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This unofficial holiday encourages you to catch forty winks and enjoy the health and productivity benefits of napping.
Then she announced she was going to take "forty winks," as she had been up most of the night and needed sleep.
Every second man was detailed to mount guard, while the remainder fought for forty winks, then relieved guard.
I believe it was a habit with him, for many years, thus to take "forty winks" at the dinner-table.
He scarcely had taken forty winks when he heard a rat-tat-tatting on the rainbow window and a rap-rap-rapping on the rainbow door.
I entered my stateroom, figuring on catching forty winks, and there she was, seated in my big chair, smiling at me.
The rest of the circus men preferred to turn over for a possible "forty winks" more.
Now he was going to catch forty winks.
The men tumbled down to catch forty winks.
Merely taking his usual forty winks after dinner, which repast had consisted of four beef-stews.
The justice was having forty winks when they entered his office.
And in 500 days you would have got down to the classical forty winks.
Something has stolen that last precious "forty winks" away from you.
I'm going to turn in for forty winks.
Yet the cool chamber into which the traveler was shown proved so restful that the "forty winks only" which he intended were prolonged till sunset.
