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Vigil

noun

A period of sleeplessness.

The rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival). Synonym: watch.

A purposeful surveillance to guard or observe. Synonym: watch.

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"Vigil" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the second day Mr. Bodge, whom no solicitation could coax from his vigil on the ...

— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day

... his vigil. He left his chair at nine o'clock to telephone Charley Abbott that the Secretary had gone to New York, then he returned to his place. Noon came, afternoon waned. As dusk drew on again, Jonas went once more ...

— The Enchanted Canyon • Honore Willsie Morrow

... vanished hero's lofty mound; Far on the solitary shore he sleeps; He fell, and falling nations mourned around; But now not one of saddening thousands weeps, Nor warlike worshipper his vigil keeps Where demi-gods appeared, as records tell. Remove yon skull from out the scattered heaps: Is that a temple where a God may dwell? Why, e'en the worm at last disdains ...

— Childe Harold's Pilgrimage • Lord Byron

... before her vigil was at an end. She listened to his step upon the stairs, and, as he entered, looked at him with all the eagerness of a wistful child, tremulously anxious to read his expression. A little wave of tenderness swept in upon him. He forgot in a moment the anxieties and worries of the day, ...

— The Lighted Way • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... bell, growing ever richer and louder, till at length it reached the temple where Parsifal and his knights guarded the Holy Grail. To them it seemed that the swelling notes contained an appeal for help directed to the Holy Vessel over which they kept vigil. While they debated thereon a loud and mysterious voice was heard bidding Parsifal send his son Lohengrin to the rescue of Elsa of Brabant, whom he must take for his wife, yet without revealing to ...

— Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine • Lewis Spence

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