ever-wakeful

Gabriel García Márquez's novel One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) tracks a specific thread of the colonial history that gave us ever-wakeful global real time, but also enacts in literary form the likely future of that system as a whole.

'Insomnia: A Cultural History' 2008

My fair guardian angel, jealousy is an ever-wakeful sentinel; it is to love what pain is to the body, the faithful herald of evil.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

My object has been to ward off every possible incitement to my ever-wakeful jealousy, in imitation of the Italian princess, who, like a lioness rushing on her prey, carried it off to some Swiss town to devour in peace.

Letters of Two Brides 2007

The mail reached London at the dreary hour of five; and he hastened to the inn at Covent Garden, at which he was accustomed to put up, where the ever-wakeful porter admitted him, and showed him to a bed.

The History of Pendennis 2006

Your mother comes to town and sits in the dark with you while your ever-wakeful new baby - dubbed Baby No Sleep by the nurses at the hospital - chews away at your tattered nipples and tells you about how she gave you sedatives as an infant formula and sedatives.

Archive 2006-07-02 2006

Your mother comes to town and sits in the dark with you while your ever-wakeful new baby - dubbed Baby No Sleep by the nurses at the hospital - chews away at your tattered nipples and tells you about how she gave you sedatives as an infant formula and sedatives.

I Have Found the Village, People 2006

Turning his head, Wegg beheld his persecutor, the ever-wakeful dustman, accoutred with fantail hat and velveteen smalls complete.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

No eye could see him, save that ever-wakeful one which had seen him in his closet, wielding the bloody scourge.

The Scarlet Letter 2002

I might occupy a hundred pages on the subject, and yet fail to give an adequate idea of the sore, angry, ever-wakeful pride that seemed to torment these poor wretches.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 539, March 24, 1832 Various

My ever-wakeful reason and the keenness of my moral feelings will secure you from all unpleasant circumstances Connected with me save only one, viz., the evasion of a specific madness.

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day