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Reveille

noun
1.
(military) signal to wake up.  Synonym: wake-up signal.
2.
A signal to get up in the morning; in the military it is a bugle call at sunrise.





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"Reveille" Quotes from Famous Books



... fevered hand, I retired to my room, and threw myself, dressed as I was, upon my bed. Sleep, that seems to visit us in the saddest as in the happiest times of our existence, came over me, and I did not wake until the bugles of the Ninety-fifth were sounding the reveille through the park, and the brightest beams of the morning sun ...
— Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2) • Charles Lever
... old Moses acted as reveille to arouse the trio inside the tent; possibly the animal was accustomed to having his breakfast at peep of day, and wanted to know why it was ...
— Jack Winters' Campmates • Mark Overton
... is graced by "Reveille," a powerful and stirring poem written in collaboration by our two gifted bards, Mr. Kleiner, the Laureate, and Miss von der Heide. "Nature and the Countryman," by A. W. Ashby, is an iconoclastic attack on that ...
— Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... chase is done; While our slumbrous spells assail ye, Dream not, with the rising sun, Bugles here shall sound reveille. Sleep! the deer is in his den; Sleep! thy hounds are by thee lying; Sleep! nor dream in yonder glen How thy gallant steed lay dying. Huntsman, rest! thy chase is done; Think not of the rising sun, For at dawning to assail ye Here no ...
— The Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... dawn, Barty and Jolivet and I, and let ourselves over the wall and run the two miles, and get a heavenly swim and a promise of silence for a franc apiece; and run back again and jump into bed a few minutes before the five-o'clock bell rang the reveille. ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier


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