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  • And Cain went out from the presence of the L, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    ORDGenesis 4:16.

  • With ravished ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres.

    -John Dryden
      Alexander's Feast, l.42^6.

  • Another age shall see the golden ear Imbrown the slope, and nod on the parterre, Deep harvests bury all his pride has planned, And laughing Ceres re-assume the land.

    - Alexander Pope
    Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.173^6.

  • In the Land of Nod at last.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
      AChild's Garden ofVerses, XLI,'North-West Passage', pt.3,'In Port', stanza 3.

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