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wake

Watch kept over the body of a dead person during the night before their funeral; it originated in Anglo-Saxon times as the eve before a festival.



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They stirred a little in their sleep, but still they did not wake up.
- I wake and sigh, And sleep to dream till day Of truth that gold can never buy - Of the trifles that it may.
A REVIVALIST who had fallen dead in the pulpit from too violent religious exercise was astonished to wake up in Hades.
 
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