Once they finished their meals, they dispersed into small groups to resume their routines or to take naps.
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Transient changes in basal cortisol concentrations related to daytime naps, car trips, and separation in older infants.
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The verbs for these items were : bark, comb, count, climb, cry, drink, drive, eat, hide, laugh, read, ride, run, swim, take (anap), and yell.
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Presumably the shepherd is having an after-lunchnapwhile his dog keeps watch on the flock.
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She settled on my chest in a comfortable position, as she would have done had she been napping on my son.
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It is possible indeed that age effects would completely disappear ifnapsleep were estimated more accurately.
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Infants and toddlers have different daily schedules, but all children share a 6:30 am wake-up, a 1 - 3 pm afternoonnap, and an 8 pm bedtime.
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I hypothesize that already in young infants sleep tendency increases in the course of the day despite intermittent decreases of sleep pressure as a result of daytime naps.
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Having unpacked, we both collapsed onto our narrow iron bedsteads for a briefnapand a serious planning session of our culture and entertainment for the week.
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The dried teazle head brings up thenapon high quality cloth, the demand for which is growing because of the current snooker boom.
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I believe that the shipbuilders have been caught napping over the sudden popularity of the very large tankers.
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So we are tough as nails with smokers, but are caught napping when it comes to hard drugs.
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Lawyers are anxious they should not be caught napping in declaring the title absolute.
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I admit that we have been caught napping.
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One of the difficulties now is that, even though the fishermen are ready to find them, they catch the fishermen napping.
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