easily-awakened

Updated: June 3, 2025

Not so with the skipper of the barque. It was, of course, impossible for us to know whether he had observed the capture of the Conquistador we hoped and believed not; but, however that may have been, it was certain that he had been keeping his eyes sufficiently open to promptly become aware of the fact that the schooner had altered her course and was standing after him under a very heavy press of sail, and if our surmises as to his character were anywhere near the truth, that circumstance alone would be quite sufficient to fully arouse his easily-awakened apprehensions and to urge him to keep us at arm's-length at all risks.

Harry Collingwood - The Pirate Slaver: A Story of the West African Coast