Definitions
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- adverb While one is
awake .
Etymologies
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Examples
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After all he and Nancy have not seen each other wakingly for three months -- and there is still her "grand news" to tell, the grandness of which has seemed to grow more and more dubious the longer she looked at Oliver.
Young People's Pride Stephen Vincent Ben��t 1920
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I do not think she dared to dream wakingly; life had been so hard for this poor Leslie, the path on which she had had to walk had been so strait, that she could not whisper to her own heart the hopes that might wait on the future.
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I do not think she dared to dream wakingly; life had been so hard for this poor Leslie, the path on which she had had to walk had been so strait, that she could not whisper to her own heart the hopes that might wait on the future.
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Charybdis _all work_ and _all play_ is effectually realised in a nightmare too terrible and too foolish, above all too wakingly true, to be looked at in the face without flinching.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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