Obviously the primal condition of all else must be found in a self-prompted activity or wakefulness of intellect.
Some by sleep; some by a middle state between wakefulness and sleep (n.
But it has been granted to me now for many years to speak with spirits and to be with them as one of them, even in full wakefulness of the body.
He walked deliberately down off the bridge, went to where the mate was dozing against a skylight on the quarter deck, and stirred him into wakefulness with his foot.
But at last Wenlock, as though wrenching himself into wakefulnessout of some horrid dream, turned wildly to Kettle, and in a torrent of words implored for rescue.
But as for me, I've got another twenty hours' wakefulness in me yet, if needs be.
I kept close at his heels until we came to Broadway, startling myself with the sudden wonder if he, too, were a victim of those relentless hounds of wakefulness that turn night into a never-ending inquisition.
Then I crossed to the northwest corner of that iron-fenced enclosure and waited for that youth whom the arm of wakefulness was swinging about like a stone in a sling.
And I continued to lie there in that pleasant borderland torpor, which is neither wakefulness nor slumber.
I'm sure I've got the name wrong," she says, with revived wakefulness in her voice.
She is so weary with her hours of wakefulness that she becomes a little reckless, foreseeing a resource in such uncertainty of speech as may easily be ascribed to a premature dream.
I seem to have been long asleep, and now I know that this wakefulness you see is but the clearness of a man before he dies.
He was just dropping off to sleep again, when his attention was startled into wakefulness by a knock at the outer door.
I had read of Indian massacres, and a curious, hot sensation of dread came over me as I looked nervously round, half expecting that my fancies might not be without cause, and that my wakefulness was due to a sense of coming danger.
Now degrees of relative wakefulness are indicated with surprising delicacy by the slight respiration sounds given forth by the sleeper.
After some experience the peculiar breathing of advancing or actual wakefulness in her was sufficient to wake me.
After that had come agonized hours in which he knew neither wakefulness nor the quiet of total unconsciousness.
Barry felt that without at least the beckoning of a light to denote the wakefulness of the cook, he could not in propriety go there, even for an inquiry regarding the condition of the woman whom he felt that some day he would marry.
No wonder that sleep cannot soothe miseries like mine; that I am alike infested by memory inwakefulness and slumber.
The emotions which were visible during wakefulness had vanished during this cessation of remembrance and remorse, or were faintly discernible.
I cannot recollect that any tokens were given of wakefulness or alarm.
The others started into wakefulness at a touch, and stood staring at him helplessly.
It seemed one of those vague visions which flit across the mental retina in that dim shadowland between wakefulness and slumber.
In a period of wakefulness he heard the drum hoofs on the frozen ground and knew that Turkey was coming home at last.
For any satisfactory results, prolonged observations must be made from twilight to dawn, and such periods of wakefulness were impossible when he must present himself before a class at nine o'clock in the morning.
Only the all-night drug-store on the opposite corner kept up an appearance of wakefulness by means of a corona of milk-white lights that made a brilliant spot in the comparative obscurity of the long thoroughfare.
Sometimes the reason for the wakefulness will be found in a want of exercise or too constant confinement to closely-heated rooms.
Past hours of unrest and wakefulness were forgotten; her tears washed the dead anxieties clean away; and the kiss which had caused them, though it scorched her lip when it fell there, was now set as a seal and a crowning glory to her life.
But she did not sleep; and her wakefulness was fortunate, for long after eleven o'clock came a noisy summons at the outer door.
Whenever he caught himself snapping back intowakefulness he found Vona's twinkle of amusement waiting for him.
During the long night of wakefulnesshe had turned over in his mind every possible event at St. Mary Western since his sudden disappearance.
All responsibility in existence seemed to have left him: his ready pride of self-dependence had given way to a gentle obedience, and the passage from wakefulness to sleep was very sweet.
During this extended period of wakefulness he had been upset and out of his orbit.
Oh, God grant deep sleep at night--or wide wakefulness and a light.
In addition to this, the protracted wakefulnessat night began to tell upon the brain, and I resolved to make my case known to a physician.
It seemed odd to him that in all these diurnal commutes between wakefulness and sleep that the mind should continue to allow either of these two states to overwhelm the other.
It was the saving of my brain, therefore, that I slept fourteen hours without a break, and after a few hours of tired and dazed wakefulness again fell into a prolonged slumber, from which I awoke fresh and vigorous in mind and body.
