Adjective : Excitement made the children wakeful. ,a wakeful night. ,a wakeful foe. From Dictionary.com.
Evidently this was not one of his "wakeful" periods. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Louise in the Country] Reference
Cragg used it as a rendezvous or workshop and visited it stealthily on his "wakeful" nights. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Louise in the Country] Reference
I had no trouble in getting their wakeful attention. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth: the Disinherited Daughter By E. Ben Ez-er] Reference
She had no appetite, and had restless, wakeful nights. From Wordnik.com. [Odd] Reference
But whatever it is, it keeps her very wakeful at night. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
"The wakeful trump of doom should thunder through the deep.". From Wordnik.com. [The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome] Reference
The child, tired, but wakeful, stood at the door in fear of the dog. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
This wakeful presence worked for the first five nights he made me stay. From Wordnik.com. [Fear of Snakes] Reference
The other men were sleeping as men do after two long wakeful nights and. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
As for sleep, never at cockcrow was I more wakeful than at this moment to-night. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas Light] Reference
These are the dreams that wove a network round my wakeful life for many years past. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches] Reference
But she was nowhere in my wakeful realm; not in the recesses of my illogical subconscious. From Wordnik.com. [Inroads] Reference
Marcia Lowe's words returned with sharp insistence and kept Cynthia wakeful for many an hour. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
The crowd of spectators was large, and the interest felt by all, at least, curious and wakeful. From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
The stars, undisturbed by struggles on this little planet, were gazed at by many a wakeful eye. From Wordnik.com. [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference
A walk after their wakeful night seemed simply impossible and the weather was too bad for games. From Wordnik.com. [Judy of York Hill] Reference
So it was not fear of marauders that kept Ruth so wakeful on this first night under her uncle's roof. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
Not the brief, wakeful moments snatched at intervals in the night, but sleep, long, quiet, undisturbed. From Wordnik.com. [Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry] Reference
There's nothing seems wakeful but you love and I. Larks sleep in the rushes, linnets perch on the bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
But the club was deserted, and he went to bed to spend a wakeful night in seeking a solution of his problem. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
Or, if he were asleep, and you operated to effect a wakeful mind or thought, you would fail again at the moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Besides the anxiety she felt, all sorts of new and unusual sensations were disturbing her peace of mind that wakeful night. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
She had the gray and care-worn look excusable in a woman approaching the fortieth mile-stone who has spent a wakeful night. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
That night the commandant, lying under his mosquito net, wakeful from prickly heat, was haunted by the face of Lawrence Teck. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
To have an occasional wakeful night is natural; it is an evidence of intelligence: the mental dullard never has wakeful nights. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
From much thinking through wakeful nights and torturing days Ann Walden had evolved a very sincere hatred and bitter resentment. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
Marjory was greatly soothed and comforted by these words, and though she was very wakeful through the night, her mind was at rest. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
It had been threatening a thunder storm all evening and the increasing oppressiveness of the air made the young, aeronaut wakeful. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
At first, in our semi-wakeful state, and before we could adjust our ideas, we had the most confused notions of what was the matter. From Wordnik.com. [In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83] Reference
She went to bed and tossed wide-eyed and wakeful till morning, then rose, and after breakfast prepared to go to the office as usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinner's Book of Fiction] Reference
Christine Chaine, wakeful and nervous, listening to the night sounds, found them far more distracting than any the day could produce. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
She lets me babble in the night, but if I go on too long, she says “Nnnnn!” or if she's wakeful, says, “You're babbling, dear.”. From Wordnik.com. [Babbling] Reference
Only post a wakeful public sentiment at the little opening of moderate drinking, and the whole highway to the drunkard's ruin will be closed up. From Wordnik.com. [Select Temperance Tracts] Reference
Her mother had passed a sleepless night, and her wakeful eye had been turned in every direction to see if she could catch a glimpse or a sound from her little Nelly. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest King Wild Hunter of the Adaca] Reference
And now those words of the doctor's brought comfort for the memory of many a lonely wakeful hour, when Marjory should have been sleeping the untroubled sleep of childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls] Reference
Now that the whole city was throbbing with anticipations of the morrow's festivities, there were more persons wakeful and wandering about with feverish expectation than usual. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
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