Word of the Day for Monday June 16, 2003
land of Nod, noun:
[Usually capitalized N] Sleep.
We were fast going off to the land of Nod, when - bang,
bang, bang - on the scuttle, and "All hands, reef topsails,
ahoy!" started us out of our berths.
--Richard Henry Dana, Jr., [1]Two Years Before The Mast
For the jet-lagged insomniac, here are a few suggestions of
what to do in Manhattan once the last bar has chucked you
out and the land of nod seems further away than the night
bus to Camberwell.
--William Hide, "The night shift," [2]The Guardian,
February 24, 2001
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Land of Nod is a pun on the biblical place-name, the country
to which Cain journeyed after slaying Abel. See Genesis, 4:16.
land of Nod, noun:
[Usually capitalized N] Sleep.
We were fast going off to the land of Nod, when - bang,
bang, bang - on the scuttle, and "All hands, reef topsails,
ahoy!" started us out of our berths.
--Richard Henry Dana, Jr., [1]Two Years Before The Mast
For the jet-lagged insomniac, here are a few suggestions of
what to do in Manhattan once the last bar has chucked you
out and the land of nod seems further away than the night
bus to Camberwell.
--William Hide, "The night shift," [2]The Guardian,
February 24, 2001
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Land of Nod is a pun on the biblical place-name, the country
to which Cain journeyed after slaying Abel. See Genesis, 4:16.
