napping

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-- While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

We had lain thus in bed, chatting and napping at short intervals, and Queequeg now and then affectionately throwing his brown tattooed legs over mine, and then drawing them back; so entirely sociable and free and easy were we; when, at last, by reason of our confabulations, what little nappishness remained in us altogether departed, and we felt like getting up again, though day-break was yet some way down the future.

But Trent had not been caught napping. His stealthy call to arms had aroused them in time at least to crawl behind some shelter and grip their rifles.

I now felt safe against being caught napping by the Morlocks, and, stretching myself, I came on down the hill towards the White Sphinx.

While most people queried by Lehigh Valley Business said they could see the merits of catching a little shut eye during a lunch break, representatives of the Lehigh Valley Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management said they were aware of no companies, locally, that have official policies or accommodations encouraging lunchtime napping.

National Napping Day is an unofficial holiday celebrated annually on the day right after clocks are set to the daylight savings time.

Hayaan na magpower nap, para sa ganoon manumbalik ang kanyang sigla at mas maging epektibo sa pagtugon ng mga problema ng ating mga kababayan [It's only natural (power napping)...

Dr Nerina said, while company bosses might recoil at the idea of allowing staff to take a snooze during the working day, designated napping time may make for a stronger workforce - as sleep is scientifically proven to improve physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Here in the goal-oriented United States, though, napping carries a bit of stigma.