Adjective : a wide-awake young woman. From Dictionary.com.
Some people call it wide-awake drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Study: Alcohol-energy drink combo riskier than booze alone] Reference
He is mighty wide-awake on any point of that sort. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scout Automobilists or, Jack Danby in the Woods] Reference
They are necessarily cool, wide-awake, self-possessed men. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
By the time I am dressed I am wide-awake and fit for anything. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
Joe's bored feeling vanished and he was wide-awake in an instant. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
He had great persistency and great industry, and a wide-awake mind. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference
But all night long the wide-awake little chipmunk kept up his song. From Wordnik.com. [Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children] Reference
There is no more interesting field for stories for wide-awake boys. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Suddenly someone, more wide-awake than others remembers the 'Fragments.'. From Wordnik.com. [Fragments From France] Reference
And if he is a wide-awake youngster he will find excitement aplenty -- as did Bunty. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman for Mayor A Novel of To-day] Reference
The wide-awake, vibrating lifelike sperm plunges head first and bodily into the ovum. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The wide-awake boys who first conceived the idea had taken the cream of the pickings. From Wordnik.com. [With Trapper Jim in the North Woods] Reference
He's the most observing, wide-awake fellow I ever knew since I came up from the South. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
But that my straw wide-awake was in the way, I could have torn my hair in my vexation. From Wordnik.com. [Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands] Reference
But carnations have a wide-awake aspect, which brings one back to every-day life again. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Tyranny, which for a brief period had slept, was now wide-awake and aggressively active. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
How long before some wide-awake dictator hires 500 student twitterers or bloggers of his own?. From Wordnik.com. [Iran showed the power of citizen journalism, but how far can we trust it?] Reference
Not a single scout now but who was wide-awake, and endeavoring to pull on his clothes in haste. From Wordnik.com. [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference
After lying quietly in bed, staring into the soft darkness, she felt more wide-awake than ever. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
To this consent was given, and the two wide-awake English officers walked alongside their horses. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
She spent halt an hour manicuring her nails and then, still feeling wide-awake, decided on a bath. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
The outdoor chums are four wide-awake lads, sons of wealthy men of a small city located on a lake. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys Trailing a Voice or, Solving a Wireless Mystery] Reference
He is wide-awake on the far-off field where the isolated missionary is ploughing his lonely furrow. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
The traveller is more wide-awake, and his inclination now is to err on the side of paying too little. From Wordnik.com. [India and the Indians] Reference
The world is too wide-awake for thought, -- the atmosphere is too bright for intellectual achievements. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864] Reference
When she had finally prepared for sleep, it was only to toss and turn in her bed, wide-awake and resentful. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean High School Sophomore] Reference
Hereward was called "the Wake" because he was so watchful and wide-awake that the Normans could not catch him. From Wordnik.com. [True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk] Reference
He looked odd indeed standing facing her with the lantern burning yet in his hand though the day was almost wide-awake. From Wordnik.com. [Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure] Reference
Had not Phyllis been such a wide-awake little girl, she would have never heard and seen all that I am about to tell you. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of Birds] Reference
The Chilians are an active, intelligent, wide-awake people; are great fighters and free from the religious trammels of Peru. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching, Sport and Travel] Reference
So the wide-awake scout finds opportunities to make use of the most ordinary and commonplace things to be met with in the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference
I know of no other work on the subject of which this treats that I can so unreservedly recommend to all wide-awake teachers as this. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses] Reference
Are stirring stories of adventure in which real boys, clean-cut and wide-awake, do the things other wide-awake boys like to read about. From Wordnik.com. [The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series] Reference
Paul Palmer was a wide-awake boy of sixteen who supported his mother and sister by selling books and papers on the Chicago and Milwaukee. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
This new series relates the doings of a wide-awake boys 'club of the Y.M. C. A., full of good times and everyday, practical C.ristianity. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies The Missing Pearl Necklace] Reference
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