Meanings of long wakefulness in English

But to-night he was too far spent, too far gone for long wakefulness.

Her long wakefulness seemed a delirium; a faint, faint light penetrated beside the window-curtain; the chillness increased.

By the time the wave had passed, the boys found themselves excessively weary with their long wakefulness.

Worn with long wakefulness, and hard labour during the day, they both dropped asleep at their posts.

His throat became a lime-kiln, his eyes stared like those of a man weary from long wakefulness.

After a long wakefulness, I dozed away into that disturbed vestibule of sleep where the world's happenings mingle with the visions of unconsciousness.