Like words thrown into a void, these slow, lingering, half-uttered phrases seemed to awaken an echo which rung not only in his inmost being, but in hers.
No calumny uttered against him canawaken in you half the sorrow and indignation it does in me.
This was the first occasion in a great assembly that people remarked the natural gift which has proved a valuable possession to her Majesty, and has never failed to awaken the admiration of the hearers.
That her child should be second to another woman's seemed to awaken demon instincts within her.
There are women whose sweetest tones and most charming smiles only serve to awaken distrust in men of my calling; but Mrs. Zabriskie was not of this number.
The stopping of the carriage seemed to awaken both from thoughts that separated rather than united them.
The youth looked at the beautiful crown for a moment, and its golden lustre seemed to awaken his ambition; but his better self soon conquered.
Tell me briefly what you want of me,' said Alf, 'and then take yourself hence, that your chattering may not awaken the king.
When the crown thus formed sparkles with gems, awaken in the miserable metal its gnawing consciousness, and, so long as the diadem endures, torture the soul with the perception of treasures and honors never to be enjoyed!
There was nothing in it which could in any degree disturb the Khan's complacency, or awaken suspicion.
Do not place me within reach of any coward among men, who might chance to awaken me.
And it shall come to pass that in after years the man who shall awaken thee shall claim thee for his bride.
Out of such a sound sleep nothing could awaken them that was of the nature of a mere whisper.
He had felt already the extremest bitterness toward Katie, yet the sight of her now was powerful enough to awaken within him the deepest pity.
As time goes by, I shall no doubt have many letters of thanks for this information, and I shall be glad of them; for there are few things in life, that awaken such kindly memories as something good to eat.
My life took a turn then and there, and, as I look back, I could weep at the memory of that fateful royal visit; but through the years that hour had been fixed, and the dormant love in my soul needed but a look to awaken it.
I went at once to my cabin, and being thoroughly weary with my day's travel and sightseeing I fell asleep, and did not awaken until a woman roused me with the information, that we were near Lynn Regis.
By certain rhythms and vibratory modulations of the voice it is possible to produce harmonics of sound which awaken the inner name into life--and then to spell it out.
An author of this kind will always express himself in the simplest and most direct manner, for the very reason that he really has something to say; because he wishes to awaken in the reader the same idea he has in his own mind and no other.
So marvelous the mimicry of life, so absolute the deception of breathing sleep, that I scarce dared move, fearing to awaken her.
Thinking it cruel to awaken him, they removed the money, and allowed him to take his sleep out in security.
Now a sermon on the rule of faith or the plan of salvation is never known toawaken such ecstasy.
These books are of the first order of importance, and yet they awaken one or two questions.
Still, at times the whims characteristic of sickness would awaken her to some consciousness.
From that day onward a mere word or glance would suffice to awaken Jeanne's jealousy.
Astonishment riveted her to the floor; she had lost all consciousness of time, and seemed to awaken from a dream.
It was their wish to live their days like this in that quiet nook, to sit side by side while the child was asleep, never stirring from their places lest they might awaken her.
Oh, you will awaken a desire for luxury in the little one!
So God will awakenthe consciences of the lost, and lead them to pass judgment on themselves.
As Miss Sullivan surrounded Helen Keller with the influence of her strong personality, by intelligence and sympathy and determination striving to awaken the blind and dumb soul and give it light and love, so Jesus envelops us.
It often takes a convulsion of nature or a devastating scandal toawaken the latter to the full realisation of their responsibility.
Naturally Sterne’s letters found readers in Germany, the Yorick-Eliza correspondence being especially calculated toawaken response.
When the tragic poet has for object toawaken in us the feeling of moral propriety, and chooses his means skilfully for that end, he is sure to charm doubly the connoisseur, by moral and by natural propriety.
If the end of tragedy is to awaken sympathy, and its form is the means of attaining it, the imitation of an action fit to move must have all that favors sympathy.
This passage from brute nature to beauty, in which an entirely new faculty would awaken in him, nature would render easier, and his will has no power over a disposition which, we know, itself gives birth to the will.
Thus tragic art ought to imitate nature in those kinds of actions that are specially adapted to awaken pity.
A pure spirit cannot suffer, and a man approaching one will never awaken a high degree of sympathy.
Thus, a perfect tragedy is that where the form is best used to awaken sympathy.
He stepped more softly as he neared the village, for he had no mind to awaken the inmates of the huts around him.
The journey now became monotonous, even to young Preston, who found it tiresome to walk so continuously without the least noise or occurrence to awaken alarm.
His head was thrust forward, while he peered to the right and left, advancing with as much care as if he were entering a hostile camp on a moonlight night, when the overturning of a leaf is enough to awaken a score of sleeping red men.
Finally, when I grew fiercely angry, the man at last discovered the house, and we went in, only to find that the soldier on guard would not awaken the Commandant.
I advanced to offer my services; I told her that it was useless to awaken the boy as I was going in the same direction, and that she would do me an honor by accepting my offer.
If I should awaken her now and tell her that her hour had come and that we were going to die with a last kiss, she would consent.
Thou hast still one night to see her, if thy sobs do not awaken her.
Was it not natural that they should exchange sorrowful glances, that the sight of this young man should awaken memories and regrets?
Their kisses will not awaken me, and they will shake me by the shoulder; I will turn over on the other side and sleep on.
Prussian batteries awaken again: volcanic torrent of red-hot shot and shells, for seven hours; still no word from Roth.
But at 4 of the afternoon, the batteries awaken worse than ever; from seven to nine bombs going at once.
