He was on his back on a table, staring at the ceiling, his arms folded behind his head, as if he might be taking a siesta or listening to the radio.
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One is a house his grandparents had in Miramar, Argentina — there, at 7 or 8 years old, when he was supposed to be taking a siesta, he watched dust illuminated by a ray of light through parted curtains.
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A painting of a young woman taking a siesta. (The hammock, Gustave Courbet (1844)) A shared nap taken between friends after a heavy meal and a few beers. A siesta () (Spanish, meaning "nap") is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those where the weather is warm.
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Constituent Order in Classical Latin Prose, p. 14. The topic word sometimes comes from the temporal clause itself, for example and in the following sentences: : (Cicero)Cicero, Verr. 2.4.32. :'when I got there, the governor was taking a siesta' : (Caesar)Caesar, Civ. 2.11.2. :'when they saw this, they changed their plan' In other sentences the topic word comes from the main clause, such as in the example below: : (Cicero)Cicero, Fam. 6.19.2.
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During the American Civil War, Brad Fletcher retires from his position as History Professor at Boston University due to tuberculosis and retreats to Texas. The sexually repressed Fletcher is a well-meaning, albeit conceited, liberal who opposes violence and human suffering. While taking a siesta, a stagecoach carrying several lawmen and Solomon "Beauregard" Bennet, a captured criminal, stops by Fletcher's hotel. When Fletcher tries to give Bennet a drink of water, he is taken hostage, and they escape on the stagecoach before becoming lost in the desert.
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He was the shunah (superintendent of crown lands) of Bartol, a town in the Doab region. He had earlier served Malikul Umara Fakhruddin, a former kotwal of Delhi, and enlisted the support of the Mamluk-era kotwali staff. At that time Bayazid was supervising repairs to the Badaun Gate and had taken up residence in a small house nearby. During the month of Ramadan (May–June) in 1299, when most residents of Delhi were taking a siesta, Haji Maula arrived at Bayazid's residence, accompanied by four armed men.
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A man taking a siesta, or an afternoon nap, which usually occurs after the mid-day meal. Postprandial somnolence (colloquially known as the itis, food coma, food drunk, after dinner dip, or postprandial sleep) is a normal state of drowsiness or lassitude following a meal. Postprandial somnolence has two components: a general state of low energy related to activation of the parasympathetic nervous system in response to mass in the gastrointestinal tract, and a specific state of sleepiness. While there are numerous theories surrounding this behavior, such as decreased blood flow to the brain, neurohormonal modulation of sleep through digestive coupled signaling, or vagal stimulation, very few have been explicitly tested.
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