nid-nodding

Master Wind, passing through the tree-tops, had set every leaf a-whispering and nid-nodding to its gossips, -- just as the peddler on his way through the village at home stirs all the women-folk to chattering about the latest news from the whole countryside.

Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine Annie T. Colcock

The rod top was nid-nodding sweetly, the hand gently turning the reel handle, the fish held and guided.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

She must have been a woman of strong nerves to have borne the sight of such stupendous head-gears as those in which her attendants are nid-nodding over herself and baby, or to have supported the weight of that which she wears by way of night-cap.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

"Hee-hee!" now broke in an octogenarian treble, that seemed to come from high up in the head of Uncle Issy, the bass-viol player; "But cast your eyes, good friends, 'pon a little slip o' heart's delight down in the nave, and mark the flowers 'pon the bonnet nid-nodding like bees in a bell, with unspeakable thoughts."

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

Phronsie sat on the lower berth, her sleepy little legs dangling over the edge, and her sleepy little head going nid-nodding, despite all her efforts to keep herself awake.

Five Little Peppers Abroad Margaret Sidney 1884