Word: dozing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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...
...fourth he fell in a gentle doze...