Meanings of started wide in English

Presently he started wide awake, fancying he heard a noise; but nothing was there.

About two o'clock I suddenly started wide awake, with a bright light in my eyes.

Suddenly I started wide awake, a long mournful sound sending a thrill to my very heart.

Half-a-dozen times at least within half-an-hour he started wide awake under the impression that he was falling off the tree.

I started wide awake in the darkness and the first thought that popped into my head was, 'I am going to see Daddy-Long-Legs!'

One night, I hardly know whether I had been sleeping or musing, I started wide awake on hearing a vague murmur, peculiar and lugubrious.

Karim Benzema, who had started wide on the left, shifted across to his favoured role through the middle and France were a totally different proposition.

At Swindon Town on Saturday Delph started wide on the left in a central three and combined very well with the left-winger and overlapping full-back.