She breathes very regularly, but she is awake long after he fancies her oblivious.
Then I repeated over and over to myself--"I will awake at the first sound of a voice.
And yet I was not sleepy now but awake and excited.
Therefore, thou brazen-faced ass, speak wiser, or I shall never trouble my head to awake him.
Whittington brought poor puss, and delivered her to the captain with tears in his eyes, for he said, "He should now again be kept awake all night by the rats and mice.
Bacon thereupon proposed his man Miles, and Bungey approved of it; so they called Miles, told him the nature of the brazen head and what was intended, by giving him a strict charge on his life, to awake them as soon as ever he heard it speak.
So he got him a long sword by his side, and a tabor and pipe to play, and keep him awake if any drowsiness or the like should overtake him.
The man all the while counterfeits himself asleep, and seemed not to awake for a good space.
I suppose it is their animal nature, and that, like the beasts, they are most awake by night.
Twice she had not been aware of his return until she found him lying on the sleeping-mat by her side; but, on the third evening, she had remained awake until a noise without told her that her husband was at hand.
The insects are awake all night, and the little workman bird sits on a tree close by you and drives coffin nails without number.
She could not keep her mind to her book, and while she was awake the time seemed to be everlasting.
But fraud requires a man to be alive and wide awake at every turn!
Awake or asleep, drunk or sober, I never signed that letter.
Why, that was one of the things I was thinking of as I lay awake last night: because you know at times like these people run their feet off before the time begins, and then they are all limpsey and lop-sided when the time comes.
His swarthy face flushed, his little blue eye kindled, he walked up to the Doctor, and began speaking in the short, energetic sentences of a man thoroughly awake to what he is talking about.
The Doctor now lookedawake in right earnest, and very much astonished besides; and he looked eagerly at Miss Prissy to have her go on.
There was a wide-awake look in their big, honest, gray eyes, and their light hair curled over their heads in little tight rings.
They are unusually well behaved little animals, but it would be safer to keep them shut up until the boys are awake to look after them.
Since then all our sentiments are illusions, who can tell but that the other half of life wherein we fancy ourselves awake be not another sleep somewhat different from the former, from which we wake when we fancy ourselves asleep?
As may be imagined, Jim felt very wide awake when he staggered to his feet, after being thrown so violently against Walter that both rolled to the floor, and his first thought was that all the trouble had originated in the engine-room.
Now the remainder of the crew were awake and peering out over the rail at the rapidly-approaching boat, the occupants of which could be clearly distinguished as two of the party for whom those on the schooner from Nassau were in search.
Bob proposed to have some more exercise at the winch when the tide was at its full height again, and to that end it was necessary one of the party should remain awake to arouse the others at the proper time.
Once more her mother seemed to awake with a start to consciousness of her surroundings.
At this time, too, Rosalie seemed even more wide awake than Zephyrin.
This anxiety kept him awake a long time after Mickey became unconscious; but, as hour after hour passed and the stillness remained unbroken, his fears were gradually dissipated and a feeling of drowsiness began stealing over him.
The novelty of his situation, and the interest which Fred felt as to what was to be done with him in the end kept him wide awake for a time, and he indulged in all sorts of surmises and conjectures.
I've had some wonderful escapes to tell about--" He was too wide awake and too much on the alert to forget precisely where he was, or to fail to take in whatever should occur of an alarming nature.
Gettin’ awake stiff and cold and half starved and cussin’ the daylight ’cause it’s agin me like everything else, and gives me away.
And then, after many bad dreams, I was awake again and the people were feasting.
Many nights I lay awakeshaping impossible schemes of revenge that were rejected in the sanity of the morning.
At that time of the evening when the coolness comes with the dew, and the bugs awake with drowsy hummings among the grasses, Shanugahi caught a roaring sound as of some sullen storm that thunders beneath the horizon.
And Bet that night lay awake pondering many things, and repeating very often, "A little box!
Bet pinched herself to keep awake till she heard her grandmother's step at the front of the house.
Awake he could pray, and praise, and worship God; he was master of his thoughts.
It was Gerard's to awake from a trance, and find his head pillowed on Margaret's arm; to hear the woman he adored murmur new words of eloquent love, and shower tears and tender kisses and caresses on him.
If there be indeed a one spirit, ever awake and aware, should it be hard to believe that that spirit should then hold common thought with a little spirit of its own?
Gibbie was awake some time before his father, and lay revelling in love's bliss of proximity.
How many things a man who is not awake to side strenuously with the good in him against the evil, who is not on his guard lest himself should mislead himself, may do, of which he will one day be bitterly ashamed!
Awake for this cause, he heard in the middle of one night, the following dialogue between the husband and wife.
No longer haunted with the idea of her wandering all night about the comfortless streets, "like a ghost awake in Memphis," Donal said, they went home.
At that sound, the latent fierceness came wide awake in Sambo.
The way Donal kept his vow never to read another poem of his own to a girl, was to proceed that very night to make another for the express purpose, as he layawake in the darkness.
There is at least one powerful bond, though it may not always awake sympathy, between mudlark and monarch--that of hunger.
When at length he reached his bed, it was not for a long time to sleep, but to lie awake and listen to the raging of the wind all about and above and below the cottage, and the rushing of the streams down past it on every side.
It is only when the conscience is wide awake and regnant that it can be appealed to without giving a cry for response.
When Mrs. Sclater went to bed that night she lay awake a good while thinking, and her main thought was--what could be the nature of the peculiar feeling which the stare of the boy had roused in her?
To lie awake at night, listening from hour to hour for the stealthy creeping of the murderer, for the laying of the damned mine!
For every hour I have lain awake at night, waiting for the noose or the dagger, they shall pass years in Siberia, centuries in the mines!
Joe retired early in order to be in readiness for the journey, and Fred was not awake when, shortly after midnight, he slipped out of the house.
During the hours of darkness no watch was kept; but Fred remained awake nearly all the time, straining his ears in the vain hope that he might hear something of Bill.
Tis as if he were awake in his poor blind way to all the Deacon's care for him and all the Deacon's kindness to me.
I had not even the advantage of delirium, which accompanies most serious fevers; I was constantly awake to the full appreciation of the torture which my mind and body were enduring.
It makes no difference how wide-awake a man thinks he is, he will find when he comes to this city that he has been nodding.
Was the neighborhood awake to even the most obscure local drama?
Meantime Dick watched him, and Raven at last, feeling the boy's eyes on him, came awake with a start.
He started awake and rose, pushing back his chair.
She rested in it, as a power alive to her, protecting her, awake to her well-being.
Perhaps it was most like a stillness of mind, and he felt himself as suddenly awake to a certainty that Anne had done with him.
Anybody'd think you could keep yourself awake over the Word o' God.
And by dint of giving his mind to it, he was himself peaceable and even amusing, but as the dark came on he found he had much ado to keep up the game; he was too sensitively awake to Tira.
She was broad awake now, and her taut muscles obeyed and liked it.
But suddenly I waked up, just as wide awake as I am this minute, and I knew as well as I ever knew anything, that Billy Jones was in the room.
The station is in a cluster of houses, awake early every morning when the milk goes away.
For recompense, but not in full requital, I was more awake to the meaning of things around me, and I fear much more awake to the importance of myself, Augustin.
What I am in myself, and what I mean to her, are things which she will some dayawake to.
Yet that she is happy now is something, and I do not think that she will awake thoroughly before the marriage.
Happily, perhaps, Princess Heinrich was not awake to the fact that she herself was being quoted to herself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "awake" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
