"Forty winks" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... usual forty winks in her arm-chair, and their entrance did not disturb her. Helen was ...
— Thomas Wingfold, Curate • George MacDonald
... still raging. Captain Glenn, tired out, announced that he was going below to get "forty winks." Jack took the bridge. ...
— The Boy Allies with Uncle Sams Cruisers • Ensign Robert L. Drake
... imputation. "Not at this hour, sir, never at this hour—not at ten o'clock in the morning, sir! Later, maybe, when I've had my grog, I'll take my forty winks—" ...
— Lewis Rand • Mary Johnston
... "The gentry are not to be hurried, I reckon. I'll fit and lie down for forty winks," she said; "though I do think, with her experience Mary might have remembered the poor mite would be famished afore this, not to mention that the milk in me is beginnin' to ...
— News from the Duchy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... seem never to change in expression except during tourist's hours; and then repairs to that bed which is the salvation of the solitary, for sleep and oblivion are the good angels that brood over it. In summer the brief night—barely forty winks in length—is so silvery and so soft that it is a delight to sit up in it even if one is alone. Lights and shadows play with one another, and are reflected in sea and sky until the eye is almost dazzled with the loveliness of the scene. ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard |
