Meaning of unsleeping | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not sleeping.
2. Remaining constantly alert.
   figuratively
3. Remaining constantly active.

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Examples

“All that night Saxon lay⟳, unsleeping, without taking off her clothes, and when she arose in the morning and washed her face⟳ and dressed her hair she was aware of a strange numbness, of a feeling of constriction about her head as if it were bound by a heavy band of iron⟳.”

“Did you fixedly gaze, too, upon that ribbed and dented brow; there also, you would see⟳ still stranger foot-prints—the foot-prints of his one unsleeping, ever-pacing thought.”

“Captain Kennedy, who is the Commodore of the fleet, and so always commands the newest and best ship of the line, is an admirable seaman, with a quick eye for everything, always on deck at critical moments, watching with unsleeping vigilance over the safety of all on board⟳.”

“An unsleeping eye watches the steam pressure and steadily regulates the firing much more economically and patiently than the most experienced fireman.”

“Five hundred miles of moonlit fields and sleeping villages; of black towns and unsleeping furnaces; rain⟳, fog, and frost; snow⟳ flurry and flood⟳; tunnel and viaduct.”

“A shiver of cool air wafted over her and passed; and she remembered her debt, and why she had come⟳ out. She looked down at the unsleeping river.”

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