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  • Wide-awake now, I move to check the door, then the blackout shades on every window.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum 2009

  • Wide-awake at night, hearing the singing of whales rising up from the deep sea and vibrating through the ship.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • Wide-awake at night, hearing the singing of whales rising up from the deep sea and vibrating through the ship.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • Wide-awake at night, hearing the singing of whales rising up from the deep sea and vibrating through the ship.

    Little Bee Chris Cleave 2008

  • Wide-awake in dreamland; oblivious or ignorant to the effects of geopolitical fascism ...

    Day of Dissent: The Paradigm Shift 2007

  • The wide felt hat, with one flap turned up, was called the Wide-awake, but the election marchers did not wear them at all.

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • Wide-awake men (and women, too) who know what this element is, and means, will agree with me, and prefer the sharp twang of true fibre to the most exquisite softness and sweetness that were ever produced by sham refinement.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • The most staid and reverend personages may now be seen disporting themselves in divers jackets, and in that Wide-awake which a few years since was confined to the sportsman or his slang imitator.

    The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

  • Willie Wide-awake held it in one hand, because he had the four-leaf clover in the other hand.

    Roy Blakely, Pathfinder Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • Wide-awake how its wings went and how it was different from a bird.

    Roy Blakely, Pathfinder Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

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