical siesta requires no couching of the form...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...At the heat of noon a siesta with a cool cocoanut at my elbow...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
... About noon the slaves return from handling their trowel-shaped iron hoes, and the "gentleman" takes a siesta proportioned to his drink...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
... After the daily siesta, which lasted till 3 P...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...Yes, this point was just the place for luncheon and for siesta...
Albert Payson Terhune 「Further Adventures of Lad」
...It istrue that in the middle of the day even they seek some shadytree in which to enjoy a siesta and await the abatement of theheat of the blast furnace in which they live, move and havetheir being...
Douglas Dewar 「A Bird Calendar for Northern India」
...Putting aside his offerings, he lowered the shades ofhis shop and composed himself for a siesta...
John Charles Beecham 「The Argus Pheasant」
...Disturbed at its siesta by some wayfarer, the partridge's young brood hastily disperses...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...It appears likely that the higher elevations may serve for thenocturnal rest as well as for a noonday siesta...
Francis Harper 「The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin」
...To the same spot the birds comeat noon to indulge their mid-day siesta, and inthe deep hole at the end of the cut a shoal ofsilvery roach fall and rise towards the warmsunlight...
Anonymous 「The Confessions of a Poacher」
...For instance,all along the equator, whether in Africa or South America or Borneo,he will find them knocking off work in the middle of the day in orderto take a siesta...
Robert Marett 「Anthropology」
...The afternoon isspent in taking a siesta and at about five o’clock they goto their clubs or other amusements in the same sort ofattire as in the morning...
A. F. R. Wollaston 「Pygmies and Papuans」
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