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Come alive   /kəm əlˈaɪv/   Listen
Come alive

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






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"Come alive" Quotes from Famous Books



... come alive. The young Jeff Lydia had known through Farvie was here, miraculously full of hope and laughter. Jeff was as different after that day as a man could be if he had been buried and revived and cast his grave-clothes ...
— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... was up again oot o' the grave, and gangin aboot the warl; noo I canna beir testimony to that, for I wasna at that time awaur o' onything; but I might weel be called upon to beir testimony to the fac' that, whaur ance he lay deid and beeried, there he's come alive at last— that is, i' the sepulchre o' my hert! For I hae seen him noo, and ken him noo—the houp o' glory in my hert and my life! Whatever he said ance, that ...
— Salted With Fire • George MacDonald

... have no wine for you, but here's some water. (Makes libation.) I suppose I should pray for something now. Oh, I do wish you'd stop mother persecuting me in the holidays like this! But you can't, you dear old thing. Father says the old gods are dead. I wish they'd come alive again. ...
— The Black Cat - A Play in Three Acts • John Todhunter

... in his eyes. The moon was rising now, as the sun set, and the two lights, silver and rose, touched his face, giving it an unreal look, as if he were a statue of bronze which had "come alive," Victoria thought, just as she had "come alive" in her statue-dance. He had never been so handsome, but his dark splendour was dreadful to her, for he did not seem like a human man whose heart could ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

... hospitality," quoth Dan of the Howlet-hirst to his comrades; "I trow the Glendinnings may die and come alive right oft, ere I put foot in stirrup ...
— The Monastery • Sir Walter Scott


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