wide-awake
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Wide-awake, observant, she is a normal person with only a few such quaint fancies as Coca-Cola for breakfast.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wide-awake salesmen made a racket of the craze, slapping useless pieces of metal on roofs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Wide-awake makers of butter and cheese now buy milk, not by the pound or by the gallon, but by the amount of butter-fat contained in each pound or gallon of milk.
From Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition by Burkett, Charles William
"Wide-awake ain't the word for it," said the other gentleman, shaking his head.
From A Master Of Craft by Jacobs, W. W. (William Wymark)
And Brent Gaylong picked up a locust, awful careful, and held it in his two fingers and showed Willie Wide-awake how its wings went and how it was different from a bird.
From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese
