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
Wide-awake and wrapped in her great rug, she had waited, and after a time Richard had returned.
From Mistress Anne by Wilson, F. Vaux (Francis Vaux)
The Other, who was One of the Hustling, Wide-awake Sort, said: "I will Bestir myself Betimes and Hasten to Market that I may Take my Pick ere my Neighbors appear on the Scene."
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume III. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
So Willie Wide-awake balanced a pine cone like that and counted ten and then he said, "I wish we'd get a hundred dollars and I wish Mr. Jennis would hurry up and come back."
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
