I used to stretch myself on a buffalo-robe before the wood-fire, in company with a faithful spaniel, who was as wakeful on these occasions as if he suspected that the low-bred curs of the establishment might pick his pockets.
It was not much to invade a young girl's deserted chamber, but it would amuse a wakeful hour, and tell him some little matters he wanted to know.
The mighty Moon she sits above, Encircled with a zone of love, A zone of dim and tender light That makes her wakeful eye more bright: She seems to shine with a sunny ray, And the night looks like a mellow'd day!
What tears would fill my wakeful eyes When some delicious paradise (As if a cloud had roll'd On a sudden from the bursting sun) Freshening the Ocean where it shone, Flung wide its groves of gold!
Too many clouds have dimm'd my youthful life, These wakeful eyes too many vigils kept; Mine hath it been to toss in mental strife, When in the moonlight breathing Nature slept.
Jeanie yielded submissively, but a wakeful night followed, and in the morning she looked so wan that Avery wanted to keep her in bed.
Of herself all through that second wakeful night she did not think at all, and so no doubts rose to torment her.
Why has mywakeful lamp Out watch'd the slow-paced night?
Why has my wakeful lamp Outwatch'd the slow-paced night!
Or is it that there lurks indeed Some truth in Man's prevailing creed And that our Guardians from on high Come in that pause from toil and sin To put the senses' curtain by And on the wakeful soul look in!
When to my pillow racked I fly, With weary sense and wakeful eye.
His wakeful ears had heard the tumult in the air, and he guessed who it was that was coming.
This watchful guardian of the mid-world is as wakeful as the birds.
These prevented these long weary wakeful days and nights from being absolutely insupportable.
The distressed occupants meanwhile passed their wakeful nights under the most dreadful terrors imaginable.
But he had a quick apprehension, marvellous power of application, and was of an exceedingly wakeful temperament.
To have an occasional wakeful night is natural; it is an evidence of intelligence: the mental dullard never has wakeful nights.
She was bewildered by him: very often, when he prayed long and she was falling asleep after her wakeful night, she would feel impatient with him, especially when he prayed loud and long that she might be brought to a conviction of sin.
When he had gone back to Edinburgh she spent many wakeful nights, drawn in upon herself, thinking herself to nothingness like a Buddhist monk until pain brought her to realization again.
His absence was a real relief to Cherry, who felt curiously tired and spent after a wakeful night, and looked pale.
Cherry went to them at once; the little word "child" danced in her heart all day, and warmed it when she was lying wakeful and restless deep into the summer night.
Dimoussi went once more to the Fondak Henna, and made up for the wakeful night he had passed here with a Moor of the Sherarda tribe by sleeping until morning with a particular soundness.
In his narrow and bumpy bed the curate lay wakeful and wrapped in pleasing meditation.
He watched his captor incessantly, hoping that sleep would overtake him; but Lawless sat wakeful and alert, with his eyes upon the flames, only moving at long intervals when he rose to throw fresh wood upon the fire.
As he straightened himself after the performance of this office he became aware of a pair of eyes that followed his movements with interest, and perceived that among those silent figures one at least was wakeful and alert.
But Donnegan lay on the bed without moving for hours and hours, until big George, who sat wakeful and terrified all that time, was sure that he slept.
And now that he was sitting before her she could see that he had indeed been wakeful for a long time.
Danvers had dressed a bed for Lady Dunstane in her mistress's chamber, where often during the night Emma caught a sound of stifled weeping or the long falling breath of wakeful grief.
Thus he was enabled to put in his time during his wakeful moments, and face the prospect of a remote breakfast without discouragement.
So throughout the night, in my wakeful moments, I saw the light reflected from his mahogany person.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wakeful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
