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In British India I have known Brahmans of the better type exactly with the same sallow complexion, same quick and observant brown eye, same portly figure and same wide-awakeness and agility of manner.

From Ancient and Modern Physics by Willson, Thomas E.

The expression reveals a certain degree of incompetence and sluggishness in the individual concerned, and signifies a lack of wide-awakeness and responsiveness.

From John Dewey's logical theory by Howard, Delton Thomas

The infant displayed that aggressive wide-awakeness which seems to characterize babies on the verge of somnolence.

From The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories by Graham, Margaret Collier

Call it that, call it self-help, call it energy, call it self-reliance, call it by the popular name of wide-awakeness, and you transfigure the fault into a merit.

From Zionism and Anti-Semitism Zionism by Nordau; and Anti-Semitism by Gottheil by Nordau, Max Simon

He did not, being of a continuous shrewd alertness himself, a continuous wide-awakeness and minute consideration of consequences, realize, and if he had he wouldn't have believed, the affectionate simplicity and unworldliness of Mr. Twist.

From Christopher and Columbus by Elizabeth