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Definition of Lie awake
1. Verb. Lie without sleeping. "She was so worried, she lay awake all night long"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lie Awake
Literary usage of Lie awake
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"But I should lie awake all night, thinking. It seemed impossible to go to sleep
until some understanding had been arrived at. XVII There seemed a little ..."
2. Modern American Poetry: An Introduction by Louis Untermeyer (1919)
"Carl Sandburg [1878- ] LIE-AWAKE SONG1 God has a house three streets away, And
every Sunday, rain or shine, My nurse goes there her prayers to say. ..."
3. John Ayscough's Letters to His Mother During 1914, 1915, and 1916 by John Ayscough (1919)
"It is bed-time and when I go early to bed I sleep; if I sit up late I lie awake
for hours. Give my best love to Christie and Alice, and tell them how I ..."
4. A Third Century of Charades by William Bellamy (1904)
"I know if I my whole should take, That guilty I would lie awake, Conscience would
summon up the past, And that same night would be ray last. ..."
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