alive (v.)

alive (adj.)

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Written on hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon.

Sir, he made a chimney in my father's house, and the bricks are alive at this day to testify it.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry VI. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,

But to be young was very heaven!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Prelude. Book xi.