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Vigil

noun

A period of sleeplessness.

The rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival). Synonym: watch.

A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe. Synonym: watch.

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"Vigil" Quotes from Famous Books

... moody thought, but his ears never for an instant relaxed their vigil, their hearkening for he knew not what. At length he passed into his bedcloset, and cooled his hot face with water and repaired his dress. Coming out again, he found the house still quiet, the door as he had left it, the daylight pouring in through the aperture. ...

— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman

... sentence he slipped through the gate, which was not quite closed, and entered the garden, where he crouched down in the shadow of some bushes that grew by the side of the gravel path leading to the house, and seemed to compose himself for a long vigil. ...

— The Bittermeads Mystery • E. R. Punshon

... sends us the trial of loneliness, it may be that He has a special work for us, which needs a long and lonely vigil beside our armour. He may be depriving us of earthly comfort to draw us closer to Himself, that we may learn from Him to be ...

— Stray Thoughts for Girls • Lucy H. M. Soulsby

... shrill cry of a jackal among the sandhills around us. Face to face I sat with this strange man, the glow of the fire beating upon his eager and imperious features and reflecting from his passionate eyes. It was the strangest vigil, and one which will never pass from my recollection. I have spoken with many wise and famous men upon my travels, but never with one who left ...

— The Last Galley Impressions and Tales - Impressions and Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... restlessness of my disturbing fancies. All around was spiritualized by the moonlight; the trees on the lawn threw long shadows on the grass, and far away, in their mysterious and majestic silence, stood the eternal mountains; like gigantic watchers, they kept their vigil over the placid scene beneath—the vigil of untold centuries. Cloudless, unsympathizing, changeless, they had no part in the busy drama of human experience their loftiness overlooked, and now they loomed with shadowy outline, through the sanctifying ...

— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 • Various

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