wakeful

You see, your friends are wakeful. I know not what we shall do yet, but four determined men can do much.

Go therfore mighty powers, Terror of Heav'n, though fall'n; intend at home, While here shall be our home, what best may ease The present misery, and render Hell More tollerable; if there be cure or charm To respite or deceive, or slack the pain Of this ill Mansion: intermit no watch Against a wakeful Foe, while I abroad Through all the coasts of dark destruction seek Deliverance for us all: this enterprize None shall partake with me.

When the clouds rise in our married life--when I say my first harsh word, when you make your first hasty reply--then, in the solitude of your own room, in the stillness of the wakeful night, you will think of my first wife's miserable death.

'Martha,' urged the locksmith, endeavouring to look as wakeful as possible, 'what is it you complain of?

'The game of that is, that they always leave it open with a catch, so that the dog, who's got a bed in here, may walk up and down the passage when he feels wakeful. Ha!

Yes, we became very wakeful; so much so that our recumbent position began to grow wearisome, and by little and little we found ourselves sitting up; the clothes well tucked around us, leaning against the head-board with our four knees drawn up close together, and our two noses bending over them, as if our knee-pans were warming-pans.

I have not been near my bed--I have not once closed my weary wakeful eyes.

But the bed I made up for myself was sufficiently uncomfortable to give me a wakeful night, and I thought a good deal of what the unlucky Dutchman had told me.

Too unslept hath thy seeking made thee, and too wakeful.

Despondency had come upon her there in the wakeful night, and had never lifted.

That proposed-to damsel lay on a wakeful pillow until the wee sma's, but her meditations were far from being romantic.

Crayford still keeps her place by the bedside, too anxious and too wakeful to retire to her own room.