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sit up

to stay awake past the time that you usually go to sleep. We sat up talking half the night. Many nights I sat up until dawn, trying to get my term papers finished on time.

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She slid to the floor beside him, as if she were too tired to sit up any longer. Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context Sabin answered, "but until you can sit up and compose yourself like an ordinary individual, I decline to enter into any conversation with you at all. The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context and Marie no sooner caught sight of, or heard them, and she became quite animated at once, and, in spite of the old women, would try to sit up and nod her head and smile at them, and thank them. The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context More results

References in classic literature

She slid to the floor beside him, as if she were too tired to sit up any longer.

Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context

Sabin answered, "but until you can sit up and compose yourself like an ordinary individual, I decline to enter into any conversation with you at all.

The Yellow Crayon by Oppenheim, E. Phillips View in context

and Marie no sooner caught sight of, or heard them, and she became quite animated at once, and, in spite of the old women, would try to sit up and nod her head and smile at them, and thank them.

The Idiot by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context

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