The day seems there a time for shelter, rest, and often for siestas of a protracted kind.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
She spent a day and an evening in this isle of ripe fruits and riper amours; and took away materials for a memory composite of interminable siestas, restless radiant nights, towering cliffs, incomparable courtesy, and soft-voiced maidens with wondrous Spanish eyes that laugh and turn away.
"She Buildeth Her House"
Will Comfort
A spectator of the Union army thus describes the scene: "The storm broke upon us so suddenly, that soldiers and officers-who leaped, as it began, from their tents, or from lazy siestas on the grass-were stricken in their rising with mortal wounds, and died, some with cigars between their teeth, some with pieces of food in their fingers, and one at least-a pale young German, from Pennsylvania-with a miniature of his sister in his hands.
"Three Years in the Federal Cavalry"
Willard Glazier