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Meanings of lay wakeful in English

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Usage of lay wakeful in English
1
There Odysseus lay wakeful, with evil thoughts against the wooers in his heart.
The Odyssey of Homer
2
It was with Ackroyd that Lydia's thoughts were busy as she lay wakeful.
Thyrza
3
Gerda let herself into the Red House and went up to bed and lay wakeful.
Dangerous Ages
4
For hours after her husband's senses were locked in slumber, she lay wakeful and weeping.
Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures
5
She, too, lay wakeful, uneasy, watching, sleeping, drowsing, hoping.
A Little Book for Christmas
6
I lay wakeful in the hard, sheetless bed.
The Woman Who Toils / Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen a...
7
Roland heard them going about it as he lay wakeful and heard their quiet after-love talk.
The waste lands
8
He lay wakeful, thinking about Doris Cleveland.
The Hidden Places
9
Harriet slept in the room with Julia and Josephine that night, or rather tossed and lay wakeful there.
Harriet and the Piper
10
Benedetto lay wakeful in his cell.
The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
11
For a month or two, as she lay wakeful in her bed she would have thought of her dreams.
An Eye for an Eye
12
That night, as they slept in their house and as Jud lay wakeful in his, there was another hard frost.
Pet Sematary
13
One night, as he lay wakeful and full of thought, he thus poured forth his whole heart to Dr Thorne.
Doctor Thorne
14
With the happy facility of youth, Gem was soon asleep, but Aunt Faith lay wakeful through several hours of the still summer night.
The Old Stone House
15
And she also, as she lay wakeful in her bed on this the first morning of his absence, thought much of their mutual vows.
The Small House at Allington
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Lay wakeful through the time
Lay wakeful across language varieties
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