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I must have been nodding in my chair.

From Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man by Oemler, Marie Conway

According to the latest accounts, Sir Henry Morgan, by a singular oversight of Fate, who must have been nodding at the time, died in his bed—not peacefully I trust—and was buried in consecrated ground.

From Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer A Romance of the Spanish Main by Crawford, Will

If the Apostles recommended her life to the ladies of their congregations as worthy emulation the stenographer must have been nodding worse than Homer.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper

"Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord"—he might have been nodding assent to that instead of to Elinor's low-spoken vow.

From The Marriage of Elinor by Oliphant, Mrs. (Margaret)

I must have been nodding for a minute.

From The Colonel's Dream by Chesnutt, Charles W. (Charles Waddell)