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...Pullman trip is deceptive. The seats are too soft, the head rest too comfortable, and the porters, when properly encouraged, too obliging. It is altogether dangerously easy to doze off and miss the best part of the journey...
...wipe away the cares of business and give rest to the harried faces on Wall Street. Strangely enough, however, the Honorable Ex-Senator who made the suggestion looks on his discovery as something new and unusual. Perhaps it is to him; perhaps the students of Richmond College did not doze over their Shakspere in his days. And even now the throught of Brutus on Broadway is somewhat startling. Yet Cassius in Cambridge is already well known--and the somnolent influence of Polonius on a warm spring evening fully appreciated. In fact, any time during April or May the Bard might...
...crew to mutiny and they engage the medicine man to offer Leif some drugged wine. Leif and Tyrker return at dusk and drink copiously of the wine and and Leif names the land "Wineland the Good." The drug has its effect and both drowsily fall on the rocks. They doze off to sleep as Sigurd and the Vikings go aboard ship and raise the sails...
...smile - "how absurd, sofa don't sway, how can it? Contrary to all laws of nature. I know what it is, it's this poor, miserable head of mine; trouble's here, sofa's all right." This momentary flash of intelligence overcomes me, and I fall into a blissful doze. "Click, click," goes the letter box. I start up suddenly, exclaim viciously, and stagger mechanically towards the door. "Suppose it's another postal for my chum announcing meeting of St. Paul's or Natural History Societies. No, by Jove! it's for me. Yes, I knew it would...
...this mortification comes from knowing where Kars is. I put my map and newspaper in the waste-paper basket; and, study being out of the question on such an oppressive afternoon, I betake myself to my lounge and try to get a nap. I am having the most delicious doze you can imagine, dreaming, yet conscious that I am dreaming, when, after delivering a kick at the door that nearly breaks it in, the noisiest man in the class enters, slams the door, seizes me by the shoulder, and wants me to go to walk. I give a grunt which...