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Come alive   /kəm əlˈaɪv/   Listen
Come alive

verb
1.
Stop sleeping.  Synonyms: arouse, awake, awaken, wake, wake up, waken.






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"Come alive" Quotes from Famous Books



... sympathy with those who would worship in simplicity of mind and heart. But others are in need of more, and the preceding chapter tries to speak to this need. Whatever the means used, the important thing is that we spiritually awake and come alive during the meeting for worship even more than ...
— An Interpretation of Friends Worship • N. Jean Toomer

... know It made me a new creatur'. I knew then I shouldn't be afraid o' things no more—nor sorry. I found out 't was all right. 'I'm glad I'm alive,' I said. 'I'm thankful!' Seemed to me I'd been dead for the last twenty year. I'd come alive. ...
— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... he said. "Seems to me sometimes that we wuz spared fur a purpose. We wouldn't hev come alive, every one of us, through all that, ef it hadn't been intended that we should go on with the work that we are doin', helpin' and defendin' our people the best we kin. I think ...
— The Free Rangers - A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi • Joseph A. Altsheler

... fallen in love with me! I wish one would do it now! I adored them all as I sat in the motor watching the ranks of white-clad figures moving to music and looking, in the late sunshine against their green background, like hundreds of marble statues come alive. When they stood to "attention" they were like snow men. Oh, and what music it was, to which they moved! Jack said there couldn't be a scene of its kind half so fine and picturesque anywhere else in the world. I felt quite proud to have been born an American as I looked ...
— The Lightning Conductor Discovers America • C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson and A. M. (Alice Muriel)

... is the little dried crocodile come alive, and opening a horrible great mouth lined with terrible teeth ...
— Little Lucy's Wonderful Globe • Charlotte M. Yonge

... talk that day enough to tell in what way she had been frightened. Had she done so, it is uncertain if the strange men had come alive from the town. They fared badly enough as it was. For after Petter Nord had come out to them again, and had told them that Halfvorson was not at home, all four of them in good accord went out through the gates, and found a sunny slope where they could sleep away ...
— Invisible Links • Selma Lagerlof

... she sighed, "whenever I try to be good and helpful, I'm bad and troublesome. Now I must go and tell Mrs. Spencer about it. I wonder what she'll say. I wish I could tell mother first, but they'd hear me on the telephone. Perhaps the old things will come alive again. ...
— Marjorie's New Friend • Carolyn Wells

... I'm come alive again I fin' dat horse call "Clevelan' Bay" Was got firs' place, an' so he's gain Dat wan mile heat ...
— The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems • William Henry Drummond

... words upon his grave. It was not cruel to send him to die thus, if his days were numbered, and he himself would gratefully thank her for preferring him before others to lead the van of peril; for the way of the Cross leads heavenwards. But if he should come alive through the storm of swords, he must win great honour ...
— Via Crucis • F. Marion Crawford

... are dry subjects like the old stuff they taught under these names, and we two are dry old codgers, like the old preachers and professors, then the Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas is a delusion. Unless this withered thing religion, and this dry thing science, have come alive in our hands, alive and intensely interesting, we may just as well go out and dig the garden until it is time to dig our graves. [The parlor maid returns. Franklyn is impatient at the interruption]. Well? what is ...
— Back to Methuselah • George Bernard Shaw



Words linked to "Come alive" :   log Z's, fall asleep, change state, turn, slumber, sleep, catch some Z's, kip



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