Examples in Early Modern Literature
- I have known persons who have never indulged in a second sleep. One gentleman, who entertained a notion that a second nap was injurious, invariably got up as soon as he awoke, no matter how early the hour — winter or summer.
- William Wadd. "Eating, Drinking, and Sleeping." Quarterly Journal of Science VIII 1828
- It was his custom to go to bed early after a light supper, and rising as soon as he awoke from his first sleep, about the time that monks say their matins, he wrapt his head in a kind of cowl, and spent four hours in deep study.
- "Aimar de Ranconet". William A'Beckett's Universal Biography, 1836
- Never was there a worse swindle perpetrated on humanity than that which asserts that when a man wakes from his first sleep he ought to get up. If he wakes thoroughly refreshed after seven hours sleep it is certainly time to turn and stretch, and, after about fifteen minutes grace, to dress; but he who wakes at early morn after a rest of about four or five hours, will do well to turn over and go to sleep again.
- Philadelphia Record, March 1, 1884
- —The people are in bed and after their first sleep now, he said.
- James Joyce. "Araby", 1914
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