"But to be specific," Kugel said, after a long pause in which they sat nodding and smiling.

"Maybe they were just sitting there nodding their heads."

Someone has to make it, and the women just sit smiling and nodding so it might as well be them.

We were thrilled to be taken into his confidence in this way, and would sit quietly nodding at him in front of the fire.

They sit nodding in their cups beside a rum pot on the far side of the deck.

For a few minutes the three of them sat smiling and nodding at each other, the silence stretching until it approached an awkward length.

He sat nodding in the autumn sun and you could almost hear his mind go traveling back across those fifty years.

And you're sitting there nodding your head like it happens to you all the time.

"Then why the hell am I sitting here nodding my head while you talk?"

A whole hour drifted by, the master sat nodding in his throne, the air was drowsy with the hum of study.