take forty winks
Example Sentences
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I’ll take forty winks here until she’s ready.”
From The Moonlit Way by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Then she announced she was going to take "forty winks," as she had been up most of the night and needed sleep.
From The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln
"I think I'll take forty winks," she hummed; "—twenty for the front face, and twenty for the back."
From The Poor Little Rich Girl by Eleanor Gates
"You take forty winks, and eat some chocolate for what you call a nightcap."
From Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang
And then aloud she said, “All right, honey, I’ll take forty winks and then get up and come down to the tennis court.”
From Molly Brown's Post-Graduate Days by Nell Speed
