wide-awake
Example Sentences
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Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wide-awake, observant, she is a normal person with only a few such quaint fancies as Coca-Cola for breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
And he squeezed right in between little Willie Wide-awake and another one of those kids.
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
Wide-awake teachers will constantly find in the periodicals of the day many episodes of achievement by men and women working in various fields of helpfulness.
From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Clippinger, Erle Elsworth
And Brent Gaylong picked up a locust, awful careful, and held it in his two fingers and showed Willie Wide-awake how its wings went and how it was different from a bird.
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
