Synonyms for unsleeping
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : slee-ping |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsli pɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for unsleeping Other synonyms for the word unsleeping
Définition of unsleeping
Origin :- c.1300, past participle adjective from sleep (v.). Sleeping-pill is from 1660s; sleeping-bag is from 1850; sleeping sickness as a specific African tropical disease is first recorded 1875; sleeping has been used since late 14c. for diseases marked by morbid conditions. Sleeping Beauty (1729) is Perrault's La belle au bois dormant.
- adj wakeful
- These were tended by the crones, unseen, unsleeping—not always unheard.
- Extract from : « In the South Seas » by Robert Louis Stevenson
- It was only, indeed, his unsleeping caution that had saved him.
- Extract from : « Red Fox » by Charles G. D. Roberts
- Nor in the duties of judge and governor did he relax the unsleeping vigilance of the general.
- Extract from : « Monk » by Julian Corbett
- All night long she had been there unsleeping, hollow-eyed, and worn with tearless grief.
- Extract from : « The Mountain Girl » by Payne Erskine
- The man was still at his post, his unsleeping eyes ever watchful.
- Extract from : « In the Brooding Wild » by Ridgwell Cullum
- Their unsleeping watchfulness of British commerce is in the way.
- Extract from : « The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I » by Burton J. Hendrick
- She told him that while he had been unsleeping last night neither had she slept.
- Extract from : « Wolf Breed » by Jackson Gregory
- And from that day forward he was at her—respectful, but unsleeping.
- Extract from : « The Torch and Other Tales » by Eden Phillpotts
- Far into the night he lay thus, unsleeping, now and again uttering that low moan.
- Extract from : « The Eye of Dread » by Payne Erskine
- Hollow-eyed and unsleeping, they continued their task of reviving people suffocated by the fumes or strangled with ashes.
- Extract from : « The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers » by Francis Rolt-Wheeler
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