They never looked pleased to see any one, and each took comfortable little naps in their armchairs after dinnerthe first comers had sometimes rather embarrassing entrances,but I am told they held very much to their receptions.

By getting too close to the fire he the nap of his flannels.

If there is one thing in life which can lay any claim to being considered a positive luxury, it is a nap on a mossy bank, in the deep shadows of the forest trees, after a hearty meal, of a warm summer day.

Abraham refused to take a nap after dinner; so did Samuel.

After dinner he always had a nap with the Globe newspaper on his knee, and his yellow bandanna handkerchief on his face.

I have seen some prowling fox or coyote, surprised by its sudden rising from behind the mountain wall, slink in its increasing glow, watch it furtively from the cover of near-by brush, unprepared and half uncertain of its identity until it rode clear of the peaks, and finally make off with all the air of one caught napping by an ancient joke.

When the hat is silk, it requires brushing every day with a soft brush; after rain, it requires wiping the way of the nap before drying, and, when nearly dry, brushing with the soft brush and with the hat-stick in it.

Upon his invitation I took a nap at his house, and when I awoke, fresh for business once more, he informed me that the Indians had been all around the post for the past two or three days, running off cattle and horses, and occasionally killing a stray man.

Having risen early all three of the girls took a nap during the afternoon, as did Mr. Merrick.

Profiting by previous experience the club owners did not look around for a permanent manager until they saw what Birmingham could do, and in consequence were in position to offer him the leadership of the Naps for the season of 1913.

Nap as usual.

Cuffy still lay close to the prisoner, evidently prepared for an all-night vigil with short light naps from which the least movement would instantly arouse him.

She crawled in then, into the kitchen where the fire was, and the rocking-chair; the plants in the window, and the faded cricket upon the hearth; the dog, too, roused from his nap behind the stove.

Harry Davis, for years first lieutenant to Connie Mack, took the management or the Naps under a severe handicap.

The publishers shall nap over it, and accept it with pleasure.

She hath also confided to me as her spiritual adviser that she did diligently ply John Naps with questions as to his visit to you in London, and that said John Naps, under her interrogatories, has revealed to her much that doth make her sick at heart and weary of life.

I had one once I laid down on de bed ter take er nap en den I dreamed dat somethin was a chokin me en

Daisy was taking a post-prandial nap inside his beer barrel.

It was Lucas who pressed Nap into the service as stage-manager, a post which had been unanimously urged upon himself, but for which he declared himself to be morally and physically unfit.

" "Bye, bye," said Patty, pushing Marian out of the dining-room, "run along now, and take a little nap like a good little girl.

"She shan't think I'm a blackguard like Nap." "We will leave Nap out of it," Lucas said quietly.

"I was afraid you'd nap through the show.

Her carpets had bent their nap to the tread of kings, and show girls, and buyers from Montana.

After our mid-day breakfast, we usually took a nap until afternoon; but this day I was not sleepy, and so read for a while, then I loaded my rifle, which I always kept within arm's reach, and was just settling my rugs to turn in, when Stereke gave a sharp bark, and Blake shouted, "Bear."

Reader, what if I have been playing with thee all this whileperadventure the very names, which I have summoned up before thee, are fantasticinsubstantiallike Henry Pimpernel, and old John Naps of Greece: Be satisfied that something answering to them has had a being.