Adjective : Excitement made the children wakeful. ,a wakeful night. ,a wakeful foe. From Dictionary.com.
But when she returned to her own bed, it was to lie wakefully staring into the dark. From Wordnik.com. [Burning Water]
And they lived in that place for one year, protecting themselves from Purochana very wakefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference
He should have a lamp constantly burning in his bed-chamber during the night, and if wakefully disturbed, take. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Johnson LL.D.] Reference
About him men tired by a long night spent on pallets as hard as the stone flooring tossed and groaned or sighed wakefully. From Wordnik.com. [Shelled by an Unseen Foe] Reference
She wept wakefully all that night and the next morning, almost before dawn, when the streets were empty, a car drew up to the house and took Tony away. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories Vol 1]
The beauty of dismal gloom is in she who holds hopes highest, patiently wakefully waiting, noticing all of life's truths, anticipating exclamations of joy. From Wordnik.com. [Madison, dreary today...] Reference
Gordon was restless and edged ever nearer to the recumbent Vandersee; Little had fallen asleep but was obviously dreaming what the others were wakefully thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Gold Out of Celebes] Reference
Right in between being awake and falling asleep there is that weird time where our brains wander in directions we never could imagine wakefully wandering without chemical aid. From Wordnik.com. [seattle-rain Diary Entry] Reference
Poor man, he will have slept wakefully this night!. From Wordnik.com. [Clementina] Reference
His shrill plaintive voice rose ever and anon wakefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Miracle 1911] Reference
"Denham," I said that night as we lay wakefully gazing up at the stars. From Wordnik.com. [Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer] Reference
The hours dragged wakefully and her thoughts tortured her like searing irons. From Wordnik.com. [The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping] Reference
As the breeze rose again, the sea began to murmur wakefully in the morning light. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
He lay, blinking wakefully, sprawled out on the spare seat of the gig beneath a mass of warm rugs. From Wordnik.com. [The Goodwood Ghost Story] Reference
He was lying meditating, wakefully, about many things one day when one of the nurses approached his bed. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan] Reference
Hazel herself tossed wakefully, and during her wakeful moments she could hear him stir in the outer room. From Wordnik.com. [North of Fifty-Three] Reference
All that night, the great genius of the nineteenth century tossed wakefully on his bed revolving the problem in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Democracy, an American novel] Reference
She grew wakefully glad: it was her nature, not her mind, that had twisted in the convulsions of last night's horror of shame. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
One such night Christine put in, lying wakefully in her bed, while the clock on the mantel tolled hour after hour into the night. From Wordnik.com. [K] Reference
I exclaimed, joyfully, for all sorts of brilliant thoughts had come to me while I tossed rather wakefully in the early morning hours. From Wordnik.com. [Esther : a book for girls] Reference
And so Hugo Canning, abruptly widowed at a railway station, was left to toss wakefully that night, ridden by deepening anxieties. From Wordnik.com. [V. V.'s Eyes] Reference
He undressed without striking a light, and lay down, only to look wakefully out at the dark lattice of tree branches against the moonlit sky. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Whirlpool] Reference
She lay wakefully, staring through her open window at the arc lights winking in parallel rows, listening to the ceaseless hum of man's activities. From Wordnik.com. [North of Fifty-Three] Reference
Yet when we pray for ourselves, we scratch ourselves and yawn, and fall into ten thousand thoughts; but when against our enemies, we do so wakefully. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF1-12. Saint Chrysostom: Homilies on the Epistles of Paul to the Corinthians] Reference
He should have a lamp constantly burning in his bed-chamber during the night, and if wakefully disturbed, take a book, and read, and compose himself to rest. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Johnson, Volume 2 1765-1776] Reference
Most of the windows had gone to sleep, but a few near the front entrance were twinkling wakefully, and the door flew open in response to the call of the motor. From Wordnik.com. [The Port of Adventure] Reference
And so, with sweats of anguish, he wakefully passed the hours until in the gloom of his room the dawn showed a milky rectangle of light, and began to be reflected on the window curtains. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan.] Reference
Thus some days passed; and then there came a night when he left a bed on which he had tossed wakefully, and went in the hot August night to the side of the sea when no one knew that he went or came. From Wordnik.com. [The Mermaid A Love Tale] Reference
Along the dim, empurpled highways that lead from star to star, from meteorite to comet, the imagination travels wakefully by night, and the heart leaps as it draws near to the silver bosses of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Prophet of Berkeley Square] Reference
Every morning the Lord of the home heard "our voices ascending high" from the family altar, and in the nursery feverish or wakefully-fretful children were lulled to health-giving slumber by the mother's hymns. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)] Reference
She’s not asleep or dreaming, she’s perfectly wakefully aware and conscious. From Wordnik.com. [Tours of the Black Clock] Reference
For an age he lies wakefully on his bed. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Urge the steeds wakefully. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
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