"Wide-awake" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... frock-coat, buttoned up to his chin, in military style. He was marching so straight upon my little establishment, that I could not help supposing he intended passing right over it for the amusement of the ladies. I was therefore watching him with a furtive but wide-awake glance, when I had the satisfaction of seeing him stop within three steps of my ...
— Led Astray and The Sphinx - Two Novellas In One Volume • Octave Feuillet
... the brain of the ship, Miss Baring. We are always wide-awake here. My quarters are farther aft. I think I can find a chair for you if you care to sit down ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... still dark. Sleepily I try to reconcile the French orderly's muttered, C'est l'heure, monsieur, that rouses me from slumber, with the strictly American words and music of "When That Midnight Choo Choo Leaves for Alabam'" warbled by a particularly wide-awake pilot in the next room. A few minutes later, having swallowed some coffee, we motor to the field. The east is turning gray as the hangar curtains are drawn apart and our machines trundled out by the mechanicians. ...
— Flying for France • James R. McConnell
... sat up and looked; then they became wide-awake, though wonder-struck. And the stir spread to the court below, and into the lewens; soon the entire tenantry of the house and court and enclosure were ...
— Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ • Lew Wallace
... been a wide-awake chap to make that story,' said Martin Cannister, subsiding to a placid aspect ...
— A Pair of Blue Eyes • Thomas Hardy
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