This is how: at the warmest hour of the day the good man took his siesta after the Saracen fashion, a habit in which he had never failed, since his return from the Holy Land.
After this sweet repast, the seneschal's lady took kindly to her siesta after the French fashion, while Bruyn took his according to the Saracen.
But by the said siesta she learned how the good youth of the page had a better taste than that of the old seneschal, and at night she buried herself in the sheets far away from her husband, whom she found strong and stale.
Mexico continued hersiesta while the United States sentineled the bedroom.
With almost all the world in uniform, Newport welcomed the sight of one of her own men returned even from what was rather a siesta than a campaign, and old Mrs. Noxon insisted on giving a big party for Jim.
The West-Indian siesta does not refresh like that dreamless midday nap which we enjoy in Northern summers.
Out of the siesta I used to be most often startled, not by sounds, but by something which I can describe only as a sudden shock of thought.
Ordinarily he would have climbed the tree like a little monkey and helped himself, but his mother had excused him from his siesta on condition that he be quiet, and though he looked longingly at the fruit he did not start to climb.
Brava, little one," cried Uncle Prudente who had come out from his siesta refreshed and cool.
She had at the hour of the siestarequested me to keep quiet.
It may have been the beginning of a mission house, but in any case it makes a very nice cool place in which to take our siesta now.
Will he prefer a bed and a dinner to nothing to eat and a siestaunder the planks on the quays of Quebec?
Take your siestaanother time, and open your door at once; or mayhap I 'll do it myself!
It was the hour of the siestawhen we reached "The Cat," so that I had no opportunity of seeing the Señhora.
It was not by the side of any of the ordinary tracks through the forest--but not very far from one of them; as if the lady had turned aside from the path, and sought out a quiet spot to enjoy a siesta without being disturbed.
The bank we were sitting on was the most delicious place for a siesta that can be conceived.
It's siesta time right now, and it'll do all of us good to take a nap.
Remember the trouble she got into up on the roof in town during a siesta hour?
Then comes the siesta which he has well earned, or else a promenade in the gardens until six o'clock.
The wretchedness had lasted for so many centuries, the sky was so blue, the siesta preferable to aught else during the hot hours!
Then the siesta was taken, and at three o'clock travel was resumed until near sunset, when the camp was made for the night.
I dined sadly with Donna Ignazia, without telling her the cause of my trouble, and just as I was going to take my siesta a servant of Manucci's brought me a letter from his master and fled before I could read it.
She was taking her siesta in bed, but as I had the privileges allowed to a person of no consequence she let me in directly.
After my siesta I dressed, and went out without seeing her.
The hour of our siesta is passing, my scornful friend.
They took their siesta during the heat of the day while the attendants watered the animals.
Although it was yet warm, he had stumbled out into the open air from his siesta couch where he had smothered and tried in vain to sleep during the sultry afternoon.
After drinking more wine than usual he lay down for the siesta and fell asleep.
In summer, he took a siesta for half an hour or so.
The ever warm climate seems to predispose to sleep, and, even after a good night's rest, one would welcome an hour's siesta after luncheon.
Shortly after midday, while we were taking our usual siesta in the launch, we were suddenly startled by an unearthly noise.
As a small instance, in Buenos Aires the habit of the Spanish siesta is abandoned.
Even in the busy harvest time, however, the midday siesta for everyone in the camp is not omitted, as the sun is extremely hot for two or three hours about noon.
So it was that, immediately after the siesta hour, the girls and Miss Prudence set out on horseback on a general inspection trip of the mining camp.
After that meal, Roscius makes up for lost sleeping-time by taking a long siesta till the hour of dinner.
Ablutions over, the indispensable siesta is enjoyed by everybody, on catres or in hammocks; for the heat of mid-day is insupportable, and repose after a bath is considered salutary.
Breakfast over, I take a siesta on half the furniture, and after a few hours' delicious oblivion am awakened by the jailer, who comes with the welcome news that the court is sitting, and that my presence is required.
I am better still after having taken a refreshing siesta in my swinging hammock, in which condition I dream of black pins, burnt hair, raw mustard, and sulphur.
Our Indian baker is usually discovered sleeping a siesta on our broad balcony, and by his side lies a flat circular bread-basket as large as the wheel of a quitrin.
After a substantial breakfast, which resembles dinner in the variety of dishes provided, some of our party betake themselves to their dormitories with a siesta in view, being incapable of any more active service till the hot hours have passed.
In a few minutes the hammock and other camp equipage was conveyed to one of the native canoes, which lay close to the river's bank, our travellers embarked, and ere long were far from the spot where the siesta had been taken.
It was approaching the afternoon of a very sultry day when Lawrence awoke from his midday siesta under an algaroba-tree, and slowly opened his eyes.
In those regions it was the practice, when convenient, to sling a network hammock between two trees, and enjoy one's siesta in that.
The old chemist was finishing his siesta upstairs, but as he was accustomed to act as an emergency doctor to his neighborhood he came down, clad in white trousers and an undershirt that covered his fat person like his skin.
The vessel was to leave at two o'clock, the siesta hour.
I at once fell in with the custom of all hot countries, that is to say, of having a siesta after lunch.
She then altered her time for having her bath, and came to my house every day, to have a siesta there.
Florence had awakened from her summer siesta beneath the glare and heat, and with her streets still sun-blanched she had put on that air of irresponsibility which is always so attractive to the leisured foreigner.
I will not dare to take my siesta with these fellows in the neighborhood, for fear of waking up in another place than Portugal.
After the meal the party dispersed--most of them taking a siesta in order to get rid of two or three hot hours of the afternoon before they set out on their way back to Elvas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "siesta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doze; nap; repose; rest; sleep; wink
